DMD2 Speed LoRA [SDXL, Pony, Illustrious]

This is the official DMD2 implementation LoRA from the Improved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Image Synthesis

Credits to the author: https://civitai.com/models/1608870?modelVersionId=1820946 paper.dmd2_sdxl_4step_loraOriginal model at Huggingface tianweiy/DMD2.Recommended SettingsSteps: 8LoRA weight: 0.7Sampler: LCMScheduler: Normal, SimpleCFG: 1.4 - 1.8I use similar settings on both a low resolution base image, and the upscaled refinement pass (hires fix).UsageLoad the LoRA like any other. I recommend a weight of 0.7, but feel free to play around.You should be able to use it with any SDXL or similar checkpoint. Use the settings above.You can also merge this into a checkpoint and save that, to include the result of the LoRA into the checkpoint directly. This means you no longer need to load this as a LoRA, and you can still use it with LCM and low steps for good result.The LoRA itself doesn't add any speed improvement, it just allows you to generate at fewer steps, with better result.If the results are washed out and bland, try increasing the CFG.LicenceCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0I am not the creator of the model, just uploading the model here to make it easier to download and reference in creations. Full credit goes to Tianwei Yin.