NovelAI, NAI Diffusion V2

https://blog.novelai.net/novelai-diffusion-v2-weights-release-b9d5fef5b9a4 NovelAI Diffusion V2 Weights Release

Public NovelAI Diffusion V2 image generation model release As the field of image generation progresses, NovelAI has decided to release the weights of our second generation image generation model to the public, for the purposes of research, personal use and historical preservation. This way, users will be able to use the model even after it gets retired from our website. You can find the weights here:

NovelAI Diffusion Anime V2 While we are taking a trip down the memory lane, here are some of our relevant blog posts from back in the day, when we had just released this model on our website:

Announcement blog post for V2 NovelAI Improvements on Stable Diffusion The Magic behind NovelAIDiffusion NovelAI Aspect Ratio Bucketing Source Code Release (MIT Licensed) As written in the second of those blog articles, our model was trained using the output of the penultimate layer of the CLIP text encoder, so when using this model, make sure to set your image generation UI to use the second to last CLIP layer rather than the last one. V2 was also the first model we trained that was capable of generating resolutions of up to 1024 * 1024 pixels without the use of SMEA, so if you inference the model, make sure to run it at resolutions like 832x1216, 1024x1024 or 1216x832.

The model is released under a dual license, with both terms of the original CreativeML Open RAIL-M license and the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license applying to them. This allows non-commercial: use, redistribution and the creation of derivative works, as long as they are attributed properly and distributed under the same terms.

Of course, this model is a bit dated, so if you just want to have fun with a state of the art anime and furry image generation model, make sure to check out NovelAI V4.5 on our website and stay tuned for future updates! You can start for free with our new trial!

To reiterate, the weight release is only applicable to the second iteration of our NovelAI Diffusion model, all newer models remain proprietary and are only available via our image generation website.

NovelAI Diffusion V2 will be removed from novelai.net at a later date.