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Comment by mkaic | Hacker News Reader

hmm -- I tried converting to float16 just using a naive model.half() call and saw some quality degradation in my images compared to just autocasting parts of the model to float16 while leaving others at float32. Curious if anyone else has had the same experience.

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Might be that there's some degredation but I think it's pretty close. Anyway I'm using their 'official' fp16 version which they might be doing some extra magic on idk. I.e. via

  StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4",
    revision="fp16", torch_dtype=torch.float16, ...)

But you just said "no degradation".

Try it yourself ;) I haven't spotted any but I can't dispute the parents observations.

My best guess is that I just did something wrong lol. Autocast seems to convert most of the model to fp16 anyways and that works great, so I'll just keep using that!

Can I download ckpt file for fp16?

You may want to try bfloat16 instead.

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