---
language:
- en
- zh
- ru
license: other
license_name: qwen-research
license_link: LICENSE
base_model:
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1
- Viggle/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo
- madebyollin/texture-fix-vae-for-qwen-image-2.1
base_model_relation: merge
library_name: diffusers
pipeline_tag: text-to-image
tags:
- diffusers
- text-to-image
- image-editing
- qwen-image
- turbo
- few-step
- distillation
---

# Turbo-Image-2.1

[Qwen-Image-2.1](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1) with the
[Viggle turbo v0.2.1](https://huggingface.co/Viggle/Qwen-Image-2.1-viggle-turbo) distillation LoRA merged into the
transformer and the [Texture-Fix VAE](https://huggingface.co/madebyollin/texture-fix-vae-for-qwen-image-2.1) in place
of the stock decoder. Text-to-image and editing with reference images in **6 steps without guidance**, loaded by the
stock `QwenImage21Pipeline`. Built with Qwen.

A 4-bit build with a quantized text encoder is published as
[WaveCut/Turbo-Image-2.1-OrbitQuant-W4A4](https://huggingface.co/WaveCut/Turbo-Image-2.1-OrbitQuant-W4A4).

![examples](media/examples.jpg)

| Component | Contents | Size |
| --- | --- | ---: |
| `transformer/` | Qwen-Image-2.1 DiT, Viggle turbo v0.2.1 (rank 256) merged in fp32 and stored in fp16 | 14.2 GB |
| `text_encoder/` | Qwen3-VL-8B, unchanged | 17.5 GB |
| `vae/` | Texture-Fix VAE, fp32 | 1.35 GB |
| `scheduler/` | Viggle turbo config: dynamic shift, `shift_terminal` null | |

## Run

```bash
pip install -U torch "transformers>=5.17,<6" accelerate safetensors pillow
pip install "git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers.git@80c7ed262aeffbeb43ef13ae04baeb9b84515a69"
```

```python
import torch
from diffusers import QwenImage21Pipeline

pipe = QwenImage21Pipeline.from_pretrained("WaveCut/Turbo-Image-2.1", dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()

SIGMAS = [1.0, 0.9375, 0.875, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25]
image = pipe(
    prompt="A studio portrait of an old fisherman mending a net, warm rim light, 85mm",
    width=1024, height=1024,
    num_inference_steps=6, sigmas=SIGMAS,
    generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0),
).images[0]

edited = pipe(
    prompt="Replace the background of <image1> with a sunset beach; keep the man unchanged.",
    image=[image], output_resolution=1024,
    num_inference_steps=6, sigmas=SIGMAS,
    generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0),
).images[0]
```

Load the pipeline in **fp16**. The merge keeps 99.7 % of the LoRA update in fp16; loading the same weights in bf16
rounds away about a third of it (64 % kept). The text encoder and the VAE work in fp16 as well: text embeddings match
bf16 at cosine 0.998–0.9997, VAE decodes match fp32 at 58–64 dB PSNR.

All weights together are 33 GB, so a 32 GB card needs `enable_model_cpu_offload()` (≈22 s per 1024² image on an
RTX 5090, most of it host transfers). Encoding a batch of prompts first and then running the transformer and the VAE
takes 2.69 s per 1024² image hot (6 steps, peak 22.5 GB) and 17.9 s at 2048². The
[OrbitQuant build](https://huggingface.co/WaveCut/Turbo-Image-2.1-OrbitQuant-W4A4) keeps every component resident in
13.6 GB and needs 2.25 s.

Keep the VAE untiled in fp16. Tiled decoding in fp16 produces non-finite pixels; for 2048² text-to-image cast it
first: `pipe.vae.to(torch.bfloat16); pipe.vae.enable_tiling()` (54 dB PSNR against fp32).

## Sampling recipes

Tested at 1024² on 8 prompts (photo, poster, anime, product, night scene, two Russian-text prompts) with fixed
seeds, plus 4 edits. Times are transformer + VAE on an RTX 5090.

![recipes](media/recipes.jpg)

*Columns: default, 8 steps, 4 steps, static shift 3, CFG 2.*

| Recipe | Settings | Result | Time |
| --- | --- | --- | ---: |
| **Default** | 6 steps, `sigmas=[1, 0.9375, 0.875, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25]`, shipped scheduler, no CFG | Sharpest detail and textures; Latin and Cyrillic text mostly right | 2.9 s |
| **Text, posters, natural skin** | the same 6 sigmas with a static shift of 3: `pipe.scheduler = FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config, use_dynamic_shifting=False, shift=3.0)` | Cleanest lettering in the set (long Russian paragraph almost error-free), smoother skin, calmer micro-texture | 2.9 s |
| Dense text | 8 steps, `sigmas=[1, 0.9375, 0.875, 0.75, 0.625, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125]` | Same composition as the default, small print slightly cleaner | 3.8 s |
| Guidance | 6 steps, `true_cfg_scale=2` with a negative prompt | Higher contrast and saturation, bolder type | 5.8 s |
| Avoid | 4 steps `[1, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25]` | Ghosted double contours, garbled text | 2.0 s |
| Avoid | static shift 5 | Soft, smeared detail | |

Editing: reference images are `<image1>`, `<image2>`, … in the prompt, in the order passed; the canvas follows the last
reference unless `width`/`height` are given; references are encoded at `output_resolution`² area.

## Merge

| | Value |
| --- | --- |
| LoRA | Viggle turbo v0.2.1, rank 256, alpha 256, 227 projections (attention, image MLP, modulation, timestep embedder) |
| Factors | F32 from `peft_v0.2.1/` |
| Update size | median 0.11 % of the weight norm, max 1.6 % |
| Kept after rounding | fp16 99.7 % (rounding noise 18.7 % of the update); bf16 would keep 64 % |
| Output vs runtime LoRA | 0.4–2.8 % latent difference at the same precision and seed |

Everything outside the 227 projections is the upstream bf16 value stored in fp16.

## Files

`transformer/`, `text_encoder/`, `processor/`, `vae/`, `scheduler/`, `model_index.json` — the diffusers pipeline;
`media/` — example images; `LICENSE`, `NOTICE` — license and attribution.

## License

Derivative of Qwen-Image-2.1 under the Qwen RESEARCH LICENSE AGREEMENT (`LICENSE`): non-commercial research and
evaluation only. `NOTICE` lists the modified files and the upstream notices of Viggle and madebyollin.

> Qwen is licensed under the Qwen RESEARCH LICENSE AGREEMENT, Copyright (c) 2026 Hangzhou Tongyi Laboratory Technology
> Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.