```py
if args.controlnet_model_name_or_path:
logger.info("Loading existing controlnet weights")
controlnet = ControlNetModel.from_pretrained(args.controlnet_model_name_or_path)
else:
logger.info("Initializing controlnet weights from unet")
controlnet = ControlNetModel.from_unet(unet)
```  
The [optimizer](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/64603389da01082055a901f2883c4810d1144edb/examples/controlnet/train_controlnet.py#L871) is set up to update the ControlNet parameters:  
```py