The single-file layout stores all the model weights in a single file. All the model components (text encoder, UNet, VAE) weights are kept together instead of separately in subfolders. This can be a safetensors or ckpt file.  
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To load from a single-file layout, use the [`~loaders.FromSingleFileMixin.from_single_file`] method.  
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