<hfoptions id="lcm-text2img">
<hfoption id="LCM">  
To use LCMs, you need to load the LCM checkpoint for your supported model into [`UNet2DConditionModel`] and replace the scheduler with the [`LCMScheduler`]. Then you can use the pipeline as usual, and pass a text prompt to generate an image in just 4 steps.  
A couple of notes to keep in mind when using LCMs are:  
* Typically, batch size is doubled inside the pipeline for classifier-free guidance. But LCM applies guidance with guidance embeddings and doesn't need to double the batch size, which leads to faster inference. The downside is that negative prompts don't work with LCM because they don't have any effect on the denoising process.
* The ideal range for `guidance_scale` is [3., 13.] because that is what the UNet was trained with. However, disabling `guidance_scale` with a value of 1.0 is also effective in most cases.  
```python
from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline, UNet2DConditionModel, LCMScheduler
import torch

unet = UNet2DConditionModel.from_pretrained(
"latent-consistency/lcm-sdxl",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
variant="fp16",
)
pipe = StableDiffusionXLPipeline.from_pretrained(
"stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0", unet=unet, torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16",
).to("cuda")
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)

prompt = "Self-portrait oil painting, a beautiful cyborg with golden hair, 8k"
generator = torch.manual_seed(0)
image = pipe(
prompt=prompt, num_inference_steps=4, generator=generator, guidance_scale=8.0
).images[0]
image
```  
<div class="flex justify-center">
<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/lcm/lcm_full_sdxl_t2i.png"/>
</div>  
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="LCM-LoRA">  
To use LCM-LoRAs, you need to replace the scheduler with the [`LCMScheduler`] and load the LCM-LoRA weights with the [`~loaders.StableDiffusionLoraLoaderMixin.load_lora_weights`] method. Then you can use the pipeline as usual, and pass a text prompt to generate an image in just 4 steps.  
A couple of notes to keep in mind when using LCM-LoRAs are:  
* Typically, batch size is doubled inside the pipeline for classifier-free guidance. But LCM applies guidance with guidance embeddings and doesn't need to double the batch size, which leads to faster inference. The downside is that negative prompts don't work with LCM because they don't have any effect on the denoising process.
* You could use guidance with LCM-LoRAs, but it is very sensitive to high `guidance_scale` values and can lead to artifacts in the generated image. The best values we've found are between [1.0, 2.0].
* Replace [stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0](https://hf.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0) with any finetuned model. For example, try using the [animagine-xl](https://huggingface.co/Linaqruf/animagine-xl) checkpoint to generate anime images with SDXL.  
```py
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline, LCMScheduler

pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
"stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
variant="fp16",
torch_dtype=torch.float16
).to("cuda")
pipe.scheduler = LCMScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
pipe.load_lora_weights("latent-consistency/lcm-lora-sdxl")

prompt = "Self-portrait oil painting, a beautiful cyborg with golden hair, 8k"
generator = torch.manual_seed(42)
image = pipe(
prompt=prompt, num_inference_steps=4, generator=generator, guidance_scale=1.0
).images[0]
image
```  
<div class="flex justify-center">
<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/lcm/lcm_sdxl_t2i.png"/>
</div>  
</hfoption>
</hfoptions>
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