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	<span>Memory and speed
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<p>We present some techniques and ideas to optimize 🤗 Diffusers <em>inference</em> for memory or speed.</p>
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	<span>CUDA <code>autocast</code></span></h2>

<p>If you use a CUDA GPU, you can take advantage of <code>torch.autocast</code> to perform inference roughly twice as fast at the cost of slightly lower precision. All you need to do is put your inference call inside an <code>autocast</code> context manager. The following example shows how to do it using Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation as an example:</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START --><span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> torch <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> autocast
<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> diffusers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> StableDiffusionPipeline

pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4&quot;</span>, use_auth_token=<span class="hljs-literal">True</span>)
pipe = pipe.to(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>)

prompt = <span class="hljs-string">&quot;a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars&quot;</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> autocast(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>):
    image = pipe(prompt).images[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>]  <!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p>Despite the precision loss, in our experience the final image results look the same as the <code>float32</code> versions. Feel free to experiment and report back!</p>
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	<span>Half precision weights
	</span></h2>

<p>To save more GPU memory, you can load the model weights directly in half precision. This involves loading the float16 version of the weights, which was saved to a branch named <code>fp16</code>, and telling PyTorch to use the <code>float16</code> type when loading them:</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START -->pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
    <span class="hljs-string">&quot;CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4&quot;</span>,
    revision=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;fp16&quot;</span>,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    use_auth_token=<span class="hljs-literal">True</span>
)<!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
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	<span>Sliced attention for additional memory savings
	</span></h2>

<p>For even additional memory savings, you can use a sliced version of attention that performs the computation in steps instead of all at once. </p>


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<p>To perform the attention computation sequentially over each head, you only need to invoke <a href="/docs/diffusers/pr_430/en/api/pipelines/stable_diffusion#diffusers.StableDiffusionPipeline.enable_attention_slicing">enable_attention_slicing()</a> in your pipeline before inference, like here:</p>

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	<pre><!-- HTML_TAG_START --><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> torch
<span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> diffusers <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> StableDiffusionPipeline

pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
    <span class="hljs-string">&quot;CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4&quot;</span>,
    revision=<span class="hljs-string">&quot;fp16&quot;</span>,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    use_auth_token=<span class="hljs-literal">True</span>
)
pipe = pipe.to(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>)

prompt = <span class="hljs-string">&quot;a photo of an astronaut riding a horse on mars&quot;</span>
pipe.enable_attention_slicing()
<span class="hljs-keyword">with</span> torch.autocast(<span class="hljs-string">&quot;cuda&quot;</span>):
    image = pipe(prompt).images[<span class="hljs-number">0</span>]  <!-- HTML_TAG_END --></pre></div>
<p>There’s a small performance penalty of about 10% slower inference times, but this method allows you to use Stable Diffusion in as little as 3.2 GB of VRAM! </p>


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