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0 pointsdavidbarker1y ago0 comments

Thank you!

A reasonable amount of training images (50 or so), and then I train for 2,000-ish steps for a new style.

Many of them work well with Flux, particularly if they're illustration-based. Some don't seem to work at all, so I didn't upload those!

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stavros1y ago· 3 in thread

How long does this take, and on what equipment? It's amazing to me that you can do this from just 50 images, I would have thought tens of thousands.

davidbarkerOP1y ago

It's very impressive. I aim for around 50 images if I'm training a style, but only 10 to 20 if training a concept (like an object or a face).

I have a MacBook Air so I train using the various API providers.

For training a style, I use Replicate: https://replicate.com/ostris/flux-dev-lora-trainer/train

For training a concept/person, I use fal: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/flux-lora-fast-training

With fal, you can train a concept in around 2 minutes and only pay $2. Incredibly cheap. (You could also use it for training a style if you wanted to. I just found I seem to get slightly better results using Replicate's trainer for a style.)

throw140820201y ago

$2 for 2 minutes? Can't you get less than $2 for 1 hour using GPU machines from providers like runpod or AirGPU? I found it a bit expensive to use replicate and fal after 10 minutes of prompting.

I have not used runpod or airgpu, and not affiliated.

Wow, fantastic, thanks! I thought it would be much, much more expensive than this. Thanks for the info!

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