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: The underlying architecture used for text-to-image generation, known for its high compatibility with third-party additions like LoRAs and ControlNets.

The curators looked inside the model and saw a jungle of mathematical weights—over 1 billion parameters. But many were duplicates or near-zero values. Pruning was like trimming a bonsai tree. They surgically removed the weakest connections. A neuron that never fired? Gone. A weight that was always 0.00001? Deleted. v1-5-pruned-emaonly-fp16

: Usually provided as a .safetensors file, which is a modern, secure format that prevents the execution of malicious code, unlike older .ckpt files. Usage and Installation Pruning was like trimming a bonsai tree

The curators realized: why keep the jittery live version? They discarded it and kept only the EMA. This was like throwing away the practice sketches and keeping only the final painting. The model became more stable and predictable, producing fewer weird artifacts like six-fingered hands or melting faces. which is a modern