README.md

---
license: apache-2.0
base_model:
- Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo
library_name: diffusers
---
# Z-Image Anime VAE

## Introduction

A Decoder finetune(That means it can be used as-is) of the Z-Image (Flux) AE on a dedicated anime illustration dataset.  
It allows to reduce high frequency compression artifacts and oversharpening, that are inherent to realism data.  

Additionally helps with higher resolution, when multiple re-encodes are involved.

As of now, it is not extremely useful, as we don't have anime base yet, but i've seen quite a few anime gens done, so why not. And Tongyi team plans to do something with anime data, so im patiently waiting.

## Visual Examples
1-2-4k hires:

![anime flux vae 2](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-uploads.huggingface.co%2Fproduction%2Fuploads%2F633b43d29fe04b13f46c8988%2F9qQ7yUv5GogBkvpB5-X9g.png%3C%2Fspan%3E)

1-2k hires:

![anime flux vae](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-uploads.huggingface.co%2Fproduction%2Fuploads%2F633b43d29fe04b13f46c8988%2FDYbenNOMMVzGWiB8AEbRj.png%3C%2Fspan%3E)

Full comparison: https://slow.pics/c/kmCwRG4l

## Usage
Load as VAE instead of ae.safetensors