lite-infer/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-nunchaku-lite-nvfp4-bnb4-text-encoder
ERNIE-Image-Turbo Nunchaku Lite NVFP4 with BNB4 Text Encoder
[!IMPORTANT] Experimental: This Nunchaku Lite quantized ERNIE-Image-Turbo checkpoint is experimental. APIs and loading behavior may change.
This repository contains a full Diffusers pipeline for baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo with:
- a Nunchaku Lite quantized diffusion transformer
- a prequantized bitsandbytes 4-bit NF4
text_encoder - inherited tokenizer, prompt enhancer, scheduler, and VAE from the ERNIE-Image-Turbo release
The checkpoint safetensors were rewritten without safetensors metadata before upload.
Quantization
The transformer uses a compact Nunchaku Lite quantization config stored in transformer/config.json.
Requirements
This checkpoint requires a Diffusers version that includes NunchakuLiteQuantizationConfig and the Nunchaku Lite loader path.
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers
pip install kernels bitsandbytesUse a CUDA-capable PyTorch environment. The quantized transformer uses kernels from the Hugging Face kernels package, and the text encoder uses bitsandbytes 4-bit modules.
Usage
import torch
from diffusers import ErnieImagePipeline
pipe = ErnieImagePipeline.from_pretrained(
"rootonchair/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-nunchaku-lite-nvfp4-bnb4-text-encoder",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
).to("cuda")
image = pipe(
prompt="A modern red armchair in a quiet studio, soft window light, realistic product photography",
height=1024,
width=1024,
num_inference_steps=8,
guidance_scale=1.0,
use_pe=False,
).images[0]
image.save("ernie-image-turbo-nunchaku-lite-nvfp4-bnb4-text-encoder.png")Recommended ERNIE-Image-Turbo settings:
num_inference_steps=8guidance_scale=1.0use_pe=Falsefor direct prompt usage, oruse_pe=Trueto enable the inherited prompt enhancer
Evaluation
Evaluation was run on an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition with CUDA, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, 1024x1024 output, 8 inference steps, guidance_scale=1.0, and use_pe=False.
Result Image
Prompt Edit Comparisons
Provenance
- Base pipeline: baidu/ERNIE-Image-Turbo
- Source quantized checkpoint: rootonchair/ERNIE-Image-Turbo-nunchaku-lite-nvfp4
Limitations
- This is an experimental quantized checkpoint.
- The transformer and text encoder are quantized; the prompt enhancer, scheduler, tokenizer, and VAE are inherited from the base model.
save_pretrained()serialization for Nunchaku Lite models is not supported yet.- Output quality and performance may differ from the original BF16 transformer and text encoder.
License
This repository follows the Apache-2.0 license from the base ERNIE-Image-Turbo release.
