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kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint

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kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint is an open-weight image model from kandinsky-community. kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint (FP32) weighs 2.6 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • Kandinsky 2.2 Decoder Inpaint is a 1.3B parameter text-to-image model developed by kandinsky-community for text-guided image inpainting.
  • It uses a diffusion architecture with CLIP encoders and a MoVQGAN decoder to generate images at 768x768 resolution.
  • The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bykandinsky-community
Released2023-06-16
Parameters1.3B
VRAM2.6 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint (FP32)

2.6 GBweights, file size
2.5 GBbiggest part
5.0 GBworking memory, one 1024² image
537 MBruntime overhead
CardOne imageMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What kandinsky-community says about kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint

Read the model card

Kandinsky inherits best practices from Dall-E 2 and Latent diffusion while introducing some new ideas.

It uses the CLIP model as a text and image encoder, and diffusion image prior (mapping) between latent spaces of CLIP modalities. This approach increases the visual performance of the model and unveils new horizons in blending images and text-guided image manipulation.

The Kandinsky model is created by Arseniy Shakhmatov, Anton Razzhigaev, Aleksandr Nikolich, Igor Pavlov, Andrey Kuznetsov and Denis Dimitrov

Usage

Kandinsky 2.2 is available in diffusers!

pip install diffusers transformers accelerate

Text Guided Inpainting Generation

from diffusers import AutoPipelineForInpainting
from diffusers.utils import load_image
import torch
import numpy as np

pipe = AutoPipelineForInpainting.from_pretrained("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()

prompt = "a hat"

init_image = load_image(
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/diffusers-images/resolve/main" "/kandinsky/cat.png"
)

mask = np.zeros((768, 768), dtype=np.float32)
# Let's mask out an area above the cat's head
mask[:250, 250:-250] = 1

out = pipe(
    prompt=prompt,
    image=init_image,
    mask_image=mask,
    height=768,
    width=768,
    num_inference_steps=150,
)

image = out.images[0]
image.save("cat_with_hat.png")

🚨🚨🚨 Breaking change for Kandinsky Mask Inpainting 🚨🚨🚨

We introduced a breaking change for Kandinsky inpainting pipeline in the following pull request: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/4207. Previously we accepted a mask format where black pixels represent the masked-out area. This is inconsistent with all other pipelines in diffusers. We have changed the mask format in Knaindsky and now using white pixels instead. Please upgrade your inpainting code to follow the above. If you are using Kandinsky Inpaint in production. You now need to change the mask to:

# For PIL input
import PIL.ImageOps
mask = PIL.ImageOps.invert(mask)

# For PyTorch and Numpy input
mask = 1 - mask

Model Architecture

Overview

Kandinsky 2.1 is a text-conditional diffusion model based on unCLIP and latent diffusion, composed of a transformer-based image prior model, a unet diffusion model, and a decoder.

The model architectures are illustrated in the figure below - the chart on the left describes the process to train the image prior model, the figure in the center is the text-to-image generation process, and the figure on the right is image interpolation.

Specifically, the image prior model was trained on CLIP text and image embeddings generated with a pre-trained mCLIP model. The trained image prior model is then used to generate mCLIP image embeddings for input text prompts. Both the input text prompts and its mCLIP image embeddings are used in the diffusion process. A MoVQGAN model acts as the final block of the model, which decodes the latent representation into an actual image.

Details

The image prior training of the model was performed on the LAION Improved Aesthetics dataset, and then fine-tuning was performed on the LAION HighRes data.

The main Text2Image diffusion model was trained on the basis of 170M text-image pairs from the LAION HighRes dataset (an important condition was the presence of images with a resolution of at least 768x768). The use of 170M pairs is due to the fact that we kept the UNet diffusion block from Kandinsky 2.0, which allowed us not to train it from scratch. Further, at the stage of fine-tuning, a dataset of 2M very high-quality high-resolution images with descriptions (COYO, anime, landmarks_russia, and a number of others) was used separately collected from open sources.

Evaluation

We quantitatively measure the performance of Kandinsky 2.1 on the COCO_30k dataset, in zero-shot mode. The table below presents FID.

FID metric values ​​for generative models on COCO_30k

FID (30k)
eDiff-I (2022)6.95
Image (2022)7.27
Kandinsky 2.1 (2023)8.21
Stable Diffusion 2.1 (2022)8.59
GigaGAN, 512x512 (2023)9.09
DALL-E 2 (2022)10.39
GLIDE (2022)12.24
Kandinsky 1.0 (2022)15.40
DALL-E (2021)17.89
Kandinsky 2.0 (2022)20.00
GLIGEN (2022)21.04

For more information, please refer to the upcoming technical report.

BibTex

If you find this repository useful in your research, please cite:

@misc{kandinsky 2.2,
  title         = {kandinsky 2.2},
  author        = {Arseniy Shakhmatov, Anton Razzhigaev, Aleksandr Nikolich, Vladimir Arkhipkin, Igor Pavlov, Andrey Kuznetsov, Denis Dimitrov},
  year          = {2023},
  howpublished  = {},
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

Running it yourself

Run it on a rented GPU

Rent a machine by the hour. Runs as it is with diffusers, on the machine, in Python.

# on your rented machine: pip install diffusers transformers accelerate
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline

pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("kandinsky-community/kandinsky-2-2-decoder-inpaint", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).to("cuda")
image = pipe(prompt="a red bicycle on a cobbled street").images[0]
image.save("/workspace/out.png")
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