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Model Training Experiments and Full Guide and Tutorial: Fine-Tuning vs LoRA Comparison

You can download the model here : https://civitai.com/models/911087

This repository contains experimental results comparing Fine-Tuning/DreamBooth and LoRA training approaches.

I am sharing how I trained this model with full details and even the dataset: please read entire post very carefully.

This model is purely trained for educational and research purposes only for SFW and ethical image generation.

The workflow and the config used in this tutorial can be used to train clothing, items, animals, pets, objects, styles, simply anything.

The uploaded images have SwarmUI metadata and can be re-generated exactly. For generations FP16 model used but FP8 should yield almost same quality. Don’t forget to have used yolo face masking model in prompts.

How To Use

Download model into diffusion_models of the SwarmUI. Then you need to use Clip-L and T5-XXL models as well. I recommend T5-XXL FP16 or Scaled FP8 version.

A newest fully public tutorial here for how to use : https://youtu.be/-zOKhoO9a5s

Additional Resources

Installers and Config Files : https://www.patreon.com/posts/112099700

FLUX Fine-Tuning / DreamBooth Zero-to-Hero Tutorial : https://youtu.be/FvpWy1x5etM

FLUX LoRA Training Zero-to-Hero Tutorial : https://youtu.be/nySGu12Y05k

Complete Dataset, Training Config Json Files and Testing Prompts : https://www.patreon.com/posts/114972274

Click below link to download all trained LoRA and Fine-Tuning / DreamBooth checkpoints for free

https://huggingface.co/MonsterMMORPG/Model_Training_Experiments_As_A_Baseline/tree/main

Environment Setup

Kohya GUI Version: 021c6f5ae3055320a56967284e759620c349aa56

Torch: 2.5.1

xFormers: 0.0.28.post3

Dataset Information

Resolution: 1024x1024

Dataset Size: 28 images

Captions: “ohwx man” (nothing else)

Activation Token/Trigger Word: “ohwx man”

Fine-Tuning / DreamBooth Experiment

Configuration

Config File: 48GB_GPU_28200MB_6.4_second_it_Tier_1.json

Training: Up to 200 epochs with consistent config

Optimal Result: Epoch 170 (subjective assessment)

Results

Realism Test Part 1

Realism Test Part 2

LoRA Experiment

Configuration

Config File: Rank_1_29500MB_8_85_Second_IT.json

Training: Up to 200 epochs

Optimal Result: Epoch 160 (subjective assessment)

Results

LoRA Realism Test Part 1

LoRA Realism Test Part 2

Comparison Results

LoRA 90 vs 160 vs Fine-Tuning 170 Comparison

Key Observations

LoRA demonstrates excellent realism but shows more obvious overfitting when generating stylized images.

Fine-Tuning / DreamBooth is better than LoRA as expected.

Model Naming Convention

Fine-Tuning Models

Dwayne_Johnson_FLUX_Fine_Tuning-000010.safetensors

10 epochs

280 steps (28 images × 10 epochs)

Batch size: 1

Resolution: 1024x1024

Dwayne_Johnson_FLUX_Fine_Tuning-000020.safetensors

20 epochs

560 steps (28 images × 20 epochs)

Batch size: 1

Resolution: 1024x1024

LoRA Models

Dwayne_Johnson_FLUX_LoRA-000010.safetensors

10 epochs

280 steps (28 images × 10 epochs)

Batch size: 1

Resolution: 1024x1024

Dwayne_Johnson_FLUX_LoRA-000020.safetensors

20 epochs

560 steps (28 images × 20 epochs)

Batch size: 1

Resolution: 1024x1024

Training Images Dataset and Example Generated Images

You can find full resolution training dataset and more here : https://www.patreon.com/posts/perfect-quality-114972274

The dataset can be used to train Stable Diffusion 1.5 (SD 1.5), Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), Stable Diffusion 3, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium (SD 3.5), Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, FLUX, and such text to image models.

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Comments

AiInfluence

Absolutely amazing work as always Doctor.

Dmitrii

I see that you use 28 images with 170 epoch and 4e-06 learning rate Which gives 4760 steps in total What is your approach for a different amount of images? E.g I want to train on 10 images. If I use 170 epoch and same learning rate, I'll get only 1700 steps. Should I increase amount of epoch to 470 to get 4700 steps, or increase learning rate?