Huge FLUX LoRA vs Fine Tuning / DreamBooth Experiments Completed

Huge FLUX LoRA vs Fine Tuning / DreamBooth Experiments Completed, Moreover Batch Size 1 vs 7 Fully Tested as Well, Not Only for Realism But Also for Stylization — 15 vs 256 images having datasets compared as well (expressions / emotions tested too) — Used Kohya GUI for training

Huge FLUX LoRA vs Fine Tuning / DreamBooth Experiments Completed, Moreover Batch Size 1 vs 7 Fully Tested as Well, Not Only for Realism But Also for Stylization — 15 vs 256 images having datasets compared as well (expressions / emotions tested too) — Used Kohya GUI for training

Full files and article : https://www.patreon.com/posts/112099700

Full Article Link

https://www.patreon.com/posts/112099700
Images provided at the bottom of the article

Details

Download images in full resolution to see prompts and model names
All trainings are done with Kohya GUI, perfectly can be done locally on Windows, and all trainings were 1024x1024 pixels
Fine Tuning / DreamBooth works as low as 6 GB GPUs (0 quality degrade totally same as 48 GB config)
Best quality of LoRA requires 48 GB GPUs , 24 GB also works really good and minimum 8 GB GPU is necessary for LoRA (lots of quality degrade)
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Full size grids are also shared for the followings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112099700
Training used 15 images dataset : 15_Images_Dataset.png
Training used 256 images dataset : 256_Images_Dataset.png
15 Images Dataset, Batch Size 1 Fine Tuning Training : 15_imgs_BS_1_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 15_imgs_BS_1_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg
15 Images Dataset, Batch Size 7 Fine Tuning Training : 15_imgs_BS_7_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 15_imgs_BS_7_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg
256 Images Dataset, Batch Size 1 Fine Tuning Training : 256_imgs_BS_1_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 256_imgs_BS_1_Stylized_Epoch_Test.jpg
256 Images Dataset, Batch Size 7 Fine Tuning Training : 256_imgs_BS_7_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 256_imgs_BS_7_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg
15 Images Dataset, Batch Size 1 LoRA Training : 15_imgs_LORA_BS_1_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 15_imgs_LORA_BS_1_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg
15 Images Dataset, Batch Size 7 LoRA Training : 15_imgs_LORA_BS_7_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 15_imgs_LORA_BS_7_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg
256 Images Dataset, Batch Size 1 LoRA Training : 256_imgs_LORA_BS_1_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 256_imgs_LORA_BS_1_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg
256 Images Dataset, Batch Size 7 LoRA Training : 256_imgs_LORA_BS_7_Realism_Epoch_Test.jpg , 256_imgs_LORA_BS_7_Style_Epoch_Test.jpg

Comparisons

Fine Tuning / DreamBooth 15 vs 256 images and Batch Size 1 vs 7 for Realism : Fine_Tuning_15_vs_256_imgs_BS1_vs_BS7.jpg
Fine Tuning / DreamBooth 15 vs 256 images and Batch Size 1 vs 7 for Style : 15_vs_256_imgs_BS1_vs_BS7_Fine_Tuning_Style_Comparison.jpg
LoRA Training 15 vs 256 images vs Batch Size 1 vs 7 for Realism : LoRA_15_vs_256_imgs_BS1_vs_BS7.jpg
LoRA Training 15 vs 256 images vs Batch Size 1 vs 7 for Style : 15_vs_256_imgs_BS1_vs_BS7_LoRA_Style_Comparison.jpg
Testing smiling expression for LoRA Trainings : LoRA_Expression_Test_Grid.jpg
Testing smiling expression for Fine Tuning / DreamBooth Trainings : Fine_Tuning_Expression_Test_Grid.jpg

Fine Tuning / DreamBooth vs LoRA Comparisons

15 Images Fine Tuning vs LoRA at Batch Size 1 : 15_imgs_BS1_LoRA_vs_Fine_Tuning.jpg
15 Images Fine Tuning vs LoRA at Batch Size 7 : 15_imgs_BS7_LoRA_vs_Fine_Tuning.jpg
256 Images Fine Tuning vs LoRA at Batch Size 1 : 256_imgs_BS1_LoRA_vs_Fine_Tuning.jpg
256 Images Fine Tuning vs LoRA at Batch Size 7 : 256_imgs_BS7_LoRA_vs_Fine_Tuning.jpg
15 vs 256 Images vs Batch Size 1 vs 7 vs LoRA vs Fine Tuning : 15_vs_256_imgs_BS1_vs_BS7_LoRA_vs_Fine_Tuning_Style_Comparison.jpg
Full conclusions and tips are also shared : https://www.patreon.com/posts/112099700
Additionally, I have shared full training entire logs that you can see each checkpoint took time. I have shared best checkpoints, their step count and took time according to being either LoRA, Fine Tuning or Batch size 1 or 7 or 15 images or 256 images, so a very detailed article regarding completed.
Check the images to see all shared files in the post.
Furthermore, a very very detailed analysis having article written and all latest DreamBooth / Fine Tuning configs and LoRA configs are shared with Kohya GUI installers for both Windows, Runpod and Massed Compute.
Moreover, I have shared new 28 realism and 37 stylization testing prompts.

Current tutorials are as below:

Windows requirements CUDA, Python, cuDNN, and such : https://youtu.be/DrhUHnYfwC0
How to use SwarmUI : https://youtu.be/HKX8_F1Er_w
How to use FLUX on SwarmUI : https://youtu.be/bupRePUOA18
How to use Kohya GUI for FLUX training : https://youtu.be/nySGu12Y05k
How to use Kohya GUI for FLUX training on Cloud (RunPod and Massed Compute) : https://youtu.be/-uhL2nW7Ddw
A new tutorial hopefully coming soon for this research and Fine Tuning / DreamBooth tutorial

I have done the following trainings and thoroughly analyzed and compared all:

Fine Tuning / DreamBooth: 15 Training Images & Batch Size is 1
Fine Tuning / DreamBooth: 15 Training Images & Batch Size is 7
Fine Tuning / DreamBooth: 256 Training Images & Batch Size is 1
Fine Tuning / DreamBooth: 256 Training Images & Batch Size is 7
LoRA : 15 Training Images & Batch Size is 1
LoRA : 15 Training Images & Batch Size is 7
LoRA : 256 Training Images & Batch Size is 1
LoRA : 256 Training Images & Batch Size is 7
For each batch size 1 vs 7, a unique new learning rate (LR) is researched and best one used
Then compared all these checkpoints against each other very carefully and very thoroughly, and shared all findings and analysis
Huge FLUX LoRA vs Fine Tuning / DreamBooth Experiments Completed, Moreover Batch Size 1 vs 7 Fully Tested as Well, Not Only for Realism But Also for Stylization : https://www.patreon.com/posts/112099700