Comment by user34283
17 hours ago
The team behind Z-Image Turbo has told us multiple times in their paper that the output quality of the Turbo model is superior to the larger base model.
I think that information still did not get through to most users.
"Notably, the resulting distilled model not only matches the original multi-step teacher but even surpasses it in terms of photorealism and visual impact."
"It achieves 8-step inference that is not only indistinguishable from the 100-step teacher but frequently surpasses it in perceived quality and aesthetic appeal"
It's important for finetuning, Lora training and as a refiner...
I also heard so, that it would mainly be useful for training and applying the resulting Lora to the distilled Turbo model.
However, I wonder what has been the source of the delay with its release and if there were problems with that approach.