---
license: other
license_name: flux-1-dev-non-commercial-license
license_link: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev/blob/main/LICENSE.md
language:
- en
tags:
- flux
- diffusers
- lora
- replicate
base_model: black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
pipeline_tag: text-to-image
instance_prompt: BLOK_02.CR2
widget:
- text: >-
    BLOK_02.CR2, 1905, full height, a best quality color photo portrait of      
    Alexander Blok writing a poem in 1905, curly hair, Edwardian coat
  output:
    url: images/example_y2ucjfyiz.png
- text: >-
    young BLOK_02.CR2 in Petersburg, 1905, full height, a best quality color
    photo portrait of Alexander Blok strolling in St Petersburg in 1905 while
    writing a poem in 1905, curly hair, Edwardian coat
  output:
    url: images/example_pat2lbcsh.png
- text: >-
    Generated example for model
    AlekseyCalvin/Alexander_BLOK_Flux_LoRA_SilverAgePoets_v3. Prompt: young
    BLOK_02.CR2 in Petersburg, 1905, full height, a best quality color photo
    portrait of Alexander Blok strolling in St Petersburg in 1905 while writing
    a poem in 1905, curly hair, Edwardian coat
  output:
    url: images/example_bvut2tyo4.png

---

# Alexander Blok Flux Low-Rank Adapter (LoRA) for SilverAgePoets.com Version 3 (aka "2_1")

An adapter to reproduce the likeness of the legendary Symbolist/Modernist Russian and Soviet poet: <br>
**Alexander Blok** *(b.1880-d.1921)* <br>

[CLICK HERE TO READ OUR TRANSLATION OF BLOK'S "STRANGER"/"NEZNAKOMKA"](https://www.silveragepoets.com/blokstranger)

This version of our Blok LoRA was the product of an experimental training to transfer face/attribute-features from historical photos with minimal compute time by using a high rank training, and a relatively high learning rate, but with a minimal number of steps. <br>
This is the version at rank128 (linear_dims+alpha), lr of 0.0005, batch size 2 (with a dataset of only 12 images, but x3 resolutions: 512, 768, 1024), minimalist descriptive captions with a dropout of .09 (9%), adamw8bit optimizer, and only 50 steps (!), with no warmups. <br>

All in all, we consider the experiment fairly successful, and exceptionally demonstrative of the unprecedentedly absorbent learning capacity not just among FLUX models, but DiT-based models more broadly. <br>
We will soon reproduce this experiment on one of the homebrew de-distilled versions of FLUX, and see whether fast learning improves or diminishes without the extra steering from distilled guidance during fine-tuning. <br>
And we are most curious about whether the re-introduction of distilled guidance during inference still zeroes in even on low-step learning. <br>
Higher step learning with de-distilled Flux models has so far demonstated broader potentials to any other technique. <br>
But that's neither here nor there, as this particular LoRA was trained on a regular distilled version anyhow. <br>

**Regarding file size:** <br>

Ideally, we ought to extract only the learned features into a much smaller-sized LoRA file. <br>
We will get around to doing that eventually. <br>
For now, anyone interested in using this locally, please forgive for us the huge file size! <br>

**Regarding the weird trigger word:** <br>

We have learned about a Flux model knowledge-activation prompting technique of approximating digital camera file names in prompts. <br>
This technique (prompting with tokens like "*object*_02.cr2", etc) demonstrably results in more natural "raw" looking photorealistic outputs from the Flux base model(s). 
So, we decided to run a parallel co-experiment to see whether and how this base knowledge might affect fine-tune training. <br>
So, instead of using the poet's name, we simply used a camera file name-like token of 'BLOK_02.CR2'. <br>

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## Trigger words
You should use `BLOK_02.CR2` to trigger the image generation.

## Use it with the [🧨 diffusers library](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers)

```py
from diffusers import AutoPipelineForText2Image
import torch

pipeline = AutoPipelineForText2Image.from_pretrained('black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev', torch_dtype=torch.float16).to('cuda')
pipeline.load_lora_weights('AlekseyCalvin/BlokFlux2_1', weight_name='lora.safetensors')
image = pipeline('your prompt').images[0]
```

For more details, including weighting, merging and fusing LoRAs, check the [documentation on loading LoRAs in diffusers](https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/main/en/using-diffusers/loading_adapters)