Jib Mix Ernie - V2
07/05/26 - FP8 Version of V2 Added
+Reduced big head/face issues
+Images have more natural, less AI high cfg/contrasting colors.
- full frontal NSFW still not good/stable (probably will fix at a later date)
NOTE: Very short prompts seem to mess up the ERNIE models, try and use longer LLM-style prompts.
V1
Defaults to European faces most of the time instead of Asian. (or at least allows you to override Asian more consistently with prompts like "English/Swedish/European")
(but it can still help to negative prompt Asian with a CFG of 1.1-1.3)
The SeedVarianceEnhancer node can really help with image variation but does also cause image/text consistency issues at strength values above 1
+ Slightly reduces the ERNIE diagonal grid artifacts.
+ Better, cleaner images/faces.
+ Is more photorealistic.
- Doesn't always do art styles as well.
- Can make heads/faces too big.
It is a bit of a slot machine, and you have to roll a few times to get a good image, but at least it is fast.
Description
More natural less AI high cfg/contrasting colors.
Less overly large heads/faces
FAQ
Comments (8)
have you tried flux2 tiny vae, it the one supposed to be used with the model, yet everyone using standard flux2 vae, i saw noticeable difference in reduction of artifacts, grainy images etc when using the flux2 tiny vae, also try with linear quadratic scheduler instead of simple.
Thats interesting, I hadn't heard that, I will try it, but also I do not see many artifacts with my version, but I am using a custom Scheduler Sigmas, I will upload workflow soon once I clean it up.
Can I use the default 1 CFG and 8 steps with this great checkpoint if it's based on the turbo version of Ernie? Also do you plan to do a new ZIT Checkpoint as I'm a huge fan of your previous one's.
Yes, it is an Ernie Turbo model (but that is not an option to select on Civitai) 5-10 steps is good.
I will probably release a new ZIT version at some point, but only if I can make it better than the current versions, but it is difficult to train ZIT without it becoming worse in skin quailty etc.
@J1B does Ernie have decent seed verity?
@AnimaXx Only really if you use the SeedVariationEnahcer node @0.5-2 strength , or it is a bit lacking (Not as bad as Hi-Dream or the Original Qwen-Image) but I do miss the SDXL days where models had great seed variation out of the box!
@J1B does your checkpoint work with LORAs?
@AnimaXx Yes it seems to work well, it is not to far away from ERNIE base model in its current versions.