What if I've tried to increase the prompt adherence in <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://civarchive.com/models/795765/illustrious-xl">Illustrious v0.1</a> and its siblings? It's only a test though, because I'm not entirely sure if I did it correctly. :)Left image - original checkpoint, right image - modified checkpoint. It seems the 'characteristics' of the original remain in the modified model, but prompt adherence is better for the most part.Another observation - VAE inclusion gets 'reset', the resulting checkpoint doesn't have it.

Illustrious v0.1 and its variants sprinkled with Illustrious v2.0-Stable CLIP

I've also tried this procedure on <a rel="ugc" href="https://civitai.com/models/1358803/kagereallustrious-illustrious-xl">Kagereallustrious v2.0 checkpoint</a> - a pretty nice merge! :)

kagereallustrious_v2.0_with_CLIP2.0.safetensors

Kagereallustrious v2

Illustrij v18

Nya-Lyriel ILL v1.0

Nova 3DCG XL Ill v5

BrDr XL v1.0

Kageillustrious v6 (NLXL)

rouwei v0.8

Ars Divina - 7.2.4a-1.1

ANGRA Illustrious v1.0

zenijiMixRetro v1.0

Illustrij v16

pixijl_v1.0

Illustrij v15

Illustrious v1.0

SmoothFT-SOLID v1.0

SmoothFT-SPO v1.0

SmoothFT v1.0

Illustrious v0.1

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