Simo Ryu
Author of the LoRA repository for diffusion fine-tuning; AuraFlow collaborator and Diffusers contributor
Simo Ryu, who publishes on GitHub as cloneofsimo, wrote the Apache-2.0-licensed lora repository, which applies low-rank adaptation to quickly fine-tune text-to-image diffusion models, along with minimal reference implementations such as minDiffusion and minRF. Ryu collaborated with fal on AuraFlow v0.1, an Apache-2.0 open-weights flow-based text-to-image model whose model card credits Ryu with bringing the project to life. Ryu has also contributed to Hugging Face Diffusers, including a merged pull request adding learned positional-embedding selection for AuraFlow.123456
Work
Hugging Face DiffusersOpen-source code
Authored merged pull requests to the Apache-2.0 Diffusers library, including #9182 (August 2024), which adds learned positional-embedding selection for AuraFlow, and #4532 (August 2023), which adds a section to the SDXL documentation pointing to minSDXL, a single-file implementation of the SDXL UNet.567
LoRA for diffusion fine-tuning (cloneofsimo/lora) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Author of the repository "Using Low-rank adaptation to quickly fine-tune diffusion models", released under the Apache License 2.0; fal's AuraFlow announcement points to it as Ryu's adaptation of the LoRA paper for text-to-image models.214
AuraFlow v0.1 (external site: huggingface.co)Open weights
Credited, with fal's @isidentical, on the AuraFlow model card for bringing the project to life; fal's announcement says the collaboration grew out of Ryu's minRF reimplementation of MMDiT. The model card lists the apache-2.0 license.34
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