# Qwen-Image 2.1 LoRA Training Configuration - maltrainer (https://github.com/malcolmamal/maltrainer) # # The recommended setting from the Qwen-Image 2.1 optimizer benchmark: # qwen/docs/QWEN_IMAGE_21_LORA_OPTIMIZER_BENCHMARK.md # Automagic3, ~1500 steps, 512px, rank 16 -> about 13-16 minutes on one RTX 5090 (~11 GB VRAM). # # Run with: python train_qwen_image_2_1_lora.py --config qwen_image_2_1_template.yaml # Sanity-check the stack first: python scripts/qwen_2_1_stack_probe.py --config qwen_image_2_1_template.yaml # Model configuration - the ComfyUI single-file checkpoints from Comfy-Org/Qwen-Image-2.1, no diffusers conversion model: transformer_path: "[comfyui_location]/models/diffusion_models/qwen_image_2.1_int8_convrot.safetensors" vae_path: "[comfyui_location]/models/vae/qwen_image_2.1_vae_bf16.safetensors" text_encoder_path: "[comfyui_location]/models/text_encoders/qwen3vl_8b_int8_convrot.safetensors" # Dataset configuration # Caption files (.txt next to each image) are recommended. Write them as "[instance_token], a [class_token] with ..." # so the trigger binds to the class word. If captions only say "a woman ..." the trigger never learns gender, # and prompts without the class word (e.g. "[instance_token] as a medieval knight") can come out as a man. dataset: path: "[dataset_location]/[person_to_train]" resolution: 512 # square 512x512 only for now (no cropping or bucketing yet: crop your images to # square first). More resolutions and aspect-ratio bucketing are planned. trigger: "[instance_token]" default_caption: "a photo of [instance_token], a [class_token]" repeats: 1 num_workers: 0 # LoRA configuration - all 32 blocks, attention + MLP (192 layers, 39.8M params at rank 16) lora: rank: 16 alpha: 16 prefix: "diffusion_model." target_modules: - "to_q" - "to_k" - "to_v" - "to_out.0" - "gate_up" - "img_mlp.out" dtype: "float32" # Training configuration train: batch_size: 1 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1 max_steps: 1500 # stops exactly here. Set 0 to train num_epochs instead. num_epochs: 70 # used when max_steps is 0. Aim for 60-80 epochs; Automagic3 tolerates running long. save_every: 250 timestep_distribution: "shift" sigmoid_scale: 1.0 max_grad_norm: 1.0 optimizer: "automagic3" learning_rate: 1.0e-6 # launch point only - Automagic3 adapts it (peaks ~2e-4, then decays to ~1e-5) weight_decay: 0.01 automagic_polarity_history: 8 automagic_clip_threshold: 1.0 automagic_beta2: 0.999 automagic_eps: 1.0e-30 # Alternative: optimizer "adamw8bit" with learning_rate 1.0e-4, keep checkpoints 1250-1750. # Prodigy is not recommended on this model: its LR keeps climbing and it overcooks. dtype: "bfloat16" mixed_precision: "bf16" seed: 42 output: path: "[output_location]/[person_to_train]" name: "qwen21_[person_to_train]" format: "diffusers" # lora_A / lora_B keys with the diffusion_model. prefix - loads in ComfyUI dtype: "bfloat16" embed_config: true logging: level: "INFO"