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IF-L is an open-weights image model from DeepFloyd, released April 2023. Its published size is 0.9B parameters. Licence: deepfloyd-if-license.

Catalogue identity notes

DeepFloyd/IF-I-L-v1.0 (900M) with IF-II-L-v1.0 (1.2B) per the DeepFloyd IF model zoo; memory as for IF-M (estimate).

32.5±2.5#126 of 144 image modelsfrom 3 benchmark results across 3 sources

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of IF-L, out of 197 with a score, then more from DeepFloyd.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
169OmniGen (v1) BAAI34±4local~9GB2024-10
170SDXL-Turbo Stability AI34±2local~4.9GB2023-11
171IF-L DeepFloyd33±3local~14GB2023-04
172Lumina-DiMOO Alpha-VLLM (Shanghai AI Lab)32±4local~39GB2025-09
173UltraEdit (SD3, with mask) Peking University / BIGAI (UltraEdit)32±7comparison only2024-06
more from DeepFloyd
166IF-XL DeepFloyd35±2local~29GB2023-04
177IF-M DeepFloyd31±3local~14GB2023-04

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$ what it's good at

text to image▂▅▅▃▄▄█▃▁▂▁▁ #108 of 126 * · 43% of its score · 1 test

Beats Latent Diffusion text2img-large (LDM-KL-8-G, LAION-400M), VQ-Diffusion (ITHQ), LCM-SDXL here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GenEval54.0% ✎▅█···▅▃▃▃··▃ beats 8/10easy · avg 79%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 43%at its level
other tests2 not in a task · 54% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
EvalAlign human text-image alignment score5.2300 mean human alignment score ✎█▄▄·█·▄█▄▄·▄ beats 10/11avg 6.285 mean human alignment score▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 42%typical
HEIM text-image alignment (aspect win rate, v1.1.0)51.4% ✎▁····█▁·▁··▁ beats 1/9very easy · avg 92%▇▇▇▇▇ 12%sharp · at its level · noisy

$ where to run it

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~14 GB, NVIDIA only · from github.com/deep-floyd (official)
    uv run --with diffusers --with transformers --with accelerate --with torch --with sentencepiece --with protobuf python -c "import torch; from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline; s1=DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained('DeepFloyd/IF-I-L-v1.0', variant='fp16', torch_dtype=torch.float16); s1.enable_model_cpu_offload(); s2=DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained('DeepFloyd/IF-II-L-v1.0', text_encoder=None, variant='fp16', torch_dtype=torch.float16); s2.enable_model_cpu_offload(); e,n=s1.encode_prompt('a cat holding a sign'); i=s1(prompt_embeds=e, negative_prompt_embeds=n, output_type='pt').images; s2(image=i, prompt_embeds=e, negative_prompt_embeds=n, output_type='pil').images[0].save('out.png')"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/DeepFloyd ↗

$ how the score was worked out · GenEval authors' results: djg… 43%, EvalAlign: Supervised Fine-Tu… 42%, HEIM: Holistic Evaluation of… 12%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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