Originally Posted to Hugging Face and shared here with permission from Stability AI. SDXL consists of a two-step pipeline for latent diffusion: First, we use a base model to generate latents of the desired output size. In the second step, we use a specialized high-resolution model and apply a technique called SDEdit ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01073 , also known as "img2img") to the latents gene…