AnalysisVisual AIJuly 29, 2026
SeedVR2-1.4B — a 6-layer distillation of SeedVR2-7B (sharp)

A 1.44B parameter, 6-layer one-step diffusion image upscaler distilled from ByteDance's SeedVR2-7B (sharp EMA variant, 36 layers). Trained and shared by a community member on Reddit.
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