Community VAE fixes Qwen Image 2.1 checkerboard artifacts
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madebyollin released texture-fix-vae-for-qwen-image-2.1 on Hugging Face, a VAE trained to remove the checkerboard artifacts Qwen Image 2.1 produces. Users report it works well, though the difference requires zooming past 500% to see by eye.
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