prompts. With its 860M UNet and 123M text encoder, the model is relatively lightweight and can run on consumer GPUs.
Latent diffusion is the research on top of which Stable Diffusion was built. It was proposed in High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz, Patrick Esser, Björn Ommer. You can learn more details about it in the specific pipeline for latent diffusion that is par