DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) LoRA for XL and 1.5 OpenRail++
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__html__What is DPO?DPO is Direct Preference Optimization, the name given to the process whereby a diffusion model is finetuned based on human-chosen images. Meihua Dang et. al. have trained Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Stable Diffusion XL using this method and the Pick-a-Pic v2 Dataset, which can be found at https://huggingface.co/datasets/yuvalkirstain/pickapic_v2, and wrote a paper about it at https://huggingface.co/papers/2311.12908.What does it Do?The trained DPO models have been observed to produce higher quality images than their untuned counterparts, with a significant emphasis on the…__html__What is DPO?DPO is Direct Preference Optimization, the name given to the process whereby a diffusion model is finetuned based on human-chosen images. Meihua Dang et. al. have trained Stable Diffusion 1.5 and Stable Diffusion XL using this method and the Pick-a-Pic v2 Dataset, which can be found at https://huggingface.co/datasets/yuvalkirstain/pickapic_v2, and wrote a paper about it at https://huggingface.co/papers/2311.12908.What does it Do?The trained DPO models have been observed to produce higher quality images than their untuned counterparts, with a significant emphasis on the adherence of the model to your prompt. These LoRA can bring that prompt adherence to other fine-tuned Stable Diffusion models.Who Trained This?These LoRA are based on the works of Meihua Dang (https://huggingface.co/mhdang) athttps://huggingface.co/mhdang/dpo-sdxl-text2image-v1 and https://huggingface.co/mhdang/dpo-sd1.5-text2image-v1, licensed under OpenRail++.How were these LoRA Made?They were created using Kohya SS by extracting them from other OpenRail++ licensed checkpoints on CivitAI and HuggingFace.1.5: https://civitai.com/models/240850/sd15-direct-preference-optimization-dpo extracted from https://huggingface.co/fp16-guy/Stable-Diffusion-v1-5_fp16_cleaned/blob/main/sd_1.5.safetensors.XL: https://civitai.com/models/238319/sd-xl-dpo-finetune-direct-preference-optimization extracted from https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0/blob/main/sd_xl_base_1.0_0.9vae.safe
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- 1Start at the floor.Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.7,000°running total
- 2Add the downloads.4,006 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.+1,080°8,080°running total
- 3Add the likes.113 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.+309°8,389°running total
- 4Take off the age.The SD15 weights came out in 2022: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.−609°7,780°running total
- =The heat score.Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.7,780°
- Heat score
- One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
- Floor
- The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
- Download-equivalents
- Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
- Log scale
- Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
- Likes
- Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
- Adoption rate
- How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
- Measured and estimated
- Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
- Seeder
- Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
- AI Horde
- A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
- Generation sites
- Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
- OpenRouter tokens
- A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
- Full model (checkpoint)
- The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
- LoRA and embedding
- Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
- Family and weights
- The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
- Age
- Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
- Family boost
- A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
- Stand-in score
- A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
- New! (grace period)
- A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
- Trend
- How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
- Typical model
- The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.

















