stable-diffusion.md

Running Stable Diffusion on an M1 Mac

Based off of instructions from Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU

1. Make sure that you have Command Line Tools for Xcode installed:

sudo xcode-select --install

2. Install homebrew:

cd usr/local/bin
mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew

eval "$(homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
brew update --force --quiet
chmod -R go-w "$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh"

3. Add Homebrew binaries to your PATH:

echo 'PATH="/usr/local/bin/:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

4. Activate the new PATH variable:

source ~/.bash_profile

5. Install Python 3.10:

brew install python

6. Verify that Python 3.10 is the new default interpreter:

python3 -V  

7. Install a few other dependencies:

brew install Cmake protobuf rust

8. Clone the Stable Diffusions repo:

mkdir ~/Documents/GitHub
cd ~/Documents/GitHub
git clone -b apple-silicon-mps-support https://github.com/bfirsh/stable-diffusion.git

cd stable-diffusion
mkdir -p models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/

9. Create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv .venv

10. Make sure that .venv/pyvenv.cfg shows:

version = 3.10.6

11. Activate the virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

12. Install the dependencies:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

13. Go to Hugging Face and create an account if you don't already have one.

14. Go to the Stable Diffiusion Hugging Face repository.

15. Click "Access repository".

16. Download sd-v1-4.ckpt (~4 GB) on that page and save it as models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt in the directory you created above.

17. Create an image locally:

python3 scripts/txt2img.py \
  --prompt "a red juicy apple floating in outer space, like a planet" \
  --n_samples 1 --n_iter 1 --plms --skip_grid --ddim_steps=100