Philosophy

• Readability and clarity is prefered over highly optimized code. A strong importance is put on providing readable, intuitive and elementary code design. E.g., the provided schedulers are separated from the provided models and provide well-commented code that can be read alongside the original paper.
• Diffusers is modality independent and focusses on providing pretrained models and tools to build systems that generate continous outputs, e.g. vision and audio.
• Diffusion models and schedulers are provided as consise, elementary building blocks whereas diffusion pipelines are a collection of end-to-end diffusion systems that can be used out-of-the-box, should stay as close as possible to their original implementation and can include components of other library, such as text-encoders. Examples for diffusion pipelines are Glide and Latent Diffusion.