# ComfyUI-ELLA

[ComfyUI](https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI) implementation for [ELLA](https://github.com/TencentQQGYLab/ELLA). ## :star2: Changelog - **[2024.4.30]** Add a new node `ELLA Text Encode` to automatically concat ella and clip condition. - **[2024.4.24]** Upgraded ELLA Apply method. Better compatibility with the comfyui ecosystem. Refer to the method mentioned in [ComfyUI_ELLA PR #25](https://github.com/ExponentialML/ComfyUI_ELLA/pull/25) - **DEPRECATED**: `Apply ELLA` without `simgas` is deprecated and it will be removed in a future version. - **[2024.4.22]** Fix unstable quality of image while multi-batch. Add CLIP concat (support lora trigger words now). - **[2024.4.19]** Documenting nodes. - **[2024.4.19]** Initial repo. ## :pushpin: Notice - SIGMAS from node `BasicScheduler` or TIMESTEPS by node `Set ELLA Timesteps` must be the same as the KSampler settings. Because [Timestep-Aware Semantic Connector (TSC)](https://arxiv.org/html/2403.05135v1#S3), which dynamically adapts semantics features over sampling time steps, has been introduced. - If you need concat clip `CONDITIONING` to make LoRA trigger words effective, ELLA output `CONDITIONING` **always** needs to be linked to the `conditioning_to` of `Conditioning (Concat)` node. ## :books: Example workflows The [examples directory](./examples/) has workflow examples. You can directly load these images as workflow into ComfyUI for use. ![workflow_example](./examples/workflow_example.png) All legacy workflows was compatible. But it is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. ![workflow_example_legacy](./examples/workflow_example_legacy.png) :tada: It works with controlnet! ![workflow_controlnet](./examples/workflow_controlnet.png) :tada: It works with **lora trigger words** by concat CLIP CONDITIONING! :warning: NOTE again that `ELLA CONDITIONING` always needs to be linked to the `conditioning_to` of `Conditioning (Concat)` node. ![workflow_lora](./examples/workflow_lora.png) With `ELLA Text Encode` node, can simplify the workflow. ![](./examples/workflow_ella_text_encode.png) With the upgrade(2024.4.24), some interesting workflow can be implemented, such as using ELLA only in positive. As shown below: ![workflow_lora_positive_ella_only](./examples/workflow_lora_positive_ella_only.png) | positive + negative | positive only | | :---: | :---: | | ![ella_with_lora](./assets/ella_with_lora.png) | ![ella_with_lora_positive_only](./assets/ella_with_lora_positive_only.png) | However, there is no guarantee that positive-only will bring better results. Workflow with [AYS](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/AlignYourSteps/). ![workflow_ella_ays](./examples/workflow_ella_ays.png) AYS got with more visual details and better text-alignment, ref to [paper](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/AlignYourSteps/). | w/ AYS | w/o AYS | | :---: | :---: | | ![](./assets/AYS_output.png) | ![](./assets/wo_AYS_output.png) | And [EMMA](https://github.com/TencentQQGYLab/ELLA/issues/15) is working in progress. ## :green_book: Install Download or git clone this repository inside ComfyUI/custom_nodes/ directory. `ComfyUI-ELLA` requires the latest version of ComfyUI. If something doesn't work be sure to upgrade. ```bash cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes git clone https://github.com/TencentQQGYLab/ComfyUI-ELLA ``` Next install dependencies. ```bash cd ComfyUI-ELLA pip install -r requirements.txt ``` ## :orange_book: Models These models must be placed in the corresponding directories under models. Remember you can also use any custom location setting an `ella` & `ella_encoder` entry in the `extra_model_paths.yaml` file. - `ComfyUI/models/ella`, create it if not present. - Place [ELLA Models](https://huggingface.co/QQGYLab/ELLA) here - `ComfyUI/models/ella_encoder`, create it if not present. - Place [FLAN-T5 XL Text Encoder](https://huggingface.co/QQGYLab/ELLA/tree/main/models--google--flan-t5-xl--text_encoder) here, it should be a folder of transfomers structure with config.json In summary, you should have the following model directory structure: ```bash ComfyUI/models/ella/ └── ella-sd1.5-tsc-t5xl.safetensors ComfyUI/models/ella_encoder/ └── models--google--flan-t5-xl--text_encoder ├── config.json ├── model.safetensors ├── special_tokens_map.json ├── spiece.model ├── tokenizer_config.json └── tokenizer.json ``` ## :book: Nodes reference [Nodes reference](./NODES.md) ## :mag: Common promblem - XXX not implemented for 'Half'. See [issue #12](https://github.com/TencentQQGYLab/ComfyUI-ELLA/issues/12#issuecomment-2067994702) - AYS + Ella getting dark image generations. See [issue #39](https://github.com/TencentQQGYLab/ComfyUI-ELLA/issues/39#issuecomment-2097354330) - Check if `add_noise` of `SamplerCustom` node is enabled. - Lower the `cfg` of `SamplerCustom` node. ## :memo: TODO - [ ] Support prompt weighting ## :hugs: Contributors (direct & indirect)

_JettHu

_budui

_kijai

_huagetai

## :yum: Thanks - ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI - Diffusers (borrowed timestep modules): https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers ## :wink: Citation ``` @misc{hu2024ella, title={ELLA: Equip Diffusion Models with LLM for Enhanced Semantic Alignment}, author={Xiwei Hu and Rui Wang and Yixiao Fang and Bin Fu and Pei Cheng and Gang Yu}, year={2024}, eprint={2403.05135}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CV} } ```

Name	Type	Default	Description
ella	ELLA		—
embeds	ELLA_EMBEDS		—

ELLA Encode

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