tencent-ailab/IP-Adapter

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

IP-Adapter is a lightweight (22M parameter) adapter that adds image prompt capability to pretrained text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and SDXL. It enables multimodal generation combining image and text prompts, including face-ID variants, and is integrated into Diffusers, WebUI, and ComfyUI.

Use cases

• generate images conditioned on a reference image instead of text
• combine image and text prompts for multimodal image generation
• transfer style or content from a reference image to new generations
• generate portraits preserving a face identity with IP-Adapter-FaceID
• use image prompting with SDXL and custom fine-tuned models
• integrate image prompt control into ComfyUI or WebUI workflows

When to choose

• you want image-conditioned generation without fine-tuning the whole diffusion model
• you need a lightweight adapter compatible with existing Stable Diffusion checkpoints and ControlNet tools
• you want face identity preservation in generated portraits

When to avoid

• you need pure text-to-image generation with no reference image
• you use diffusion models other than the supported SD/SDXL family
• you need a maintained product with recent updates - the repo's last release was mid-2024

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing machine-learning deep-learning image-processing artificial-intelligence deep-learning python diffusion-models text-to-image image-prompt stable-diffusion adapter faceid sdxl huggingface-diffusers gpu

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