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All models by unsloth →This is a BitsandBytes quantized version of Z-Image-Turbo, and can be run in diffusers.
unsloth/Z-Image-Turbo-unsloth-bnb-4bit uses Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 methodology for SOTA performance.
diffusers library.
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Welcome to the official repository for the Z-Image（造相）project!
Z-Image is a powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters. Currently there are three variants:
🚀 Z-Image-Turbo – A distilled version of Z-Image that matches or exceeds leading competitors with only 8 NFEs (Number of Function Evaluations). It offers ⚡️sub-second inference latency⚡️ on enterprise-grade H800 GPUs and fits comfortably within 16G VRAM consumer devices. It excels in photorealistic image generation, bilingual text rendering (English & Chinese), and robust instruction adherence.
🧱 Z-Image-Base – The non-distilled foundation model. By releasing this checkpoint, we aim to unlock the full potential for community-driven fine-tuning and custom development.
✍️ Z-Image-Edit – A variant fine-tuned on Z-Image specifically for image editing tasks. It supports creative image-to-image generation with impressive instruction-following capabilities, allowing for precise edits based on natural language prompts.
| Model | Hugging Face | ModelScope |
|---|---|---|
| Z-Image-Turbo |   |   |
| Z-Image-Base | To be released | To be released |
| Z-Image-Edit | To be released | To be released |
📸 Photorealistic Quality: Z-Image-Turbo delivers strong photorealistic image generation while maintaining excellent aesthetic quality.
[Image blocked: Showcase of Z-Image on Photo-realistic image Generation]
📖 Accurate Bilingual Text Rendering: Z-Image-Turbo excels at accurately rendering complex Chinese and English text.
[Image blocked: Showcase of Z-Image on Bilingual Text Rendering]
💡 Prompt Enhancing & Reasoning: Prompt Enhancer empowers the model with reasoning capabilities, enabling it to transcend surface-level descriptions and tap into underlying world knowledge.
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🧠 Creative Image Editing: Z-Image-Edit shows a strong understanding of bilingual editing instructions, enabling imaginative and flexible image transformations.
[Image blocked: Showcase of Z-Image-Edit on Image Editing]
We adopt a Scalable Single-Stream DiT (S3-DiT) architecture. In this setup, text, visual semantic tokens, and image VAE tokens are concatenated at the sequence level to serve as a unified input stream, maximizing parameter efficiency compared to dual-stream approaches.
[Image blocked: Architecture of Z-Image and Z-Image-Edit]
According to the Elo-based Human Preference Evaluation (on Alibaba AI Arena), Z-Image-Turbo shows highly competitive performance against other leading models, while achieving state-of-the-art results among open-source models.
[Image blocked: Z-Image Elo Rating on AI Arena]
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Install the latest version of diffusers, use the following command:
We have submitted two pull requests (#12703 and #12715) to the 🤗 diffusers repository to add support for Z-Image. Both PRs have been merged into the latest official diffusers release. Therefore, you need to install diffusers from source for the latest features and Z-Image support.
Decoupled-DMD is the core few-step distillation algorithm that empowers the 8-step Z-Image model.
Our core insight in Decoupled-DMD is that the success of existing DMD (Distributaion Matching Distillation) methods is the result of two independent, collaborating mechanisms:
By recognizing and decoupling these two mechanisms, we were able to study and optimize them in isolation. This ultimately motivated us to develop an improved distillation process that significantly enhances the performance of few-step generation.
[Image blocked: Diagram of Decoupled-DMD]
Building upon the strong foundation of Decoupled-DMD, our 8-step Z-Image model has already demonstrated exceptional capabilities. To achieve further improvements in terms of semantic alignment, aesthetic quality, and structural coherence—while producing images with richer high-frequency details—we present DMDR.
Our core insight behind DMDR is that Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) can be synergistically integrated during the post-training of few-step models. We demonstrate that:
[Image blocked: Diagram of DMDR]
If you find our work useful in your research, please consider citing:
from diffusers import DiffusionPipelineimport torch
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained( "unsloth/Z-Image-Turbo-unsloth-bnb-4bit", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,).to('cuda')
# uncomment if you run out of memory# pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
output = pipe( prompt="a cute kawaii sloth", negative_prompt="blurry, unfocused", num_inference_steps=9, guidance_scale=1.0,)
# Save outputimage = output.images[0]image.save('sample.png')pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusersimport torchfrom diffusers import ZImagePipeline
# 1. Load the pipeline# Use bfloat16 for optimal performance on supported GPUspipe = ZImagePipeline.from_pretrained( "Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, low_cpu_mem_usage=False,)pipe.to("cuda")
# [Optional] Attention Backend# Diffusers uses SDPA by default. Switch to Flash Attention for better efficiency if supported:# pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("flash") # Enable Flash-Attention-2# pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3") # Enable Flash-Attention-3
# [Optional] Model Compilation# Compiling the DiT model accelerates inference, but the first run will take longer to compile.# pipe.transformer.compile()
# [Optional] CPU Offloading# Enable CPU offloading for memory-constrained devices.# pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "Young Chinese woman in red Hanfu, intricate embroidery. Impeccable makeup, red floral forehead pattern. Elaborate high bun, golden phoenix headdress, red flowers, beads. Holds round folding fan with lady, trees, bird. Neon lightning-bolt lamp (⚡️), bright yellow glow, above extended left palm. Soft-lit outdoor night background, silhouetted tiered pagoda (西安大雁塔), blurred colorful distant lights."
# 2. Generate Imageimage = pipe( prompt=prompt, height=1024, width=1024, num_inference_steps=9, # This actually results in 8 DiT forwards guidance_scale=0.0, # Guidance should be 0 for the Turbo models generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(42),).images[0]
image.save("example.png")pip install -U huggingface_hubHF_XET_HIGH_PERFORMANCE=1 hf download Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo@article{team2025zimage, title={Z-Image: An Efficient Image Generation Foundation Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer}, author={Z-Image Team}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22699}, year={2025}}
@article{liu2025decoupled, title={Decoupled DMD: CFG Augmentation as the Spear, Distribution Matching as the Shield}, author={Dongyang Liu and Peng Gao and David Liu and Ruoyi Du and Zhen Li and Qilong Wu and Xin Jin and Sihan Cao and Shifeng Zhang and Hongsheng Li and Steven Hoi}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22677}, year={2025}}
@article{jiang2025distribution, title={Distribution Matching Distillation Meets Reinforcement Learning}, author={Jiang, Dengyang and Liu, Dongyang and Wang, Zanyi and Wu, Qilong and Jin, Xin and Liu, David and Li, Zhen and Wang, Mengmeng and Gao, Peng and Yang, Harry}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.13649}, year={2025}}