Qwen-Image 2.1 Merged into diffusers with Block-Causal Attention and 64-Channel VAE
linoy_tsaban · x · 2026-09-18
Qwen-Image 2.1, a unified text-to-image and image-to-image model billed as the best value-for-compute in the Qwen-Image family, has been merged into Hugging Face diffusers (PR #14804). It features a single-stream transformer with block-causal attention and KV cache, a 64-channel VAE, and a pipeline supporting both text-to-image and image-conditioned generation.
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