One prompt, under $20, one night: how Gradio distilled a 4-step text-to-image model
Gradio · x · 2026-10-01
Gradio breaks down how ML-Intern built its text-to-image model: a single prompt on HuggingChat baked in distillation guidance, halving inference steps from 32 to 4 (32→16→8→4). The 4-step model was then fine-tuned with a perceptual loss and shipped only after passing a quality gate. Total cost: under $20 in a single overnight run, MIT-licensed.
Related event: Gradio Open-Sources 4-Step Text-to-Image Mini Model Trained for Under $20(2 posts)→
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