FLUX LoRA keeps losing facial identity: is 24 images enough and how to fix it

Minxit08 · reddit · 2026-11-03

A Reddit user troubleshooting a personal-identity FLUX.1-dev LoRA trained via fal.ai: 24 images with varied hairstyles, angles, and scenes, yet generations look like a generic pretty face instead of the actual person — narrower, hollow-cheeked, personality drained.

Open questions: how to balance close-up neutral portraits vs full-body/lifestyle shots; whether a smaller curated dataset beats 24 mixed images; whether facial-proportion captions risk overfitting; how LoRA rank, steps, learning rate, and inference strength affect identity; whether pairing the LoRA with a face-reference adapter beats retraining; and how to objectively evaluate identity consistency across poses and lighting. Useful discussion thread for portrait-LoRA tuning.

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