W-Flow-diffusers
Native diffusers checkpoints for W-Flow (One-Step Generative Modeling via Wasserstein Gradient Flows). Code: hanjq17/W-Flow. Each variant folder is self-contained:
pipeline.py—WFlowPipelinescheduler/scheduling_wflow.py—WFlowScheduler(one evaluation; the transformer predicts the clean latent)transformer/transformer_wflow.py—WFlowTransformer2DModelvae/—stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse(AutoencoderKL, scaling factor 0.18215)
Load with PyPI diffusers and trust_remote_code=True. No extra W-Flow package is required. Sampling is one forward pass at 256×256. guidance_scale is the official CFG value, which the paper writes as (w+1). Weights are the released EMA. The paper reports ImageNet-256 FID 1.52 for W-Flow-B, 1.35 for W-Flow-L, and 1.29 for W-Flow-XL.
Available checkpoints
| Checkpoint | Path | Resolution | Steps | Guidance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W-Flow-B | W-Flow-B/ |
256×256 | 1 | 1.19 |
| W-Flow-L | W-Flow-L/ |
256×256 | 1 | 1.14 |
| W-Flow-XL | W-Flow-XL/ |
256×256 | 1 | 1.09 |
Demo
Class: golden retriever (ImageNet 207) — 256×256, 1 step, guidance_scale=1.19, torch_dtype=bfloat16, seed 1.
ImageNet class labels
Each variant keeps an English id2label map in model_index.json.
pipe.id2label— id → English labelpipe.labels— synonym → idpipe.get_label_ids("golden retriever")pipe(class_labels="golden retriever", ...)— string labels resolve automatically
height and width default to 256. The patch embedding is fixed to a 32×32 latent, so other sizes are rejected. On CUDA the generator autocasts to bfloat16.
Inference
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
"BiliSakura/W-Flow-diffusers",
subfolder="W-Flow-B",
custom_pipeline="pipeline.py",
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
).to("cuda")
print(pipe.id2label[207])
image = pipe(
class_labels="golden retriever",
num_inference_steps=1,
guidance_scale=1.19,
generator=torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(1),
).images[0]
image.save("demo.png")
Local checkout:
from pathlib import Path
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline
model_dir = Path("W-Flow-diffusers/W-Flow-B")
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
str(model_dir),
local_files_only=True,
custom_pipeline=str(model_dir / "pipeline.py"),
trust_remote_code=True,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
).to("cuda")
Citation
@article{han2026one,
title = {One-Step Generative Modeling via Wasserstein Gradient Flows},
author = {Han, Jiaqi and Li, Puheng and Guo, Qiushan and Xu, Renyuan and Ermon, Stefano and Cand{\`e}s, Emmanuel J.},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.11755},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11755}
}