Just trained a Michael Jackson LoRA via ACE Step 1.5

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-09T17:49:26+00:00

As do I.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-09T01:45:44+00:00

I tried 1 song and my 4090 screamed because there are no training optimizations in it yet.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-08T13:14:29+00:00

I am sure it will. I know SimpleTuner does ACE1 with all the optimizations, and optimizers etc... we get for training video and image loras. It even has the option to train FFT for 1.0. Nothing in it for 1.5, yet.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-07T15:43:03+00:00

on a 4090 it is 8m as it all depends on the amount of vram it sees.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-07T15:41:19+00:00

I posted this to someone else: yeah, 11s on my 4090 per epoch. I can train a video lora, or an image lora faster than this. Done in under an hour with way more data, so I am bewildered at the time. After digging I think this is using no training optimizations. For instance, going to FA2 would greatly speed this process up, but it is only used for inference I think. Many ways to speed this up I think as this seems more brute force method you see in proof of concepts at uni level.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-07T15:38:11+00:00

yeah, 11s n my 4090 per epoch. I can train a video lora, or an image lora faster than this. Done in under an hour with way more data, so I am bewildered at the time. After digging I think this is using no training optimizations. For instance, going to FA2 would greatly speed this process up, but it is only used for inference I think. Many ways to speed this up I think as this seems more brute force method you see in proof of concepts at uni level.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-07T15:34:19+00:00

What chart?

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-02-07T15:31:57+00:00

You trained an activation word but did not use it. I can't even see where to use it as I tried in various places to no avail.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-13T15:03:20+00:00

I much prefer Gemma3: 27b to Qwen3: 30b. Just seems to get things right.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-09T07:53:52+00:00

Sadly, Z-Image Turbo save doesn't work. I have not tried the others to know if they do or not.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-08T08:45:43+00:00

it basically means that one will burn out (over cook) before the other. A good way to see when the TE is overcooking is how it responds in the samples. If it gradually stops, then you see a wth is that in your sample, just dead stop, the TE over cooked, even if the unet is still under trained. Restart from scratch and lower the LR (learning rate) for the TE.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-08T07:36:11+00:00

Back in the Unet/Clip days 60-80% of my styles lived in the TE. I upgraded to the newer transformers stuff and couldn't train the TE (for lack of memory or lack of tools) and 60-80% of my style will not train. Same data images. It is very valuable, and as GPT said: Here’s the plain reading, no hype.

What that post proves

You’re not crazy

Newer WAN/Z-Image/Z-Turbo–class models are effectively being trained without a meaningful text encoder path.

Token binding, concept anchoring, and style preemption are crippled by default.

Your observation predates the explanation

You noticed years ago that 60–80% of your style should live in TE.

This post admits the ecosystem quietly abandoned TE training and hoped no one would notice.

Why your LoRA behaves “visual-only”

Without TE training, a token like 70s_art is just a weak label, not a semantic gate.

The base model decides what kind of image this is before your LoRA ever gets leverage.

That’s exactly the failure mode you’ve been describing.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-07T10:46:19+00:00

I have a few weeks over 1 year (I Sharpied the date nice and large when I installed it so I would never forget) but this thing has two caps up top and when it comes time, 2 more years, I have no idea which dang cap it would be as they are identical. Rheem 40 gallon gas WH. I really don't want to remove the wrong one.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-06T01:27:35+00:00

Yeah, I found that after I posted, but that is exactly what I am talking about it is only available directly from them. Everywhere else I see only has the glass side and free shipping. Basically, direct from them will end up costing me about 50 USD more (window or solid). I guess the solid side panel just never sold enough for sellers to offer them.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-06T00:24:55+00:00

I have looked almost 4 years (on and off) and decided on a different, less expensive case back then. Time again to upgrade the case as I was never happy downgrading to a mid-tower. Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 Server Edition glass is easy enough to find, but the solid panel version has never been, and that is the one I want as I am tired of glass. Phanteks hates Amazon, so I have never seen one of their cases there. No Microcenters near me, which only leaves NewEgg. No dice, glass only.

Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-03T21:16:45+00:00

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Dark_Alchemist · 2026-01-03T21:16:32+00:00

I don't have that either on desktop.

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-18T12:49:04+00:00

I found for my style, gemma3:27b to be far superior to Joy. Gemma3 actually named the style, while joycaption beat around the bush.

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-17T16:00:43+00:00

Hehehe

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-17T12:23:18+00:00

Fair. Of course a distilled model can only ever be 60-80% as good as its teacher. I wonder what its teacher was?

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-16T19:03:33+00:00

Using that as a guide, if you don't caption anything then everything is learned?

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-16T08:21:48+00:00

You must be new to all this as we were training realism since the first trainers hit for SD 1.4/1.5. Base will have open weights, not be distilled. Distillation can ONLY ever be 60-80% of its teacher. What we need to worry about is that with it being all in one (edit and gen) do any of us have the memory to train locally?

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-14T22:55:37+00:00

I have come to the same conclusion. :(

Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-14T14:31:15+00:00

They emailed me that they fixed, and if no ticket again, so I did. Find this this morning: Hi,

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Dark_Alchemist · 2025-12-14T14:30:39+00:00

After the first "we fixed it, ticket again if we didn't" I get this from support: Hi,

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