Hello!

I want to fine-tune an Illustrious/NoobAI base model (checkpoint) with a few hundreds/thousands images, so that it will be able to reproduce styles like Arcane, Incase, Bancin, CptPopcorn and many more out of the box. Also I want to "westernize" the model so that it could produce european/american faces/styles aswell, because it really gets boring to see only anime-like images everywhere - and they almost look like they have the same style.

I looked for some training parameters/settings, but I couldn't find anything for Illu/NoobAI fine-tuning. I even downloaded some of the best "trained" Illu/NoobAI models from Civitai and I inspected their metadata and everything and guess what. They weren't even "trained/fine-tuned" but only merged or having injected LoRAs into them. So there are lots of liars on civitai.

I know for sure that by fine-tuning you reach the maximum quality possible, that's why I don't want to train LoRAs and inject them afterwards into the checkpoint.

I have access to some 24-48 GB VRAM GPUs.

Kohya SS GUI settings/parameters are appreciated as I'm more familiar with this (or kohya ss scripts).

Thanks!

The people wanting/willing to help or to contribute to this project (and I mean being a part of it, not contributing monetarily) with knowledge and other ideas are welcomed!

Let's make a community fine-tune better than what we have right now!

Discord: tekeshix_46757
Gmail: [tekeshix1@gmail.com](mailto:tekeshix1@gmail.com)

Edit: Not LoRA training, not Dreambooth training but only full fine-tuning.

Dreambooth is better than LoRA, but still inferior to full fine-tune.