# Hugging Face — Open-sourcing Knowledge Distillation Code and Weights of SD-Small and SD-Tiny

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-08-01
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/sd_distillation
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2019-open-sourcing-knowledge-distillation-code-and-weights-of-sd-small-and-sd-tiny
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: SD-Small, SD-Tiny

Segmind open-sources the weights and training code of two compressed Stable Diffusion models, SD-Small and SD-Tiny, which have 35% and 55% fewer parameters respectively than the base model, trained using knowledge distillation.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/sd_distillation:

> we are open-sourcing the weights and training code of our compressed SD models; SD-Small and SD-Tiny

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