Parallel Image Generation

[heady gazelle]

Any thoughts of bringing this feature back? For both the commercial and community versions it would be a worthwhile feature. For those with lower VRAM, even being able to generate two images simultaneously would double productivity and enjoyment.

[stable cliff]

Curious how this would benefit those with lower VRAM, as I would expect it to require more, since it's generating more than 1 image at a time

[bright shadow]

also ... bringing it back? was it ever an option? heh

[heady gazelle]

Yes, it was an option in very early versions of Invoke.

[heady gazelle]

Depends on how low.

[bright shadow]

i don't believe it was ever an option, and yes it would use more vram, as well as be slower, so i'm not sure how it'd help people

[heady gazelle]

It was and the amount of time to generate 4 images opposed to one too only a fraction longer.

[bright shadow]

what version?

[bright shadow]

ahh yeah the batch command

thanks

[heady gazelle]

But didn't take 4x time to generate 4 images.

[bright shadow]

i believe the feature was short-lived because SDXL then came out, and now we've got sd 3.5 and flux where the trick is to get them to even fit on a gpu for one generation

in the days of SD 1.5 it made more sense

[heady gazelle]

https://www.restack.io/p/invokeai-answer-adetailer-cat-ai?t&utm_source=perplexity

see "Batch Processing with invokeai-batch"

[heady gazelle]

Makes sense.

[strong geyser]

I've been using invoke for several years now, and I don't remember invoke ever having a parallel generation feature. Batching taking x times longer for x images would make sense, since I'm pretty sure this just means 'generate x images before I need to hit invoke again'