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I Built a Latent Diffusion Model That Fits in 5.5MB and Runs Without a GPU

Stable Diffusion needs an A100 to feel fast. It ships with 860 million parameters, a UNet backbone, and a multi-gigabyte footprint that assumes you have real GPU infrastructure behind it. I wanted to know how small a diffusion model could get before it stopped working at all. The answer, after a lo…

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  1. 2026-11-10 09:39 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I Built a Latent Diffusion Model That Fits in 5.5MB and Runs Without a GPU

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