MOSS-Image-Base-GGUF

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This is a GGUF quantized version of MOSS-Image-Base by OpenMOSS, the 5.1B text-to-image transformer.

unsloth/MOSS-Image-Base-GGUF uses Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 methodology: the UD- files are mixed precision, with each layer's type chosen from a measured sensitivity scan.

• Runs in Unsloth Studio and in stable-diffusion.cpp builds that include MOSS-Image (master-975 or newer), on CPU, Mac and GPU.
• Only the transformer is in these files. The VAE and tokenizer are unchanged; take them from unsloth/MOSS-Image-Base-FP8, which carries the upstream diffusers folders byte for byte. The text encoder runs from the stock unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF Qwen3.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf.

Recommended: MOSS-Image-Base-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf (3.42 GB) for most machines: LPIPS 0.179 against 0.293 for Q4_K_M. For output closer to bf16 use UD-Q5_K_XL (0.138) or UD-Q6_K_XL (0.102); Q8_0 (0.081) is the closest. On a CUDA GPU, Unsloth Studio defaults to the INT8-ConvRot file in unsloth/MOSS-Image-Base-FP8 (LPIPS 0.096) instead.

Usage in Unsloth Studio#

Pick MOSS-Image-Base in the Images tab and choose a GGUF file from this repo. Unsloth Studio runs MOSS-Image GGUFs with its bundled stable-diffusion.cpp engine and downloads the VAE, tokenizer and Qwen3.5-9B text encoder for you. Defaults: 1024x1024, 50 steps, CFG 3, shift 5.

Usage with stable-diffusion.cpp#

hf download unsloth/MOSS-Image-Base-GGUF MOSS-Image-Base-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf --local-dir moss
hf download unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF Qwen3.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf --local-dir moss
hf download unsloth/MOSS-Image-Base-FP8 vae/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors tokenizer/tokenizer.json --local-dir moss

./sd-cli --diffusion-model moss/MOSS-Image-Base-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf \
  --llm moss/Qwen3.5-9B-Q8_0.gguf \
  --vae moss/vae/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors \
  --tokenizer moss/tokenizer/tokenizer.json \
  --cfg-scale 3.0 --steps 50 -H 1024 -W 1024 -s 42 \
  -p "a storefront sign that says \"UNSLOTH\" in bold clean letters, daytime, sharp focus" -o moss.png

Files and accuracy#

LPIPS (alex, lower is better) and SSIM against the bf16 transformer: same prompt, seed, initial noise and bf16 text embeddings, 1024x1024, 50 steps, CFG 3, over 12 prompts (8 general prompts plus 4 held-out ones: a close-up portrait, a storefront sign with text, hands folding origami, a long scene description). A repeated bf16 render scores 0. MOSS-Image is sensitive to tiny numeric changes: changing a single bf16 rounding step in one layer already moves the renders by 0.053 to 0.063 LPIPS on average, so differences near that level are composition shifts rather than quality loss. The GGUF weights were dequantized into the reference pipeline for this table, so it measures only the weights.

MOSS-Image-Base#

Image: MOSS-Image-Base and MOSS-Image-SFT

MOSS-Image-Base is the base text-to-image model in the MOSS-Image family from OpenMOSS. It supports natural-language prompts, tag sequences, and JSON layouts for controlling text placement and object arrangement.

Base vs. SFT#

In this example, SFT produces clearer text grouping and a more organized whiteboard layout.

Quick start#

Use Python 3.10 or later and an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support. Install a PyTorch 2.9 or later build compatible with your CUDA environment, then install:

pip install "diffusers>=0.38" "transformers>=5.3" "accelerate>=1.10" "safetensors>=0.6" "Pillow>=10"

import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline

pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-Image-Base",
    custom_pipeline="pipeline_moss_image",
    trust_remote_code=True,
    torch_dtype={"default": torch.bfloat16, "vae": torch.float32},
)
pipe.scheduler = type(pipe.scheduler).from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
pipe.to("cuda")

prompt = '''A wide view of a refrigerator beside a kitchen counter with a fruit bowl. A small sticky note on the refrigerator door is handwritten in Chinese:
"记得买牛奶和鸡蛋！
牛奶两盒，鸡蛋一打。
顺便带一袋面包。"'''

image = pipe(
    prompt,
    height=1024,
    width=1024,
    num_inference_steps=50,
    guidance_scale=3.0,
    uncond_skip_layers=[22],
    generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(42),
).images[0]
image.save("refrigerator_note.png")

The model and custom pipeline code are downloaded and cached automatically. You can also pass a complete local model directory to from_pretrained. The transformer and text encoder use bfloat16; the VAE and initial noise use float32. The bundled VAE uses the FLUX.2 small decoder.

For the Gradio interface, CPU offload, and compilation options, follow the project quick start. For ComfyUI, search for MOSS-Image in ComfyUI Manager to install the native plugin. Integration into the official ComfyUI repository is in progress. See the installation and usage guide and example workflow.

Sampling settings#

The default guidance uses two transformer forwards per step. Pass uncond_skip_layers=[] to disable negative-branch skipping, or set negative_prompt to provide a negative prompt. Python API image dimensions must be positive multiples of 16.

See the user guide for resolution, sampling, prompt, and LoRA training recommendations.

Layout-to-image generation#

Pass a JSON layout as the prompt to describe the scene, rendered text, objects, and their positions. Layouts use summary.caption and items, with bbox_format: "yxyx" and bbox_coord_space: "abs_centralized".

With the Python API, serialize the layout using json.dumps(layout, ensure_ascii=False) and pass it to pipe. In Gradio, paste the JSON into the Prompt field and set the matching image dimensions. See the layout format and example.

Layouts can also support controlled editing and user-friendly layout tools. Edit text, element descriptions, and bounding boxes to adjust image content and composition in a structured way.

Image: Layout control

Showcase#

Image: Examples overview

Image: Examples overview 2

Citation#

@misc{ai2026mossimagetechnicalreport,
      title={MOSS-Image Technical Report},
      author={MOSI. AI},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2610.23374},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23374},
}

License and acknowledgements#

The model weights and bundled inference code are released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

We thank the Diffusers, Qwen, and FLUX teams.