# Stability AI Open-Sources Knowledge Distillation Code and Weights for SD-Small and SD-Tiny

_Tool · published 2023-08-01_

Stability AI has released the knowledge distillation code and model weights for SD-Small and SD-Tiny, two compact variants of Stable Diffusion designed for efficient image generation on resource-constrained devices. The release makes the distillation methodology fully accessible to the research and developer community.

By open-sourcing both the training code and the resulting weights, Stability AI enables practitioners to study, reproduce, and build upon the compression techniques used to shrink Stable Diffusion into lighter-weight models — a move relevant to on-device, edge, and mobile deployment scenarios in creative and production workflows.

## Sources
- [Hugging Face Blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/sd_distillation)
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