Training-free, model-agnostic method that generates at low resolution, upscales, then does one high-res step. It speeds Z-Image Turbo about 21x, Flux Klein about 9x and Qwen Image over 10x; code and ComfyUI plugin released.
Training-free staged sampling method that speeds up pretrained flow-matching text-to-image diffusion models.
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MrFlow at a glance
- What is MrFlow?
- MrFlow is a library. Training-free staged sampling method that speeds up pretrained flow-matching text-to-image diffusion models.
- Does MrFlow work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Apache-2.0 code published on GitHub that can be downloaded and run locally anywhere; no region restrictions found. Base models used with it carry their own licenses. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does MrFlow cost?
- Open source, open source. Free, Apache-2.0 code. Requires separately obtained base model weights and Real-ESRGAN weights, each under their own licenses. Licence: Apache-2.0.
- Where was MrFlow shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 5 Jul 2026, at 33:08 in “Full body waifus, Claude Fable is back, LongCat 2.0, mind-reading AI, live video editing: AI NEWS”.
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MrFlow (Multi-Resolution Flow Matching) is an open-source implementation of a training-free acceleration method for pretrained flow-matching text-to-image diffusion models. It samples a low-resolution image, upsamples the decoded result in pixel space with Real-ESRGAN (x2), re-encodes it, injects low-strength scheduler-consistent noise, and runs a short high-resolution refinement. This moves most denoising cost from high-resolution to low-resolution sampling.
The README reports end-to-end speedups (including text encoding, VAE, super-resolution and diffusion passes) of about 8.25x on FLUX.1-dev, 10.3x on Qwen-Image, 8.79x on FLUX.2 Klein Base 9B and 21x on Z-Image-Turbo, with up to 25x when combined with Pi-Flow on Qwen-Image. Two core settings are provided: 12plus1 for aggressive acceleration and 20plus1 as a higher-quality operating point.
It is a Python library built on standard PyTorch and Diffusers, with no custom kernels, finetuning or learned upsampler. The repository includes reference scripts, model-family demos in examples/, a community contributions area, and a ComfyUI plugin. Users must supply their own base model checkpoints and Real-ESRGAN x2 weights, and the scripts require editing placeholder checkpoint paths.
- Training-free: no finetuning or learned upsampler required
- Low-resolution sampling, Real-ESRGAN x2 upscaling, then one high-resolution refinement step
- Reported 8x to 21x end-to-end speedups on FLUX.1-dev, Qwen-Image, FLUX.2 Klein and Z-Image-Turbo
- Combinable with distilled models such as Pi-Flow and FLUX-schnell
- Standard PyTorch and Diffusers, no custom kernels
- ComfyUI plugin released
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