Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-step accelerated text-to-image checkpoint
Qwen published Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Hugging Face, a distilled version of its Qwen-Image-2.1 text-to-image and image-editing model. It uses the same 7B visual generation architecture but runs with only 8 denoising steps instead of the standard schedule, using CFG=1 and prefix KV caching to reuse text and reference-image context across steps. It loads directly via the QwenImage21Pipeline in Diffusers and supports the same resolution presets and aspect ratios as the base model, including editing tasks like turning sketches into photorealistic images.