sdnq always-register

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Mandic <mandic00@live.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 # Change Log for SD.Next
 
-## Update for 2025-11-14
+## Update for 2025-11-16
 
 ### TBD
 
 Merge commit: `f903a36d9`
 
-### Highlights for 2025-11-14
+### Highlights for 2025-11-16
 
 New native [kanvas](https://vladmandic.github.io/sdnext-docs/Kanvas/) module for image manipulation that fully replaces img2img, inpaint and outpaint controls  
-And a first cloud model with **Google's Nano Banana**
+And a first cloud model with **Google's Nano Banana** plus new **Photoroom PRX** model  
 
 ![Screenshot](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/54b25586-b611-4d70-a28f-ee3360944034)
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ And a first cloud model with **Google's Nano Banana**
   - **auth**: strong-enforce auth check on all api endpoints  
   - **amdgpu**: prefer rocm-on-windows over zluda  
 - **Internal**
-  - torch: update to `torch==2.9.1` for cuda, ipex, openvino, rocm backends
+  - torch: update to `torch==2.9.1` for *cuda, ipex, openvino, rocm* backends
   - attention: refactor attention handling  
   - scripts: remove obsolete video scripts  
   - lint: update global lint rules  
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ And a first cloud model with **Google's Nano Banana**
   - installer: reduce requirements  
   - installer: auto-restart on self-update  
   - server: set correct mime-types  
+  - sdnq: unconditional register on startup    
 - **Fixes**
   - hires: strength save/load in metadata, thanks @awsr  
   - imgi2img: fix initial scale tab, thanks @awsr  

modules/sd_models.py

@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@ def load_diffuser_folder(model_type, pipeline, checkpoint_info, diffusers_load_c
     try: #0 - using detected model type and pipeline
         if (model_type is not None) and (pipeline is not None):
             if ('sdnq' in model_type.lower()) or ('sdnq' in checkpoint_info.path.lower()):
-                from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
                 global allow_post_quant # pylint: disable=global-statement
                 allow_post_quant = False
             sd_model = pipeline.from_pretrained(checkpoint_info.path, cache_dir=shared.opts.diffusers_dir, **diffusers_load_config)
@@ -572,7 +571,6 @@ def load_diffuser_file(model_type, pipeline, checkpoint_info, diffusers_load_con
 
 
 def load_sdnq_module(fn: str, module_name: str, load_method: str):
-    from modules import sdnq
     t0 = time.time()
     quantization_config = None
     quantization_config_path = os.path.join(fn, module_name, 'quantization_config.json')
@@ -585,6 +583,7 @@ def load_sdnq_module(fn: str, module_name: str, load_method: str):
         return None, module_name, 0
     model_name = os.path.join(fn, module_name)
     try:
+        from modules import sdnq
         module = sdnq.load_sdnq_model(
             model_path=model_name,
             quantization_config=quantization_config,

modules/shared.py

@@ -837,6 +837,9 @@ elif sys.platform == "win32" and (devices.backend == "zluda" or devices.backend
     if devices.backend == "zluda":
         from modules.zluda import initialize_zluda
         initialize_zluda()
+from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
+log.debug('Quantization: registered=SDNQ')
+
 try:
     log.info(f'Device: {print_dict(devices.get_gpu_info())}')
 except Exception as ex:

modules/video_models/video_load.py

@@ -60,9 +60,6 @@ def load_model(selected: models_def.Model):
             selected.te_folder = 'text_encoder'
             selected.te_revision = None
 
-        if 'sdnq-' in (selected.te or selected.repo).lower():
-            from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
-
         shared.log.debug(f'Video load: module=te repo="{selected.te or selected.repo}" folder="{selected.te_folder}" cls={selected.te_cls.__name__} quant={model_quant.get_quant_type(quant_args)}')
         kwargs["text_encoder"] = selected.te_cls.from_pretrained(
             pretrained_model_name_or_path=selected.te or selected.repo,
@@ -96,9 +93,6 @@ def load_model(selected: models_def.Model):
             else:
                 shared.log.debug(f'Video load: module=transformer repo="{selected.dit or selected.repo}" module="{dit_folder}" folder="{dit_folder}" cls={selected.dit_cls.__name__} skip')
 
-        if 'sdnq-' in (selected.dit or selected.repo).lower():
-            from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
-
         if selected.dit_folder is None:
             selected.dit_folder = ['transformer']
         if isinstance(selected.dit_folder, list) or isinstance(selected.dit_folder, tuple):

pipelines/generic.py

@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ def load_transformer(repo_id, cls_name, load_config=None, subfolder="transformer
         modules_dtype_dict = {}
     jobid = shared.state.begin('Load DiT')
     try:
-        if 'sdnq-' in repo_id.lower():
-            from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
         load_args, quant_args = model_quant.get_dit_args(load_config, module='Model', device_map=True, allow_quant=allow_quant, modules_to_not_convert=modules_to_not_convert, modules_dtype_dict=modules_dtype_dict)
         quant_type = model_quant.get_quant_type(quant_args)
         dtype = dtype or devices.dtype
@@ -100,8 +98,6 @@ def load_text_encoder(repo_id, cls_name, load_config=None, subfolder="text_encod
         modules_dtype_dict = {}
     jobid = shared.state.begin('Load TE')
     try:
-        if 'sdnq-' in repo_id.lower():
-            from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
         load_args, quant_args = model_quant.get_dit_args(load_config, module='TE', device_map=True, allow_quant=allow_quant, modules_to_not_convert=modules_to_not_convert, modules_dtype_dict=modules_dtype_dict)
         quant_type = model_quant.get_quant_type(quant_args)
         load_args.pop('torch_dtype', None)

pipelines/model_hyimage.py

@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ def load_hyimage3(checkpoint_info, diffusers_load_config=None): # pylint: disabl
 
     allow_quant = True
     if 'sdnq-' in repo_id.lower():
-        from modules import sdnq # pylint: disable=unused-import # register to diffusers and transformers
         sd_models.allow_post_quant = False # we already handled it
         allow_quant = False