Krea 2 is a 12.9B single-stream flow-matching DiT trained from scratch, using a Qwen3-VL-4B text encoder and the Qwen-Image VAE. The transformer is vendored as a diffusers ModelMixin whose module tree mirrors the checkpoint, so weights load with no key conversion; the pipeline ports the reference encode, flow-matching denoise, and VAE decode. The text encoder is shared at runtime via the existing dedup registry, so Base and Turbo reuse one Qwen3-VL-4B copy.
Covers text-to-image, image-to-image, native LoRA, and the single-file UNET override. Also completes SD.Next's partial Qwen-Image VAE support (5D decode input and TAESD preview mapping) that K2 shares.
Diffusers-native port of the 9.3B flow-matching DiT: dual-transformer asymmetric CFG, a 13-layer Qwen3-VL tap encoder deduped with VQA and prompt-enhance, the Flux.2 VAE, and a logit-normal schedule. Loads a published bf16 repo with SDNQ at load.
Vladimir Mandic
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