Stable Diffusion XL Refiner 1.0 Overview

Stable Diffusion XL Refiner 1.0 is the refinement checkpoint in the SDXL 1.0 pipeline. It is trained for the final denoising steps on existing SDXL latents or image-to-image inputs, making it useful when a base SDXL generation needs cleaner fine detail, stronger local texture, and a more polished final pass rather than a full standalone generation workflow.