InstantCharacter

InstantCharacter is a tuning-free diffusion transformer framework created by Tencent Hunyuan / InstantX team, which enables generating images of a specific character (subject) from a single reference image, preserving identity and character features. Uses adapters, so full fine-tuning of the base model is not required. Demo scripts and pipeline API (via infer_demo.py, pipeline.py) included. It works by adapting a base image generation model with a lightweight adapter so that you can produce character-preserving generations in various downstream tasks (e.g. changing pose, clothing, scene) without needing full model fine-tuning. Works with huggingface/transformers/diffusers ecosystems.