From 70adddf960382ab35c7848c154beee3c5452ecd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Kuznetsov Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 10:33:49 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Record why Qwen-Image-2.1 is not a regeneration profile Open weights remove the hosted-only objection to the 2.x line, but the Diffusers pipeline has no strength or latent noise-mask input and the Qwen Research License is non-commercial (issue #111). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/known-limitations.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/known-limitations.md b/docs/known-limitations.md index 1ae7350..35af228 100644 --- a/docs/known-limitations.md +++ b/docs/known-limitations.md @@ -179,9 +179,12 @@ fresh-font and silhouette variants visibly changed typography. The higher-fideli and line geometry. It builds its donor internally but still requires an independently clean global anchor. Automatic OCR and line-box proposals are not reliable enough to remove those requirements, and exact oracle results do not establish a general mask, -seed, runtime, or provider operating range. Qwen-Image-2.0 is hosted-only and exposes -no equivalent low-strength denoise control. Exact experiments, controls, and pass -rates are kept in +seed, runtime, or provider operating range. Qwen-Image-2.0 is hosted-only. Qwen-Image-2.1 +(issue #111) has open weights, but its Diffusers pipeline uses `image=` only as +reference conditioning and starts the target latents from noise, with no `strength` +or latent noise-mask input. Its Qwen Research License also limits the weights to +non-commercial research and evaluation, so it is not a supported-profile candidate. +Exact experiments, controls, and pass rates are kept in [`text-protection-research.md`](text-protection-research.md) and the [`fidelity` evaluation record](../data/evaluations/fidelity/README.md).