ComfyUI-sonar

A janky implementation of Sonar sampling (momentum-based sampling) for ComfyUI. It may or may not be working properly but it does produce pretty reasonable results. I am using it personally. At this point, I would say it's suitable for general use with the caveat that it's very likely stuff like implementation and inputs to nodes will still be changing fairly frequently. In other words, don't depend on reproduceable generations with this unless you're willing to keep track of the git revision something was generated with.

Currently supports Euler, Euler Ancestral, and DPM++ SDE sampling.

See the ChangeLog for recent user-visible changes.

Description

See https://github.com/Kahsolt/stable-diffusion-webui-sonar for a more in-depth explanation.

The direction parameter should (unless I screwed it up) work like setting sign to positive or negative: 1.0 is positive, -1.0 is negative. You can also potentially play with fractional values.

Like the original documentation says, you normally would not want to set momentum to a value below 0.85. The default values are considered reasonable, doing stuff like using a negative direction may not produce good results.

Usage

The most flexible way to use this is with a custom sampler:

You can also just choose sonar_euler, sonar_euler_ancestral or sonar_dpmpp_sde from the normal samplers list (will use the default settings). I personally recommend using the custom sampler approach and the ancestral version.

Nodes

• SamplerSonarEuler — Custom sampler node that combines Euler sampling and momentum and optionally guidance. A bit boring compared to the ancestral version but it has predictability going for it. You can possibly try setting init type to RAND and using different noise types, however this sampler seems very sensitive to that init type. You may want to set direction to a very low value like 0.05 or -0.15 when using the RAND init type. Setting momentum=1 is the same as disabling momentum, so this sampler with momentum=1 is basically the same as the basic euler sampler.
• SamplerSonarEulerAncestral — Ancestral version of the above. Same features, just with ancestral Euler.
• SonarGuidanceConfig — You can optionally plug this into the Sonar sampler nodes. See the Guidance section below.
• NoisyLatentLike — If you give it a latent (or latent batch) it'll return a noisy latent of the same shape. Allows specifying all the custom noise types except brownian which has some special requirements. Provided just because the noise generation functions are conveniently available. You can also use this as a reference latent with SonarGuidanceConfig node and depending on the strength it can act like variation seed (you'd change the seed in the NoisyLatentLike node). Note: The seed stuff may or may not work correctly.
• SamplerSonarDPMPPSDE — This one is extra experimental but it is an attempt to add moment and guidance to the DPM++ SDE sampler. It may not work correctly but you can sample stuff with it and get interesting results. I actually really like this one, and you can get away with more extreme stuff like green_test noise and still produce reasonable results. You may want to use the BlehDiscardPenultimateSigma node from my ComfyUI-bleh collection if you find the result seems a bit washed out and blurry.
• SamplerConfigOverride — can be used to override configuration settings for other samplers, including the noise type. For example, you could force euler_ancestral to use a different noise type. It's also possible to override other settings like s_noise, etc. Note: The wrapper inspects the sampling function's arguments to see what it supports, so you should connect the sampler directly to this rather than having other nodes (like a different sampler wrapper) in between.
• SonarCustomNoise — See the Noise section below.

Note: NoisyLatentLike and SamplerConfigOverride are candidates for moving to a different project. They're just here at the moment because the noise generation functions are readily available.

Parameters

Very abbreviated section. The init type can make a big difference. If you use RANDOM you can get away with setting direction to high values (like up to 2.25 or so) and absurdly low values (like -30.0). It's also possible to set momentum and momentum_hist to negative values, although whether it's a good idea...

Guidance

You can try the SamplerSonarNaive sampler which has an optional latent input. The guidance probably isn't working correctly and the implementation definitely isn't exactly the same as the original A1111 version but it still might be fun to play with. The linear guidance type is a lot more sensitive to the guidance_factor than the euler type. For euler, reasonable values are around 0.01 to 0.1, for linear reasonable values are more like 0.001 to 0.02. It is also possible to set guidance factor to a negative value, I've found this results in high contrast and very vivid colors.

It is possible to set the start and end steps guidance is activate. Rather than setting a low guidance and using it for the whole generation, it's also possible to set high guidance and end it after a relatively low number of steps.

Without guidance it should basically work the same as the ancestral Euler version. There are some example images in the Examples section below.

Note: The reference latent needs to be the same size as the one being sampled. Also note that step numbers in the step range are 1-based and inclusive, so 1 is the first step.

Noise

I basically just copied a bunch of noise functions without really knowing what they do. The main thing I can say is they produce a semi-reasonable result and it's different from the other noise samplers. See Credits below.

1. gaussian: This is the default noise type.
2. uniform: Might enhance background details?
3. brownian: This is the noise type SDE samplers use.
4. perlin
5. studentt: There's a comment that says it may enhance subject details. It seemed to produce a fairly dark result.
6. pink
7. highres_pyramid: Not extensively tested, but it is slower than the other noise types. I would guess it does something like enhance details.
8. laplacian
9. power
10. rainbow_mild and rainbow_intense: A combination of green (-ish, the implementation may be broken) noise plus perlin noise. Very colorful results.
11. green_test: Even more rainbow-y than the rainbow noise types. It probably isn't working correctly, but the results are very interesting and colorful. Depending on the model, it may not work well for an initial generation but may be worth trying with img2img type workflows.

You can scroll down to the the Examples section near the bottom to see some example generations with different noise types.

The sampler and NoisyLatentLike nodes now take an optional SonarCustomNoise input. You can chain SonarCustomNoise nodes together to mix different types of noise, similar to how some of the built in ones. It shouldn't matter what order the noise types are chained. If rescale is set to 0.0 no rescaling will occur. factor is the proportion of that type of noise you want. If you want to use rescale it should be on the node that you are plugging into a sampler. Just for example if you had two SonarCustomNoise nodes both with factor=0.7 and rescale=1.0 on the last one, it would be effectively the same as if you'd used factor=0.5 and rescale=1.0 doesn't actually do anything. You can also rescale to values above 1.0 — the result is more noise, similar to increasing s_noise above 1.0 on a sampler. The simple explanation is rescale means you don't have to make sure the factors add up to the scale you want (which normally would be 1.0).

Note: If you connect the optional SonarCustomNoise node to a Sonar sampler, the NoisyLatentLike node or the SamplerConfigOverride node, it will override the noise type selected in the node.

SonarPowerNoise

The SonarPowerNoise node generates fractional Brownian motion (fBm) noise. It offers versatility in producing various types of noise including gaussian, pink, 2D brownian noise, and all intermediates.

By default, the node generates normal gaussian noise. Here's an overview of its parameters:

• factor and rescale operate similarly to SonarCustomNoise, enabling the addition of multiple sources of noises.
• time_brownian introduces correlation across sampler timesteps for SDE solvers.
• alpha is the main parameter. alpha > 0 amplifies low frequencies; alpha = 1 yields pink noise, and alpha = 2 produces brownian noise. Conversely, for alpha < 0, it amplifies high frequencies.
• min_freq and max_freq determine the range of frequencies allowed through. Setting max_freq = \sqrt{1/2} \simeq 0.7071 enables the passage of the highest frequencies. In cases where alpha < 0, setting max_freq = 0.5 is advisable to diminish the power of diagonally oriented frequencies.
• stretch, rotate, and pnorm alter the filter's shape by stretching, rotating, or cushioning the band-pass region.
• Lowering mix moderates the filter's effect by blending back unfiltered gaussian noise from the same sample.
• common_mode is an attempt to desaturate the latent by injecting the average across channels into every latent channel. However, this may result in a specific color due to the encoding of the unit vector by the latent space. Note that this is done after the mixing of unfiltered gaussian noise.
• Enabling preview provides a visual representation of the filter. no_mix sets mix = 1 for the preview. The preview includes, from left to right:
  • Fourier domain visualization: Low frequencies at the center, with black indicating filtered-out frequencies.
  • Spatial visualization of the 2D kernel: The filtering can be interpreted as convolution with the displayed kernel.
  • Sample: Gaussian sample with shaped frequency spectrum. A single latent channel will look like this.

Frequency-domain Interpretation: The Fourier transform decomposes a 2D latent into sinusoids covering all spatial orientations and frequencies. For an independent and identically distributed gaussian sample, energy is evenly distributed across all frequencies and orientations. Scaling the power spectrum by 1 / f^\alpha, where \alpha>0, boosts low frequencies, introducing spatial correlations.

Spatial Domain Interpretation: A gaussian latent sample comprises independently sampled pixels, exhibiting no spatial correlations. Conversely, a requirement that each pixel value differs from its neighbors by a \epsilon \sim \mathcal{N}(0, 1) results in 2D brownian noise (\alpha=2).

Seed Considerations: While the node defaults to outputting gaussian noise, a given seed produce a different sample than the one produced by other gaussian noise sources. This stems from sampling the noise directly in the frequency domain to avoid the cost of a FFT. When time_brownian = true, noise sampling occurs in the spatial domain, ensuring that default parameters yield output equivalent to SonarCustomNoise set to brownian.

Related

I also have some other ComfyUI nodes here: https://github.com/blepping/ComfyUI-bleh/

Credits

Original Sonar Sampler implementation (for A1111): https://github.com/Kahsolt/stable-diffusion-webui-sonar

My version basically just rips off this Sonar sampler implementation for Diffusers: https://github.com/alexblattner/modified-euler-samplers-for-sonar-diffusers/

Noise generation functions copied from https://github.com/Clybius/ComfyUI-Extra-Samplers with only minor modifications. I may have broken some of them in the process or they may not have been suitable for use and I took them anyway. If they don't work it is not a reflection on the original source.

Examples

Guidance

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Positive

Using the linear guidance type and guidance_factor=0.02. The reference image was a red and blue checkboard pattern.

Negative

Using the linear guidance type and guidance_factor=-0.015. The reference image was a red and blue checkboard pattern.

Noise Types (img2img)

These were generated with s_noise=1.05 to make the noise effect more pronounced, 30 steps at 0.66 denoise, sonar settings increased slightly to enhance the effect (momentum=0.9, momentum_hist=0.85, direction=1.0, momentum_init=ZERO). It is probably easier to compare using these as the image mostly stays the same as the sonar sampler settings change.

Expand renoise example images

Base

Base image - no Sonar Sampler steps.

Euler A

Normal (non-sonar) Eular A. Not really a comparison with noise (think it would use gaussian) but with the difference in effect from momentum.

Gaussian

Brownian

Perlin

Uniform

Highres Pyramid

Pink

StudentT

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StudentT_test

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Laplacian

Power

Rainbow Mild

Rainbow Intense

Green_test

Noise Types (Initial Generations)

These were generated with s_noise=1.1 to make the noise effect more pronounced, default sonar settings (momentum=0.95, momentum_hist=0.75, direction=1.0, momentum_init=ZERO). It may be harder to see the noise effects since the composition can change a lot in initial generations.

Expand initial generation example images

Gaussian

Brownian

Perlin

Uniform

Highres Pyramid

Pink

StudentT

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StudentT_test

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Laplacian

Power

Rainbow Mild

Rainbow Intense

Green_test

This might seem too crazy for actual use, but you can actually get decent results using the DPMPP Sonar sampler and a relatively high step count.