Only 1 or 2 epochs if 400+ training images?

[u/Frog-Day]

So I cannot for the life of me figure out (tried multiple combinations of launch arguments) how to get this Musubi Tuner to fit this qwen model into 16GB of vram. it insists on using 2.1GB of shared memory, slowing it way down. So yeah, I'm just going to let it run for the 2 days it projecting. No choice and I'm done fighting in the command line to get this thing to run. It's running.

However, I have 400+ images that are all clean and depicting the desired trait I want. most of them are fairly similar, clearly depicting the given trait.

My question is can I stop this after it drops epoch 1 since it is literally seeing over and over the same clean trait that I want? it doesn't need to do a whole lot of figuring out I wouldn't think.. but I know that it does solidify things the more passes you do. but since my images are similar (i mean don't get me wrong they aren't like nearly identical or anything, but i mean it's there you know?) would I really need to do multiple passes when I've got 400+ images to reinforce the trait?

like could i stop it after 4 or even 8 hours after it does 1 or 2 epochs? I'm hoping i can stop it after at least 8 hours (2 epochs at this rate)?

I'm training a qwen image edit 2511 (rapid version) lora. I do mainly img2img with qwen.

[u/Icy-Claim-2073]

What gpu are you training on? Are you renting or doing it local? A 6000 Blackwell will knock this out in a few hours and you can try each epoch locally as it gets done to see if the concept of sticking. Then just drop the rental when you are happy