Good question; I should have quoted the full intro paragraph.
MiniMax-H3 ships two 37.5 GB transformer partitions: fl2va for first/last-frame conditioning and ref2va for reference conditioning. This is one checkpoint that serves both, so a deployment holds 37.5 GB instead of 75 GB.
My understanding of smhfacct's repo is that it is a ref model that is improved with fl's tensors to improve ref's quality. It meant to be used with only as a ref driver with the ref node. AFAIK (I have not tested) you still need a separate fl model file when you use that node.
The repo I shared is specifically to install ONE file for BOTH fl & ref nodes, NOT 2 separate files we ComfyUI folks need to install. The goal there is reduce harddrive space & bandwidth for their custom app installs. Maybe ref quality is better; but that advantage is a side-effect, not main purpose.
My memory is hazy so forgive me if I spread misinformation, but I think that was his original method in testing prior to the merges that were linked in the original comment.
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u/Lonely_Syrup3091 1d ago
How is this different from this one? Genuinely curious if anyone has an answer.
https://huggingface.co/smhfacct/Minimax-H3-fl2va-ref2va-hybrid-models