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# Pallas Cat (Otocolobus manul) — SDXL v1
A LoRA for generating photorealistic Pallas cats — a rare wild
felid native to Central Asia, frequently mis-rendered by base
models as tiger, snow leopard, or generic gray cat.
## Usage
- Trigger: pallas cat, Otocolobus manul
- Recommended weight: 0.7 – 0.9
- Best results: front-facing portraits, sitting poses,
natural wildlife photography contexts
- Known limitation: side-profile and dynamic poses can produce
"anatomical chimeras" (front-face on side-body) — see the v2
notes in the linked article. v2 will address this.
## Sample prompts
pallas cat, Otocolobus manul, sitting on rock, looking at camera,
soft natural daylight, wildlife photography, photorealistic
## Training details
- Base: SDXL 1.0
- Dataset: 92 photographs (zoo livestream,
photographer portfolios)
- Rank 8, Alpha 1, 10 epochs, AdamW8bit
- Captioning strategy: variable elements only — trigger word absorbs
permanent species features
## Full write-up
Three findings I noticed during this training run — including a
chimera failure mode that more epochs don't fix — are written up at:
[Part 2 LinkedIn Article link]
## Attribution
Full photographer credits: [GitHub ATTRIBUTION.md link]
## v2 coming
v2 with diversified pose data is in training. Will be published
under this same model.