diff --git a/config/examples/train_lora_chroma_24gb.yaml b/config/examples/train_lora_chroma_24gb.yaml
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+---
+job: extension
+config:
+  # this name will be the folder and filename name
+  name: "my_first_chroma_lora_v1"
+  process:
+    - type: 'sd_trainer'
+      # root folder to save training sessions/samples/weights
+      training_folder: "output"
+      # uncomment to see performance stats in the terminal every N steps
+#      performance_log_every: 1000
+      device: cuda:0
+      # if a trigger word is specified, it will be added to captions of training data if it does not already exist
+      # alternatively, in your captions you can add [trigger] and it will be replaced with the trigger word
+#      trigger_word: "p3r5on"
+      network:
+        type: "lora"
+        linear: 16
+        linear_alpha: 16
+      save:
+        dtype: float16 # precision to save
+        save_every: 250 # save every this many steps
+        max_step_saves_to_keep: 4 # how many intermittent saves to keep
+        push_to_hub: false #change this to True to push your trained model to Hugging Face.
+        # You can either set up a HF_TOKEN env variable or you'll be prompted to log-in         
+#       hf_repo_id: your-username/your-model-slug
+#       hf_private: true #whether the repo is private or public
+      datasets:
+        # datasets are a folder of images. captions need to be txt files with the same name as the image
+        # for instance image2.jpg and image2.txt. Only jpg, jpeg, and png are supported currently
+        # images will automatically be resized and bucketed into the resolution specified
+        # on windows, escape back slashes with another backslash so
+        # "C:\\path\\to\\images\\folder"
+        - folder_path: "/path/to/images/folder"
+          caption_ext: "txt"
+          caption_dropout_rate: 0.05  # will drop out the caption 5% of time
+          shuffle_tokens: false  # shuffle caption order, split by commas
+          cache_latents_to_disk: true  # leave this true unless you know what you're doing
+          resolution: [ 512, 768, 1024 ]  # chroma enjoys multiple resolutions
+      train:
+        batch_size: 1
+        steps: 2000  # total number of steps to train 500 - 4000 is a good range
+        gradient_accumulation: 1
+        train_unet: true
+        train_text_encoder: false  # probably won't work with chroma
+        gradient_checkpointing: true  # need the on unless you have a ton of vram
+        noise_scheduler: "flowmatch" # for training only
+        optimizer: "adamw8bit"
+        lr: 1e-4
+        # uncomment this to skip the pre training sample
+#        skip_first_sample: true
+        # uncomment to completely disable sampling
+#        disable_sampling: true
+        # uncomment to use new vell curved weighting. Experimental but may produce better results
+#        linear_timesteps: true
+
+        # ema will smooth out learning, but could slow it down. Recommended to leave on.
+        ema_config:
+          use_ema: true
+          ema_decay: 0.99
+
+        # will probably need this if gpu supports it for chroma, other dtypes may not work correctly
+        dtype: bf16
+      model:
+        # Download the whichever model you prefer from the Chroma repo
+        # https://huggingface.co/lodestones/Chroma/tree/main
+        # point to it here.
+        name_or_path: "/path/to/chroma/chroma-unlocked-vVERSION.safetensors"
+        arch: "chroma"
+        quantize: true  # run 8bit mixed precision
+      sample:
+        sampler: "flowmatch" # must match train.noise_scheduler
+        sample_every: 250 # sample every this many steps
+        width: 1024
+        height: 1024
+        prompts:
+          # you can add [trigger] to the prompts here and it will be replaced with the trigger word
+#          - "[trigger] holding a sign that says 'I LOVE PROMPTS!'"\
+          - "woman with red hair, playing chess at the park, bomb going off in the background"
+          - "a woman holding a coffee cup, in a beanie, sitting at a cafe"
+          - "a horse is a DJ at a night club, fish eye lens, smoke machine, lazer lights, holding a martini"
+          - "a man showing off his cool new t shirt at the beach, a shark is jumping out of the water in the background"
+          - "a bear building a log cabin in the snow covered mountains"
+          - "woman playing the guitar, on stage, singing a song, laser lights, punk rocker"
+          - "hipster man with a beard, building a chair, in a wood shop"
+          - "photo of a man, white background, medium shot, modeling clothing, studio lighting, white backdrop"
+          - "a man holding a sign that says, 'this is a sign'"
+          - "a bulldog, in a post apocalyptic world, with a shotgun, in a leather jacket, in a desert, with a motorcycle"
+        neg: ""  # negative prompt, optional
+        seed: 42
+        walk_seed: true
+        guidance_scale: 4
+        sample_steps: 25
+# you can add any additional meta info here. [name] is replaced with config name at top
+meta:
+  name: "[name]"
+  version: '1.0'
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/__init__.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/__init__.py
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+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/__init__.py
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+from .chroma import ChromaModel
+
+AI_TOOLKIT_MODELS = [
+    # put a list of models here
+    ChromaModel
+]
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/__init__.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/__init__.py
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index 00000000..b20e2f40
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+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/__init__.py
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+from .chroma_model import ChromaModel
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/chroma_model.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/chroma_model.py
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index 00000000..d3a92049
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+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/chroma_model.py
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+import os
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+import torch
+from toolkit.config_modules import GenerateImageConfig, ModelConfig
+from PIL import Image
+from toolkit.models.base_model import BaseModel
+from toolkit.basic import flush
+from diffusers import AutoencoderKL
+# from toolkit.pixel_shuffle_encoder import AutoencoderPixelMixer
+from toolkit.prompt_utils import PromptEmbeds
+from toolkit.samplers.custom_flowmatch_sampler import CustomFlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler
+from toolkit.dequantize import patch_dequantization_on_save
+from toolkit.accelerator import unwrap_model
+from optimum.quanto import freeze, QTensor
+from toolkit.util.quantize import quantize, get_qtype
+from transformers import T5TokenizerFast, T5EncoderModel, CLIPTextModel, CLIPTokenizer
+from .pipeline import ChromaPipeline
+from einops import rearrange, repeat
+import random
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from .src.model import Chroma, chroma_params
+from safetensors.torch import load_file, save_file
+from toolkit.metadata import get_meta_for_safetensors
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from toolkit.data_transfer_object.data_loader import DataLoaderBatchDTO
+
+scheduler_config = {
+    "base_image_seq_len": 256,
+    "base_shift": 0.5,
+    "max_image_seq_len": 4096,
+    "max_shift": 1.15,
+    "num_train_timesteps": 1000,
+    "shift": 3.0,
+    "use_dynamic_shifting": True
+}
+
+class FakeConfig:
+    # for diffusers compatability
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.attention_head_dim = 128
+        self.guidance_embeds = True
+        self.in_channels = 64
+        self.joint_attention_dim = 4096
+        self.num_attention_heads = 24
+        self.num_layers = 19
+        self.num_single_layers = 38
+        self.patch_size = 1
+        
+class FakeCLIP(torch.nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.dtype = torch.bfloat16
+        self.device = 'cuda'
+        self.text_model = None
+        self.tokenizer = None
+        self.model_max_length = 77
+
+    def forward(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return torch.zeros(1, 1, 1).to(self.device)
+
+
+class ChromaModel(BaseModel):
+    arch = "chroma"
+
+    def __init__(
+            self,
+            device,
+            model_config: ModelConfig,
+            dtype='bf16',
+            custom_pipeline=None,
+            noise_scheduler=None,
+            **kwargs
+    ):
+        super().__init__(
+            device,
+            model_config,
+            dtype,
+            custom_pipeline,
+            noise_scheduler,
+            **kwargs
+        )
+        self.is_flow_matching = True
+        self.is_transformer = True
+        self.target_lora_modules = ['Chroma']
+
+    # static method to get the noise scheduler
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_train_scheduler():
+        return CustomFlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler(**scheduler_config)
+    
+    def get_bucket_divisibility(self):
+        # return the bucket divisibility for the model
+        return 32
+
+    def load_model(self):
+        dtype = self.torch_dtype
+        
+        # will be updated if we detect a existing checkpoint in training folder
+        model_path = self.model_config.name_or_path
+        
+        extras_path = 'black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell'
+
+        self.print_and_status_update("Loading transformer")
+
+        transformer = Chroma(chroma_params)
+        
+        # add dtype, not sure why it doesnt have it
+        transformer.dtype = dtype
+        
+        chroma_state_dict = load_file(model_path, 'cpu')
+        # load the state dict into the model
+        transformer.load_state_dict(chroma_state_dict)
+        
+        transformer.to(self.quantize_device, dtype=dtype)
+        
+        transformer.config = FakeConfig()
+
+        if self.model_config.quantize:
+            # patch the state dict method
+            patch_dequantization_on_save(transformer)
+            quantization_type = get_qtype(self.model_config.qtype)
+            self.print_and_status_update("Quantizing transformer")
+            quantize(transformer, weights=quantization_type,
+                     **self.model_config.quantize_kwargs)
+            freeze(transformer)
+            transformer.to(self.device_torch)
+        else:
+            transformer.to(self.device_torch, dtype=dtype)
+
+        flush()
+
+        self.print_and_status_update("Loading T5")
+        tokenizer_2 = T5TokenizerFast.from_pretrained(
+            extras_path, subfolder="tokenizer_2", torch_dtype=dtype
+        )
+        text_encoder_2 = T5EncoderModel.from_pretrained(
+            extras_path, subfolder="text_encoder_2", torch_dtype=dtype
+        )
+        text_encoder_2.to(self.device_torch, dtype=dtype)
+        flush()
+
+        if self.model_config.quantize_te:
+            self.print_and_status_update("Quantizing T5")
+            quantize(text_encoder_2, weights=get_qtype(
+                self.model_config.qtype))
+            freeze(text_encoder_2)
+            flush()
+
+        # self.print_and_status_update("Loading CLIP")
+        text_encoder = FakeCLIP()
+        tokenizer = FakeCLIP()
+        text_encoder.to(self.device_torch, dtype=dtype)
+
+        self.noise_scheduler = ChromaModel.get_train_scheduler()
+        
+        self.print_and_status_update("Loading VAE")
+        vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained(
+            extras_path,
+            subfolder="vae",
+            torch_dtype=dtype
+        )
+        vae = vae.to(self.device_torch, dtype=dtype)
+
+        self.print_and_status_update("Making pipe")
+
+        pipe: ChromaPipeline = ChromaPipeline(
+            scheduler=self.noise_scheduler,
+            text_encoder=text_encoder,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            text_encoder_2=None,
+            tokenizer_2=tokenizer_2,
+            vae=vae,
+            transformer=None,
+        )
+        # for quantization, it works best to do these after making the pipe
+        pipe.text_encoder_2 = text_encoder_2
+        pipe.transformer = transformer
+
+        self.print_and_status_update("Preparing Model")
+
+        text_encoder = [pipe.text_encoder, pipe.text_encoder_2]
+        tokenizer = [pipe.tokenizer, pipe.tokenizer_2]
+
+        pipe.transformer = pipe.transformer.to(self.device_torch)
+
+        flush()
+        # just to make sure everything is on the right device and dtype
+        text_encoder[0].to(self.device_torch)
+        text_encoder[0].requires_grad_(False)
+        text_encoder[0].eval()
+        text_encoder[1].to(self.device_torch)
+        text_encoder[1].requires_grad_(False)
+        text_encoder[1].eval()
+        pipe.transformer = pipe.transformer.to(self.device_torch)
+        flush()
+
+        # save it to the model class
+        self.vae = vae
+        self.text_encoder = text_encoder  # list of text encoders
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer  # list of tokenizers
+        self.model = pipe.transformer
+        self.pipeline = pipe
+        self.print_and_status_update("Model Loaded")
+
+    def get_generation_pipeline(self):
+        scheduler = ChromaModel.get_train_scheduler()
+        pipeline = ChromaPipeline(
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            text_encoder=unwrap_model(self.text_encoder[0]),
+            tokenizer=self.tokenizer[0],
+            text_encoder_2=unwrap_model(self.text_encoder[1]),
+            tokenizer_2=self.tokenizer[1],
+            vae=unwrap_model(self.vae),
+            transformer=unwrap_model(self.transformer)
+        )
+
+        # pipeline = pipeline.to(self.device_torch)
+
+        return pipeline
+
+    def generate_single_image(
+        self,
+        pipeline: ChromaPipeline,
+        gen_config: GenerateImageConfig,
+        conditional_embeds: PromptEmbeds,
+        unconditional_embeds: PromptEmbeds,
+        generator: torch.Generator,
+        extra: dict,
+    ):
+
+        extra['negative_prompt_embeds'] = unconditional_embeds.text_embeds
+        extra['negative_prompt_attn_mask'] = unconditional_embeds.attention_mask
+        
+        img = pipeline(
+            prompt_embeds=conditional_embeds.text_embeds,
+            prompt_attn_mask=conditional_embeds.attention_mask,
+            height=gen_config.height,
+            width=gen_config.width,
+            num_inference_steps=gen_config.num_inference_steps,
+            guidance_scale=gen_config.guidance_scale,
+            latents=gen_config.latents,
+            generator=generator,
+            **extra
+        ).images[0]
+        return img
+
+    def get_noise_prediction(
+        self,
+        latent_model_input: torch.Tensor,
+        timestep: torch.Tensor,  # 0 to 1000 scale
+        text_embeddings: PromptEmbeds,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            bs, c, h, w = latent_model_input.shape
+            latent_model_input_packed = rearrange(
+                latent_model_input,
+                "b c (h ph) (w pw) -> b (h w) (c ph pw)",
+                ph=2,
+                pw=2
+            )
+
+            img_ids = torch.zeros(h // 2, w // 2, 3)
+            img_ids[..., 1] = img_ids[..., 1] + torch.arange(h // 2)[:, None]
+            img_ids[..., 2] = img_ids[..., 2] + torch.arange(w // 2)[None, :]
+            img_ids = repeat(img_ids, "h w c -> b (h w) c",
+                             b=bs).to(self.device_torch)
+
+            txt_ids = torch.zeros(
+                bs, text_embeddings.text_embeds.shape[1], 3).to(self.device_torch)
+
+        guidance = torch.full([1], 0, device=self.device_torch, dtype=torch.float32)
+        guidance = guidance.expand(latent_model_input_packed.shape[0])
+
+        cast_dtype = self.unet.dtype
+
+        noise_pred = self.unet(
+            img=latent_model_input_packed.to(
+                self.device_torch, cast_dtype
+            ),
+            img_ids=img_ids,
+            txt=text_embeddings.text_embeds.to(
+                self.device_torch, cast_dtype
+            ),
+            txt_ids=txt_ids,
+            txt_mask=text_embeddings.attention_mask.to(
+                self.device_torch, cast_dtype
+            ),
+            timesteps=timestep / 1000,
+            guidance=guidance
+        )
+
+        if isinstance(noise_pred, QTensor):
+            noise_pred = noise_pred.dequantize()
+
+        noise_pred = rearrange(
+            noise_pred,
+            "b (h w) (c ph pw) -> b c (h ph) (w pw)",
+            h=latent_model_input.shape[2] // 2,
+            w=latent_model_input.shape[3] // 2,
+            ph=2,
+            pw=2,
+            c=self.vae.config.latent_channels
+        )
+        
+        return noise_pred
+    
+    def get_prompt_embeds(self, prompt: str) -> PromptEmbeds:
+        if isinstance(prompt, str):
+            prompts = [prompt]
+        else:
+            prompts = prompt
+        if self.pipeline.text_encoder.device != self.device_torch:
+            self.pipeline.text_encoder.to(self.device_torch)
+
+        max_length = 512
+
+        device = self.text_encoder[1].device
+        dtype = self.text_encoder[1].dtype
+
+        # T5
+        text_inputs = self.tokenizer[1](
+            prompts,
+            padding="max_length",
+            max_length=max_length,
+            truncation=True,
+            return_length=False,
+            return_overflowing_tokens=False,
+            return_tensors="pt",
+        )
+        text_input_ids = text_inputs.input_ids
+
+        prompt_embeds = self.text_encoder[1](text_input_ids.to(device), output_hidden_states=False)[0]
+
+        dtype = self.text_encoder[1].dtype
+        prompt_embeds = prompt_embeds.to(dtype=dtype, device=device)
+
+        prompt_attention_mask = text_inputs["attention_mask"]
+        
+        pe = PromptEmbeds(
+            prompt_embeds
+        )
+        pe.attention_mask = prompt_attention_mask
+        return pe
+    
+    def get_model_has_grad(self):
+        # return from a weight if it has grad
+        return self.model.final_layer.linear.weight.requires_grad
+
+    def get_te_has_grad(self):
+        # return from a weight if it has grad
+        return self.text_encoder[1].encoder.block[0].layer[0].SelfAttention.q.weight.requires_grad
+    
+    def save_model(self, output_path, meta, save_dtype):
+        # only save the unet
+        transformer: Chroma = unwrap_model(self.model)
+        state_dict = transformer.state_dict()
+        save_dict = {}
+        for k, v in state_dict.items():
+            if isinstance(v, QTensor):
+                v = v.dequantize()
+            save_dict[k] = v.clone().to('cpu', dtype=save_dtype)
+        
+        meta = get_meta_for_safetensors(meta, name='chroma')
+        save_file(save_dict, output_path, metadata=meta)
+
+    def get_loss_target(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        noise = kwargs.get('noise')
+        batch = kwargs.get('batch')
+        return (noise - batch.latents).detach()
+    
+    def convert_lora_weights_before_save(self, state_dict):
+        # currently starte with transformer. but needs to start with diffusion_model. for comfyui
+        new_sd = {}
+        for key, value in state_dict.items():
+            new_key = key.replace("transformer.", "diffusion_model.")
+            new_sd[new_key] = value
+        return new_sd
+
+    def convert_lora_weights_before_load(self, state_dict):
+        # saved as diffusion_model. but needs to be transformer. for ai-toolkit
+        new_sd = {}
+        for key, value in state_dict.items():
+            new_key = key.replace("diffusion_model.", "transformer.")
+            new_sd[new_key] = value
+        return new_sd
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/pipeline.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/pipeline.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..52b9b817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/pipeline.py
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+from typing import Union, List, Optional, Dict, Any, Callable
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from diffusers import FluxPipeline
+from diffusers.pipelines.flux.pipeline_flux import calculate_shift, retrieve_timesteps
+from diffusers.pipelines.flux.pipeline_output import FluxPipelineOutput
+from diffusers.utils import is_torch_xla_available
+
+
+if is_torch_xla_available():
+    import torch_xla.core.xla_model as xm
+
+    XLA_AVAILABLE = True
+else:
+    XLA_AVAILABLE = False
+
+
+class ChromaPipeline(FluxPipeline):
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        prompt: Union[str, List[str]] = None,
+        prompt_2: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = None,
+        negative_prompt: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = None,
+        negative_prompt_2: Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] = None,
+        height: Optional[int] = None,
+        width: Optional[int] = None,
+        num_inference_steps: int = 28,
+        timesteps: List[int] = None,
+        guidance_scale: float = 7.0,
+        num_images_per_prompt: Optional[int] = 1,
+        generator: Optional[Union[torch.Generator,
+                                  List[torch.Generator]]] = None,
+        latents: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+        prompt_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+        prompt_attn_mask: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+        negative_prompt_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+        negative_prompt_attn_mask: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+        output_type: Optional[str] = "pil",
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+        joint_attention_kwargs: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
+        callback_on_step_end: Optional[Callable[[
+            int, int, Dict], None]] = None,
+        callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs: List[str] = ["latents"],
+        max_sequence_length: int = 512,
+    ):
+
+        height = height or self.default_sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor
+        width = width or self.default_sample_size * self.vae_scale_factor
+
+        self._guidance_scale = guidance_scale
+        self._joint_attention_kwargs = joint_attention_kwargs
+        self._interrupt = False
+
+        # 2. Define call parameters
+        if prompt is not None and isinstance(prompt, str):
+            batch_size = 1
+        elif prompt is not None and isinstance(prompt, list):
+            batch_size = len(prompt)
+        else:
+            batch_size = prompt_embeds.shape[0]
+
+        device = self._execution_device
+
+        text_ids = torch.zeros(batch_size, prompt_embeds.shape[1], 3).to(device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+        if guidance_scale > 1.00001:
+            negative_text_ids = torch.zeros(batch_size, negative_prompt_embeds.shape[1], 3).to(device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+        # 4. Prepare latent variables
+        num_channels_latents = 64 // 4
+        latents, latent_image_ids = self.prepare_latents(
+            batch_size * num_images_per_prompt,
+            num_channels_latents,
+            height,
+            width,
+            prompt_embeds.dtype,
+            device,
+            generator,
+            latents,
+        )
+        
+        # extend img ids to match batch size
+        latent_image_ids = latent_image_ids.unsqueeze(0)
+        latent_image_ids = torch.cat([latent_image_ids] * batch_size, dim=0)
+
+        # 5. Prepare timesteps
+        sigmas = np.linspace(1.0, 1 / num_inference_steps, num_inference_steps)
+        image_seq_len = latents.shape[1]
+        mu = calculate_shift(
+            image_seq_len,
+            self.scheduler.config.base_image_seq_len,
+            self.scheduler.config.max_image_seq_len,
+            self.scheduler.config.base_shift,
+            self.scheduler.config.max_shift,
+        )
+        timesteps, num_inference_steps = retrieve_timesteps(
+            self.scheduler,
+            num_inference_steps,
+            device,
+            timesteps,
+            sigmas,
+            mu=mu,
+        )
+        num_warmup_steps = max(
+            len(timesteps) - num_inference_steps * self.scheduler.order, 0)
+        self._num_timesteps = len(timesteps)
+        
+        guidance = torch.full([1], 0, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+        guidance = guidance.expand(latents.shape[0])
+
+        # 6. Denoising loop
+        with self.progress_bar(total=num_inference_steps) as progress_bar:
+            for i, t in enumerate(timesteps):
+                if self.interrupt:
+                    continue
+
+                # broadcast to batch dimension in a way that's compatible with ONNX/Core ML
+                timestep = t.expand(latents.shape[0]).to(latents.dtype)
+
+                # handle guidance
+
+                noise_pred_text = self.transformer(
+                    img=latents,
+                    img_ids=latent_image_ids,
+                    txt=prompt_embeds,
+                    txt_ids=text_ids,
+                    txt_mask=prompt_attn_mask, # todo add this
+                    timesteps=timestep / 1000,
+                    guidance=guidance
+                )
+
+                if guidance_scale > 1.00001:
+                    noise_pred_uncond = self.transformer(
+                        img=latents,
+                        img_ids=latent_image_ids,
+                        txt=negative_prompt_embeds,
+                        txt_ids=negative_text_ids,
+                        txt_mask=negative_prompt_attn_mask, # todo add this
+                        timesteps=timestep / 1000,
+                        guidance=guidance
+                    )
+
+                    noise_pred = noise_pred_uncond + self.guidance_scale * \
+                        (noise_pred_text - noise_pred_uncond)
+
+                else:
+                    noise_pred = noise_pred_text
+
+                # compute the previous noisy sample x_t -> x_t-1
+                latents_dtype = latents.dtype
+                latents = self.scheduler.step(
+                    noise_pred, t, latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+
+                if latents.dtype != latents_dtype:
+                    if torch.backends.mps.is_available():
+                        # some platforms (eg. apple mps) misbehave due to a pytorch bug: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/99272
+                        latents = latents.to(latents_dtype)
+
+                if callback_on_step_end is not None:
+                    callback_kwargs = {}
+                    for k in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
+                        callback_kwargs[k] = locals()[k]
+                    callback_outputs = callback_on_step_end(
+                        self, i, t, callback_kwargs)
+
+                    latents = callback_outputs.pop("latents", latents)
+                    prompt_embeds = callback_outputs.pop(
+                        "prompt_embeds", prompt_embeds)
+
+                # call the callback, if provided
+                if i == len(timesteps) - 1 or ((i + 1) > num_warmup_steps and (i + 1) % self.scheduler.order == 0):
+                    progress_bar.update()
+
+                if XLA_AVAILABLE:
+                    xm.mark_step()
+
+        if output_type == "latent":
+            image = latents
+
+        else:
+            latents = self._unpack_latents(
+                latents, height, width, self.vae_scale_factor)
+            latents = (latents / self.vae.config.scaling_factor) + \
+                self.vae.config.shift_factor
+            image = self.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            image = self.image_processor.postprocess(
+                image, output_type=output_type)
+
+        # Offload all models
+        self.maybe_free_model_hooks()
+
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (image,)
+
+        return FluxPipelineOutput(images=image)
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/__init__.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f3454029
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# This is taken and slightly modified from https://github.com/lodestone-rock/flow/tree/master/src/models/chroma
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/layers.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/layers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..726ec6a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/layers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,505 @@
+import math
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import torch
+from einops import rearrange
+from torch import Tensor, nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from .math import attention, rope
+
+
+class EmbedND(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, theta: int, axes_dim: list[int]):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.dim = dim
+        self.theta = theta
+        self.axes_dim = axes_dim
+
+    def forward(self, ids: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        n_axes = ids.shape[-1]
+        emb = torch.cat(
+            [rope(ids[..., i], self.axes_dim[i], self.theta) for i in range(n_axes)],
+            dim=-3,
+        )
+
+        return emb.unsqueeze(1)
+
+
+def timestep_embedding(t: Tensor, dim, max_period=10000, time_factor: float = 1000.0):
+    """
+    Create sinusoidal timestep embeddings.
+    :param t: a 1-D Tensor of N indices, one per batch element.
+                      These may be fractional.
+    :param dim: the dimension of the output.
+    :param max_period: controls the minimum frequency of the embeddings.
+    :return: an (N, D) Tensor of positional embeddings.
+    """
+    t = time_factor * t
+    half = dim // 2
+    freqs = torch.exp(
+        -math.log(max_period)
+        * torch.arange(start=0, end=half, dtype=torch.float32)
+        / half
+    ).to(t.device)
+
+    args = t[:, None].float() * freqs[None]
+    embedding = torch.cat([torch.cos(args), torch.sin(args)], dim=-1)
+    if dim % 2:
+        embedding = torch.cat([embedding, torch.zeros_like(embedding[:, :1])], dim=-1)
+    if torch.is_floating_point(t):
+        embedding = embedding.to(t)
+    return embedding
+
+
+class MLPEmbedder(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_dim: int, hidden_dim: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_layer = nn.Linear(in_dim, hidden_dim, bias=True)
+        self.silu = nn.SiLU()
+        self.out_layer = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, hidden_dim, bias=True)
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        # Get the device of the module (assumes all parameters are on the same device)
+        return next(self.parameters()).device
+
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        return self.out_layer(self.silu(self.in_layer(x)))
+
+
+class RMSNorm(torch.nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, use_compiled: bool = False):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim))
+        self.use_compiled = use_compiled
+
+    def _forward(self, x: Tensor):
+        x_dtype = x.dtype
+        x = x.float()
+        rrms = torch.rsqrt(torch.mean(x**2, dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-6)
+        return (x * rrms).to(dtype=x_dtype) * self.scale
+
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor):
+        return F.rms_norm(x, self.scale.shape, weight=self.scale, eps=1e-6)
+        # if self.use_compiled:
+        #     return torch.compile(self._forward)(x)
+        # else:
+        #     return self._forward(x)
+
+
+def distribute_modulations(tensor: torch.Tensor):
+    """
+    Distributes slices of the tensor into the block_dict as ModulationOut objects.
+
+    Args:
+        tensor (torch.Tensor): Input tensor with shape [batch_size, vectors, dim].
+    """
+    batch_size, vectors, dim = tensor.shape
+
+    block_dict = {}
+
+    # HARD CODED VALUES! lookup table for the generated vectors
+    # TODO: move this into chroma config!
+    # Add 38 single mod blocks
+    for i in range(38):
+        key = f"single_blocks.{i}.modulation.lin"
+        block_dict[key] = None
+
+    # Add 19 image double blocks
+    for i in range(19):
+        key = f"double_blocks.{i}.img_mod.lin"
+        block_dict[key] = None
+
+    # Add 19 text double blocks
+    for i in range(19):
+        key = f"double_blocks.{i}.txt_mod.lin"
+        block_dict[key] = None
+
+    # Add the final layer
+    block_dict["final_layer.adaLN_modulation.1"] = None
+    # 6.2b version
+    block_dict["lite_double_blocks.4.img_mod.lin"] = None
+    block_dict["lite_double_blocks.4.txt_mod.lin"] = None
+
+    idx = 0  # Index to keep track of the vector slices
+
+    for key in block_dict.keys():
+        if "single_blocks" in key:
+            # Single block: 1 ModulationOut
+            block_dict[key] = ModulationOut(
+                shift=tensor[:, idx : idx + 1, :],
+                scale=tensor[:, idx + 1 : idx + 2, :],
+                gate=tensor[:, idx + 2 : idx + 3, :],
+            )
+            idx += 3  # Advance by 3 vectors
+
+        elif "img_mod" in key:
+            # Double block: List of 2 ModulationOut
+            double_block = []
+            for _ in range(2):  # Create 2 ModulationOut objects
+                double_block.append(
+                    ModulationOut(
+                        shift=tensor[:, idx : idx + 1, :],
+                        scale=tensor[:, idx + 1 : idx + 2, :],
+                        gate=tensor[:, idx + 2 : idx + 3, :],
+                    )
+                )
+                idx += 3  # Advance by 3 vectors per ModulationOut
+            block_dict[key] = double_block
+
+        elif "txt_mod" in key:
+            # Double block: List of 2 ModulationOut
+            double_block = []
+            for _ in range(2):  # Create 2 ModulationOut objects
+                double_block.append(
+                    ModulationOut(
+                        shift=tensor[:, idx : idx + 1, :],
+                        scale=tensor[:, idx + 1 : idx + 2, :],
+                        gate=tensor[:, idx + 2 : idx + 3, :],
+                    )
+                )
+                idx += 3  # Advance by 3 vectors per ModulationOut
+            block_dict[key] = double_block
+
+        elif "final_layer" in key:
+            # Final layer: 1 ModulationOut
+            block_dict[key] = [
+                tensor[:, idx : idx + 1, :],
+                tensor[:, idx + 1 : idx + 2, :],
+            ]
+            idx += 2  # Advance by 3 vectors
+
+    return block_dict
+
+
+class Approximator(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_dim: int, out_dim: int, hidden_dim: int, n_layers=4):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_proj = nn.Linear(in_dim, hidden_dim, bias=True)
+        self.layers = nn.ModuleList(
+            [MLPEmbedder(hidden_dim, hidden_dim) for x in range(n_layers)]
+        )
+        self.norms = nn.ModuleList([RMSNorm(hidden_dim) for x in range(n_layers)])
+        self.out_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, out_dim)
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        # Get the device of the module (assumes all parameters are on the same device)
+        return next(self.parameters()).device
+
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        x = self.in_proj(x)
+
+        for layer, norms in zip(self.layers, self.norms):
+            x = x + layer(norms(x))
+
+        x = self.out_proj(x)
+
+        return x
+
+
+class QKNorm(torch.nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, use_compiled: bool = False):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.query_norm = RMSNorm(dim, use_compiled=use_compiled)
+        self.key_norm = RMSNorm(dim, use_compiled=use_compiled)
+        self.use_compiled = use_compiled
+
+    def forward(self, q: Tensor, k: Tensor, v: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
+        q = self.query_norm(q)
+        k = self.key_norm(k)
+        return q.to(v), k.to(v)
+
+
+class SelfAttention(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dim: int,
+        num_heads: int = 8,
+        qkv_bias: bool = False,
+        use_compiled: bool = False,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.num_heads = num_heads
+        head_dim = dim // num_heads
+
+        self.qkv = nn.Linear(dim, dim * 3, bias=qkv_bias)
+        self.norm = QKNorm(head_dim, use_compiled=use_compiled)
+        self.proj = nn.Linear(dim, dim)
+        self.use_compiled = use_compiled
+
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor, pe: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        qkv = self.qkv(x)
+        q, k, v = rearrange(qkv, "B L (K H D) -> K B H L D", K=3, H=self.num_heads)
+        q, k = self.norm(q, k, v)
+        x = attention(q, k, v, pe=pe)
+        x = self.proj(x)
+        return x
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ModulationOut:
+    shift: Tensor
+    scale: Tensor
+    gate: Tensor
+
+
+def _modulation_shift_scale_fn(x, scale, shift):
+    return (1 + scale) * x + shift
+
+
+def _modulation_gate_fn(x, gate, gate_params):
+    return x + gate * gate_params
+
+
+class DoubleStreamBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        num_heads: int,
+        mlp_ratio: float,
+        qkv_bias: bool = False,
+        use_compiled: bool = False,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        mlp_hidden_dim = int(hidden_size * mlp_ratio)
+        self.num_heads = num_heads
+        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
+        self.img_norm1 = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, elementwise_affine=False, eps=1e-6)
+        self.img_attn = SelfAttention(
+            dim=hidden_size,
+            num_heads=num_heads,
+            qkv_bias=qkv_bias,
+            use_compiled=use_compiled,
+        )
+
+        self.img_norm2 = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, elementwise_affine=False, eps=1e-6)
+        self.img_mlp = nn.Sequential(
+            nn.Linear(hidden_size, mlp_hidden_dim, bias=True),
+            nn.GELU(approximate="tanh"),
+            nn.Linear(mlp_hidden_dim, hidden_size, bias=True),
+        )
+
+        self.txt_norm1 = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, elementwise_affine=False, eps=1e-6)
+        self.txt_attn = SelfAttention(
+            dim=hidden_size,
+            num_heads=num_heads,
+            qkv_bias=qkv_bias,
+            use_compiled=use_compiled,
+        )
+
+        self.txt_norm2 = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, elementwise_affine=False, eps=1e-6)
+        self.txt_mlp = nn.Sequential(
+            nn.Linear(hidden_size, mlp_hidden_dim, bias=True),
+            nn.GELU(approximate="tanh"),
+            nn.Linear(mlp_hidden_dim, hidden_size, bias=True),
+        )
+        self.use_compiled = use_compiled
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        # Get the device of the module (assumes all parameters are on the same device)
+        return next(self.parameters()).device
+
+    def modulation_shift_scale_fn(self, x, scale, shift):
+        if self.use_compiled:
+            return torch.compile(_modulation_shift_scale_fn)(x, scale, shift)
+        else:
+            return _modulation_shift_scale_fn(x, scale, shift)
+
+    def modulation_gate_fn(self, x, gate, gate_params):
+        if self.use_compiled:
+            return torch.compile(_modulation_gate_fn)(x, gate, gate_params)
+        else:
+            return _modulation_gate_fn(x, gate, gate_params)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        img: Tensor,
+        txt: Tensor,
+        pe: Tensor,
+        distill_vec: list[ModulationOut],
+        mask: Tensor,
+    ) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
+        (img_mod1, img_mod2), (txt_mod1, txt_mod2) = distill_vec
+
+        # prepare image for attention
+        img_modulated = self.img_norm1(img)
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # img_modulated = (1 + img_mod1.scale) * img_modulated + img_mod1.shift
+        img_modulated = self.modulation_shift_scale_fn(
+            img_modulated, img_mod1.scale, img_mod1.shift
+        )
+        img_qkv = self.img_attn.qkv(img_modulated)
+        img_q, img_k, img_v = rearrange(
+            img_qkv, "B L (K H D) -> K B H L D", K=3, H=self.num_heads
+        )
+        img_q, img_k = self.img_attn.norm(img_q, img_k, img_v)
+
+        # prepare txt for attention
+        txt_modulated = self.txt_norm1(txt)
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # txt_modulated = (1 + txt_mod1.scale) * txt_modulated + txt_mod1.shift
+        txt_modulated = self.modulation_shift_scale_fn(
+            txt_modulated, txt_mod1.scale, txt_mod1.shift
+        )
+        txt_qkv = self.txt_attn.qkv(txt_modulated)
+        txt_q, txt_k, txt_v = rearrange(
+            txt_qkv, "B L (K H D) -> K B H L D", K=3, H=self.num_heads
+        )
+        txt_q, txt_k = self.txt_attn.norm(txt_q, txt_k, txt_v)
+
+        # run actual attention
+        q = torch.cat((txt_q, img_q), dim=2)
+        k = torch.cat((txt_k, img_k), dim=2)
+        v = torch.cat((txt_v, img_v), dim=2)
+
+        attn = attention(q, k, v, pe=pe, mask=mask)
+        txt_attn, img_attn = attn[:, : txt.shape[1]], attn[:, txt.shape[1] :]
+
+        # calculate the img bloks
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # img = img + img_mod1.gate * self.img_attn.proj(img_attn)
+        # img = img + img_mod2.gate * self.img_mlp((1 + img_mod2.scale) * self.img_norm2(img) + img_mod2.shift)
+        img = self.modulation_gate_fn(img, img_mod1.gate, self.img_attn.proj(img_attn))
+        img = self.modulation_gate_fn(
+            img,
+            img_mod2.gate,
+            self.img_mlp(
+                self.modulation_shift_scale_fn(
+                    self.img_norm2(img), img_mod2.scale, img_mod2.shift
+                )
+            ),
+        )
+
+        # calculate the txt bloks
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # txt = txt + txt_mod1.gate * self.txt_attn.proj(txt_attn)
+        # txt = txt + txt_mod2.gate * self.txt_mlp((1 + txt_mod2.scale) * self.txt_norm2(txt) + txt_mod2.shift)
+        txt = self.modulation_gate_fn(txt, txt_mod1.gate, self.txt_attn.proj(txt_attn))
+        txt = self.modulation_gate_fn(
+            txt,
+            txt_mod2.gate,
+            self.txt_mlp(
+                self.modulation_shift_scale_fn(
+                    self.txt_norm2(txt), txt_mod2.scale, txt_mod2.shift
+                )
+            ),
+        )
+
+        return img, txt
+
+
+class SingleStreamBlock(nn.Module):
+    """
+    A DiT block with parallel linear layers as described in
+    https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05442 and adapted modulation interface.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        num_heads: int,
+        mlp_ratio: float = 4.0,
+        qk_scale: float | None = None,
+        use_compiled: bool = False,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.hidden_dim = hidden_size
+        self.num_heads = num_heads
+        head_dim = hidden_size // num_heads
+        self.scale = qk_scale or head_dim**-0.5
+
+        self.mlp_hidden_dim = int(hidden_size * mlp_ratio)
+        # qkv and mlp_in
+        self.linear1 = nn.Linear(hidden_size, hidden_size * 3 + self.mlp_hidden_dim)
+        # proj and mlp_out
+        self.linear2 = nn.Linear(hidden_size + self.mlp_hidden_dim, hidden_size)
+
+        self.norm = QKNorm(head_dim, use_compiled=use_compiled)
+
+        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
+        self.pre_norm = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, elementwise_affine=False, eps=1e-6)
+
+        self.mlp_act = nn.GELU(approximate="tanh")
+        self.use_compiled = use_compiled
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        # Get the device of the module (assumes all parameters are on the same device)
+        return next(self.parameters()).device
+
+    def modulation_shift_scale_fn(self, x, scale, shift):
+        if self.use_compiled:
+            return torch.compile(_modulation_shift_scale_fn)(x, scale, shift)
+        else:
+            return _modulation_shift_scale_fn(x, scale, shift)
+
+    def modulation_gate_fn(self, x, gate, gate_params):
+        if self.use_compiled:
+            return torch.compile(_modulation_gate_fn)(x, gate, gate_params)
+        else:
+            return _modulation_gate_fn(x, gate, gate_params)
+
+    def forward(
+        self, x: Tensor, pe: Tensor, distill_vec: list[ModulationOut], mask: Tensor
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        mod = distill_vec
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # x_mod = (1 + mod.scale) * self.pre_norm(x) + mod.shift
+        x_mod = self.modulation_shift_scale_fn(self.pre_norm(x), mod.scale, mod.shift)
+        qkv, mlp = torch.split(
+            self.linear1(x_mod), [3 * self.hidden_size, self.mlp_hidden_dim], dim=-1
+        )
+
+        q, k, v = rearrange(qkv, "B L (K H D) -> K B H L D", K=3, H=self.num_heads)
+        q, k = self.norm(q, k, v)
+
+        # compute attention
+        attn = attention(q, k, v, pe=pe, mask=mask)
+        # compute activation in mlp stream, cat again and run second linear layer
+        output = self.linear2(torch.cat((attn, self.mlp_act(mlp)), 2))
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # return x + mod.gate * output
+        return self.modulation_gate_fn(x, mod.gate, output)
+
+
+class LastLayer(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        patch_size: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        use_compiled: bool = False,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm_final = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, elementwise_affine=False, eps=1e-6)
+        self.linear = nn.Linear(
+            hidden_size, patch_size * patch_size * out_channels, bias=True
+        )
+        self.use_compiled = use_compiled
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        # Get the device of the module (assumes all parameters are on the same device)
+        return next(self.parameters()).device
+
+    def modulation_shift_scale_fn(self, x, scale, shift):
+        if self.use_compiled:
+            return torch.compile(_modulation_shift_scale_fn)(x, scale, shift)
+        else:
+            return _modulation_shift_scale_fn(x, scale, shift)
+
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor, distill_vec: list[Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+        shift, scale = distill_vec
+        shift = shift.squeeze(1)
+        scale = scale.squeeze(1)
+        # replaced with compiled fn
+        # x = (1 + scale[:, None, :]) * self.norm_final(x) + shift[:, None, :]
+        x = self.modulation_shift_scale_fn(
+            self.norm_final(x), scale[:, None, :], shift[:, None, :]
+        )
+        x = self.linear(x)
+        return x
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/math.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/math.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b46bca57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/math.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import torch
+from einops import rearrange
+from torch import Tensor
+
+
+def attention(q: Tensor, k: Tensor, v: Tensor, pe: Tensor, mask: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+    q, k = apply_rope(q, k, pe)
+
+    # mask should have shape [B, H, L, D]
+    x = torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, attn_mask=mask)
+    x = rearrange(x, "B H L D -> B L (H D)")
+
+    return x
+
+
+def rope(pos: Tensor, dim: int, theta: int) -> Tensor:
+    assert dim % 2 == 0
+    scale = torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float64, device=pos.device) / dim
+    omega = 1.0 / (theta**scale)
+    out = torch.einsum("...n,d->...nd", pos, omega)
+    out = torch.stack(
+        [torch.cos(out), -torch.sin(out), torch.sin(out), torch.cos(out)], dim=-1
+    )
+    out = rearrange(out, "b n d (i j) -> b n d i j", i=2, j=2)
+    return out.float()
+
+
+def apply_rope(xq: Tensor, xk: Tensor, freqs_cis: Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
+    xq_ = xq.float().reshape(*xq.shape[:-1], -1, 1, 2)
+    xk_ = xk.float().reshape(*xk.shape[:-1], -1, 1, 2)
+    xq_out = freqs_cis[..., 0] * xq_[..., 0] + freqs_cis[..., 1] * xq_[..., 1]
+    xk_out = freqs_cis[..., 0] * xk_[..., 0] + freqs_cis[..., 1] * xk_[..., 1]
+    return xq_out.reshape(*xq.shape).type_as(xq), xk_out.reshape(*xk.shape).type_as(xk)
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/model.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/model.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b6c29bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/chroma/src/model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor, nn
+import torch.utils.checkpoint as ckpt
+
+from .layers import (
+    DoubleStreamBlock,
+    EmbedND,
+    LastLayer,
+    SingleStreamBlock,
+    timestep_embedding,
+    Approximator,
+    distribute_modulations,
+)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ChromaParams:
+    in_channels: int
+    context_in_dim: int
+    hidden_size: int
+    mlp_ratio: float
+    num_heads: int
+    depth: int
+    depth_single_blocks: int
+    axes_dim: list[int]
+    theta: int
+    qkv_bias: bool
+    guidance_embed: bool
+    approximator_in_dim: int
+    approximator_depth: int
+    approximator_hidden_size: int
+    _use_compiled: bool
+
+
+chroma_params = ChromaParams(
+    in_channels=64,
+    context_in_dim=4096,
+    hidden_size=3072,
+    mlp_ratio=4.0,
+    num_heads=24,
+    depth=19,
+    depth_single_blocks=38,
+    axes_dim=[16, 56, 56],
+    theta=10_000,
+    qkv_bias=True,
+    guidance_embed=True,
+    approximator_in_dim=64,
+    approximator_depth=5,
+    approximator_hidden_size=5120,
+    _use_compiled=False,
+)
+
+
+def modify_mask_to_attend_padding(mask, max_seq_length, num_extra_padding=8):
+    """
+    Modifies attention mask to allow attention to a few extra padding tokens.
+
+    Args:
+        mask: Original attention mask (1 for tokens to attend to, 0 for masked tokens)
+        max_seq_length: Maximum sequence length of the model
+        num_extra_padding: Number of padding tokens to unmask
+
+    Returns:
+        Modified mask
+    """
+    # Get the actual sequence length from the mask
+    seq_length = mask.sum(dim=-1)
+    batch_size = mask.shape[0]
+
+    modified_mask = mask.clone()
+
+    for i in range(batch_size):
+        current_seq_len = int(seq_length[i].item())
+
+        # Only add extra padding tokens if there's room
+        if current_seq_len < max_seq_length:
+            # Calculate how many padding tokens we can unmask
+            available_padding = max_seq_length - current_seq_len
+            tokens_to_unmask = min(num_extra_padding, available_padding)
+
+            # Unmask the specified number of padding tokens right after the sequence
+            modified_mask[i, current_seq_len : current_seq_len + tokens_to_unmask] = 1
+
+    return modified_mask
+
+
+class Chroma(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Transformer model for flow matching on sequences.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, params: ChromaParams):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.params = params
+        self.in_channels = params.in_channels
+        self.out_channels = self.in_channels
+        if params.hidden_size % params.num_heads != 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Hidden size {params.hidden_size} must be divisible by num_heads {params.num_heads}"
+            )
+        pe_dim = params.hidden_size // params.num_heads
+        if sum(params.axes_dim) != pe_dim:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Got {params.axes_dim} but expected positional dim {pe_dim}"
+            )
+        self.hidden_size = params.hidden_size
+        self.num_heads = params.num_heads
+        self.pe_embedder = EmbedND(
+            dim=pe_dim, theta=params.theta, axes_dim=params.axes_dim
+        )
+        self.img_in = nn.Linear(self.in_channels, self.hidden_size, bias=True)
+
+        # TODO: need proper mapping for this approximator output!
+        # currently the mapping is hardcoded in distribute_modulations function
+        self.distilled_guidance_layer = Approximator(
+            params.approximator_in_dim,
+            self.hidden_size,
+            params.approximator_hidden_size,
+            params.approximator_depth,
+        )
+        self.txt_in = nn.Linear(params.context_in_dim, self.hidden_size)
+
+        self.double_blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                DoubleStreamBlock(
+                    self.hidden_size,
+                    self.num_heads,
+                    mlp_ratio=params.mlp_ratio,
+                    qkv_bias=params.qkv_bias,
+                    use_compiled=params._use_compiled,
+                )
+                for _ in range(params.depth)
+            ]
+        )
+
+        self.single_blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                SingleStreamBlock(
+                    self.hidden_size,
+                    self.num_heads,
+                    mlp_ratio=params.mlp_ratio,
+                    use_compiled=params._use_compiled,
+                )
+                for _ in range(params.depth_single_blocks)
+            ]
+        )
+
+        self.final_layer = LastLayer(
+            self.hidden_size,
+            1,
+            self.out_channels,
+            use_compiled=params._use_compiled,
+        )
+
+        # TODO: move this hardcoded value to config
+        self.mod_index_length = 344
+        # self.mod_index = torch.tensor(list(range(self.mod_index_length)), device=0)
+        self.register_buffer(
+            "mod_index",
+            torch.tensor(list(range(self.mod_index_length)), device="cpu"),
+            persistent=False,
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        # Get the device of the module (assumes all parameters are on the same device)
+        return next(self.parameters()).device
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        img: Tensor,
+        img_ids: Tensor,
+        txt: Tensor,
+        txt_ids: Tensor,
+        txt_mask: Tensor,
+        timesteps: Tensor,
+        guidance: Tensor,
+        attn_padding: int = 1,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        if img.ndim != 3 or txt.ndim != 3:
+            raise ValueError("Input img and txt tensors must have 3 dimensions.")
+
+        # running on sequences img
+        img = self.img_in(img)
+        txt = self.txt_in(txt)
+
+        # TODO:
+        # need to fix grad accumulation issue here for now it's in no grad mode
+        # besides, i don't want to wash out the PFP that's trained on this model weights anyway
+        # the fan out operation here is deleting the backward graph
+        # alternatively doing forward pass for every block manually is doable but slow
+        # custom backward probably be better
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            distill_timestep = timestep_embedding(timesteps, 16)
+            # TODO: need to add toggle to omit this from schnell but that's not a priority
+            distil_guidance = timestep_embedding(guidance, 16)
+            # get all modulation index
+            modulation_index = timestep_embedding(self.mod_index, 32)
+            # we need to broadcast the modulation index here so each batch has all of the index
+            modulation_index = modulation_index.unsqueeze(0).repeat(img.shape[0], 1, 1)
+            # and we need to broadcast timestep and guidance along too
+            timestep_guidance = (
+                torch.cat([distill_timestep, distil_guidance], dim=1)
+                .unsqueeze(1)
+                .repeat(1, self.mod_index_length, 1)
+            )
+            # then and only then we could concatenate it together
+            input_vec = torch.cat([timestep_guidance, modulation_index], dim=-1)
+            mod_vectors = self.distilled_guidance_layer(input_vec.requires_grad_(True))
+        mod_vectors_dict = distribute_modulations(mod_vectors)
+
+        ids = torch.cat((txt_ids, img_ids), dim=1)
+        pe = self.pe_embedder(ids)
+
+        # compute mask
+        # assume max seq length from the batched input
+
+        max_len = txt.shape[1]
+
+        # mask
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            txt_mask_w_padding = modify_mask_to_attend_padding(
+                txt_mask, max_len, attn_padding
+            )
+            txt_img_mask = torch.cat(
+                [
+                    txt_mask_w_padding,
+                    torch.ones([img.shape[0], img.shape[1]], device=txt_mask.device),
+                ],
+                dim=1,
+            )
+            txt_img_mask = txt_img_mask.float().T @ txt_img_mask.float()
+            txt_img_mask = (
+                txt_img_mask[None, None, ...]
+                .repeat(txt.shape[0], self.num_heads, 1, 1)
+                .int()
+                .bool()
+            )
+            # txt_mask_w_padding[txt_mask_w_padding==False] = True
+
+        for i, block in enumerate(self.double_blocks):
+            # the guidance replaced by FFN output
+            img_mod = mod_vectors_dict[f"double_blocks.{i}.img_mod.lin"]
+            txt_mod = mod_vectors_dict[f"double_blocks.{i}.txt_mod.lin"]
+            double_mod = [img_mod, txt_mod]
+
+            # just in case in different GPU for simple pipeline parallel
+            if self.training:
+                img.requires_grad_(True)
+                img, txt = ckpt.checkpoint(
+                    block, img, txt, pe, double_mod, txt_img_mask
+                )
+            else:
+                img, txt = block(
+                    img=img, txt=txt, pe=pe, distill_vec=double_mod, mask=txt_img_mask
+                )
+
+        img = torch.cat((txt, img), 1)
+        for i, block in enumerate(self.single_blocks):
+            single_mod = mod_vectors_dict[f"single_blocks.{i}.modulation.lin"]
+            if self.training:
+                img.requires_grad_(True)
+                img = ckpt.checkpoint(block, img, pe, single_mod, txt_img_mask)
+            else:
+                img = block(img, pe=pe, distill_vec=single_mod, mask=txt_img_mask)
+        img = img[:, txt.shape[1] :, ...]
+        final_mod = mod_vectors_dict["final_layer.adaLN_modulation.1"]
+        img = self.final_layer(
+            img, distill_vec=final_mod
+        )  # (N, T, patch_size ** 2 * out_channels)
+        return img