diff --git a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/qwen_image/qwen_image.py b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/qwen_image/qwen_image.py
index bcd42ed3..b4491962 100644
--- a/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/qwen_image/qwen_image.py
+++ b/extensions_built_in/diffusion_models/qwen_image/qwen_image.py
@@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ class QwenImageModel(BaseModel):
         text_encoder = [pipe.text_encoder]
         tokenizer = [pipe.tokenizer]
 
-        pipe.transformer = pipe.transformer.to(self.device_torch)
+        # leave it on cpu for now
+        if not self.low_vram:
+            pipe.transformer = pipe.transformer.to(self.device_torch)
 
         flush()
         # just to make sure everything is on the right device and dtype
@@ -210,6 +212,7 @@ class QwenImageModel(BaseModel):
         generator: torch.Generator,
         extra: dict,
     ):
+        self.model.to(self.device_torch, dtype=self.torch_dtype)
         control_img = None
         if gen_config.ctrl_img is not None:
             raise NotImplementedError(
diff --git a/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py b/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py
index ca808823..22fd465a 100644
--- a/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py
+++ b/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, ConcatDataset
 from toolkit import train_tools
 from toolkit.basic import value_map, adain, get_mean_std
 from toolkit.clip_vision_adapter import ClipVisionAdapter
-from toolkit.config_modules import GuidanceConfig
+from toolkit.config_modules import GenerateImageConfig
 from toolkit.data_loader import get_dataloader_datasets
 from toolkit.data_transfer_object.data_loader import DataLoaderBatchDTO, FileItemDTO
 from toolkit.guidance import get_targeted_guidance_loss, get_guidance_loss, GuidanceType
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ from toolkit.train_tools import precondition_model_outputs_flow_match
 from toolkit.models.diffusion_feature_extraction import DiffusionFeatureExtractor, load_dfe
 from toolkit.util.wavelet_loss import wavelet_loss
 import torch.nn.functional as F
+from toolkit.unloader import unload_text_encoder
 
 
 def flush():
@@ -108,6 +109,33 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
 
     def before_model_load(self):
         pass
+    
+    def cache_sample_prompts(self):
+        if self.train_config.disable_sampling:
+            return
+        if self.sample_config is not None and self.sample_config.samples is not None and len(self.sample_config.samples) > 0:
+            # cache all the samples
+            self.sd.sample_prompts_cache = []
+            sample_folder = os.path.join(self.save_root, 'samples')
+            output_path = os.path.join(sample_folder, 'test.jpg')
+            for i in range(len(self.sample_config.prompts)):
+                sample_item = self.sample_config.samples[i]
+                prompt = self.sample_config.prompts[i]
+
+                # needed so we can autoparse the prompt to handle flags
+                gen_img_config = GenerateImageConfig(
+                    prompt=prompt, # it will autoparse the prompt
+                    negative_prompt=sample_item.neg,
+                    output_path=output_path,
+                )
+                positive = self.sd.encode_prompt(gen_img_config.prompt).to('cpu')
+                negative = self.sd.encode_prompt(gen_img_config.negative_prompt).to('cpu')
+                
+                self.sd.sample_prompts_cache.append({
+                    'conditional': positive,
+                    'unconditional': negative
+                })
+        
 
     def before_dataset_load(self):
         self.assistant_adapter = None
@@ -143,6 +171,9 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
 
     def hook_before_train_loop(self):
         super().hook_before_train_loop()
+        if self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
+            # make sure model is on cpu for this part so we don't oom.
+            self.sd.unet.to('cpu')
         
         # cache unconditional embeds (blank prompt)
         with torch.no_grad():
@@ -195,15 +226,18 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
                 self.negative_prompt_pool = [self.train_config.negative_prompt]
 
         # handle unload text encoder
-        if self.train_config.unload_text_encoder:
+        if self.train_config.unload_text_encoder or self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
             with torch.no_grad():
                 if self.train_config.train_text_encoder:
                     raise ValueError("Cannot unload text encoder if training text encoder")
                 # cache embeddings
 
                 print_acc("\n***** UNLOADING TEXT ENCODER *****")
-                print_acc("This will train only with a blank prompt or trigger word, if set")
-                print_acc("If this is not what you want, remove the unload_text_encoder flag")
+                if self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
+                    print_acc("Embeddings cached to disk. We dont need the text encoder anymore")
+                else:
+                    print_acc("This will train only with a blank prompt or trigger word, if set")
+                    print_acc("If this is not what you want, remove the unload_text_encoder flag")
                 print_acc("***********************************")
                 print_acc("")
                 self.sd.text_encoder_to(self.device_torch)
@@ -212,9 +246,16 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
                     self.cached_trigger_embeds = self.sd.encode_prompt(self.trigger_word)
                 if self.train_config.diff_output_preservation:
                     self.diff_output_preservation_embeds = self.sd.encode_prompt(self.train_config.diff_output_preservation_class)
+                
+                self.cache_sample_prompts()
 
-                # move back to cpu
-                self.sd.text_encoder_to('cpu')
+                # unload the text encoder
+                if self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
+                    unload_text_encoder(self.sd)
+                else:
+                    # todo once every model is tested to work, unload properly. Though, this will all be merged into one thing.
+                    # keep legacy usage for now. 
+                    self.sd.text_encoder_to("cpu")
                 flush()
         
         if self.train_config.diffusion_feature_extractor_path is not None:
@@ -923,11 +964,14 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
                         prompt = prompt.replace(trigger, class_name)
                     prompt_list[idx] = prompt
 
-                embeds_to_use = self.sd.encode_prompt(
-                    prompt_list,
-                    long_prompts=self.do_long_prompts).to(
-                    self.device_torch,
-                    dtype=dtype).detach()
+                if batch.prompt_embeds is not None:
+                    embeds_to_use = batch.prompt_embeds.clone().to(self.device_torch, dtype=dtype)
+                else:
+                    embeds_to_use = self.sd.encode_prompt(
+                        prompt_list,
+                        long_prompts=self.do_long_prompts).to(
+                        self.device_torch,
+                        dtype=dtype).detach()
 
             # dont use network on this
             # self.network.multiplier = 0.0
@@ -1294,18 +1338,24 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
 
                 with self.timer('encode_prompt'):
                     unconditional_embeds = None
-                    if self.train_config.unload_text_encoder:
+                    if self.train_config.unload_text_encoder or self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
                         with torch.set_grad_enabled(False):
-                            embeds_to_use = self.cached_blank_embeds.clone().detach().to(
-                                self.device_torch, dtype=dtype
-                            )
-                            if self.cached_trigger_embeds is not None and not is_reg:
-                                embeds_to_use = self.cached_trigger_embeds.clone().detach().to(
+                            if batch.prompt_embeds is not None:
+                                # use the cached embeds
+                                conditional_embeds = batch.prompt_embeds.clone().detach().to(
                                     self.device_torch, dtype=dtype
                                 )
-                            conditional_embeds = concat_prompt_embeds(
-                                [embeds_to_use] * noisy_latents.shape[0]
-                            )
+                            else:
+                                embeds_to_use = self.cached_blank_embeds.clone().detach().to(
+                                    self.device_torch, dtype=dtype
+                                )
+                                if self.cached_trigger_embeds is not None and not is_reg:
+                                    embeds_to_use = self.cached_trigger_embeds.clone().detach().to(
+                                        self.device_torch, dtype=dtype
+                                    )
+                                conditional_embeds = concat_prompt_embeds(
+                                    [embeds_to_use] * noisy_latents.shape[0]
+                                )
                             if self.train_config.do_cfg:
                                 unconditional_embeds = self.cached_blank_embeds.clone().detach().to(
                                     self.device_torch, dtype=dtype
diff --git a/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py b/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py
index 5da603ef..156ed766 100644
--- a/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py
+++ b/jobs/process/BaseSDTrainProcess.py
@@ -145,7 +145,14 @@ class BaseSDTrainProcess(BaseTrainProcess):
             raw_datasets = preprocess_dataset_raw_config(raw_datasets)
         self.datasets = None
         self.datasets_reg = None
+        self.dataset_configs: List[DatasetConfig] = []
         self.params = []
+        
+        # add dataset text embedding cache to their config
+        if self.train_config.cache_text_embeddings:
+            for raw_dataset in raw_datasets:
+                raw_dataset['cache_text_embeddings'] = True
+        
         if raw_datasets is not None and len(raw_datasets) > 0:
             for raw_dataset in raw_datasets:
                 dataset = DatasetConfig(**raw_dataset)
@@ -160,6 +167,15 @@ class BaseSDTrainProcess(BaseTrainProcess):
                     if self.datasets is None:
                         self.datasets = []
                     self.datasets.append(dataset)
+                self.dataset_configs.append(dataset)
+        
+        self.is_caching_text_embeddings = any(
+            dataset.cache_text_embeddings for dataset in self.dataset_configs
+        )
+        
+        # cannot train trigger word if caching text embeddings
+        if self.is_caching_text_embeddings and self.trigger_word is not None:
+            raise ValueError("Cannot train trigger word if caching text embeddings. Please remove the trigger word or disable text embedding caching.")
 
         self.embed_config = None
         embedding_raw = self.get_conf('embedding', None)
@@ -206,7 +222,7 @@ class BaseSDTrainProcess(BaseTrainProcess):
             train_embedding=self.embed_config is not None,
             train_decorator=self.decorator_config is not None,
             train_refiner=self.train_config.train_refiner,
-            unload_text_encoder=self.train_config.unload_text_encoder,
+            unload_text_encoder=self.train_config.unload_text_encoder or self.is_caching_text_embeddings,
             require_grads=False  # we ensure them later
         )
         
@@ -220,7 +236,7 @@ class BaseSDTrainProcess(BaseTrainProcess):
             train_embedding=self.embed_config is not None,
             train_decorator=self.decorator_config is not None,
             train_refiner=self.train_config.train_refiner,
-            unload_text_encoder=self.train_config.unload_text_encoder,
+            unload_text_encoder=self.train_config.unload_text_encoder or self.is_caching_text_embeddings,
             require_grads=True  # We check for grads when getting params
         )
 
@@ -235,7 +251,7 @@ class BaseSDTrainProcess(BaseTrainProcess):
         self.snr_gos: Union[LearnableSNRGamma, None] = None
         self.ema: ExponentialMovingAverage = None
         
-        validate_configs(self.train_config, self.model_config, self.save_config)
+        validate_configs(self.train_config, self.model_config, self.save_config, self.dataset_configs)
         
         do_profiler = self.get_conf('torch_profiler', False)
         self.torch_profiler = None if not do_profiler else torch.profiler.profile(
diff --git a/toolkit/config_modules.py b/toolkit/config_modules.py
index 98454b74..e5a5633d 100644
--- a/toolkit/config_modules.py
+++ b/toolkit/config_modules.py
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ class TrainConfig:
         # will cache a blank prompt or the trigger word, and unload the text encoder to cpu
         # will make training faster and use less vram
         self.unload_text_encoder = kwargs.get('unload_text_encoder', False)
+        # will toggle all datasets to cache text embeddings
+        self.cache_text_embeddings: bool = kwargs.get('cache_text_embeddings', False)
         # for swapping which parameters are trained during training
         self.do_paramiter_swapping = kwargs.get('do_paramiter_swapping', False)
         # 0.1 is 10% of the parameters active at a time lower is less vram, higher is more
@@ -1189,6 +1191,7 @@ def validate_configs(
     train_config: TrainConfig,
     model_config: ModelConfig,
     save_config: SaveConfig,
+    dataset_configs: List[DatasetConfig]
 ):
     if model_config.is_flux:
         if save_config.save_format != 'diffusers':
@@ -1200,3 +1203,18 @@ def validate_configs(
     if train_config.bypass_guidance_embedding and train_config.do_guidance_loss:
         raise ValueError("Cannot bypass guidance embedding and do guidance loss at the same time. "
                          "Please set bypass_guidance_embedding to False or do_guidance_loss to False.")
+
+    # see if any datasets are caching text embeddings
+    is_caching_text_embeddings = any(dataset.cache_text_embeddings for dataset in dataset_configs)
+    if is_caching_text_embeddings:
+        
+        # check if they are doing differential output preservation
+        if train_config.diff_output_preservation:
+            raise ValueError("Cannot use differential output preservation with caching text embeddings. Please set diff_output_preservation to False.")
+    
+        # make sure they are all cached
+        for dataset in dataset_configs:
+            if not dataset.cache_text_embeddings:
+                raise ValueError("All datasets must have cache_text_embeddings set to True when caching text embeddings is enabled.")
+
+    
diff --git a/toolkit/data_loader.py b/toolkit/data_loader.py
index 257cd462..43f03647 100644
--- a/toolkit/data_loader.py
+++ b/toolkit/data_loader.py
@@ -558,6 +558,8 @@ class AiToolkitDataset(LatentCachingMixin, ControlCachingMixin, CLIPCachingMixin
                 self.cache_latents_all_latents()
             if self.is_caching_clip_vision_to_disk:
                 self.cache_clip_vision_to_disk()
+            if self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
+                self.cache_text_embeddings()
             if self.is_generating_controls:
                 # always do this last
                 self.setup_controls()
diff --git a/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py b/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py
index bcc6c918..c37bec1c 100644
--- a/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py
+++ b/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ from toolkit import image_utils
 from toolkit.basic import get_quick_signature_string
 from toolkit.dataloader_mixins import CaptionProcessingDTOMixin, ImageProcessingDTOMixin, LatentCachingFileItemDTOMixin, \
     ControlFileItemDTOMixin, ArgBreakMixin, PoiFileItemDTOMixin, MaskFileItemDTOMixin, AugmentationFileItemDTOMixin, \
-    UnconditionalFileItemDTOMixin, ClipImageFileItemDTOMixin, InpaintControlFileItemDTOMixin
-
+    UnconditionalFileItemDTOMixin, ClipImageFileItemDTOMixin, InpaintControlFileItemDTOMixin, TextEmbeddingFileItemDTOMixin
+from toolkit.prompt_utils import PromptEmbeds, concat_prompt_embeds
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from toolkit.config_modules import DatasetConfig
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ def print_once(msg):
 
 class FileItemDTO(
     LatentCachingFileItemDTOMixin,
+    TextEmbeddingFileItemDTOMixin,
     CaptionProcessingDTOMixin,
     ImageProcessingDTOMixin,
     ControlFileItemDTOMixin,
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ class FileItemDTO(
     def cleanup(self):
         self.tensor = None
         self.cleanup_latent()
+        self.cleanup_text_embedding()
         self.cleanup_control()
         self.cleanup_inpaint()
         self.cleanup_clip_image()
@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ class DataLoaderBatchDTO:
         try:
             self.file_items: List['FileItemDTO'] = kwargs.get('file_items', None)
             is_latents_cached = self.file_items[0].is_latent_cached
+            is_text_embedding_cached = self.file_items[0].is_text_embedding_cached
             self.tensor: Union[torch.Tensor, None] = None
             self.latents: Union[torch.Tensor, None] = None
             self.control_tensor: Union[torch.Tensor, None] = None
@@ -156,6 +159,7 @@ class DataLoaderBatchDTO:
             if is_latents_cached:
                 self.latents = torch.cat([x.get_latent().unsqueeze(0) for x in self.file_items])
             self.control_tensor: Union[torch.Tensor, None] = None
+            self.prompt_embeds: Union[PromptEmbeds, None] = None
             # if self.file_items[0].control_tensor is not None:
             # if any have a control tensor, we concatenate them
             if any([x.control_tensor is not None for x in self.file_items]):
@@ -268,6 +272,22 @@ class DataLoaderBatchDTO:
                         self.clip_image_embeds_unconditional.append(x.clip_image_embeds_unconditional)
                     else:
                         raise Exception("clip_image_embeds_unconditional is None for some file items")
+            
+            if any([x.prompt_embeds is not None for x in self.file_items]):
+                # find one to use as a base
+                base_prompt_embeds = None
+                for x in self.file_items:
+                    if x.prompt_embeds is not None:
+                        base_prompt_embeds = x.prompt_embeds
+                        break
+                prompt_embeds_list = []
+                for x in self.file_items:
+                    if x.prompt_embeds is None:
+                        prompt_embeds_list.append(base_prompt_embeds)
+                    else:
+                        prompt_embeds_list.append(x.prompt_embeds)
+                self.prompt_embeds = concat_prompt_embeds(prompt_embeds_list)
+                    
 
         except Exception as e:
             print(e)
diff --git a/toolkit/dataloader_mixins.py b/toolkit/dataloader_mixins.py
index d804ed98..e39be2b9 100644
--- a/toolkit/dataloader_mixins.py
+++ b/toolkit/dataloader_mixins.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from PIL.ImageOps import exif_transpose
 import albumentations as A
 from toolkit.print import print_acc
 from toolkit.accelerator import get_accelerator
+from toolkit.prompt_utils import PromptEmbeds
 
 from toolkit.train_tools import get_torch_dtype
 
@@ -301,7 +302,7 @@ class CaptionProcessingDTOMixin:
             self.extra_values: List[float] = dataset_config.extra_values
 
     # todo allow for loading from sd-scripts style dict
-    def load_caption(self: 'FileItemDTO', caption_dict: Union[dict, None]):
+    def load_caption(self: 'FileItemDTO', caption_dict: Union[dict, None]=None):
         if self.raw_caption is not None:
             # we already loaded it
             pass
@@ -635,6 +636,9 @@ class ImageProcessingDTOMixin:
         if self.dataset_config.num_frames > 1:
             self.load_and_process_video(transform, only_load_latents)
             return
+        # handle get_prompt_embedding
+        if self.is_text_embedding_cached:
+            self.load_prompt_embedding()
         # if we are caching latents, just do that
         if self.is_latent_cached:
             self.get_latent()
@@ -1773,6 +1777,61 @@ class LatentCachingMixin:
             self.sd.restore_device_state()
 
 
+class TextEmbeddingFileItemDTOMixin:
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        # if we have super, call it
+        if hasattr(super(), '__init__'):
+            super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.prompt_embeds: Union[PromptEmbeds, None] = None
+        self._text_embedding_path: Union[str, None] = None
+        self.is_text_embedding_cached = False
+        self.text_embedding_load_device = 'cpu'
+        self.text_embedding_space_version = 'sd1'
+        self.text_embedding_version = 1
+
+    def get_text_embedding_info_dict(self: 'FileItemDTO'):
+        # make sure the caption is loaded here
+        # TODO: we need a way to cache all the other features like trigger words, DOP, etc. For now, we need to throw an error if not compatible.
+        if self.caption is None:
+            self.load_caption()
+            # throw error is [trigger] in caption as we cannot inject it while caching
+            if '[trigger]' in self.caption:
+                raise Exception("Error: [trigger] in caption is not supported when caching text embeddings. Please remove it from the caption.")
+        item = OrderedDict([
+            ("caption", self.caption),
+            ("text_embedding_space_version", self.text_embedding_space_version),
+            ("text_embedding_version", self.text_embedding_version),
+        ])
+        return item
+
+    def get_text_embedding_path(self: 'FileItemDTO', recalculate=False):
+        if self._text_embedding_path is not None and not recalculate:
+            return self._text_embedding_path
+        else:
+            # we store text embeddings in a folder in same path as image called _text_embedding_cache
+            img_dir = os.path.dirname(self.path)
+            te_dir = os.path.join(img_dir, '_t_e_cache')
+            hash_dict = self.get_text_embedding_info_dict()
+            filename_no_ext = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(self.path))[0]
+            # get base64 hash of md5 checksum of hash_dict
+            hash_input = json.dumps(hash_dict, sort_keys=True).encode('utf-8')
+            hash_str = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(hashlib.md5(hash_input).digest()).decode('ascii')
+            hash_str = hash_str.replace('=', '')
+            self._text_embedding_path = os.path.join(te_dir, f'{filename_no_ext}_{hash_str}.safetensors')
+
+        return self._text_embedding_path
+
+    def cleanup_text_embedding(self):
+        if self.prompt_embeds is not None:
+            # we are caching on disk, don't save in memory
+            self.prompt_embeds = None
+
+    def load_prompt_embedding(self, device=None):
+        if not self.is_text_embedding_cached:
+            return
+        if self.prompt_embeds is None:
+            # load it from disk
+            self.prompt_embeds = PromptEmbeds.load(self.get_text_embedding_path())
 
 class TextEmbeddingCachingMixin:
     def __init__(self: 'AiToolkitDataset', **kwargs):
@@ -1780,90 +1839,36 @@ class TextEmbeddingCachingMixin:
         if hasattr(super(), '__init__'):
             super().__init__(**kwargs)
         self.is_caching_text_embeddings = self.dataset_config.cache_text_embeddings
-        if self.is_caching_text_embeddings:
-            raise Exception("Error: caching text embeddings is a WIP and is not supported yet. Please set cache_text_embeddings to False in the dataset config")
 
     def cache_text_embeddings(self: 'AiToolkitDataset'):
-        
         with accelerator.main_process_first():
             print_acc(f"Caching text_embeddings for {self.dataset_path}")
-            # cache all latents to disk
-            to_disk = self.is_caching_latents_to_disk
-            to_memory = self.is_caching_latents_to_memory
             print_acc(" - Saving text embeddings to disk")
-            # move sd items to cpu except for vae
-            self.sd.set_device_state_preset('cache_latents')
+            
+            did_move = False
 
             # use tqdm to show progress
             i = 0
-            for file_item in tqdm(self.file_list, desc=f'Caching latents{" to disk" if to_disk else ""}'):
-                # set latent space version
-                if self.sd.model_config.latent_space_version is not None:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = self.sd.model_config.latent_space_version
-                elif self.sd.is_xl:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = 'sdxl'
-                elif self.sd.is_v3:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = 'sd3'
-                elif self.sd.is_auraflow:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = 'sdxl'
-                elif self.sd.is_flux:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = 'flux1'
-                elif self.sd.model_config.is_pixart_sigma:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = 'sdxl'
-                else:
-                    file_item.latent_space_version = self.sd.model_config.arch
-                file_item.is_caching_to_disk = to_disk
-                file_item.is_caching_to_memory = to_memory
+            for file_item in tqdm(self.file_list, desc='Caching text embeddings to disk'):
+                file_item.text_embedding_space_version = self.sd.model_config.arch
                 file_item.latent_load_device = self.sd.device
 
-                latent_path = file_item.get_latent_path(recalculate=True)
-                # check if it is saved to disk already
-                if os.path.exists(latent_path):
-                    if to_memory:
-                        # load it into memory
-                        state_dict = load_file(latent_path, device='cpu')
-                        file_item._encoded_latent = state_dict['latent'].to('cpu', dtype=self.sd.torch_dtype)
-                else:
-                    # not saved to disk, calculate
-                    # load the image first
-                    file_item.load_and_process_image(self.transform, only_load_latents=True)
-                    dtype = self.sd.torch_dtype
-                    device = self.sd.device_torch
-                    # add batch dimension
-                    try:
-                        imgs = file_item.tensor.unsqueeze(0).to(device, dtype=dtype)
-                        latent = self.sd.encode_images(imgs).squeeze(0)
-                    except Exception as e:
-                        print_acc(f"Error processing image: {file_item.path}")
-                        print_acc(f"Error: {str(e)}")
-                        raise e
-                    # save_latent
-                    if to_disk:
-                        state_dict = OrderedDict([
-                            ('latent', latent.clone().detach().cpu()),
-                        ])
-                        # metadata
-                        meta = get_meta_for_safetensors(file_item.get_latent_info_dict())
-                        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(latent_path), exist_ok=True)
-                        save_file(state_dict, latent_path, metadata=meta)
-
-                    if to_memory:
-                        # keep it in memory
-                        file_item._encoded_latent = latent.to('cpu', dtype=self.sd.torch_dtype)
-
-                    del imgs
-                    del latent
-                    del file_item.tensor
-
-                    # flush(garbage_collect=False)
-                file_item.is_latent_cached = True
+                text_embedding_path = file_item.get_text_embedding_path(recalculate=True)
+                # only process if not saved to disk
+                if not os.path.exists(text_embedding_path):
+                    # load if not loaded
+                    if not did_move:
+                        self.sd.set_device_state_preset('cache_text_encoder')
+                        did_move = True
+                    prompt_embeds: PromptEmbeds = self.sd.encode_prompt(file_item.caption)
+                    # save it
+                    prompt_embeds.save(text_embedding_path)
+                    del prompt_embeds
+                file_item.is_text_embedding_cached = True
                 i += 1
-                # flush every 100
-                # if i % 100 == 0:
-                #     flush()
-
             # restore device state
-            self.sd.restore_device_state()
+            # if did_move:
+            #     self.sd.restore_device_state()
 
 
 class CLIPCachingMixin:
diff --git a/toolkit/models/base_model.py b/toolkit/models/base_model.py
index 150c431d..fc0cb764 100644
--- a/toolkit/models/base_model.py
+++ b/toolkit/models/base_model.py
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ class BaseModel:
         self._after_sample_img_hooks = []
         self._status_update_hooks = []
         self.is_transformer = False
+        
+        self.sample_prompts_cache = None
 
     # properties for old arch for backwards compatibility
     @property
@@ -484,19 +486,23 @@ class BaseModel:
                             quad_count=4
                         )
 
-                    # encode the prompt ourselves so we can do fun stuff with embeddings
-                    if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
-                        self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
-                    conditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(
-                        gen_config.prompt, gen_config.prompt_2, force_all=True)
+                    if self.sample_prompts_cache is not None:
+                        conditional_embeds = self.sample_prompts_cache[i]['conditional'].to(self.device_torch, dtype=self.torch_dtype)
+                        unconditional_embeds = self.sample_prompts_cache[i]['unconditional'].to(self.device_torch, dtype=self.torch_dtype)
+                    else: 
+                        # encode the prompt ourselves so we can do fun stuff with embeddings
+                        if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
+                            self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
+                        conditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(
+                            gen_config.prompt, gen_config.prompt_2, force_all=True)
 
-                    if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
-                        self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = True
-                    unconditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(
-                        gen_config.negative_prompt, gen_config.negative_prompt_2, force_all=True
-                    )
-                    if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
-                        self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
+                        if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
+                            self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = True
+                        unconditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(
+                            gen_config.negative_prompt, gen_config.negative_prompt_2, force_all=True
+                        )
+                        if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
+                            self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
 
                     # allow any manipulations to take place to embeddings
                     gen_config.post_process_embeddings(
diff --git a/toolkit/prompt_utils.py b/toolkit/prompt_utils.py
index ff5a68f3..b0558b8c 100644
--- a/toolkit/prompt_utils.py
+++ b/toolkit/prompt_utils.py
@@ -92,6 +92,56 @@ class PromptEmbeds:
             pe.attention_mask = pe.attention_mask.expand(batch_size, -1)
         return pe
 
+    def save(self, path: str):
+        """
+        Save the prompt embeds to a file.
+        :param path: The path to save the prompt embeds.
+        """
+        pe = self.clone()
+        state_dict = {}
+        if isinstance(pe.text_embeds, list) or isinstance(pe.text_embeds, tuple):
+            for i, text_embed in enumerate(pe.text_embeds):
+                state_dict[f"text_embed_{i}"] = text_embed.cpu()
+        else:
+            state_dict["text_embed"] = pe.text_embeds.cpu()
+            
+        if pe.pooled_embeds is not None:
+            state_dict["pooled_embed"] = pe.pooled_embeds.cpu()
+        if pe.attention_mask is not None:
+            state_dict["attention_mask"] = pe.attention_mask.cpu()
+        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(path), exist_ok=True)
+        save_file(state_dict, path)
+    
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, path: str) -> 'PromptEmbeds':
+        """
+        Load the prompt embeds from a file.
+        :param path: The path to load the prompt embeds from.
+        :return: An instance of PromptEmbeds.
+        """
+        state_dict = load_file(path, device='cpu')
+        text_embeds = []
+        pooled_embeds = None
+        attention_mask = None
+        for key in sorted(state_dict.keys()):
+            if key.startswith("text_embed_"):
+                text_embeds.append(state_dict[key])
+            elif key == "text_embed":
+                text_embeds.append(state_dict[key])
+            elif key == "pooled_embed":
+                pooled_embeds = state_dict[key]
+            elif key == "attention_mask":
+                attention_mask = state_dict[key]
+        pe = cls(None)
+        pe.text_embeds = text_embeds
+        if len(text_embeds) == 1:
+            pe.text_embeds = text_embeds[0]
+        if pooled_embeds is not None:
+            pe.pooled_embeds = pooled_embeds
+        if attention_mask is not None:
+            pe.attention_mask = attention_mask
+        return pe
+
 
 class EncodedPromptPair:
     def __init__(
diff --git a/toolkit/stable_diffusion_model.py b/toolkit/stable_diffusion_model.py
index bbed161e..183cbb8d 100644
--- a/toolkit/stable_diffusion_model.py
+++ b/toolkit/stable_diffusion_model.py
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ class StableDiffusion:
         # todo update this based on the model
         self.is_transformer = False
         
+        self.sample_prompts_cache = None
+        
     # properties for old arch for backwards compatibility
     @property
     def is_xl(self):
@@ -1426,18 +1428,22 @@ class StableDiffusion:
                             quad_count=4
                         )
 
-                    # encode the prompt ourselves so we can do fun stuff with embeddings
-                    if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
-                        self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
-                    conditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(gen_config.prompt, gen_config.prompt_2, force_all=True)
+                    if self.sample_prompts_cache is not None:
+                        conditional_embeds = self.sample_prompts_cache[i]['conditional'].to(self.device_torch, dtype=self.torch_dtype)
+                        unconditional_embeds = self.sample_prompts_cache[i]['unconditional'].to(self.device_torch, dtype=self.torch_dtype)
+                    else: 
+                        # encode the prompt ourselves so we can do fun stuff with embeddings
+                        if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
+                            self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
+                        conditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(gen_config.prompt, gen_config.prompt_2, force_all=True)
 
-                    if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
-                        self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = True
-                    unconditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(
-                        gen_config.negative_prompt, gen_config.negative_prompt_2, force_all=True
-                    )
-                    if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
-                        self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
+                        if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
+                            self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = True
+                        unconditional_embeds = self.encode_prompt(
+                            gen_config.negative_prompt, gen_config.negative_prompt_2, force_all=True
+                        )
+                        if isinstance(self.adapter, CustomAdapter):
+                            self.adapter.is_unconditional_run = False
 
                     # allow any manipulations to take place to embeddings
                     gen_config.post_process_embeddings(
diff --git a/toolkit/unloader.py b/toolkit/unloader.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c45926f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/unloader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import torch
+from toolkit.basic import flush
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from toolkit.models.base_model import BaseModel
+
+
+class FakeTextEncoder(torch.nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, device, dtype):
+        super().__init__()
+        # register a dummy parameter to avoid errors in some cases
+        self.dummy_param = torch.nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1))
+        self._device = device
+        self._dtype = dtype
+
+    def forward(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "This is a fake text encoder and should not be used for inference."
+        )
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def device(self):
+        return self._device
+    
+    @property
+    def dtype(self):
+        return self._dtype
+    
+    def to(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        return self
+
+
+def unload_text_encoder(model: "BaseModel"):
+    # unload the text encoder in a way that will work with all models and will not throw errors
+    # we need to make it appear as a text encoder module without actually having one so all
+    # to functions and what not will work.
+
+    if model.text_encoder is not None:
+        if isinstance(model.text_encoder, list):
+            text_encoder_list = []
+            pipe = model.pipeline
+
+            # the pipeline stores text encoders like text_encoder, text_encoder_2, text_encoder_3, etc.
+            if hasattr(pipe, "text_encoder"):
+                te = FakeTextEncoder(device=model.device_torch, dtype=model.torch_dtype)
+                text_encoder_list.append(te)
+                pipe.text_encoder = te
+
+            i = 2
+            while hasattr(pipe, f"text_encoder_{i}"):
+                te = FakeTextEncoder(device=model.device_torch, dtype=model.torch_dtype)
+                text_encoder_list.append(te)
+                setattr(pipe, f"text_encoder_{i}", te)
+                i += 1
+            model.text_encoder = text_encoder_list
+        else:
+            # only has a single text encoder
+            model.text_encoder = FakeTextEncoder()
+
+    flush()
diff --git a/ui/src/app/jobs/new/SimpleJob.tsx b/ui/src/app/jobs/new/SimpleJob.tsx
index 016070bc..7ba08e68 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/jobs/new/SimpleJob.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/app/jobs/new/SimpleJob.tsx
@@ -389,22 +389,40 @@ export default function SimpleJob({
                     onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.ema_config.use_ema')}
                   />
                 </FormGroup>
-                <NumberInput
-                  label="EMA Decay"
-                  className="pt-2"
-                  value={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.ema_config?.ema_decay as number}
-                  onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.ema_config?.ema_decay')}
-                  placeholder="eg. 0.99"
-                  min={0}
-                />
-                <FormGroup label="Unload Text Encoder" className="pt-2">
-                  <div className="grid grid-cols-2 gap-2">
-                    <Checkbox
-                      label="Unload TE"
-                      checked={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.unload_text_encoder || false}
-                      onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.unload_text_encoder')}
-                    />
-                  </div>
+                {jobConfig.config.process[0].train.ema_config?.use_ema && (
+                  <NumberInput
+                    label="EMA Decay"
+                    className="pt-2"
+                    value={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.ema_config?.ema_decay as number}
+                    onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.ema_config?.ema_decay')}
+                    placeholder="eg. 0.99"
+                    min={0}
+                  />
+                )}
+
+                <FormGroup label="Text Encoder Optimizations" className="pt-2">
+                  <Checkbox
+                    label="Unload TE"
+                    checked={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.unload_text_encoder || false}
+                    docKey={'train.unload_text_encoder'}
+                    onChange={(value) => {
+                      setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.unload_text_encoder')
+                      if (value) {
+                        setJobConfig(false, 'config.process[0].train.cache_text_embeddings');
+                      }
+                    }}
+                  />
+                  <Checkbox
+                    label="Cache Text Embeddings"
+                    checked={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.cache_text_embeddings || false}
+                    docKey={'train.cache_text_embeddings'}
+                    onChange={(value) => {
+                      setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.cache_text_embeddings')
+                      if (value) {
+                        setJobConfig(false, 'config.process[0].train.unload_text_encoder')
+                      }
+                    }}
+                  />
                 </FormGroup>
               </div>
               <div>
@@ -416,21 +434,27 @@ export default function SimpleJob({
                     onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation')}
                   />
                 </FormGroup>
-                <NumberInput
-                  label="DOP Loss Multiplier"
-                  className="pt-2"
-                  value={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_multiplier as number}
-                  onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_multiplier')}
-                  placeholder="eg. 1.0"
-                  min={0}
-                />
-                <TextInput
-                  label="DOP Preservation Class"
-                  className="pt-2"
-                  value={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_class as string}
-                  onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_class')}
-                  placeholder="eg. woman"
-                />
+                {jobConfig.config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation && (
+                  <>
+                    <NumberInput
+                      label="DOP Loss Multiplier"
+                      className="pt-2"
+                      value={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_multiplier as number}
+                      onChange={value =>
+                        setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_multiplier')
+                      }
+                      placeholder="eg. 1.0"
+                      min={0}
+                    />
+                    <TextInput
+                      label="DOP Preservation Class"
+                      className="pt-2"
+                      value={jobConfig.config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_class as string}
+                      onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, 'config.process[0].train.diff_output_preservation_class')}
+                      placeholder="eg. woman"
+                    />
+                  </>
+                )}
               </div>
             </div>
           </Card>
@@ -524,16 +548,14 @@ export default function SimpleJob({
                           checked={dataset.is_reg || false}
                           onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, `config.process[0].datasets[${i}].is_reg`)}
                         />
-                        {
-                          modelArch?.additionalSections?.includes('datasets.do_i2v') && (
-                            <Checkbox
-                              label="Do I2V"
-                              checked={dataset.do_i2v || false}
-                              onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, `config.process[0].datasets[${i}].do_i2v`)}
-                              docKey="datasets.do_i2v"
-                            />
-                          )
-                        }
+                        {modelArch?.additionalSections?.includes('datasets.do_i2v') && (
+                          <Checkbox
+                            label="Do I2V"
+                            checked={dataset.do_i2v || false}
+                            onChange={value => setJobConfig(value, `config.process[0].datasets[${i}].do_i2v`)}
+                            docKey="datasets.do_i2v"
+                          />
+                        )}
                       </FormGroup>
                     </div>
                     <div>
diff --git a/ui/src/app/jobs/new/jobConfig.ts b/ui/src/app/jobs/new/jobConfig.ts
index ba24e7e4..91844515 100644
--- a/ui/src/app/jobs/new/jobConfig.ts
+++ b/ui/src/app/jobs/new/jobConfig.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ export const defaultJobConfig: JobConfig = {
             weight_decay: 1e-4,
           },
           unload_text_encoder: false,
+          cache_text_embeddings: false,
           lr: 0.0001,
           ema_config: {
             use_ema: false,
diff --git a/ui/src/docs.tsx b/ui/src/docs.tsx
index 88d6c479..d05bda25 100644
--- a/ui/src/docs.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/docs.tsx
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ const docs: { [key: string]: ConfigDoc } = {
       </>
     ),
   },
-  'gpuids': {
+  gpuids: {
     title: 'GPU ID',
     description: (
       <>
-        This is the GPU that will be used for training. Only one GPU can be used per job at a time via the UI currently. 
-				However, you can start multiple jobs in parallel, each using a different GPU.
+        This is the GPU that will be used for training. Only one GPU can be used per job at a time via the UI currently.
+        However, you can start multiple jobs in parallel, each using a different GPU.
       </>
     ),
   },
@@ -25,17 +25,19 @@ const docs: { [key: string]: ConfigDoc } = {
     title: 'Trigger Word',
     description: (
       <>
-        Optional: This will be the word or token used to trigger your concept or character. 
-				<br />
-				<br />
-				When using a trigger word, 
-				If your captions do not contain the trigger word, it will be added automatically the beginning of the caption. If you do not have
-				captions, the caption will become just the trigger word. If you want to have variable trigger words in your captions to put it in different spots,
-				you can use the <code>{'[trigger]'}</code> placeholder in your captions. This will be automatically replaced with your trigger word.
-				<br />
-				<br />
-				Trigger words will not automatically be added to your test prompts, so you will need to either add your trigger word manually or use the 
-				<code>{'[trigger]'}</code> placeholder in your test prompts as well.
+        Optional: This will be the word or token used to trigger your concept or character.
+        <br />
+        <br />
+        When using a trigger word, If your captions do not contain the trigger word, it will be added automatically the
+        beginning of the caption. If you do not have captions, the caption will become just the trigger word. If you
+        want to have variable trigger words in your captions to put it in different spots, you can use the{' '}
+        <code>{'[trigger]'}</code> placeholder in your captions. This will be automatically replaced with your trigger
+        word.
+        <br />
+        <br />
+        Trigger words will not automatically be added to your test prompts, so you will need to either add your trigger
+        word manually or use the
+        <code>{'[trigger]'}</code> placeholder in your test prompts as well.
       </>
     ),
   },
@@ -43,8 +45,9 @@ const docs: { [key: string]: ConfigDoc } = {
     title: 'Name or Path',
     description: (
       <>
-        The name of a diffusers repo on Huggingface or the local path to the base model you want to train from. The folder needs to be in 
-				diffusers format for most models. For some models, such as SDXL and SD1, you can put the path to an all in one safetensors checkpoint here.
+        The name of a diffusers repo on Huggingface or the local path to the base model you want to train from. The
+        folder needs to be in diffusers format for most models. For some models, such as SDXL and SD1, you can put the
+        path to an all in one safetensors checkpoint here.
       </>
     ),
   },
@@ -52,8 +55,8 @@ const docs: { [key: string]: ConfigDoc } = {
     title: 'Control Dataset',
     description: (
       <>
-        The control dataset needs to have files that match the filenames of your training dataset. They should be matching file pairs. 
-        These images are fed as control/input images during training. 
+        The control dataset needs to have files that match the filenames of your training dataset. They should be
+        matching file pairs. These images are fed as control/input images during training.
       </>
     ),
   },
@@ -61,16 +64,19 @@ const docs: { [key: string]: ConfigDoc } = {
     title: 'Number of Frames',
     description: (
       <>
-        This sets the number of frames to shrink videos to for a video dataset. If this dataset is images, set this to 1 for one frame.
-        If your dataset is only videos, frames will be extracted evenly spaced from the videos in the dataset. 
-        <br/>
-        <br/>
-        It is best to trim your videos to the proper length before training. Wan is 16 frames a second. Doing 81 frames will result in a 5 second video.
-        So you would want all of your videos trimmed to around 5 seconds for best results.
-        <br/>
-        <br/>
-        Example: Setting this to 81 and having 2 videos in your dataset, one is 2 seconds and one is 90 seconds long, will result in 81 
-        evenly spaced frames for each video making the 2 second video appear slow and the 90second video appear very fast.
+        This sets the number of frames to shrink videos to for a video dataset. If this dataset is images, set this to 1
+        for one frame. If your dataset is only videos, frames will be extracted evenly spaced from the videos in the
+        dataset.
+        <br />
+        <br />
+        It is best to trim your videos to the proper length before training. Wan is 16 frames a second. Doing 81 frames
+        will result in a 5 second video. So you would want all of your videos trimmed to around 5 seconds for best
+        results.
+        <br />
+        <br />
+        Example: Setting this to 81 and having 2 videos in your dataset, one is 2 seconds and one is 90 seconds long,
+        will result in 81 evenly spaced frames for each video making the 2 second video appear slow and the 90second
+        video appear very fast.
       </>
     ),
   },
@@ -78,9 +84,30 @@ const docs: { [key: string]: ConfigDoc } = {
     title: 'Do I2V',
     description: (
       <>
-        For video models that can handle both I2V (Image to Video) and T2V (Text to Video), this option sets this dataset
-        to be trained as an I2V dataset. This means that the first frame will be extracted from the video and used as the start image
-        for the video. If this option is not set, the dataset will be treated as a T2V dataset.
+        For video models that can handle both I2V (Image to Video) and T2V (Text to Video), this option sets this
+        dataset to be trained as an I2V dataset. This means that the first frame will be extracted from the video and
+        used as the start image for the video. If this option is not set, the dataset will be treated as a T2V dataset.
+      </>
+    ),
+  },
+  'train.unload_text_encoder': {
+    title: 'Unload Text Encoder',
+    description: (
+      <>
+        Unloading text encoder will cache the trigger word and the sample prompts and unload the text encoder from the
+        GPU. Captions in for the dataset will be ignored
+      </>
+    ),
+  },
+  'train.cache_text_embeddings': {
+    title: 'Cache Text Embeddings',
+    description: (
+      <>
+        <small>(experimental)</small>
+        <br />
+        Caching text embeddings will process and cache all the text embeddings from the text encoder to the disk. The
+        text encoder will be unloaded from the GPU. This does not work with things that dynamically change the prompt
+        such as trigger words, caption dropout, etc.
       </>
     ),
   },
diff --git a/ui/src/types.ts b/ui/src/types.ts
index 08b22c8a..7834b9c2 100644
--- a/ui/src/types.ts
+++ b/ui/src/types.ts
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ export interface TrainConfig {
   ema_config?: EMAConfig;
   dtype: string;
   unload_text_encoder: boolean;
+  cache_text_embeddings: boolean;
   optimizer_params: {
     weight_decay: number;
   };
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index be340cc3..0e6b1dd4 100644
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = "0.3.18"
\ No newline at end of file
+VERSION = "0.4.0"
\ No newline at end of file