what is the ip_adapter_image optional argument in IP adapter pipeline?

[nivedwho]

In the T2I adapter pipeline I saw this additional image encoding was being passed to the unet, did not quite find anything related in the original paper. Can someone help me understand what this does exactly?

[fabiorigano]

Hi @nivedwho, ip_adapter_image is an optional image input used to condition the unet, see https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/main/en/api/loaders/ip_adapter as reference