Muon and SOAP cut final diffusion loss 18% vs AdamW. Mapping that to Anima (Cosmos DiT) and SDXL U-Net LoRA training, plus existing LoRA-Muon research, before writing any code.
A verification log for converting color anime-style AI illustrations to manga-style monochrome. AI re-generation approaches lean to either color leakage or face drift, and pure deterministic local processing looks mechanical. Frames the next directions to try: putting a grayscale-only LoRA on Anima, and using See-through for part decomposition before mechanical composition.
I dropped the nervous sample identified as the culprit last time, plus 5 others, and retrained the LoRA under otherwise identical conditions. The sweat drops on ep08 angry are gone, and as a bonus, ep06 produced the closed-mouth restrained anger that the previous training never managed to reproduce.
Training an Illustrious-XL LoRA on RunPod for around $1 by doing env setup on a $0.08/hr CPU Pod and renting the 4090 only for actual training. Network Volumes attach to both pods at the same time, so there's no idle GPU billing. Four sd-scripts gotchas hit on the way included.
Tested See-through (SIGGRAPH 2026), which decomposes a single anime character image into a 23-layer PSD with front/back hair separation and hidden-area inpainting. What the Live2D prep actually looks like and what still needs manual work.
