Remote VAE

Remote VAEs for Decoding with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints

Hugging Face introduces Remote VAEs, a feature for Inference Endpoints that offloads the VAE decoding step of diffusion models to a separate remote service. This approach reduces GPU memory pressure on the primary inference host by decoupling the computationally expensive decoding stage. The pattern is relevant for large latent diffusion models where VAE decoding can be a significant memory and compute bottleneck.