diff --git a/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/checkpoint.py b/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/checkpoint.py
index c9b4f103..ee2731a1 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/checkpoint.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/checkpoint.py
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ def convert_ldm_clip_checkpoint(checkpoint):
                     key[len("cond_stage_model.transformer.") :]
                 ] = checkpoint[key]
 
-    text_model.load_state_dict(text_model_dict)
+    text_model.load_state_dict(text_model_dict, strict=False)
 
     return text_model
 
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ def convert_open_clip_checkpoint(checkpoint):
 
                 text_model_dict[new_key] = checkpoint[key]
 
-    text_model.load_state_dict(text_model_dict)
+    text_model.load_state_dict(text_model_dict, strict=False)
 
     return text_model
 
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ def extract_checkpoint(
         )
         db_config.has_ema = has_ema
         db_config.save()
-        unet.load_state_dict(converted_unet_checkpoint)
+        unet.load_state_dict(converted_unet_checkpoint, strict=False)
 
         # Convert the VAE model.
         logger.info("converting VAE")
@@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ def extract_checkpoint(
             )
 
         vae = AutoencoderKL(**vae_config)
-        vae.load_state_dict(converted_vae_checkpoint)
+        vae.load_state_dict(converted_vae_checkpoint, strict=False)
 
         # Convert the text model.
         logger.info("converting text encoder")
diff --git a/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/diffusion.py b/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/diffusion.py
index 07b18d10..b6f43e2c 100644
--- a/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/diffusion.py
+++ b/api/onnx_web/convert/diffusion/diffusion.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 ###
 
 from logging import getLogger
-from os import mkdir, path
+from os import path, makedirs
 from pathlib import Path
 from shutil import rmtree
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple, Union
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ def get_model_version(
 @torch.no_grad()
 def convert_diffusion_diffusers_cnet(
     conversion: ConversionContext,
+    name: str,
     source: str,
     device: str,
     output_path: Path,
@@ -124,13 +125,16 @@ def convert_diffusion_diffusers_cnet(
     unet: Optional[Any] = None,
     v2: Optional[bool] = False,
 ):
-    # CNet
     if unet is not None:
         logger.debug("creating CNet from existing UNet config")
-        pipe_cnet = UNet2DConditionModel_CNet.from_config(unet.config)
+        cnet_tmp = path.join(conversion.cache_path, f"{name}-cnet")
+        makedirs(cnet_tmp, exist_ok=True)
+
+        unet.save_pretrained(cnet_tmp)
+        pipe_cnet = UNet2DConditionModel_CNet.from_pretrained(cnet_tmp, low_cpu_mem_usage=False)
     else:
         logger.debug("loading CNet from pretrained UNet config")
-        pipe_cnet = UNet2DConditionModel_CNet.from_pretrained(source, subfolder="unet")
+        pipe_cnet = UNet2DConditionModel_CNet.from_pretrained(source, subfolder="unet", low_cpu_mem_usage=False)
 
     pipe_cnet = pipe_cnet.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
     run_gc()
@@ -308,7 +312,7 @@ def collate_cnet(cnet_path):
 
     # clean up existing tensor files
     rmtree(cnet_dir)
-    mkdir(cnet_dir)
+    makedirs(cnet_dir)
 
     # collate external tensor files into one
     save_model(
@@ -548,6 +552,7 @@ def convert_diffusion_diffusers(
         logger.debug("converting CNet from loaded UNet")
         cnet_path = convert_diffusion_diffusers_cnet(
             conversion,
+            name,
             source,
             device,
             output_path,
@@ -568,6 +573,7 @@ def convert_diffusion_diffusers(
         logger.info("loading and converting CNet from %s", cnet_source)
         cnet_path = convert_diffusion_diffusers_cnet(
             conversion,
+            name,
             cnet_source,
             device,
             output_path,
@@ -594,7 +600,7 @@ def convert_diffusion_diffusers(
 
     # clean up existing tensor files
     rmtree(unet_dir)
-    mkdir(unet_dir)
+    makedirs(unet_dir)
 
     # collate external tensor files into one
     save_model(