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diff --git a/‎docs/source/en/using-diffusers/loading_adapters.md
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diff --git a/‎src/diffusers/loaders/lora_base.py
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@@ -194,6 +194,59 @@ Currently, [`~loaders.StableDiffusionLoraLoaderMixin.set_adapters`] only support
 
 </Tip>
 
+### Hotswapping LoRA adapters
+
+A common use case when serving multiple adapters is to load one adapter first, generate images, load another adapter, generate more images, load another adapter, etc. This workflow normally requires calling [`~loaders.StableDiffusionLoraLoaderMixin.load_lora_weights`], [`~loaders.StableDiffusionLoraLoaderMixin.set_adapters`], and possibly [`~loaders.peft.PeftAdapterMixin.delete_adapters`] to save memory. Moreover, if the model is compiled using `torch.compile`, performing these steps requires recompilation, which takes time.
+
+To better support this common workflow, you can "hotswap" a LoRA adapter, to avoid accumulating memory and in some cases, recompilation. It requires an adapter to already be loaded, and the new adapter weights are swapped in-place for the existing adapter.
+
+Pass `hotswap=True` when loading a LoRA adapter to enable this feature. It is important to indicate the name of the existing adapter, (`default_0` is the default adapter name), to be swapped. If you loaded the first adapter with a different name, use that name instead.
+
+```python
+pipe = ...
+# load adapter 1 as normal
+pipeline.load_lora_weights(file_name_adapter_1)
+# generate some images with adapter 1
+...
+# now hot swap the 2nd adapter
+pipeline.load_lora_weights(file_name_adapter_2, hotswap=True, adapter_name="default_0")
+# generate images with adapter 2
+```
+
+
+<Tip warning={true}>
+
+Hotswapping is not currently supported for LoRA adapters that target the text encoder.
+
+</Tip>
+
+For compiled models, it is often (though not always if the second adapter targets identical LoRA ranks and scales) necessary to call [`~loaders.lora_base.LoraBaseMixin.enable_lora_hotswap`] to avoid recompilation. Use [`~loaders.lora_base.LoraBaseMixin.enable_lora_hotswap`] _before_ loading the first adapter, and `torch.compile` should be called _after_ loading the first adapter.
+
+```python
+pipe = ...
+# call this extra method
+pipe.enable_lora_hotswap(target_rank=max_rank)
+# now load adapter 1
+pipe.load_lora_weights(file_name_adapter_1)
+# now compile the unet of the pipeline
+pipe.unet = torch.compile(pipeline.unet, ...)
+# generate some images with adapter 1
+...
+# now hot swap adapter 2
+pipeline.load_lora_weights(file_name_adapter_2, hotswap=True, adapter_name="default_0")
+# generate images with adapter 2
+```
+
+The `target_rank=max_rank` argument is important for setting the maximum rank among all LoRA adapters that will be loaded. If you have one adapter with rank 8 and another with rank 16, pass `target_rank=16`. You should use a higher value if in doubt. By default, this value is 128.
+
+However, there can be situations where recompilation is unavoidable. For example, if the hotswapped adapter targets more layers than the initial adapter, then recompilation is triggered. Try to load the adapter that targets the most layers first. Refer to the PEFT docs on [hotswapping](https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/main/en/package_reference/hotswap#peft.utils.hotswap.hotswap_adapter) for more details about the limitations of this feature.
+
+<Tip>
+
+Move your code inside the `with torch._dynamo.config.patch(error_on_recompile=True)` context manager to detect if a model was recompiled. If you detect recompilation despite following all the steps above, please open an issue with [Diffusers](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues) with a reproducible example.
+
+</Tip>
+
 ### Kohya and TheLastBen
 
 Other popular LoRA trainers from the community include those by [Kohya](https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts/) and [TheLastBen](https://github.com/TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion). These trainers create different LoRA checkpoints than those trained by 🤗 Diffusers, but they can still be loaded in the same way.
 
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ def _load_lora_into_text_encoder(
     adapter_name=None,
     _pipeline=None,
     low_cpu_mem_usage=False,
+    hotswap: bool = False,
 ):
     if not USE_PEFT_BACKEND:
         raise ValueError("PEFT backend is required for this method.")
@@ -341,6 +342,10 @@ def _load_lora_into_text_encoder(
     # their prefixes.
     prefix = text_encoder_name if prefix is None else prefix
 
+    # Safe prefix to check with.
+    if hotswap and any(text_encoder_name in key for key in state_dict.keys()):
+        raise ValueError("At the moment, hotswapping is not supported for text encoders, please pass `hotswap=False`.")
+
     # Load the layers corresponding to text encoder and make necessary adjustments.
     if prefix is not None:
         state_dict = {k[len(f"{prefix}.") :]: v for k, v in state_dict.items() if k.startswith(f"{prefix}.")}
@@ -908,3 +913,23 @@ def lora_scale(self) -> float:
         # property function that returns the lora scale which can be set at run time by the pipeline.
         # if _lora_scale has not been set, return 1
         return self._lora_scale if hasattr(self, "_lora_scale") else 1.0
+
+    def enable_lora_hotswap(self, **kwargs) -> None:
+        """Enables the possibility to hotswap LoRA adapters.
+
+        Calling this method is only required when hotswapping adapters and if the model is compiled or if the ranks of
+        the loaded adapters differ.
+
+        Args:
+            target_rank (`int`):
+                The highest rank among all the adapters that will be loaded.
+            check_compiled (`str`, *optional*, defaults to `"error"`):
+                How to handle the case when the model is already compiled, which should generally be avoided. The
+                options are:
+                  - "error" (default): raise an error
+                  - "warn": issue a warning
+                  - "ignore": do nothing
+        """
+        for key, component in self.components.items():
+            if hasattr(component, "enable_lora_hotswap") and (key in self._lora_loadable_modules):
+                component.enable_lora_hotswap(**kwargs)