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 pip install diffusers[training] accelerate datasets
 ```
 
+And initialize an [🤗Accelerate](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/) environment with:
+
+```bash
+accelerate config
+```
+
 ### Unconditional Flowers  
 
 The command to train a DDPM UNet model on the Oxford Flowers dataset: