diff --git a/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-4-finetune-test.yaml b/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-4-finetune-test.yaml
index bd446c9..d2bb03e 100644
--- a/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-4-finetune-test.yaml
+++ b/configs/stable-diffusion/v1-4-finetune-test.yaml
@@ -81,12 +81,14 @@ data:
       params:
         size: 512
         mode: "train"
+        ucg: 0.1 # unconditional guidance training
     validation:
       target: ldm.data.local.LocalBase
       params:
         size: 512
         mode: "val"
         val_split: 64
+        ucg: 0.1
 
 lightning:
   modelcheckpoint:
diff --git a/ldm/data/localdanboorubase.py b/ldm/data/localdanboorubase.py
index d5fe473..bd3e765 100644
--- a/ldm/data/localdanboorubase.py
+++ b/ldm/data/localdanboorubase.py
@@ -109,11 +109,13 @@ class LocalDanbooruBase(Dataset):
                  shuffle=False,
                  mode='train',
                  val_split=64,
+                 ucg=0.1,
                  ):
         super().__init__()
 
         self.shuffle=shuffle
         self.crop = crop
+        self.ucg = ucg
 
         print('Fetching data.')
 
@@ -178,6 +180,8 @@ class LocalDanbooruBase(Dataset):
             with open(text_file, 'rb') as f:
                 image['caption'] = f.read()
             image = self.captionprocessor(image)
+            if random.random() < self.ucg:
+                image['caption'] = ''
         except Exception as e:
             print(f'Error with {self.examples[self.hashes[i]]["image"]} -- {e} -- skipping {i}')
             return self.skip_sample(i)