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CogVideoX-I2V

Available as managed deployment Licence fee Video zai-org Image→video 1 variants 10k dl/mo

CogVideoX-I2V is an open-weight video model from zai-org. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Makerzai-org
TypeVideo models
TaskImage→video
Parameters (lead)5.6B
Runs withdiffusers
Released2024-09-16
Popularity10k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What CogVideoX-I2V is

📍 Visit Qingying and API Platform for the commercial version of the video generation model

Model Introduction

CogVideoX is an open-source video generation model originating from Qingying. The table below presents information related to the video generation models we offer in this version.

Data Explanation

  • While testing using the diffusers library, all optimizations included in the diffusers library were enabled. This scheme has not been tested for actual memory usage on devices outside of NVIDIA A100 / H100 architectures. Generally, this scheme can be adapted to all NVIDIA Ampere architecture and above devices. If optimizations are disabled, memory consumption will multiply, with peak memory usage being about 3 times the value in the table. However, speed will increase by about 3-4 times. You can selectively disable some optimizations, including:
pipe.enable_sequential_cpu_offload()
pipe.vae.enable_slicing()
pipe.vae.enable_tiling()
  • For multi-GPU inference, the enable_sequential_cpu_offload() optimization needs to be disabled.
  • Using INT8 models will slow down inference, which is done to accommodate lower-memory GPUs while maintaining minimal video quality loss, though inference speed will significantly decrease.
  • The CogVideoX-2B model was trained in FP16 precision, and all CogVideoX-5B models were trained in BF16 precision. We recommend using the precision in which the model was trained for inference.
  • PytorchAO and Optimum-quanto can be used to quantize the text encoder, transformer, and VAE modules to reduce the memory requirements of CogVideoX. This allows the model to run on free T4 Colabs or GPUs with smaller memory! Also, note that TorchAO quantization is fully compatible with torch.compile, which can significantly improve inference speed. FP8 precision must be used on devices with NVIDIA H100 and above, requiring source installation of torch, torchao, diffusers, and accelerate Python packages. CUDA 12.4 is recommended.
  • The inference speed tests also used the above memory optimization scheme. Without memory optimization, inference speed increases by about 10%. Only the diffusers version of the model supports quantization.
  • The model only supports English input; other languages can be translated into English for use via large model refinement.
  • The memory usage of model fine-tuning is tested in an 8 * H100 environment, and the program automatically uses Zero 2 optimization. If a specific number of GPUs is marked in the table, that number or more GPUs must be used for fine-tuning.

Reminders

  • Use SAT for inference and fine-tuning SAT version models. Feel free to visit our GitHub for more details.

Getting Started Quickly 🤗

This model supports deployment using the Hugging Face diffusers library. You can follow the steps below to get started.

We recommend that you visit our GitHub to check out prompt optimization and conversion to get a better experience.

  1. Install the required dependencies
# diffusers>=0.30.3
# transformers>=0.44.2
# accelerate>=0.34.0
# imageio-ffmpeg>=0.5.1
pip install --upgrade transformers accelerate diffusers imageio-ffmpeg
  1. Run the code
import torch
from diffusers import CogVideoXImageToVideoPipeline
from diffusers.utils import export_to_video, load_image

prompt = "A little girl is riding a bicycle at high speed. Focused, detailed, realistic."
image = load_image(image="input.jpg")
pipe = CogVideoXImageToVideoPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
)

pipe.enable_sequential_cpu_offload()
pipe.vae.enable_tiling()
pipe.vae.enable_slicing()

video = pipe(
    prompt=prompt,
    image=image,
    num_videos_per_prompt=1,
    num_inference_steps=50,
    num_frames=49,
    guidance_scale=6,
    generator=torch.Generator(device="cuda").manual_seed(42),
).frames[0]

export_to_video(video, "output.mp4", fps=8)

Quantized Inference

PytorchAO and Optimum-quanto can be used to quantize the text encoder, transformer, and VAE modules to reduce CogVideoX's memory requirements. This allows the model to run on free T4 Colab or GPUs with lower VRAM! Also, note that TorchAO quantization is fully compatible with torch.compile, which can significantly accelerate inference.

# To get started, PytorchAO needs to be installed from the GitHub source and PyTorch Nightly.
# Source and nightly installation is only required until the next release.

import torch
from diffusers import AutoencoderKLCogVideoX, CogVideoXTransformer3DModel, CogVideoXImageToVideoPipeline
from diffusers.utils import export_to_video, load_image
from transformers import T5EncoderModel
from torchao.quantization import quantize_, int8_weight_only

quantization = int8_weight_only

text_encoder = T5EncoderModel.from_pretrained("THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V", subfolder="text_encoder", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
quantize_(text_encoder, quantization())

transformer = CogVideoXTransformer3DModel.from_pretrained("THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V",subfolder="transformer", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
quantize_(transformer, quantization())

vae = AutoencoderKLCogVideoX.from_pretrained("THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V", subfolder="vae", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
quantize_(vae, quantization())

# Create pipeline and run inference
pipe = CogVideoXImageToVideoPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "THUDM/CogVideoX-5b-I2V",
    text_encoder=text_encoder,
    transformer=transformer,
    vae=vae,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)

pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
pipe.vae.enable_tiling()
pipe.vae.enable_slicing()

prompt = "A little girl is riding a bicycle at high speed. Focuse

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys cogvideox-i2v for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (cogvideox-i2v below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/videos/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"cogvideox-i2v","prompt":"a drone shot over a forest"}'

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