Model reference · open weights
FastWan2.1-T2V is an open-weight video model from FastVideo. 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
| Released by | FastVideo |
|---|---|
| Type | Video models |
| Task | Text→video |
| Parameters (lead) | 1.5B |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Based on | Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers |
| Released | 2025-07-23 |
| Popularity | 816 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
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We're excited to introduce the FastWan2.1 series—a new line of models finetuned with our novel Sparse-distill strategy. This approach jointly integrates DMD and VSA in a single training process, combining the benefits of both distillation to shorten diffusion steps and sparse attention to reduce attention computations, enabling even faster video generation.
FastWan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers is built upon Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers. It supports efficient 3-step inference and produces high-quality videos at 61×448×832 resolution. For training, we use the FastVideo 480P Synthetic Wan dataset, which contains 600k synthetic latents.
# install FastVideo and VSA first
git clone https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo
pip install -e .
cd csrc/attn
git submodule update --init --recursive
python setup_vsa.py install
num_gpus=1
export FASTVIDEO_ATTENTION_BACKEND=VIDEO_SPARSE_ATTN
export MODEL_BASE=FastVideo/FastWan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers
# export MODEL_BASE=hunyuanvideo-community/HunyuanVideo
# You can either use --prompt or --prompt-txt, but not both.
fastvideo generate \
--model-path $MODEL_BASE \
--sp-size $num_gpus \
--tp-size 1 \
--num-gpus $num_gpus \
--height 480 \
--width 848 \
--num-frames 81 \
--num-inference-steps 3 \
--fps 16 \
--prompt-txt assets/prompt.txt \
--negative-prompt "Bright tones, overexposed, static, blurred details, subtitles, style, works, paintings, images, static, overall gray, worst quality, low quality, JPEG compression residue, ugly, incomplete, extra fingers, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn faces, deformed, disfigured, misshapen limbs, fused fingers, still picture, messy background, three legs, many people in the background, walking backwards" \
--seed 1024 \
--output-path outputs_video_dmd/ \
--VSA-sparsity 0.8 \
--dmd-denoising-steps "1000,757,522"
Training was conducted on 4 nodes with 32 H200 GPUs in total, using a global batch size = 64.
We enable gradient checkpointing, set gradient_accumulation_steps=2, and use learning rate = 1e-5.
We set VSA attention sparsity to 0.8, and training runs for 4000 steps (~12 hours)
If you use the FastWan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers model for your research, please cite our paper:
@article{zhang2025vsa,
title={VSA: Faster Video Diffusion with Trainable Sparse Attention},
author={Zhang, Peiyuan and Huang, Haofeng and Chen, Yongqi and Lin, Will and Liu, Zhengzhong and Stoica, Ion and Xing, Eric and Zhang, Hao},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13389},
year={2025}
}
@article{zhang2025fast,
title={Fast video generation with sliding tile attention},
author={Zhang, Peiyuan and Chen, Yongqi and Su, Runlong and Ding, Hangliang and Stoica, Ion and Liu, Zhengzhong and Zhang, Hao},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04507},
year={2025}
}
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Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys fastwan2-1-t2v for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (fastwan2-1-t2v 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":"fastwan2-1-t2v","prompt":"a drone shot over a forest"}'
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