Model reference · open weights
modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis is an open-weight video model from ali-vilab. modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis (BF16) weighs 3.9 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the ali-vilab/modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | ali-vilab |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-03-19 |
| VRAM | 3.9 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Weights | Memory |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 12 GB | fits | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | fits | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | fits | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | fits | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | fits | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | fits | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | fits | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | fits | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | fits | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | fits | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | fits | 176 GB |
From the model card
The original repo is here.
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This model is based on a multi-stage text-to-video generation diffusion model, which inputs a description text and returns a video that matches the text description. Only English input is supported.
The text-to-video generation diffusion model consists of three sub-networks: text feature extraction, text feature-to-video latent space diffusion model, and video latent space to video visual space. The overall model parameters are about 1.7 billion. Support English input. The diffusion model adopts the Unet3D structure, and realizes the function of video generation through the iterative denoising process from the pure Gaussian noise video.
This model is meant for research purposes. Please look at the model limitations and biases and misuse, malicious use and excessive use sections.
How to expect the model to be used and where it is applicable
This model has a wide range of applications and can reason and generate videos based on arbitrary English text descriptions.
In order to facilitate the experience of the model, users can refer to the Aliyun Notebook Tutorial to quickly develop this Text-to-Video model.
This demo requires about 16GB CPU RAM and 16GB GPU RAM. Under the ModelScope framework, the current model can be used by calling a simple Pipeline, where the input must be in dictionary format, the legal key value is 'text', and the content is a short text. This model currently only supports inference on the GPU. Enter specific code examples as follows:
pip install modelscope==1.4.2
pip install open_clip_torch
pip install pytorch-lightning
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.outputs import OutputKeys
import pathlib
model_dir = pathlib.Path('weights')
snapshot_download('damo-vilab/modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis',
repo_type='model', local_dir=model_dir)
pipe = pipeline('text-to-video-synthesis', model_dir.as_posix())
test_text = {
'text': 'A panda eating bamboo on a rock.',
}
output_video_path = pipe(test_text,)[OutputKeys.OUTPUT_VIDEO]
print('output_video_path:', output_video_path)
The above code will display the save path of the output video, and the current encoding format can be played normally with VLC player.
The output mp4 file can be viewed by VLC media player. Some other media players may not view it normally.
The training data includes LAION5B, ImageNet, Webvid and other public datasets. Image and video filtering is performed after pre-training such as aesthetic score, watermark score, and deduplication.
@InProceedings{VideoFusion,
author = {Luo, Zhengxiong and Chen, Dayou and Zhang, Yingya and Huang, Yan and Wang, Liang and Shen, Yujun and Zhao, Deli and Zhou, Jingren and Tan, Tieniu},
title = {VideoFusion: Decomposed Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2023}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
How it works
Running it yourself
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