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modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis

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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.

  • modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis is a text-to-video diffusion model developed by ali-vilab that generates videos from English text descriptions.
  • The model contains approximately 1.7 billion parameters and uses a Unet3D structure to create video output through iterative denoising.
  • It is licensed under cc-by-nc-4.0 and is intended for research purposes, with inference requiring a GPU and approximately 16GB of memory.

Summary of the ali-vilab/modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byali-vilab
Released2023-03-19
VRAM3.9 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis (BF16)

3.9 GBweights, file size
537 MBruntime overhead
CardWeightsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What ali-vilab says about modelscope-damo-text-to-video-synthesis

Read 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.

Model Description

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.

How to use

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:

Operating environment (Python Package)

pip install modelscope==1.4.2
pip install open_clip_torch
pip install pytorch-lightning

Code example (Demo Code)

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)

View results

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.

Model limitations and biases

  • The model is trained based on public data sets such as Webvid, and the generated results may have deviations related to the distribution of training data.
  • This model cannot achieve perfect film and television quality generation.
  • The model cannot generate clear text.
  • The model is mainly trained with English corpus and does not support other languages ​​at the moment**.
  • The performance of this model needs to be improved on complex compositional generation tasks.

Misuse, Malicious Use and Excessive Use

  • The model was not trained to realistically represent people or events, so using it to generate such content is beyond the model's capabilities.
  • It is prohibited to generate content that is demeaning or harmful to people or their environment, culture, religion, etc.
  • Prohibited for pornographic, violent and bloody content generation.
  • Prohibited for error and false information generation.

Training data

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.

Citation

    @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

How video models work

Prompt / imagestart pointTemporal diffusionframes over timeVideoMP4 clipA video model generates a sequence of coherent frames from your prompt or a starting image.

Running it yourself

Run it on a rented GPU

Rent a machine by the hour. How to run this model is on its model card.

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