Model reference · open weights
text-to-video-ms-legacy is an open-weight video model from ali-vilab. 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
| Maker | ali-vilab |
|---|---|
| Type | Video models |
| Task | Text→video |
| Parameters (lead) | 1.4B |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2023-03-22 |
| Popularity | 47 downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
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 model, text feature-to-video latent space diffusion model, and video latent space to video visual space model. The overall model parameters are about 1.7 billion. Currently, it only supports English input. The diffusion model adopts a UNet3D structure, and implements 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.
This model has a wide range of applications, and can reason and generate videos based on arbitrary English text descriptions.
Let's first install the libraries required:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers transformers accelerate
Now, generate a video:
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline, DPMSolverMultistepScheduler
from diffusers.utils import export_to_video
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("damo-vilab/text-to-video-ms-1.7b-legacy", torch_dtype=torch.float16)
pipe.scheduler = DPMSolverMultistepScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
prompt = "Spiderman is surfing"
video_frames = pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=25).frames
video_path = export_to_video(video_frames)
Here are some results:
An astronaut riding a horse.
alt="An astronaut riding a horse."
style="width: 300px;" />
Darth vader surfing in waves.
alt="Darth vader surfing in waves."
style="width: 300px;" />
You can optimize for memory usage by enabling attention and VAE slicing and using Torch 2.0. This should allow you to generate videos up to 25 seconds on less than 16GB of GPU VRAM.
$ pip install diffusers transformers accelerate transformers accelerate
import torch
from diffusers import DiffusionPipeline, DPMSolverMultistepScheduler
from diffusers.utils import export_to_video
# load pipeline
pipe = DiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("damo-vilab/text-to-video-ms-1.7b", torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16")
pipe.scheduler = DPMSolverMultistepScheduler.from_config(pipe.scheduler.config)
# optimize for GPU memory
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
pipe.enable_vae_slicing()
# generate
prompt = Spiderman is surfing. Darth Vader is also surfing and following Spiderman"
video_frames = pipe(prompt, num_inference_steps=25, num_frames=200).frames
# convent to video
video_path = export_to_video(video_frames)
The above code will display the save path of the output video, and the current encoding format can be played 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.
(Part of this model card has been taken from here)
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys text-to-video-ms-legacy for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (text-to-video-ms-legacy 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":"text-to-video-ms-legacy","prompt":"a drone shot over a forest"}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.