text and image to video generation: CogVideoX (2024) and CogVideo (ICLR 2023)
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Experience the CogVideoX-5B model online at 🤗 Huggingface Space or 🤖 ModelScope Space
📚 View the paper and user guide
📍 Visit QingYing and API Platform to experience larger-scale commercial video generation models.
2025/03/24: We have launched CogKit, a fine-tuning and inference framework for the CogView4 and CogVideoX series. This toolkit allows you to fully explore and utilize our multimodal generation models.2025/02/28: DDIM Inverse is now supported in CogVideoX-5B and CogVideoX1.5-5B. Check here.2025/01/08: We have updated the code for Lora fine-tuning based on the diffusers version model, which uses less GPU memory. For more details, please see here.2024/11/15: We released the CogVideoX1.5 model in the diffusers version. Only minor parameter adjustments are needed to continue using previous code.2024/11/08: We have released the CogVideoX1.5 model. CogVideoX1.5 is an upgraded version of the open-source model CogVideoX.
The CogVideoX1.5-5B series supports 10-second videos with higher resolution, and CogVideoX1.5-5B-I2V supports video generation at any resolution.
The SAT code has already been updated, while the diffusers version is still under adaptation. Download the SAT version code here.2024/10/13: A more cost-effective fine-tuning framework for CogVideoX-5B that works with a single
4090 GPU, cogvideox-factory, has been released. It supports
fine-tuning with multiple resolutions. Feel free to use it!2024/10/10: We have updated our technical report. Please
click here to view it. More training details and a demo have been added. To see
the demo, click here.- 🔥 News: 2024/10/09: We have publicly
released the technical documentation for CogVideoX
fine-tuning on Feishu, further increasing distribution flexibility. All examples in the public documentation can be
fully reproduced.2024/9/19: We have open-sourced the CogVideoX series image-to-video model CogVideoX-5B-I2V.
This model can take an image as a background input and generate a video combined with prompt words, offering greater
controllability. With this, the CogVideoX series models now support three tasks: text-to-video generation, video
continuation, and image-to-video generation. Welcome to try it online
at Experience.2024/9/19: The Caption
model CogVLM2-Caption, used in the training process of
CogVideoX to convert video data into text descriptions, has been open-sourced. Welcome to download and use it.2024/8/27: We have open-sourced a larger model in the CogVideoX series, CogVideoX-5B. We have
significantly optimized the model's inference performance, greatly lowering the inference threshold.
You can run CogVideoX-2B on older GPUs like GTX 1080TI, and CogVideoX-5B on desktop GPUs like RTX 3060. Please strictly
follow the requirements to update and install dependencies, and refer
to cli_demo for inference code. Additionally, the open-source license for
the CogVideoX-2B model has been changed to the Apache 2.0 License.2024/8/6: We have open-sourced 3D Causal VAE, used for CogVideoX-2B, which can reconstruct videos with
almost no loss.2024/8/6: We have open-sourced the first model of the CogVideoX series video generation models, **CogVideoX-2B
**.2022/5/19: We have open-sourced the CogVideo video generation model (now you can see it in
the CogVideo branch). This is the first open-source large Transformer-based text-to-video generation model. You can
access the ICLR'23 paper for technical details.Jump to a specific section:
Before running the model, please refer to this guide to see how we use large models like GLM-4 (or other comparable products, such as GPT-4) to optimize the model. This is crucial because the model is trained with long prompts, and a good prompt directly impacts the quality of the video generation.
Please make sure your Python version is between 3.10 and 3.12, inclusive of both 3.10 and 3.12.
Follow instructions in sat_demo: Contains the inference code and fine-tuning code of SAT weights. It is recommended to improve based on the CogVideoX model structure. Innovative researchers use this code to better perform rapid stacking and development.
Please make sure your Python version is between 3.10 and 3.12, inclusive of both 3.10 and 3.12.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then follow diffusers_demo: A more detailed explanation of the inference code, mentioning the significance of common parameters.
For more details on quantized inference, please refer to diffusers-torchao. With Diffusers and TorchAO, quantized inference is also possible leading to memory-efficient inference as well as speedup in some cases when compiled. A full list of memory and time benchmarks with various settings on A100 and H100 has been published at diffusers-torchao.
To view the corresponding prompt words for the gallery, please click here
CogVideoX is an open-source version of the video generation model originating from QingYing. The table below displays the list of video generation models we currently offer, along with their foundational information.
| Model Name | CogVideoX1.5-5B (Latest) | CogVideoX1.5-5B-I2V (Latest) | CogVideoX-2B | CogVideoX-5B | CogVideoX-5B-I2V |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release Date | November 8, 2024 | November 8, 2024 | August 6, 2024 | August 27, 2024 | September 19, 2024 |
| Video Resolution | 1360 * 768 | Min(W, H) = 768 768 ≤ Max(W, H) ≤ 1360 Max(W, H) % 16 = 0 | 720 * 480 | ||
| Number of Frames | Should be 16N + 1 where N <= 10 (default 81) | Should be 8N + 1 where N <= 6 (default 49) | |||
| Inference Precision | BF16 (Recommended), FP16, FP32, FP8*, INT8, Not supported: INT4 | FP16*(Recommended), BF16, FP32, FP8*, INT8, Not supported: INT4 | BF16 (Recommended), FP16, FP32, FP8*, INT8, Not supported: INT4 | ||
| Single GPU Memory Usage | SAT BF16: 76GB diffusers BF16: from 10GB* diffusers INT8(torchao): from 7GB* | SAT FP16: 18GB diffusers FP16: 4GB minimum* diffusers INT8 (torchao): 3.6GB minimum* | SAT BF16: 26GB diffusers BF16 : 5GB minimum* diffusers INT8 (torchao): 4.4GB minimum* | ||
| Multi-GPU Memory Usage | BF16: 24GB* using diffusers | FP16: 10GB* using diffusers | BF16: 15GB* using diffusers | ||
| Inference Speed (Step = 50, FP/BF16) | Single A100: ~1000 seconds (5-second video) Single H100: ~550 seconds (5-second video) | Single A100: ~90 seconds Single H100: ~45 seconds | Single A100: ~180 seconds Single H100: ~90 seconds | ||
| Prompt Language | English* | ||||
| Prompt Token Limit | 224 Tokens | 226 Tokens | |||
| Video Length | 5 seconds or 10 seconds | 6 seconds | |||
| Frame Rate | 16 frames / second | 8 frames / second | |||
| Position Encoding | 3d_rope_pos_embed | 3d_sincos_pos_embed | 3d_rope_pos_embed | 3d_rope_pos_embed + learnable_pos_embed | |
| Download Link (Diffusers) | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel |
| Download Link (SAT) | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | SAT | |||
Data Explanation
pipe.enable_sequential_cpu_offload()
pipe.vae.enable_slicing()
pipe.vae.enable_tiling()
enable_sequential_cpu_offload() optimization needs to be disabled.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.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 Python packages. CUDA 12.4 is recommended.diffusers version of the model supports quantization.We highly welcome contributions from the community and actively contribute to the open-source community. The following works have already been adapted for CogVideoX, and we invite everyone to use them:
freq[k-1]=(2np.pi)/(Ls). The framework not only supports training-free inference, but also offers models fine-tuned based on CogVideoX. By fine-tuning the model for just 1,000 steps on original-length videos, RIFLEx significantly enhances its length extrapolation capability.diffusers version model. Supports more resolutions, and
fine-tuning CogVideoX-5B can be done with a single 4090 GPU.This open-source repository will guide developers to quickly get started with the basic usage and fine-tuning examples of the CogVideoX open-source model.
Here provide three projects that can be run directly on free Colab T4 instances:
This folder contains some tools for model conversion / caption generation, etc.
The official repo for the paper: CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers is on the CogVideo branch
CogVideo is able to generate relatively high-frame-rate videos. A 4-second clip of 32 frames is shown below.


The demo for CogVideo is at https://models.aminer.cn/cogvideo, where you can get hands-on practice on text-to-video generation. The original input is in Chinese.
🌟 If you find our work helpful, please leave us a star and cite our paper.
@article{yang2024cogvideox,
title={CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer},
author={Yang, Zhuoyi and Teng, Jiayan and Zheng, Wendi and Ding, Ming and Huang, Shiyu and Xu, Jiazheng and Yang, Yuanming and Hong, Wenyi and Zhang, Xiaohan and Feng, Guanyu and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06072},
year={2024}
}
@article{hong2022cogvideo,
title={CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers},
author={Hong, Wenyi and Ding, Ming and Zheng, Wendi and Liu, Xinghan and Tang, Jie},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.15868},
year={2022}
}
The code in this repository is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
The CogVideoX-2B model (including its corresponding Transformers module and VAE module) is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
The CogVideoX-5B model (Transformers module, include I2V and T2V) is released under the CogVideoX LICENSE.
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text and image to video generation: CogVideoX (2024) and CogVideo (ICLR 2023)
13,004
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440
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Python
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Nov 4, 2025
updated
Experience the CogVideoX-5B model online at 🤗 Huggingface Space or 🤖 ModelScope Space
📚 View the paper and user guide
📍 Visit QingYing and API Platform to experience larger-scale commercial video generation models.
2025/03/24: We have launched CogKit, a fine-tuning and inference framework for the CogView4 and CogVideoX series. This toolkit allows you to fully explore and utilize our multimodal generation models.2025/02/28: DDIM Inverse is now supported in CogVideoX-5B and CogVideoX1.5-5B. Check here.2025/01/08: We have updated the code for Lora fine-tuning based on the diffusers version model, which uses less GPU memory. For more details, please see here.2024/11/15: We released the CogVideoX1.5 model in the diffusers version. Only minor parameter adjustments are needed to continue using previous code.2024/11/08: We have released the CogVideoX1.5 model. CogVideoX1.5 is an upgraded version of the open-source model CogVideoX.
The CogVideoX1.5-5B series supports 10-second videos with higher resolution, and CogVideoX1.5-5B-I2V supports video generation at any resolution.
The SAT code has already been updated, while the diffusers version is still under adaptation. Download the SAT version code here.2024/10/13: A more cost-effective fine-tuning framework for CogVideoX-5B that works with a single
4090 GPU, cogvideox-factory, has been released. It supports
fine-tuning with multiple resolutions. Feel free to use it!2024/10/10: We have updated our technical report. Please
click here to view it. More training details and a demo have been added. To see
the demo, click here.- 🔥 News: 2024/10/09: We have publicly
released the technical documentation for CogVideoX
fine-tuning on Feishu, further increasing distribution flexibility. All examples in the public documentation can be
fully reproduced.2024/9/19: We have open-sourced the CogVideoX series image-to-video model CogVideoX-5B-I2V.
This model can take an image as a background input and generate a video combined with prompt words, offering greater
controllability. With this, the CogVideoX series models now support three tasks: text-to-video generation, video
continuation, and image-to-video generation. Welcome to try it online
at Experience.2024/9/19: The Caption
model CogVLM2-Caption, used in the training process of
CogVideoX to convert video data into text descriptions, has been open-sourced. Welcome to download and use it.2024/8/27: We have open-sourced a larger model in the CogVideoX series, CogVideoX-5B. We have
significantly optimized the model's inference performance, greatly lowering the inference threshold.
You can run CogVideoX-2B on older GPUs like GTX 1080TI, and CogVideoX-5B on desktop GPUs like RTX 3060. Please strictly
follow the requirements to update and install dependencies, and refer
to cli_demo for inference code. Additionally, the open-source license for
the CogVideoX-2B model has been changed to the Apache 2.0 License.2024/8/6: We have open-sourced 3D Causal VAE, used for CogVideoX-2B, which can reconstruct videos with
almost no loss.2024/8/6: We have open-sourced the first model of the CogVideoX series video generation models, **CogVideoX-2B
**.2022/5/19: We have open-sourced the CogVideo video generation model (now you can see it in
the CogVideo branch). This is the first open-source large Transformer-based text-to-video generation model. You can
access the ICLR'23 paper for technical details.Jump to a specific section:
Before running the model, please refer to this guide to see how we use large models like GLM-4 (or other comparable products, such as GPT-4) to optimize the model. This is crucial because the model is trained with long prompts, and a good prompt directly impacts the quality of the video generation.
Please make sure your Python version is between 3.10 and 3.12, inclusive of both 3.10 and 3.12.
Follow instructions in sat_demo: Contains the inference code and fine-tuning code of SAT weights. It is recommended to improve based on the CogVideoX model structure. Innovative researchers use this code to better perform rapid stacking and development.
Please make sure your Python version is between 3.10 and 3.12, inclusive of both 3.10 and 3.12.
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then follow diffusers_demo: A more detailed explanation of the inference code, mentioning the significance of common parameters.
For more details on quantized inference, please refer to diffusers-torchao. With Diffusers and TorchAO, quantized inference is also possible leading to memory-efficient inference as well as speedup in some cases when compiled. A full list of memory and time benchmarks with various settings on A100 and H100 has been published at diffusers-torchao.
To view the corresponding prompt words for the gallery, please click here
CogVideoX is an open-source version of the video generation model originating from QingYing. The table below displays the list of video generation models we currently offer, along with their foundational information.
| Model Name | CogVideoX1.5-5B (Latest) | CogVideoX1.5-5B-I2V (Latest) | CogVideoX-2B | CogVideoX-5B | CogVideoX-5B-I2V |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release Date | November 8, 2024 | November 8, 2024 | August 6, 2024 | August 27, 2024 | September 19, 2024 |
| Video Resolution | 1360 * 768 | Min(W, H) = 768 768 ≤ Max(W, H) ≤ 1360 Max(W, H) % 16 = 0 | 720 * 480 | ||
| Number of Frames | Should be 16N + 1 where N <= 10 (default 81) | Should be 8N + 1 where N <= 6 (default 49) | |||
| Inference Precision | BF16 (Recommended), FP16, FP32, FP8*, INT8, Not supported: INT4 | FP16*(Recommended), BF16, FP32, FP8*, INT8, Not supported: INT4 | BF16 (Recommended), FP16, FP32, FP8*, INT8, Not supported: INT4 | ||
| Single GPU Memory Usage | SAT BF16: 76GB diffusers BF16: from 10GB* diffusers INT8(torchao): from 7GB* | SAT FP16: 18GB diffusers FP16: 4GB minimum* diffusers INT8 (torchao): 3.6GB minimum* | SAT BF16: 26GB diffusers BF16 : 5GB minimum* diffusers INT8 (torchao): 4.4GB minimum* | ||
| Multi-GPU Memory Usage | BF16: 24GB* using diffusers | FP16: 10GB* using diffusers | BF16: 15GB* using diffusers | ||
| Inference Speed (Step = 50, FP/BF16) | Single A100: ~1000 seconds (5-second video) Single H100: ~550 seconds (5-second video) | Single A100: ~90 seconds Single H100: ~45 seconds | Single A100: ~180 seconds Single H100: ~90 seconds | ||
| Prompt Language | English* | ||||
| Prompt Token Limit | 224 Tokens | 226 Tokens | |||
| Video Length | 5 seconds or 10 seconds | 6 seconds | |||
| Frame Rate | 16 frames / second | 8 frames / second | |||
| Position Encoding | 3d_rope_pos_embed | 3d_sincos_pos_embed | 3d_rope_pos_embed | 3d_rope_pos_embed + learnable_pos_embed | |
| Download Link (Diffusers) | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel |
| Download Link (SAT) | 🤗 HuggingFace 🤖 ModelScope 🟣 WiseModel | SAT | |||
Data Explanation
pipe.enable_sequential_cpu_offload()
pipe.vae.enable_slicing()
pipe.vae.enable_tiling()
enable_sequential_cpu_offload() optimization needs to be disabled.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.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 Python packages. CUDA 12.4 is recommended.diffusers version of the model supports quantization.We highly welcome contributions from the community and actively contribute to the open-source community. The following works have already been adapted for CogVideoX, and we invite everyone to use them:
freq[k-1]=(2np.pi)/(Ls). The framework not only supports training-free inference, but also offers models fine-tuned based on CogVideoX. By fine-tuning the model for just 1,000 steps on original-length videos, RIFLEx significantly enhances its length extrapolation capability.diffusers version model. Supports more resolutions, and
fine-tuning CogVideoX-5B can be done with a single 4090 GPU.This open-source repository will guide developers to quickly get started with the basic usage and fine-tuning examples of the CogVideoX open-source model.
Here provide three projects that can be run directly on free Colab T4 instances:
This folder contains some tools for model conversion / caption generation, etc.
The official repo for the paper: CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers is on the CogVideo branch
CogVideo is able to generate relatively high-frame-rate videos. A 4-second clip of 32 frames is shown below.


The demo for CogVideo is at https://models.aminer.cn/cogvideo, where you can get hands-on practice on text-to-video generation. The original input is in Chinese.
🌟 If you find our work helpful, please leave us a star and cite our paper.
@article{yang2024cogvideox,
title={CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer},
author={Yang, Zhuoyi and Teng, Jiayan and Zheng, Wendi and Ding, Ming and Huang, Shiyu and Xu, Jiazheng and Yang, Yuanming and Hong, Wenyi and Zhang, Xiaohan and Feng, Guanyu and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06072},
year={2024}
}
@article{hong2022cogvideo,
title={CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers},
author={Hong, Wenyi and Ding, Ming and Zheng, Wendi and Liu, Xinghan and Tang, Jie},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.15868},
year={2022}
}
The code in this repository is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
The CogVideoX-2B model (including its corresponding Transformers module and VAE module) is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
The CogVideoX-5B model (Transformers module, include I2V and T2V) is released under the CogVideoX LICENSE.
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