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TTV-1B: 1 Billion Parameter Text-to-Video Model

A state-of-the-art text-to-video generation model with 1 billion parameters, built using Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture with 3D spatiotemporal attention.

🎯 Model Overview

TTV-1B is a diffusion-based text-to-video model that generates high-quality 16-frame videos at 256x256 resolution from text prompts.

Architecture Highlights

• Total Parameters: ~1.0 Billion
• Architecture: Diffusion Transformer (DiT)
• Text Encoder: 6-layer transformer (50M params)
• Video Backbone: 24 DiT blocks with 1536 hidden dimensions (950M params)
• Attention: 3D Spatiotemporal attention with rotary embeddings
• Patch Size: 2×16×16 (temporal × height × width)
• Output: 16 frames @ 256×256 resolution

📋 Features

✅ Spatiotemporal 3D Attention - Captures both spatial and temporal dependencies ✅ Rotary Position Embeddings - Better positional encoding for sequences ✅ Adaptive Layer Normalization (AdaLN) - Conditional generation via modulation ✅ DDPM Diffusion Scheduler - Proven denoising approach ✅ Mixed Precision Training - Faster training with lower memory ✅ Gradient Accumulation - Train with large effective batch sizes ✅ Classifier-Free Guidance - Better prompt adherence during inference

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ttv-1b.git
cd ttv-1b

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Training

from train import Trainer
from video_ttv_1b import create_model

# Create model
device = 'cuda'
model = create_model(device)

# Create datasets (replace with your data)
train_dataset = YourVideoDataset(...)
val_dataset = YourVideoDataset(...)

# Initialize trainer
trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,
    train_dataset=train_dataset,
    val_dataset=val_dataset,
    batch_size=2,
    gradient_accumulation_steps=8,
    mixed_precision=True,
    learning_rate=1e-4,
    num_epochs=100,
)

# Start training
trainer.train()

Or use the training script:

python train.py

Inference

from inference import generate_video_from_prompt

# Generate video
video = generate_video_from_prompt(
    prompt="A cat playing with a ball of yarn",
    checkpoint_path="checkpoints/checkpoint_best.pt",
    output_path="output.mp4",
    num_steps=50,
    guidance_scale=7.5,
)

Or use the command line:

python inference.py \
    --prompt "A serene sunset over the ocean" \
    --checkpoint checkpoints/checkpoint_best.pt \
    --output generated_video.mp4 \
    --steps 50 \
    --guidance 7.5

🏗️ Model Architecture

Input: Text Prompt + Random Noise Video
                ↓
    ┌─────────────────────────┐
    │   Text Encoder (6L)     │
    │   768d, 12 heads        │
    └─────────────────────────┘
                ↓
    ┌─────────────────────────┐
    │   Text Projection       │
    │   768d → 1536d          │
    └─────────────────────────┘
                ↓
    ┌─────────────────────────┐
    │   3D Patch Embedding    │
    │   (2,16,16) patches     │
    └─────────────────────────┘
                ↓
    ┌─────────────────────────┐
    │   24× DiT Blocks        │
    │   • 3D Spatio-Temporal  │
    │     Attention (24 heads)│
    │   • Rotary Embeddings   │
    │   • AdaLN Modulation    │
    │   • Feed-Forward Net    │
    └─────────────────────────┘
                ↓
    ┌─────────────────────────┐
    │   Final Layer + AdaLN   │
    └─────────────────────────┘
                ↓
    ┌─────────────────────────┐
    │   Unpatchify to Video   │
    └─────────────────────────┘
                ↓
Output: Predicted Noise / Denoised Video

📊 Training Details

Recommended Training Setup

• GPU: 8× A100 80GB (or equivalent)
• Batch Size: 2 per GPU
• Gradient Accumulation: 8 steps
• Effective Batch Size: 128
• Learning Rate: 1e-4 with cosine decay
• Optimizer: AdamW (β1=0.9, β2=0.999)
• Weight Decay: 0.01
• Mixed Precision: FP16
• Training Steps: ~500K

Memory Requirements

• Model: ~4GB (FP32), ~2GB (FP16)
• Activations: ~8GB per sample (256×256×16)
• Total per GPU: ~12-16GB with batch size 2

Training Time Estimates

• Single A100 80GB: ~4-6 weeks for 500K steps
• 8× A100 80GB: ~4-7 days for 500K steps

🎨 Inference Examples

# Example 1: Basic generation
from inference import VideoGenerator, load_model
from video_ttv_1b import DDPMScheduler

model = load_model("checkpoints/best.pt")
scheduler = DDPMScheduler()
generator = VideoGenerator(model, scheduler)

video = generator.generate(
    prompt="A beautiful waterfall in a lush forest",
    num_inference_steps=50,
)

# Example 2: Batch generation
from inference import batch_generate

prompts = [
    "A dog running in a park",
    "Fireworks in the night sky",
    "Ocean waves crashing on rocks",
]

batch_generate(
    prompts=prompts,
    checkpoint_path="checkpoints/best.pt",
    output_dir="./outputs",
    num_steps=50,
)

📈 Performance Metrics

Metric	Value
Parameters	1.0B
FLOPs (per frame)	~250 GFLOPs
Inference Time (50 steps, A100)	~15-20 seconds
Training Loss (final)	~0.05 MSE
Video Quality (FVD)	TBD

🔧 Hyperparameters

Model Configuration

VideoTTV1B(
    img_size=(256, 256),           # Output resolution
    num_frames=16,                 # Video length
    patch_size=(2, 16, 16),        # Patch dimensions
    in_channels=3,                 # RGB
    hidden_dim=1536,               # Model width
    depth=24,                      # Number of layers
    num_heads=24,                  # Attention heads
    mlp_ratio=4.0,                 # MLP expansion
    text_dim=768,                  # Text encoder dim
    vocab_size=50257,              # Vocabulary size
)

Training Configuration

Trainer(
    batch_size=2,
    gradient_accumulation_steps=8,
    learning_rate=1e-4,
    weight_decay=0.01,
    num_epochs=100,
    mixed_precision=True,
)

📁 Project Structure

ttv-1b/
├── video_ttv_1b.py      # Model architecture
├── train.py             # Training script
├── inference.py         # Inference & generation
├── requirements.txt     # Dependencies
├── README.md           # Documentation
├── checkpoints/        # Model checkpoints
├── data/              # Training data
└── outputs/           # Generated videos

🔬 Technical Details

3D Spatiotemporal Attention

The model uses full 3D attention across time, height, and width dimensions:

• Captures motion dynamics and spatial relationships
• Rotary position embeddings for better sequence modeling
• Efficient implementation with Flash Attention compatible design

Diffusion Process

1. Training: Learn to predict noise added to videos
2. Inference: Iteratively denoise random noise → video
3. Guidance: Classifier-free guidance for better text alignment

Adaptive Layer Normalization

Each DiT block uses AdaLN-Zero for conditional generation:

• Text and timestep embeddings modulate layer norm parameters
• Allows model to adapt behavior based on conditioning

🎯 Use Cases

• Creative Content: Generate videos for social media, marketing
• Prototyping: Quick video mockups from descriptions
• Education: Visualize concepts and scenarios
• Entertainment: Generate animations and effects
• Research: Study video generation and diffusion models

⚠️ Limitations

• Maximum 16 frames (can be extended in future versions)
• 256×256 resolution (trade-off for 1B parameters)
• Requires significant compute for training
• Text encoder is simple (can be replaced with CLIP/T5)
• No temporal super-resolution (yet)

🚧 Future Improvements

• Increase resolution to 512×512
• Extend to 64+ frames
• Add temporal super-resolution
• Integrate CLIP text encoder
• Add motion control
• Implement video editing capabilities
• Optimize inference speed
• Add LoRA fine-tuning support

📚 Citation

If you use this model in your research, please cite:

@misc{ttv1b2024,
  title={TTV-1B: A 1 Billion Parameter Text-to-Video Model},
  author={Your Name},
  year={2024},
  url={https://github.com/yourusername/ttv-1b}
}

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

💬 Contact

For questions and feedback:

• GitHub Issues: github.com/yourusername/ttv-1b/issues
• Email: your.email@example.com

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Inspired by DiT (Diffusion Transformer) architecture
• Built with PyTorch and modern deep learning practices
• Thanks to the open-source ML community

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Status: Research/Educational Model | Version: 1.0.0 | Last Updated: 2024