diffusers/pr_11739/en/api/pipelines/kandinsky5_video.md

Kandinsky 5.0 Video

Kandinsky 5.0 is a family of diffusion models for Video & Image generation.

Kandinsky 5.0 Lite line-up of lightweight video generation models (2B parameters) that ranks #1 among open-source models in its class. It outperforms larger models and offers the best understanding of Russian concepts in the open-source ecosystem.

Kandinsky 5.0 Pro line-up of large high quality video generation models (19B parameters). It offers high qualty generation in HD and more generation formats like I2V.

The model introduces several key innovations:

• Latent diffusion pipeline with Flow Matching for improved training stability
• Diffusion Transformer (DiT) as the main generative backbone with cross-attention to text embeddings
• Dual text encoding using Qwen2.5-VL and CLIP for comprehensive text understanding
• HunyuanVideo 3D VAE for efficient video encoding and decoding
• Sparse attention mechanisms (NABLA) for efficient long-sequence processing

The original codebase can be found at kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.

Check out the Kandinsky Lab organization on the Hub for the official model checkpoints for text-to-video generation, including pretrained, SFT, no-CFG, and distilled variants.

Available Models

Kandinsky 5.0 T2V Pro:

model_id	Description	Use Cases
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Pro-sft-5s-Diffusers	5 second Text-to-Video Pro model	High-quality text-to-video generation
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-I2V-Pro-sft-5s-Diffusers	5 second Image-to-Video Pro model	High-quality image-to-video generation

Kandinsky 5.0 T2V Lite:

model_id	Description	Use Cases
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-5s-Diffusers	5 second Supervised Fine-Tuned model	Highest generation quality
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-10s-Diffusers	10 second Supervised Fine-Tuned model	Highest generation quality
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-nocfg-5s-Diffusers	5 second Classifier-Free Guidance distilled	2× faster inference
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-nocfg-10s-Diffusers	10 second Classifier-Free Guidance distilled	2× faster inference
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-distilled16steps-5s-Diffusers	5 second Diffusion distilled to 16 steps	6× faster inference, minimal quality loss
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-distilled16steps-10s-Diffusers	10 second Diffusion distilled to 16 steps	6× faster inference, minimal quality loss
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-pretrain-5s-Diffusers	5 second Base pretrained model	Research and fine-tuning
kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-pretrain-10s-Diffusers	10 second Base pretrained model	Research and fine-tuning

Usage Examples

Basic Text-to-Video Generation

Pro

⚠️ Warning! all Pro models should be infered with pipeline.enable_model_cpu_offload()

import torch
from diffusers import Kandinsky5T2VPipeline
from diffusers.utils import export_to_video

# Load the pipeline
model_id = "kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Pro-sft-5s-Diffusers"
pipe = Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)

pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
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## Kandinsky 5.0 Lite Side-by-Side evaluation

The evaluation is based on the expanded prompts from the [Movie Gen benchmark](https://github.com/facebookresearch/MovieGenBench), which are available in the expanded_prompt column of the benchmark/moviegen_bench.csv file.

  
      
          
      
      
          
      
  
      
          
      
      
          
      
  
      
          
      

## Kandinsky 5.0 Lite Distill Side-by-Side evaluation

  
      
          
      
      
          
      

## Kandinsky5T2VPipeline[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline]]

#### diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline]]

[Source](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/vr_11739/src/diffusers/pipelines/kandinsky5/pipeline_kandinsky.py#L131)

Pipeline for text-to-video generation using Kandinsky 5.0.

This model inherits from [DiffusionPipeline](/docs/diffusers/pr_11739/en/api/pipelines/overview#diffusers.DiffusionPipeline). Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods
implemented for all pipelines (downloading, saving, running on a particular device, etc.).

__call__diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.__call__https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/vr_11739/src/diffusers/pipelines/kandinsky5/pipeline_kandinsky.py#L682[{"name": "prompt", "val": ": typing.Union[str, typing.List[str]] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt", "val": ": typing.Union[str, typing.List[str], NoneType] = None"}, {"name": "height", "val": ": int = 512"}, {"name": "width", "val": ": int = 768"}, {"name": "num_frames", "val": ": int = 121"}, {"name": "num_inference_steps", "val": ": int = 50"}, {"name": "guidance_scale", "val": ": float = 5.0"}, {"name": "num_videos_per_prompt", "val": ": typing.Optional[int] = 1"}, {"name": "generator", "val": ": typing.Union[torch._C.Generator, typing.List[torch._C.Generator], NoneType] = None"}, {"name": "latents", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "prompt_embeds_qwen", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "prompt_embeds_clip", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt_embeds_qwen", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt_embeds_clip", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "prompt_cu_seqlens", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt_cu_seqlens", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "output_type", "val": ": typing.Optional[str] = 'pil'"}, {"name": "return_dict", "val": ": bool = True"}, {"name": "callback_on_step_end", "val": ": typing.Union[typing.Callable[[int, int, typing.Dict], NoneType], diffusers.callbacks.PipelineCallback, diffusers.callbacks.MultiPipelineCallbacks, NoneType] = None"}, {"name": "callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs", "val": ": typing.List[str] = ['latents']"}, {"name": "max_sequence_length", "val": ": int = 512"}]- **prompt** (`str` or `List[str]`, *optional*) --
  The prompt or prompts to guide the video generation. If not defined, pass `prompt_embeds` instead.
- **negative_prompt** (`str` or `List[str]`, *optional*) --
  The prompt or prompts to avoid during video generation. If not defined, pass `negative_prompt_embeds`
  instead. Ignored when not using guidance (`guidance_scale` 0`~KandinskyPipelineOutput` or `tuple`If `return_dict` is `True`, `KandinskyPipelineOutput` is returned, otherwise a `tuple` is returned
where the first element is a list with the generated images.

The call function to the pipeline for generation.

Examples:

```python
>>> import torch
>>> from diffusers import Kandinsky5T2VPipeline
>>> from diffusers.utils import export_to_video

>>> # Available models:
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Pro-sft-5s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-5s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-nocfg-5s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-distilled16steps-5s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-pretrain-5s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-10s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-nocfg-10s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-distilled16steps-10s-Diffusers
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-pretrain-10s-Diffusers

>>> model_id = "kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-5s-Diffusers"
>>> pipe = Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
>>> pipe = pipe.to("cuda")

>>> prompt = "A cat and a dog baking a cake together in a kitchen."
>>> negative_prompt = "Static, 2D cartoon, cartoon, 2d animation, paintings, images, worst quality, low quality, ugly, deformed, walking backwards"

>>> output = pipe(
...     prompt=prompt,
...     negative_prompt=negative_prompt,
...     height=512,
...     width=768,
...     num_frames=121,
...     num_inference_steps=50,
...     guidance_scale=5.0,
... ).frames[0]

>>> export_to_video(output, "output.mp4", fps=24, quality=9)

Parameters:

transformer (Kandinsky5Transformer3DModel) : Conditional Transformer to denoise the encoded video latents.

vae (AutoencoderKLHunyuanVideo) : Variational Auto-Encoder Model hunyuanvideo-community/HunyuanVideo (vae) to encode and decode videos to and from latent representations.

text_encoder (Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration) : Frozen text-encoder Qwen2.5-VL.

tokenizer (AutoProcessor) : Tokenizer for Qwen2.5-VL.

text_encoder_2 (CLIPTextModel) : Frozen CLIP, specifically the clip-vit-large-patch14 variant.

tokenizer_2 (CLIPTokenizer) : Tokenizer for CLIP.

scheduler (FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler) : A scheduler to be used in combination with transformer to denoise the encoded video latents.

Returns:

~KandinskyPipelineOutput` or `tuple

If return_dict is True, KandinskyPipelineOutput is returned, otherwise a tuple is returned where the first element is a list with the generated images.

check_inputs[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.check_inputs]]

Source

Validate input parameters for the pipeline.

Parameters:

prompt : Input prompt

negative_prompt : Negative prompt for guidance

height : Video height

width : Video width

prompt_embeds_qwen : Pre-computed Qwen prompt embeddings

prompt_embeds_clip : Pre-computed CLIP prompt embeddings

negative_prompt_embeds_qwen : Pre-computed Qwen negative prompt embeddings

negative_prompt_embeds_clip : Pre-computed CLIP negative prompt embeddings

prompt_cu_seqlens : Pre-computed cumulative sequence lengths for Qwen positive prompt

negative_prompt_cu_seqlens : Pre-computed cumulative sequence lengths for Qwen negative prompt

callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs : Callback tensor inputs

encode_prompt[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.encode_prompt]]

Source

Encodes a single prompt (positive or negative) into text encoder hidden states.

This method combines embeddings from both Qwen2.5-VL and CLIP text encoders to create comprehensive text representations for video generation.

Parameters:

prompt (str or List[str]) : Prompt to be encoded.

num_videos_per_prompt (int, optional, defaults to 1) : Number of videos to generate per prompt.

max_sequence_length (int, optional, defaults to 512) : Maximum sequence length for text encoding.

device (torch.device, optional) : Torch device.

dtype (torch.dtype, optional) : Torch dtype.

Returns:

Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]

• Qwen text embeddings of shape (batch_size * num_videos_per_prompt, sequence_length, embedding_dim)
• CLIP pooled embeddings of shape (batch_size * num_videos_per_prompt, clip_embedding_dim)
• Cumulative sequence lengths (cu_seqlens) for Qwen embeddings of shape (batch_size * num_videos_per_prompt + 1,)

fast_sta_nabla[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.fast_sta_nabla]]

Source

Create a sparse temporal attention (STA) mask for efficient video generation.

This method generates a mask that limits attention to nearby frames and spatial positions, reducing computational complexity for video generation.

Parameters:

T (int) : Number of temporal frames

H (int) : Height in latent space

W (int) : Width in latent space

wT (int) : Temporal attention window size

wH (int) : Height attention window size

wW (int) : Width attention window size

device (str) : Device to create tensor on

Returns:

torch.Tensor

Sparse attention mask of shape (THW, THW)

get_sparse_params[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.get_sparse_params]]

Source

Generate sparse attention parameters for the transformer based on sample dimensions.

This method computes the sparse attention configuration needed for efficient video processing in the transformer model.

Parameters:

sample (torch.Tensor) : Input sample tensor

device (torch.device) : Device to place tensors on

Returns:

Dict

Dictionary containing sparse attention parameters

prepare_latents[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.prepare_latents]]

Source

Prepare initial latent variables for video generation.

This method creates random noise latents or uses provided latents as starting point for the denoising process.

Parameters:

batch_size (int) : Number of videos to generate

num_channels_latents (int) : Number of channels in latent space

height (int) : Height of generated video

width (int) : Width of generated video

num_frames (int) : Number of frames in video

dtype (torch.dtype) : Data type for latents

device (torch.device) : Device to create latents on

generator (torch.Generator) : Random number generator

latents (torch.Tensor) : Pre-existing latents to use

Returns:

torch.Tensor

Prepared latent tensor

Kandinsky5I2VPipeline[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline]]

diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline]]

Source

Pipeline for image-to-video generation using Kandinsky 5.0.

This model inherits from DiffusionPipeline. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods implemented for all pipelines (downloading, saving, running on a particular device, etc.).

__call__diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.__call__https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/vr_11739/src/diffusers/pipelines/kandinsky5/pipeline_kandinsky_i2v.py#L748[{"name": "image", "val": ": typing.Union[PIL.Image.Image, numpy.ndarray, torch.Tensor, typing.List[PIL.Image.Image], typing.List[numpy.ndarray], typing.List[torch.Tensor]]"}, {"name": "prompt", "val": ": typing.Union[str, typing.List[str]] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt", "val": ": typing.Union[str, typing.List[str], NoneType] = None"}, {"name": "height", "val": ": int = 512"}, {"name": "width", "val": ": int = 768"}, {"name": "num_frames", "val": ": int = 121"}, {"name": "num_inference_steps", "val": ": int = 50"}, {"name": "guidance_scale", "val": ": float = 5.0"}, {"name": "num_videos_per_prompt", "val": ": typing.Optional[int] = 1"}, {"name": "generator", "val": ": typing.Union[torch._C.Generator, typing.List[torch._C.Generator], NoneType] = None"}, {"name": "latents", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "prompt_embeds_qwen", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "prompt_embeds_clip", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt_embeds_qwen", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt_embeds_clip", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "prompt_cu_seqlens", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "negative_prompt_cu_seqlens", "val": ": typing.Optional[torch.Tensor] = None"}, {"name": "output_type", "val": ": typing.Optional[str] = 'pil'"}, {"name": "return_dict", "val": ": bool = True"}, {"name": "callback_on_step_end", "val": ": typing.Union[typing.Callable[[int, int, typing.Dict], NoneType], diffusers.callbacks.PipelineCallback, diffusers.callbacks.MultiPipelineCallbacks, NoneType] = None"}, {"name": "callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs", "val": ": typing.List[str] = ['latents']"}, {"name": "max_sequence_length", "val": ": int = 512"}]- image (PipelineImageInput) -- The input image to condition the generation on. Must be an image, a list of images or a torch.Tensor.

• prompt (str or List[str], optional) -- The prompt or prompts to guide the video generation. If not defined, pass prompt_embeds instead.
• negative_prompt (str or List[str], optional) -- The prompt or prompts to avoid during video generation. If not defined, pass negative_prompt_embeds instead. Ignored when not using guidance (guidance_scale 0~KandinskyPipelineOutput or tupleIf return_dict is True, KandinskyPipelineOutput is returned, otherwise a tuple is returned where the first element is a list with the generated videos.

The call function to the pipeline for image-to-video generation.

Examples:

>>> import torch
>>> from diffusers import Kandinsky5I2VPipeline
>>> from diffusers.utils import export_to_video, load_image

>>> # Available models:
>>> # kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-I2V-Pro-sft-5s-Diffusers

>>> model_id = "kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5.0-I2V-Pro-sft-5s-Diffusers"
>>> pipe = Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
>>> pipe = pipe.to("cuda")

>>> image = load_image(
...     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
... )
>>> prompt = "An astronaut floating in space with Earth in the background, cinematic shot"
>>> negative_prompt = "Static, 2D cartoon, cartoon, 2d animation, paintings, images, worst quality, low quality, ugly, deformed, walking backwards"

>>> output = pipe(
...     image=image,
...     prompt=prompt,
...     negative_prompt=negative_prompt,
...     height=512,
...     width=768,
...     num_frames=121,
...     num_inference_steps=50,
...     guidance_scale=5.0,
... ).frames[0]

>>> export_to_video(output, "output.mp4", fps=24, quality=9)

Parameters:

transformer (Kandinsky5Transformer3DModel) : Conditional Transformer to denoise the encoded video latents.

vae (AutoencoderKLHunyuanVideo) : Variational Auto-Encoder Model hunyuanvideo-community/HunyuanVideo (vae) to encode and decode videos to and from latent representations.

text_encoder (Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration) : Frozen text-encoder Qwen2.5-VL.

tokenizer (AutoProcessor) : Tokenizer for Qwen2.5-VL.

text_encoder_2 (CLIPTextModel) : Frozen CLIP, specifically the clip-vit-large-patch14 variant.

tokenizer_2 (CLIPTokenizer) : Tokenizer for CLIP.

scheduler (FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler) : A scheduler to be used in combination with transformer to denoise the encoded video latents.

Returns:

~KandinskyPipelineOutput` or `tuple

If return_dict is True, KandinskyPipelineOutput is returned, otherwise a tuple is returned where the first element is a list with the generated videos.

check_inputs[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.check_inputs]]

Source

Validate input parameters for the pipeline.

Parameters:

prompt : Input prompt

negative_prompt : Negative prompt for guidance

image : Input image for conditioning

height : Video height

width : Video width

prompt_embeds_qwen : Pre-computed Qwen prompt embeddings

prompt_embeds_clip : Pre-computed CLIP prompt embeddings

negative_prompt_embeds_qwen : Pre-computed Qwen negative prompt embeddings

negative_prompt_embeds_clip : Pre-computed CLIP negative prompt embeddings

prompt_cu_seqlens : Pre-computed cumulative sequence lengths for Qwen positive prompt

negative_prompt_cu_seqlens : Pre-computed cumulative sequence lengths for Qwen negative prompt

callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs : Callback tensor inputs

encode_prompt[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.encode_prompt]]

Source

Encodes a single prompt (positive or negative) into text encoder hidden states.

This method combines embeddings from both Qwen2.5-VL and CLIP text encoders to create comprehensive text representations for video generation.

Parameters:

prompt (str or List[str]) : Prompt to be encoded.

num_videos_per_prompt (int, optional, defaults to 1) : Number of videos to generate per prompt.

max_sequence_length (int, optional, defaults to 512) : Maximum sequence length for text encoding.

device (torch.device, optional) : Torch device.

dtype (torch.dtype, optional) : Torch dtype.

Returns:

Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]

• Qwen text embeddings of shape (batch_size * num_videos_per_prompt, sequence_length, embedding_dim)
• CLIP pooled embeddings of shape (batch_size * num_videos_per_prompt, clip_embedding_dim)
• Cumulative sequence lengths (cu_seqlens) for Qwen embeddings of shape (batch_size * num_videos_per_prompt + 1,)

fast_sta_nabla[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.fast_sta_nabla]]

Source

Create a sparse temporal attention (STA) mask for efficient video generation.

This method generates a mask that limits attention to nearby frames and spatial positions, reducing computational complexity for video generation.

Parameters:

T (int) : Number of temporal frames

H (int) : Height in latent space

W (int) : Width in latent space

wT (int) : Temporal attention window size

wH (int) : Height attention window size

wW (int) : Width attention window size

device (str) : Device to create tensor on

Returns:

torch.Tensor

Sparse attention mask of shape (THW, THW)

get_sparse_params[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.get_sparse_params]]

Source

Generate sparse attention parameters for the transformer based on sample dimensions.

This method computes the sparse attention configuration needed for efficient video processing in the transformer model.

Parameters:

sample (torch.Tensor) : Input sample tensor

device (torch.device) : Device to place tensors on

Returns:

Dict

Dictionary containing sparse attention parameters

prepare_latents[[diffusers.Kandinsky5I2VPipeline.prepare_latents]]

Source

Prepare initial latent variables for image-to-video generation.

This method creates random noise latents for all frames except the first frame, which is replaced with the encoded input image.

Parameters:

image (PipelineImageInput) : Input image to condition the generation on

batch_size (int) : Number of videos to generate

num_channels_latents (int) : Number of channels in latent space

height (int) : Height of generated video

width (int) : Width of generated video

num_frames (int) : Number of frames in video

dtype (torch.dtype) : Data type for latents

device (torch.device) : Device to create latents on

generator (torch.Generator) : Random number generator

latents (torch.Tensor) : Pre-existing latents to use

Returns:

torch.Tensor

Prepared latent tensor with first frame as encoded image

Citation

@misc{kandinsky2025,
    author = {Alexander Belykh and Alexander Varlamov and Alexey Letunovskiy and Anastasia Aliaskina and Anastasia Maltseva and Anastasiia Kargapoltseva and Andrey Shutkin and Anna Averchenkova and Anna Dmitrienko and Bulat Akhmatov and Denis Dimitrov and Denis Koposov and Denis Parkhomenko and Dmitrii and Ilya Vasiliev and Ivan Kirillov and Julia Agafonova and Kirill Chernyshev and Kormilitsyn Semen and Lev Novitskiy and Maria Kovaleva and Mikhail Mamaev and Mikhailov and Nikita Kiselev and Nikita Osterov and Nikolai Gerasimenko and Nikolai Vaulin and Olga Kim and Olga Vdovchenko and Polina Gavrilova and Polina Mikhailova and Tatiana Nikulina and Viacheslav Vasilev and Vladimir Arkhipkin and Vladimir Korviakov and Vladimir Polovnikov and Yury Kolabushin},
    title = {Kandinsky 5.0: A family of diffusion models for Video & Image generation},
    howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/kandinskylab/Kandinsky-5}},
    year = 2025
}