diffusers/pr_12762/en/api/pipelines/kandinsky5_video.md

Kandinsky 5.0 Video

Kandinsky 5.0 Video is created by the Kandinsky team: Alexey Letunovskiy, Maria Kovaleva, Ivan Kirillov, Lev Novitskiy, Denis Koposov, Dmitrii Mikhailov, Anna Averchenkova, Andrey Shutkin, Julia Agafonova, Olga Kim, Anastasiia Kargapoltseva, Nikita Kiselev, Anna Dmitrienko, Anastasia Maltseva, Kirill Chernyshev, Ilia Vasiliev, Viacheslav Vasilev, Vladimir Polovnikov, Yury Kolabushin, Alexander Belykh, Mikhail Mamaev, Anastasia Aliaskina, Tatiana Nikulina, Polina Gavrilova, Vladimir Arkhipkin, Vladimir Korviakov, Nikolai Gerasimenko, Denis Parkhomenko, Denis Dimitrov

Kandinsky 5.0 is a family of diffusion models for Video & Image generation. Kandinsky 5.0 T2V Lite is a lightweight video generation model (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.

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 ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.

Check out the AI Forever 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 Lite comes in several variants optimized for different use cases:

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

All models are available in 5-second and 10-second video generation versions.

Kandinsky5T2VPipeline[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline]]

diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline[[diffusers.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline]]

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Pipeline for text-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.Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.__call__https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/vr_12762/src/diffusers/pipelines/kandinsky5/pipeline_kandinsky.py#L615[{"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"}, {"name": "**kwargs", "val": ""}]- 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 images.

The call function to the pipeline for generation.

Examples:

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

>>> # Available models:
>>> # ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-5s-Diffusers
>>> # ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-nocfg-5s-Diffusers
>>> # ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-distilled16steps-5s-Diffusers
>>> # ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-pretrain-5s-Diffusers

>>> model_id = "ai-forever/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 (VAE) Model 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 text encoder.

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]]

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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]]

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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]]

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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]]

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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]]

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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

Usage Examples

Basic Text-to-Video Generation

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

# Load the pipeline
model_id = "ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-5s-Diffusers"
pipe = Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")

# Generate video
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,  # ~5 seconds at 24fps
    num_inference_steps=50,
    guidance_scale=5.0,
).frames[0]

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

10 second Models

⚠️ Warning! all 10 second models should be used with Flex attention and max-autotune-no-cudagraphs compilation:

pipe = Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-sft-10s-Diffusers", 
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")

pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend(
    "flex"
)                                       # <--- Sett attention bakend to Flex
pipe.transformer.compile(
    mode="max-autotune-no-cudagraphs", 
    dynamic=True
)                                       # <--- Compile with max-autotune-no-cudagraphs

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=241,
    num_inference_steps=50,
    guidance_scale=5.0,
).frames[0]

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

Diffusion Distilled model

⚠️ Warning! all nocfg and diffusion distilled models should be infered wothout CFG (guidance_scale=1.0):

model_id = "ai-forever/Kandinsky-5.0-T2V-Lite-distilled16steps-5s-Diffusers"
pipe = Kandinsky5T2VPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe = pipe.to("cuda")

output = pipe(
    prompt="A beautiful sunset over mountains",
    num_inference_steps=16,  # <--- Model is distilled in 16 steps
    guidance_scale=1.0,      # <--- no CFG
).frames[0]

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

Citation

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