LightVAE speeds up video autoencoders by exploiting temporal and depth redundancy

The authors achieve up to 2.97× decoding throughput on MiniMax-H3 while retaining 99.51% of its VBench-2.0 score.

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Shiqiao Gu · Yang Yong · Fengjun Zhong · Ruihao Gong · Chengtao Lv · Xiangyu Fan · +2 more

SenseTime · Beihang University · Nanyang Technological University

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The authors present LightVAE, a compression framework for pretrained video VAEs that accelerates decoding with minimal quality loss.

The authors first reparameterize causal Conv3D layers into a spatial component and a temporal correction term.

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LightVAE accelerates video VAE decoding by up to 2.24x through temporal low rank compression and block pruning.

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