RepVideo: Rethinking Cross-Layer Representation for Video Generation

Chenyang Si^1†, Weichen Fan^1†, Zhengyao Lv², Ziqi Huang¹, Yu Qiao², Ziwei Liu^1✉

S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University¹      Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ^2
†Equal contribution.    ^✉Corresponding Author.

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🔥 Update and News

• [2025.01.25] 🔥 Inference code and checkpoint are released.

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Installation

1. Create a conda environment and download models

conda create -n RepVid python==3.10
conda activate RepVid
pip install -r requirements.txt


mkdir ckpt
cd ckpt
mkdir t5-v1_1-xxl
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/text_encoder/config.json
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/text_encoder/model-00001-of-00002.safetensors
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/text_encoder/model-00002-of-00002.safetensors
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/text_encoder/model.safetensors.index.json
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/tokenizer/added_tokens.json
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/tokenizer/special_tokens_map.json
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/tokenizer/spiece.model
wget https://huggingface.co/THUDM/CogVideoX-2b/resolve/main/tokenizer/tokenizer_config.json

cd ../
mkdir vae
wget https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/f/fdba7608a49c463ba754/?dl=1
mv 'index.html?dl=1' vae.zip
unzip vae.zip

2. Download Our latest Checkpoint

git-lfs clone https://huggingface.co/Vchitect/RepVideo/tree/main
# Then modify the "load" path in "sat/configs/inference.yaml" accordingly.

Inference

cd sat
bash run.sh

BibTeX

@article{si2025RepVideo,
  title={RepVideo: Rethinking Cross-Layer Representation for Video Generation},
  author={Si, Chenyang and Fan, Weichen and Lv, Zhengyao and Huang, Ziqi and Qiao, Yu and Liu, Ziwei},
  journal={arXiv 2501.08994},
  year={2025}
}

🔑 License

This code is licensed under Apache-2.0. The framework is fully open for academic research and also allows free commercial usage.

Disclaimer

We disclaim responsibility for user-generated content. The model was not trained to realistically represent people or events, so using it to generate such content is beyond the model's capabilities. It is prohibited for pornographic, violent and bloody content generation, and to generate content that is demeaning or harmful to people or their environment, culture, religion, etc. Users are solely liable for their actions. The project contributors are not legally affiliated with, nor accountable for users' behaviors. Use the generative model responsibly, adhering to ethical and legal standards.