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# Stable Video Diffusion

Stable Video Diffusion was proposed in [Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets](https://hf.co/papers/2311.15127) by Andreas Blattmann, Tim Dockhorn, Sumith Kulal, Daniel Mendelevitch, Maciej Kilian, Dominik Lorenz, Yam Levi, Zion English, Vikram Voleti, Adam Letts, Varun Jampani, Robin Rombach.

The abstract from the paper is:

*We present Stable Video Diffusion - a latent video diffusion model for high-resolution, state-of-the-art text-to-video and image-to-video generation. Recently, latent diffusion models trained for 2D image synthesis have been turned into generative video models by inserting temporal layers and finetuning them on small, high-quality video datasets. However, training methods in the literature vary widely, and the field has yet to agree on a unified strategy for curating video data. In this paper, we identify and evaluate three different stages for successful training of video LDMs: text-to-image pretraining, video pretraining, and high-quality video finetuning. Furthermore, we demonstrate the necessity of a well-curated pretraining dataset for generating high-quality videos and present a systematic curation process to train a strong base model, including captioning and filtering strategies. We then explore the impact of finetuning our base model on high-quality data and train a text-to-video model that is competitive with closed-source video generation. We also show that our base model provides a powerful motion representation for downstream tasks such as image-to-video generation and adaptability to camera motion-specific LoRA modules. Finally, we demonstrate that our model provides a strong multi-view 3D-prior and can serve as a base to finetune a multi-view diffusion model that jointly generates multiple views of objects in a feedforward fashion, outperforming image-based methods at a fraction of their compute budget. We release code and model weights at this https URL.*

> [!TIP]
> To learn how to use Stable Video Diffusion, take a look at the [Stable Video Diffusion](../../../using-diffusers/svd) guide.
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> Check out the [Stability AI](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai) Hub organization for the [base](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid) and [extended frame](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-video-diffusion-img2vid-xt) checkpoints!

## Tips

Video generation is memory-intensive and one way to reduce your memory usage is to set `enable_forward_chunking` on the pipeline's UNet so you don't run the entire feedforward layer at once. Breaking it up into chunks in a loop is more efficient.

Check out the [Text or image-to-video](../../../using-diffusers/text-img2vid) guide for more details about how certain parameters can affect video generation and how to optimize inference by reducing memory usage.

## StableVideoDiffusionPipeline

[[autodoc]] StableVideoDiffusionPipeline

## StableVideoDiffusionPipelineOutput

[[autodoc]] pipelines.stable_video_diffusion.StableVideoDiffusionPipelineOutput
