FastVideo

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FastVideo is a unified post-training and real-time inference framework for accelerated video generation.

NEWS

2026/03/17: Release Live demo: Into the Dreamverse: Vibe Directing in FastVideo, check out the Blog.

2026/03/13: Release Live demo: Create a 5s 1080p Video in 4.5s with FastVideo on a Single GPU, check out the Blog.

2025/11/19: Release CausalWan2.2 I2V A14B Preview models, Blog and Inference Code!.

2025/08/04: Release FastWan models and Sparse-Distillation.

More News

2025/06/14: Release finetuning and inference code for VSA.

2025/04/24: FastVideo V1 is released!

2025/02/18: Release the inference code for Sliding Tile Attention.

Key Features

FastVideo has the following features:

End-to-end post-training support for bidirectional and autoregressive models:

Support full finetuning and LoRA finetuning for state-of-the-art open video DiTs

Data preprocessing pipeline for video, image, and text data

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD2) stepwise distillation.

Sparse attention with Video Sparse Attention

Sparse distillation to achieve >50x denoising speedup

Scalable training with FSDP2, sequence parallelism, and selective activation checkpointing.

Causal distillation through Self-Forcing

See this page for full list of supported models and recipes.

State-of-the-art performance optimizations for inference

Sequence Parallelism for distributed inference

Multiple state-of-the-art attention backends

User-friendly CLI and Python API

See this page for full list of supported optimizations.

Diverse hardware and OS support

Support H100, A100, 4090

Support Linux, Windows, MacOS

See this page for full list of supported models, hardware assumptions, and optimization compatibility.

Getting Started

We recommend using uv to create a clean environment. If you previously used Conda, switching to uv generally gives faster and more stable installs.

# Create and activate a new uv environment
uv venv --python 3.12 --seed
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install FastVideo
uv pip install fastvideo

Please see our docs for more detailed installation instructions.

Sparse Distillation

For our sparse distillation techniques, please see our distillation docs and check out our blog.

See below for recipes and datasets:

| Model | Sparse Distillation | Dataset |

| ————————————————————————————- | ————————————————————————————————————— | ——————————————————————————————————– |

| FastWan2.1-T2V-1.3B | Recipe | FastVideo Synthetic Wan2.1 480P |

| FastWan2.2-TI2V-5B | Recipe | FastVideo Synthetic Wan2.2 720P |

Inference

Generating Your First Video

Here’s a minimal example to generate a video using the default settings. Make sure VSA kernels are installed. Create a file called example.py with the following code:

import os
from fastvideo import VideoGenerator

def main():
    os.environ["FASTVIDEO_ATTENTION_BACKEND"] = "VIDEO_SPARSE_ATTN"

    # Create a video generator with a pre-trained model
    generator = VideoGenerator.from_pretrained(
        "FastVideo/FastWan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers",
        num_gpus=1,  # Adjust based on your hardware
    )

    # Define a prompt for your video
    prompt = "A curious raccoon peers through a vibrant field of yellow sunflowers, its eyes wide with interest."

    # Generate the video
    video = generator.generate_video(
        prompt,
        output_path="my_videos/",  # Controls where videos are saved
        save_video=True
    )

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Run the script with:

python example.py

For a more detailed guide, please see our inference quick start.

More Guides

Design Overview

Distillation Guide

Contribution Guide

Awesome work using FastVideo or our research projects

SGLang: SGLang’s diffusion inference functionality is based on a fork of FastVideo on Sept. 24, 2025.

DanceGRPO: A unified framework to adapt Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to visual generation paradigms. Code based on FastVideo.

SRPO: A method to directly align the full diffusion trajectory with fine-grained human preference. Code based on FastVideo.

DCM: Dual-expert consistency model for efficient and high-quality video generation. Code based on FastVideo.

HY-WorldPlay: An action-conditioned world model model trained using FastVideo framework.

Hunyuan Video 1.5: A leading lightweight video generation model, where they proposed SSTA based on Sliding Tile Attention.

Kandinsky-5.0: A family of diffusion models for video & image generation, where their NABLA attention includes a Sliding Tile Attention branch.

LongCat Video: A foundational video generation model with 13.6B parameters with block-sparse attention similar to Video Sparse Attention.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome all contributions. Please check out our guide here.

See details in development roadmap.

Acknowledgement

We learned the design and reused code from the following projects: Wan-Video, ThunderKittens, DMD2, diffusers, xDiT, vLLM, SGLang. We thank MBZUAI, Anyscale, and GMI Cloud for their support throughout this project.

Citation

If you find FastVideo useful, please consider citing our research work:

@article{zhang2025vsa,
  title={Vsa: Faster video diffusion with trainable sparse attention},
  author={Zhang, Peiyuan and Chen, Yongqi and Huang, Haofeng and Lin, Will and Liu, Zhengzhong and Stoica, Ion and Xing, Eric and Zhang, Hao},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13389},
  year={2025}
}

@article{zhang2025fast,
  title={Fast video generation with sliding tile attention},
  author={Zhang, Peiyuan and Chen, Yongqi and Su, Runlong and Ding, Hangliang and Stoica, Ion and Liu, Zhengzhong and Zhang, Hao},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04507},
  year={2025}
}