vllm-omni/recipes/LTX/LTX-2.md

LTX-2 Family

LTX-2 and LTX-2.3 text-to-video and image-to-video generation with synchronized audio

Pipelines

--model-class-name	Task	Required checkpoint repositories
LTX2Pipeline	LTX-2 one-stage T2V/I2V	Lightricks/LTX-2
LTX2TwoStagePipeline	LTX-2 ordinary two-stage T2V/I2V	Lightricks/LTX-2
LTX2DistilledOneStagePipeline	LTX-2 merged-distilled one-stage T2V/I2V	rootonchair/LTX-2-19b-distilled
LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline	LTX-2 merged-distilled two-stage T2V/I2V	rootonchair/LTX-2-19b-distilled
LTX2Pipeline	LTX-2.3 one-stage T2V/I2V	diffusers/LTX-2.3-Diffusers
LTX2TwoStagePipeline	LTX-2.3 ordinary two-stage T2V/I2V	diffusers/LTX-2.3-Diffusers Lightricks/LTX-2.3
LTX2DistilledOneStagePipeline	LTX-2.3 merged-distilled one-stage T2V/I2V	diffusers/LTX-2.3-Distilled-Diffusers
LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline	LTX-2.3 merged-distilled two-stage T2V/I2V	diffusers/LTX-2.3-Distilled-Diffusers Lightricks/LTX-2.3

Repositories in the table are download units. A full pipeline repository contains the Transformer, text encoder, connectors, VAEs, vocoder, scheduler, and tokenizer; an additional repository supplies LoRA or upsampler sidecars. The runtime first searches the model root for sidecars under their official filenames, then downloads them from the matching Lightricks Hub repository.

LTX2Pipeline is the unified one-stage entry. Checkpoint metadata selects the LTX-2 or LTX-2.3 profile; omitting an image selects T2V, while one initial image selects I2V. Both one-stage repositories declare this class, so --model-class-name is optional. LTX-2.3 requires the Diffusers checkpoint; the raw Lightricks/LTX-2.3 safetensors repository is not directly loadable.

LTX2TwoStagePipeline samples the regular model at half resolution, upsamples, then refines with the distilled LoRA. LTX2DistilledOneStagePipeline uses a merged distilled Transformer without upsampling, while LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline uses it in both stages. All entries support T2V and I2V; select their class explicitly. The deprecated LTX2DistilledPipeline name remains an alias for LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline.

API Migration

Only req may be passed positionally to LTX2Pipeline; every optional forward argument is keyword-only:

# No longer supported
pipe(req, prompt)
pipe(req, image, prompt)

# Supported
pipe(req, prompt=prompt)
pipe(req, image=image, prompt=prompt)

The consolidation also removes these registry names without aliases:

Removed name	Replacement
LTX23Pipeline	LTX2Pipeline; checkpoint metadata selects LTX-2.3
LTX2ImageToVideoPipeline	LTX2Pipeline with image=
LTX23ImageToVideoPipeline	LTX2Pipeline with image=; checkpoint metadata selects LTX-2.3
LTX2TwoStagesPipeline	LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline
LTX2ImageToVideoTwoStagesPipeline	LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline with image=

Passing any second positional argument now raises TypeError. These changes affect direct Python callers and explicit --model-class-name overrides; offline and serving entrypoints already use named fields and are unaffected.

One-Stage Defaults

Parameter	LTX-2	LTX-2.3
Width × height	768 × 512	768 × 512
Frames / frame rate	121 / 24	121 / 24
Denoise steps	40	30
Video/audio CFG	3.0 / 7.0	3.0 / 7.0
Video/audio STG	1.0 / 1.0	1.0 / 1.0
Video/audio modality guidance	3.0 / 3.0	3.0 / 3.0
Video/audio rescale	0.7 / 0.7	0.7 / 0.7
Video/audio STG blocks	[29] / [29]	[28] / [28]

The model recipe also supplies the default negative prompt. Top-level guidance_scale overrides both video and audio CFG values. The online video API defaults num_frames to 1, so set it explicitly; the offline LTX scripts default to 121.

Two-Stage Defaults

Parameter	Ordinary	Full-distilled
Final width × height	1536 × 1024	1536 × 1024
Stage 1 width × height	768 × 512	768 × 512
Frames / frame rate	121 / 24	121 / 24
Stage 1 / Stage 2 steps	40 (LTX-2) or 30 (LTX-2.3) / 3	8 / 3
Guidance	Stage 1 guided; Stage 2 positive-only	Fixed positive-only

API dimensions are final dimensions and must be divisible by 64. All LTX requests require num_frames = 8k+1. Ordinary Stage 1 uses the LTX-2 or LTX-2.3 one-stage defaults shown above. Distilled schedules are fixed, so num_inference_steps, when supplied, must be 8. Both entries reject custom sigmas and input latents.

Ordinary two-stage uses layer-fused LoRA for an unquantized BF16 Transformer and automatically switches to dynamic LoRA when quantization is enabled.

Serving

Start either one-stage checkpoint:

vllm serve Lightricks/LTX-2 --omni --stage-init-timeout 600

vllm serve diffusers/LTX-2.3-Diffusers --omni --stage-init-timeout 600

Start a two-stage checkpoint with its explicit class:

vllm serve rootonchair/LTX-2-19b-distilled --omni \
  --model-class-name LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline --stage-init-timeout 600
# LTX-2.3 full-distilled; the v1.1 x2 upsampler is resolved when absent
vllm serve diffusers/LTX-2.3-Distilled-Diffusers --omni \
  --model-class-name LTX2DistilledTwoStagePipeline --stage-init-timeout 600
# Ordinary LTX-2.3 two-stage
vllm serve diffusers/LTX-2.3-Diffusers --omni \
  --model-class-name LTX2TwoStagePipeline \
  --enable-layerwise-offload \
  --stage-init-timeout 600

The same server handles T2V and I2V. A T2V request using the selected recipe's default guidance is:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/videos/sync \
  -F "prompt=A cinematic close-up of ocean waves at golden hour." \
  -F "negative_prompt=worst quality, inconsistent motion, blurry, jittery, distorted" \
  -F "size=768x512" \
  -F "num_frames=121" \
  -F "fps=24" \
  -F "seed=42" \
  -o ltx_t2v.mp4

For I2V, provide exactly one initial image:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/videos/sync \
  -F "prompt=A plush toy astronaut gently waving while the camera slowly pushes in." \
  -F "negative_prompt=worst quality, inconsistent motion, blurry, jittery, distorted" \
  -F "input_reference=@/absolute/path/to/reference.png" \
  -F "size=768x512" \
  -F "num_frames=121" \
  -F "fps=24" \
  -F "seed=42" \
  -o ltx_i2v.mp4

Use image_reference for a URL or JSON-safe image reference. Do not provide it together with input_reference.

Guidance

One-stage and ordinary Stage 1 support independent video/audio CFG, spatio-temporal guidance (STG), cross-modality guidance, and rescaling. Distilled stages and ordinary Stage 2 are fixed positive-only.

Parameter	Default	Effect	Alias
video_cfg_scale	3.0	Video text CFG; 1.0 disables it	video_cfg_guidance_scale
audio_cfg_scale	7.0	Audio text CFG; 1.0 disables it	audio_cfg_guidance_scale
video_stg_scale	1.0	Video STG; 0.0 disables it	video_stg_guidance_scale
audio_stg_scale	1.0	Audio STG; 0.0 disables it	audio_stg_guidance_scale
video_modality_scale	3.0	Audio-to-video guidance; 1.0 disables it	a2v_guidance_scale
audio_modality_scale	3.0	Video-to-audio guidance; 1.0 disables it	v2a_guidance_scale
video_rescale_scale	0.7	Video guidance rescale; 0.0 disables it	—
audio_rescale_scale	0.7	Audio guidance rescale; 0.0 disables it	—
video_stg_blocks	[29] / [28]	Perturbed video transformer blocks	—
audio_stg_blocks	[29] / [28]	Perturbed audio transformer blocks	—

The STG block defaults are shown as LTX-2 / LTX-2.3. A canonical name wins over its alias. Explicit top-level guidance_scale wins over both CFG fields; omit it for independent video/audio CFG.

Pass these fields in online extra_params or offline --extra-body:

# Add to the curl request above
-F 'extra_params={"video_cfg_scale":3.0,"audio_cfg_scale":7.0}'

# Add to text_to_video.py or image_to_video.py
--extra-body '{"video_cfg_scale":3.0,"audio_cfg_scale":7.0}'

Guidance Parallelism

For LTX, cfg_parallel_size is the number of ranks used to execute the complete guidance plan in parallel. Despite the legacy cfg name, it covers text CFG, STG, and cross-modality guidance passes; guidance rescaling is applied after all pass predictions are gathered.

The default one-stage recipe and ordinary Stage 1 have four Transformer passes per denoise step: cond, uncond, ptb (STG), and mod (cross-modality). The useful balanced configurations are therefore:

--cfg-parallel-size	Passes per rank	Guidance-slot utilization	Notes
1	4	100%	Single-rank fused guidance batch
2	2	100%	Recommended two-rank configuration
4	1	100%	One guidance pass per rank

Other positive sizes are accepted. When the pass count is not divisible by cfg_parallel_size, ranks are padded to an equal number of execution slots and LTX emits a warning with the expected utilization. For example, four passes on three ranks use six slots and have 66.7% guidance-slot utilization.

Start an LTX-2.3 server with two-way guidance parallelism:

vllm serve diffusers/LTX-2.3-Diffusers --omni \
  --cfg-parallel-size 2 --stage-init-timeout 600

The total device count is the product of cfg_parallel_size and the other configured parallel dimensions. Positive-only distilled phases do not benefit from cfg_parallel_size > 1.

Python API

Normal per-request values belong in OmniDiffusionSamplingParams. Pass the resulting DiffusionRequestBatch as the only positional argument:

from vllm_omni.diffusion.request import OmniDiffusionRequest
from vllm_omni.diffusion.worker.request_batch import DiffusionRequestBatch
from vllm_omni.inputs.data import OmniDiffusionSamplingParams

params = OmniDiffusionSamplingParams(
    width=768,
    height=512,
    num_frames=121,
    frame_rate=24.0,
    num_inference_steps=30,
    seed=42,
    extra_args={"video_cfg_scale": 3.0, "audio_cfg_scale": 7.0},
)
req = DiffusionRequestBatch([
    OmniDiffusionRequest(
        prompt={"prompt": "Cherry blossoms moving in a light breeze"},
        sampling_params=params,
        request_id="ltx-example",
    )
])

t2v_output = pipe(req)
i2v_output = pipe(req, image=image)

Direct keyword arguments are low-level fallbacks, for example pipe(req, prompt=prompt, width=768). Request fields take precedence unless noted below.

Complete forward Surface

Argument	Type/default	Meaning and constraints
req	DiffusionRequestBatch, required	Only positional argument; contains prompts and per-request sampling parameters.
image	image or batch, None	Direct value wins over request images; no image selects T2V. I2V accepts one image per prompt, and a batch cannot mix T2V/I2V.
prompt	string or list, None	Positive-text fallback; request prompts win. Mutually exclusive with prompt_embeds.
negative_prompt	string or list, None	Fallback after request values and before the recipe default; mutually exclusive with negative embeddings.
height	int, None	Request → direct value → recipe default; divisible by 32 one-stage or 64 two-stage.
width	int, None	Same precedence and alignment as height.
num_frames	int, None	Request → direct value → recipe default; must be 8k+1 and also determines audio duration with frame_rate.
frame_rate	float, None	Request frame_rate → request fps → direct value → recipe default.
num_inference_steps	int, None	Request → direct value → recipe default; minimum 2 one-stage and ordinary Stage 1, fixed at 8 for distilled Stage 1. Custom one-stage sigmas determine actual steps.
sigmas	list of float, None	One-stage only. Request values win; every request in a fused batch must use the same schedule.
timesteps	list of int, None	Compatibility slot; LTX accepts only None. Use sigmas.
guidance_scale	float, None	One-stage and ordinary Stage 1 common video/audio CFG fallback; an explicit request value wins. Distilled phases use fixed positive-only guidance.
guidance_rescale	float, None	Accepts only None or 0.0; use the modality rescale fields.
noise_scale	float, 0.0	Compatibility slot; LTX accepts only 0.0.
num_videos_per_prompt	int, 1	Output-count fallback; positive request num_outputs_per_prompt wins.
generator	generator or list, None	Explicit RNG; otherwise request generators/seeds are collated. Lists must match the effective output batch.
latents	tensor, None	One-stage only. Request tensors win; packed [B, S, C] and validated unpacked video layouts are accepted.
audio_latents	tensor, None	One-stage only. Request tensors win and are collated.
prompt_embeds	tensor, None	Precomputed positive conditioning; requires prompt_attention_mask and cannot accompany prompt.
negative_prompt_embeds	tensor, None	One-stage and ordinary Stage 1 conditioning; requires its mask and cannot accompany negative_prompt.
prompt_attention_mask	tensor, None	Mask for positive embeddings; request prompt_attention_mask or attention_mask wins.
negative_prompt_attention_mask	tensor, None	Mask for negative embeddings; request negative mask fields win.
decode_timestep	float or list, 0.0	Video-VAE decode timestep; request value wins. Lists may match 1, prompt batch, or output batch.
decode_noise_scale	float or list, None	Same list rules; request value wins. Defaults to decode_timestep.
output_type	string, "np"	Request value wins. "np" decodes output; "latent" skips VAE/vocoder decode.
return_dict	bool, True	Compatibility slot; only True is accepted.
attention_kwargs	dict, None	Per-call values are unsupported; configure attention at engine startup.
max_sequence_length	int, None	Request → direct value → tokenizer limit.

Request-object naming differs only in a few places: num_videos_per_prompt maps to num_outputs_per_prompt; images and prompt text/embeddings live in the request prompt payload; LTX guidance fields live in sampling extra_args.

Recipe-Specific Request Capabilities

Override	One-stage	Ordinary two-stage	Distilled two-stage
Guidance	Supported	Stage 1 only; Stage 2 is positive-only	Fixed positive-only
Negative prompt/embeddings	Supported	Supported by Stage 1	Rejected
num_inference_steps	Supported	Controls Stage 1; Stage 2 uses 3	Fixed at 8 for Stage 1; Stage 2 uses 3
Custom sigmas	Supported	Rejected	Rejected; both phases use fixed schedules
Video/audio latents	Supported	Rejected	Rejected

These capability checks apply equally to direct forward keywords and values in OmniDiffusionSamplingParams; unsupported values fail instead of being silently ignored.

Custom Sigma Schedules

One-stage Python requests may set final scheduler boundaries directly:

params = OmniDiffusionSamplingParams(sigmas=[1.0, 0.75, 0.5, 0.25])

Each nonterminal value produces one denoise step, and a terminal 0.0 is appended when omitted. This schedule overrides num_inference_steps. All requests in a fused batch must use the same list. The video form API and bundled offline CLI do not currently expose sigmas.

Constraints

• LTX rejects non-default timesteps, flow_shift, guidance_rescale, noise_scale, attention_kwargs, and return_dict=False. Use final sigmas, modality rescale fields, startup attention configuration, and the standard DiffusionOutput respectively.
• Fused one-stage requests must resolve to identical LTX guidance and sigma schedules. Keep concurrent requests guidance-homogeneous or use --max-num-seqs 1.
• --cfg-parallel-size shards the complete LTX guidance plan, including STG, modality guidance, and rescale-compatible prediction gathering.
• Sequence parallelism may pad audio latents. Pure Ulysses masks the padding; Ring cannot, so audio length must be SP-divisible. Use ring_degree=1 or a divisible request shape.
• Cache-DiT is one-stage only; multi-stage configurations are rejected.

Operational Notes

• LTX-2 one-stage previously loaded and peaked at about 73.5 GiB on one H200 141GB; remeasure on the deployed commit and hardware.
• LTX-2.3 includes a 22B transformer, Gemma encoder, two VAEs, and a vocoder. Start on a 96GB-class GPU or use CPU/layerwise offload on smaller devices.
• The distilled upsampler uses the configured pipeline dtype and participates in component discovery/device placement; it remains resident during denoise offload because it is used only at the phase boundary.
• The output audio sample rate comes from the loaded components and is not a request parameter.
• For benchmarks, use tests/dfx/perf/tests/test_ltx2_vllm_omni.json with tests/dfx/perf/scripts/run_diffusion_benchmark.py.
• Ordinary and full-distilled two-stage T2V/I2V are supported; HQ execution remains out of scope.

References

• https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2
• https://huggingface.co/Lightricks/LTX-2.3
• https://huggingface.co/diffusers/LTX-2.3-Diffusers
• https://huggingface.co/diffusers/LTX-2.3-Distilled-Diffusers
• Online video generation
• Diffusion execution modes
• T2V offline example
• I2V offline example