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Main Authors: Liu, Yaofang, Ren, Yumeng, Artola, Aitor, Hu, Yuxuan, Cun, Xiaodong, Zhao, Xiaotong, Zhao, Alan, Chan, Raymond H., Zhang, Suiyun, Liu, Rui, Tu, Dandan, Morel, Jean-Michel
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16116
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author Liu, Yaofang
Ren, Yumeng
Artola, Aitor
Hu, Yuxuan
Cun, Xiaodong
Zhao, Xiaotong
Zhao, Alan
Chan, Raymond H.
Zhang, Suiyun
Liu, Rui
Tu, Dandan
Morel, Jean-Michel
author_facet Liu, Yaofang
Ren, Yumeng
Artola, Aitor
Hu, Yuxuan
Cun, Xiaodong
Zhao, Xiaotong
Zhao, Alan
Chan, Raymond H.
Zhang, Suiyun
Liu, Rui
Tu, Dandan
Morel, Jean-Michel
contents The rapid advancement of video diffusion models has been hindered by fundamental limitations in temporal modeling, particularly the rigid synchronization of frame evolution imposed by conventional scalar timestep variables. While task-specific adaptations and autoregressive models have sought to address these challenges, they remain constrained by computational inefficiency, catastrophic forgetting, or narrow applicability. In this work, we present \textbf{Pusa} V1.0, a versatile model that leverages \textbf{vectorized timestep adaptation (VTA)} to enable fine-grained temporal control within a unified video diffusion framework. Note that VTA is a non-destructive adaptation, which means that it fully preserves the capabilities of the base model. Unlike conventional methods like Wan-I2V, which finetune a base text-to-video (T2V) model with abundant resources to do image-to-video (I2V), we achieve comparable results in a zero-shot manner after an ultra-efficient finetuning process based on VTA. Moreover, this method also unlocks many other zero-shot capabilities simultaneously, such as start-end frames and video extension -- all without task-specific training. Meanwhile, it keeps the T2V capability from the base model. Mechanistic analyses also reveal that our approach preserves the foundation model's generative priors while surgically injecting temporal dynamics, avoiding the combinatorial explosion inherent to the vectorized timestep. This work establishes a scalable, efficient, and versatile paradigm for next-generation video synthesis, democratizing high-fidelity video generation for research and industry alike.
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spellingShingle Pusa V1.0: Unlocking Temporal Control in Pretrained Video Diffusion Models via Vectorized Timestep Adaptation
Liu, Yaofang
Ren, Yumeng
Artola, Aitor
Hu, Yuxuan
Cun, Xiaodong
Zhao, Xiaotong
Zhao, Alan
Chan, Raymond H.
Zhang, Suiyun
Liu, Rui
Tu, Dandan
Morel, Jean-Michel
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The rapid advancement of video diffusion models has been hindered by fundamental limitations in temporal modeling, particularly the rigid synchronization of frame evolution imposed by conventional scalar timestep variables. While task-specific adaptations and autoregressive models have sought to address these challenges, they remain constrained by computational inefficiency, catastrophic forgetting, or narrow applicability. In this work, we present \textbf{Pusa} V1.0, a versatile model that leverages \textbf{vectorized timestep adaptation (VTA)} to enable fine-grained temporal control within a unified video diffusion framework. Note that VTA is a non-destructive adaptation, which means that it fully preserves the capabilities of the base model. Unlike conventional methods like Wan-I2V, which finetune a base text-to-video (T2V) model with abundant resources to do image-to-video (I2V), we achieve comparable results in a zero-shot manner after an ultra-efficient finetuning process based on VTA. Moreover, this method also unlocks many other zero-shot capabilities simultaneously, such as start-end frames and video extension -- all without task-specific training. Meanwhile, it keeps the T2V capability from the base model. Mechanistic analyses also reveal that our approach preserves the foundation model's generative priors while surgically injecting temporal dynamics, avoiding the combinatorial explosion inherent to the vectorized timestep. This work establishes a scalable, efficient, and versatile paradigm for next-generation video synthesis, democratizing high-fidelity video generation for research and industry alike.
title Pusa V1.0: Unlocking Temporal Control in Pretrained Video Diffusion Models via Vectorized Timestep Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16116