CogVideoX Factory 🧪

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Fine-tune Cog family of video models for custom video generation under 24GB of GPU memory ⚡️📼

CogVideoX-LoRA.mp4

Quickstart

Clone the repository and make sure the requirements are installed: pip install -r requirements.txt.

Then download a dataset:

# install `huggingface_hub`
huggingface-cli download \
  --repo-type dataset Wild-Heart/Disney-VideoGeneration-Dataset \
  --local-dir video-dataset-disney

Then launch LoRA fine-tuning for text-to-video (modify the different hyperparameters, dataset root, and other configuration options as per your choice):

# For LoRA finetuning of the text-to-video CogVideoX models
./train_text_to_video_lora.sh

# For full finetuning of the text-to-video CogVideoX models
./train_text_to_video_sft.sh

# For LoRA finetuning of the image-to-video CogVideoX models
./train_image_to_video_lora.sh

Assuming your LoRA is saved and pushed to the HF Hub, and named my-awesome-name/my-awesome-lora, we can now use the finetuned model for inference:

import torch
from diffusers import CogVideoXPipeline
from diffusers import export_to_video

pipe = CogVideoXPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "THUDM/CogVideoX-5b", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
).to("cuda")
+ pipe.load_lora_weights("my-awesome-name/my-awesome-lora", adapter_name=["cogvideox-lora"])
+ pipe.set_adapters(["cogvideox-lora"], [1.0])

video = pipe("<my-awesome-prompt>").frames[0]
export_to_video(video, "output.mp4", fps=8)

Note: For Image-to-Video finetuning, you must install diffusers from this branch (which adds lora loading support in CogVideoX image-to-video) until it is merged.

Below we provide additional sections detailing on more options explored in this repository. They all attempt to make fine-tuning for video models as accessible as possible by reducing memory requirements as much as possible.

Prepare Dataset and Training

Before starting the training, please check whether the dataset has been prepared according to the dataset specifications. We provide training scripts suitable for text-to-video and image-to-video generation, compatible with the CogVideoX model family. Training can be started using the train*.sh scripts, depending on the task you want to train. Let's take LoRA fine-tuning for text-to-video as an example.

• Configure environment variables as per your choice:

  export TORCH_LOGS="+dynamo,recompiles,graph_breaks"
  export TORCHDYNAMO_VERBOSE=1
  export WANDB_MODE="offline"
  export NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1
  export TORCH_NCCL_ENABLE_MONITORING=0

• Configure which GPUs to use for training: GPU_IDS="0,1"

• Choose hyperparameters for training. Let's try to do a sweep on learning rate and optimizer type as an example:

  LEARNING_RATES=("1e-4" "1e-3")
  LR_SCHEDULES=("cosine_with_restarts")
  OPTIMIZERS=("adamw", "adam")
  MAX_TRAIN_STEPS=("3000")

• Select which Accelerate configuration you would like to train with: ACCELERATE_CONFIG_FILE="accelerate_configs/uncompiled_1.yaml". We provide some default configurations in the accelerate_configs/ directory - single GPU uncompiled/compiled, 2x GPU DDP, DeepSpeed, etc. You can create your own config files with custom settings using accelerate config --config_file my_config.yaml.

• Specify the absolute paths and columns/files for captions and videos.

  DATA_ROOT="/path/to/my/datasets/video-dataset-disney"
  CAPTION_COLUMN="prompt.txt"
  VIDEO_COLUMN="videos.txt"

• Launch experiments sweeping different hyperparameters:

  for learning_rate in "${LEARNING_RATES[@]}"; do
    for lr_schedule in "${LR_SCHEDULES[@]}"; do
      for optimizer in "${OPTIMIZERS[@]}"; do
        for steps in "${MAX_TRAIN_STEPS[@]}"; do
          output_dir="/path/to/my/models/cogvideox-lora__optimizer_${optimizer}__steps_${steps}__lr-schedule_${lr_schedule}__learning-rate_${learning_rate}/"
  
          cmd="accelerate launch --config_file $ACCELERATE_CONFIG_FILE --gpu_ids $GPU_IDS training/cogvideox_text_to_video_lora.py \
            --pretrained_model_name_or_path THUDM/CogVideoX-5b \
            --data_root $DATA_ROOT \
            --caption_column $CAPTION_COLUMN \
            --video_column $VIDEO_COLUMN \
            --id_token BW_STYLE \
            --height_buckets 480 \
            --width_buckets 720 \
            --frame_buckets 49 \
            --dataloader_num_workers 8 \
            --pin_memory \
            --validation_prompt \"BW_STYLE A black and white animated scene unfolds with an anthropomorphic goat surrounded by musical notes and symbols, suggesting a playful environment. Mickey Mouse appears, leaning forward in curiosity as the goat remains still. The goat then engages with Mickey, who bends down to converse or react. The dynamics shift as Mickey grabs the goat, potentially in surprise or playfulness, amidst a minimalistic background. The scene captures the evolving relationship between the two characters in a whimsical, animated setting, emphasizing their interactions and emotions:::BW_STYLE A panda, dressed in a small, red jacket and a tiny hat, sits on a wooden stool in a serene bamboo forest. The panda's fluffy paws strum a miniature acoustic guitar, producing soft, melodic tunes. Nearby, a few other pandas gather, watching curiously and some clapping in rhythm. Sunlight filters through the tall bamboo, casting a gentle glow on the scene. The panda's face is expressive, showing concentration and joy as it plays. The background includes a small, flowing stream and vibrant green foliage, enhancing the peaceful and magical atmosphere of this unique musical performance\" \
            --validation_prompt_separator ::: \
            --num_validation_videos 1 \
            --validation_epochs 10 \
            --seed 42 \
            --rank 128 \
            --lora_alpha 128 \
            --mixed_precision bf16 \
            --output_dir $output_dir \
            --max_num_frames 49 \
            --train_batch_size 1 \
            --max_train_steps $steps \
            --checkpointing_steps 1000 \
            --gradient_accumulation_steps 1 \
            --gradient_checkpointing \
            --learning_rate $learning_rate \
            --lr_scheduler $lr_schedule \
            --lr_warmup_steps 400 \
            --lr_num_cycles 1 \
            --enable_slicing \
            --enable_tiling \
            --optimizer $optimizer \
            --beta1 0.9 \
            --beta2 0.95 \
            --weight_decay 0.001 \
            --max_grad_norm 1.0 \
            --allow_tf32 \
            --report_to wandb \
            --nccl_timeout 1800"
          
          echo "Running command: $cmd"
          eval $cmd
          echo -ne "-------------------- Finished executing script --------------------\n\n"
        done
      done
    done
  done
  

  To understand what the different parameters mean, you could either take a look at the args file or run the training script with --help.

Note: Training scripts are untested on MPS, so performance and memory requirements can differ widely compared to the CUDA reports below.

Memory requirements

CogVideoX LoRA Finetuning
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	THUDM/CogVideoX-5b
CogVideoX Full Finetuning
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	THUDM/CogVideoX-5b

Supported and verified memory optimizations for training include:

• CPUOffloadOptimizer from torchao. You can read about its capabilities and limitations here. In short, it allows you to use the CPU for storing trainable parameters and gradients. This results in the optimizer step happening on the CPU, which requires a fast CPU optimizer, such as torch.optim.AdamW(fused=True) or applying torch.compile on the optimizer step. Additionally, it is recommended not to torch.compile your model for training. Gradient clipping and accumulation is not supported yet either.
• Low-bit optimizers from bitsandbytes. TODO: to test and make torchao ones work
• DeepSpeed Zero2: Since we rely on accelerate, follow this guide to configure your accelerate installation to enable training with DeepSpeed Zero2 optimizations.

Important

The memory requirements are reported after running the training/prepare_dataset.py, which converts the videos and captions to latents and embeddings. During training, we directly load the latents and embeddings, and do not require the VAE or the T5 text encoder. However, if you perform validation/testing, these must be loaded and increase the amount of required memory. Not performing validation/testing saves a significant amount of memory, which can be used to focus solely on training if you're on smaller VRAM GPUs.

If you choose to run validation/testing, you can save some memory on lower VRAM GPUs by specifying --enable_model_cpu_offload.

LoRA finetuning

Note

The memory requirements for image-to-video lora finetuning are similar to that of text-to-video on THUDM/CogVideoX-5b, so it hasn't been reported explicitly.

Additionally, to prepare test images for I2V finetuning, you could either generate them on-the-fly by modifying the script, or extract some frames from your training data using: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -frames:v 1 frame.png, or provide a URL to a valid and accessible image.

AdamW

Note: Trying to run CogVideoX-5b without gradient checkpointing OOMs even on an A100 (80 GB), so the memory measurements have not been specified.

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	lora rank	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	False	12.945	43.764	46.918	24.234
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	True	12.945	12.945	21.121	24.234
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	False	13.035	44.314	47.469	24.469
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	True	13.036	13.035	21.564	24.500
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	False	13.095	45.826	48.990	25.543
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	True	13.094	13.095	22.344	25.537
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	16	True	19.742	19.742	28.746	38.123
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	64	True	20.006	20.818	30.338	38.738
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	256	True	20.771	22.119	31.939	41.537

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	lora rank	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	True	12.945	21.803	21.814	24.322
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	True	13.035	22.254	22.254	24.572
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	True	13.094	22.020	22.033	25.574
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	16	True	19.742	46.492	46.492	38.197
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	64	True	20.006	47.805	47.805	39.365
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	256	True	20.771	47.268	47.332	41.008

AdamW (8-bit bitsandbytes)

Note: Trying to run CogVideoX-5b without gradient checkpointing OOMs even on an A100 (80 GB), so the memory measurements have not been specified.

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	lora rank	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	False	12.945	43.732	46.887	24.195
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	True	12.945	12.945	21.430	24.195
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	False	13.035	44.004	47.158	24.369
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	True	13.035	13.035	21.297	24.357
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	False	13.035	45.291	48.455	24.836
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	True	13.035	13.035	21.625	24.869
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	16	True	19.742	19.742	28.602	38.049
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	64	True	20.006	20.818	29.359	38.520
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	256	True	20.771	21.352	30.727	39.596

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	lora rank	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	True	12.945	21.734	21.775	24.281
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	True	13.036	21.941	21.941	24.445
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	True	13.094	22.020	22.266	24.943
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	16	True	19.742	46.320	46.326	38.104
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	64	True	20.006	46.820	46.820	38.588
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	256	True	20.771	47.920	47.980	40.002

AdamW + CPUOffloadOptimizer (with gradient offloading)

Note: Trying to run CogVideoX-5b without gradient checkpointing OOMs even on an A100 (80 GB), so the memory measurements have not been specified.

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	lora rank	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	False	12.945	43.705	46.859	24.180
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	True	12.945	12.945	21.395	24.180
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	False	13.035	43.916	47.070	24.234
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	True	13.035	13.035	20.887	24.266
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	False	13.095	44.947	48.111	24.607
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	True	13.095	13.095	21.391	24.635
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	16	True	19.742	19.742	28.533	38.002
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	64	True	20.006	20.006	29.107	38.785
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	256	True	20.771	20.771	30.078	39.559

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	lora rank	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	16	True	12.945	21.709	21.762	24.254
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	64	True	13.035	21.844	21.855	24.338
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	256	True	13.094	22.020	22.031	24.709
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	16	True	19.742	46.262	46.297	38.400
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	64	True	20.006	46.561	46.574	38.840
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	256	True	20.771	47.268	47.332	39.623

DeepSpeed (AdamW + CPU/Parameter offloading)

Note: Results are reported with gradient_checkpointing enabled, running on a 2x A100.

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	13.141	13.141	21.070	24.602
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	20.170	20.170	28.662	38.957

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	13.141	19.854	20.836	24.709
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	20.170	40.635	40.699	39.027

Full finetuning

Note

The memory requirements for image-to-video full finetuning are similar to that of text-to-video on THUDM/CogVideoX-5b, so it hasn't been reported explicitly.

Additionally, to prepare test images for I2V finetuning, you could either generate them on-the-fly by modifying the script, or extract some frames from your training data using: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -frames:v 1 frame.png, or provide a URL to a valid and accessible image.

Note

Trying to run full finetuning without gradient checkpointing OOMs even on an A100 (80 GB), so the memory measurements have not been specified.

AdamW

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	True	16.396	33.934	43.848	37.520
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	True	30.061	OOM	OOM	OOM

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	True	16.396	38.281	48.341	37.544
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	True	30.061	OOM	OOM	OOM

AdamW (8-bit bitsandbytes)

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	True	16.396	16.447	27.555	27.156
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	True	30.061	52.826	58.570	49.541

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	True	16.396	27.930	27.990	27.326
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	True	16.396	66.648	66.705	48.828

AdamW + CPUOffloadOptimizer (with gradient offloading)

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	True	16.396	16.396	26.100	23.832
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	True	30.061	39.359	48.307	37.947

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	gradient_checkpointing	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	True	16.396	27.916	27.975	23.936
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	True	30.061	66.607	66.668	38.061

DeepSpeed (AdamW + CPU/Parameter offloading)

Note: Results are reported with gradient_checkpointing enabled, running on a 2x A100.

With train_batch_size = 1:

model	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	13.111	13.111	20.328	23.867
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	19.762	19.998	27.697	38.018

With train_batch_size = 4:

model	memory_before_training	memory_before_validation	memory_after_validation	memory_after_testing
THUDM/CogVideoX-2b	13.111	21.188	21.254	23.869
THUDM/CogVideoX-5b	19.762	43.465	43.531	38.082

Note

• memory_after_validation is indicative of the peak memory required for training. This is because apart from the activations, parameters and gradients stored for training, you also need to load the vae and text encoder in memory and spend some memory to perform inference. In order to reduce total memory required to perform training, one can choose not to perform validation/testing as part of the training script.

• memory_before_validation is the true indicator of the peak memory required for training if you choose to not perform validation/testing.

Slaying OOMs with PyTorch

TODOs

• Make scripts compatible with DDP
• Make scripts compatible with FSDP
• Make scripts compatible with DeepSpeed
• vLLM-powered captioning script
• Multi-resolution/frame support in prepare_dataset.py
• Analyzing traces for potential speedups and removing as many syncs as possible
• Support for QLoRA (priority), and other types of high usage LoRAs methods
• Test scripts with memory-efficient optimizer from bitsandbytes
• Test scripts with CPUOffloadOptimizer, etc.
• Test scripts with torchao quantization, and low bit memory optimizers (Currently errors with AdamW (8/4-bit torchao))
• Test scripts with AdamW (8-bit bitsandbytes) + CPUOffloadOptimizer (with gradient offloading) (Currently errors out)
• Sage Attention (work with the authors to support backward pass, and optimize for A100)

Important

Since our goal is to make the scripts as memory-friendly as possible we don't guarantee multi-GPU training.