AnimateDiff-Lightning (ByteDance)

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What they did

Distilled AnimateDiff checkpoints (1, 2, 4 and 8 steps) that generate video more than ten times faster than the original AnimateDiff. They work best with stylised SD1.5 base models, and there's a hosted demo Space.

Worth knowing

• Price: Open weights on Hugging Face (creativeml-openrail-m)
• License: creativeml-openrail-m
• Status: sourced. We have not run this ourselves yet (no "Tested" badge).
• Quality bar (computed by code): 4/5 (primary source ✓, reproducible ✗, new ✓, example output ✓, safe ✓)