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Cosmos Tokenizer: A suite of image and video tokenizers

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Model Overview

Description:

Cosmos Tokenizer is a suite of visual tokenizers for images and videos that delivers various compression rates while maintaining high reconstruction quality. Cosmos Tokenizer can serve as an effective and efficient building block in both diffusion-based and autoregressive models for image and video generation.

Our tokenizers come in two types: Continuous (C) and Discrete (D), each with Image (I) and Video (V) variants:

  • Continuous tokenizers encode visual data into continuous latent embeddings, as shown in latent diffusion models like Stable Diffusion. These embeddings are suitable for models that generate data by sampling from continuous distributions.
  • Discrete tokenizers encode visual data into discrete latent codes, mapping them into quantized indices, as seen in autoregressive transformers such as VideoPoet. This discretization is required for models that generate data by optimizing the cross-entropy loss, such as the GPT models.
Continuous ( C ) Discrete ( D )
Images ( I ) Cosmos-Tokenizer-CI Cosmos-Tokenizer-DI
Videos ( V ) Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV Cosmos-Tokenizer-DV

Given an image or a video, Cosmos Tokenizer outputs either continuous latents or discrete tokens. Cosmos Tokenizer achieves spatial compression rates of 8x8 or 16x16 and temporal compression factors of 4x or 8x, resulting in a total compression factor of up to 2048x (=8x16x16). Cosmos Tokenizer delivers 8x more total compression than state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods while simultaneously maintaining higher image quality and running up to 12x faster than the best available SOTA tokenizers.

Model Developer: NVIDIA

Model Versions

The initial release (v1.0) of Cosmos Tokenizer includes the following tokenizers:

License/Terms of Use:

NVIDIA Open Model License

Under the NVIDIA Open Model License, NVIDIA confirms:

  • Models are commercially usable.
  • You are free to create and distribute Derivative Models.
  • NVIDIA does not claim ownership to any outputs generated using the Models or Derivative Models.

Model Architecture:

We designed Cosmos Tokenizer using a lightweight and computationally efficient architecture, featuring a temporally causal design. Specifically, we employ causal temporal convolution and causal temporal attention layers to preserve the natural temporal order of video frames, ensuring seamless tokenization of images and videos using a single unified network architecture. The encoder and decoder form a symmetrical pair, which are mirrors of each other. The encoder starts with a 2-level Haar wavelet transform layer, which down-samples inputs by a factor of 4 in both spatial and temporal dimensions. Likewise, the decoder ends with an inverse wavelet transform. We employ the vanilla autoencoder (AE) formulation to model the latent space for continuous tokenizers. For discrete tokenizers, we adopt the Finite-Scalar-Quantization (FSQ) as the latent space quantizer.

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Input/Output Specifications

Encoder

  • Input

    • Types: Images or Videos
    • Format: RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
    • Resolution:
      • Minimum: 256px (shorter side)
      • Maximum: Up to 4K
    • Video Length: Up to 8 seconds for 1080p videos (bounded by A100 80G GPU memory; higher resolutions will have shorter supported durations)

  • Output

    • Types: Tokens
      • Continuous Image/Video Tokenizers: Continuous value feature vectors
      • Discrete Image/Video Tokenizers: Integer indices

Decoder

  • Input

    • Types: Tokens from encoder

  • Output

    • Types: Images or Videos (matching input type)
    • Format: RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
    • Resolution: Same as input resolution
    • Video Length: Same as input video length

Software Integration (Required For NVIDIA Models Only):

Runtime Engine(s):

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

  • NVIDIA Ampere (e.g., A100)
  • NVIDIA Hopper (e.g., H100)

Note: We have only tested Cosmos Tokenizer with BF16 precision on Ampere and Hopper GPUs. If you are using older versions of NVIDIA GPUs (e.g., NVIDIA Volta GPUs), you may need to switch to FP32 precision.

Operating System(s):

  • Linux (We have not tested on other operating systems.)

Usage

Inference Engines:

Inference with Cosmos-Tokenizer (PyTorch)

Step-1: Installation of Cosmos-Tokenizer

Note: Currently, the Cosmos-Tokenizer code is only supported on Linux.

  • Please clone the Cosmos-Tokenizer from GitHub repo github.com/NVIDIA/Cosmos-Tokenizer.

    git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/Cosmos-Tokenizer.git
cd Cosmos-Tokenizer

  • Install dependencies

    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
apt-get install -y ffmpeg

  • Preferably, you could build a docker image using our provided Dockerfile.

    docker build -t cosmos-docker -f Dockerfile.    
# You can run the container as:
docker run --gpus all -it --rm -v /home/${USER}:/home/${USER} \
    --workdir ${PWD} cosmos-docker /bin/bash

Step-2: Download Pre-trained Checkpoints

  • Create a local directory for the pre-trained checkpoints and download the pre-trained checkpoints from HuggingFace.

    from huggingface_hub import login, snapshot_download
import os
# You could get your Hugging Face token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens
login(token=<YOUT-HF-TOKEN>, add_to_git_credential=True)
# You could specify the tokenizers you want to download.
model_names = [
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CI8x8",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CI16x16",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV4x8x8",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV8x8x8",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV8x16x16",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-DI8x8",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-DI16x16",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-DV4x8x8",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-DV8x8x8",
        "Cosmos-Tokenizer-DV8x16x16",
]
for model_name in model_names:
    hf_repo = "nvidia/" + model_name
    local_dir = "pretrained_ckpts/" + model_name
    os.makedirs(local_dir, exist_ok=True)
    print(f"downloading {model_name} to {local_dir}...")
    snapshot_download(repo_id=hf_repo, local_dir=local_dir)

  • Under the ech checkpoint directory pretrained_ckpts/<model-name>, we provide the encoder, decoder and the full autoencoder JIT models.

    ├── pretrained_ckpts/   
│   ├── Cosmos-Tokenizer-DV8x8x8/
│   │   ├── encoder.jit
│   │   ├── decoder.jit
│   │   ├── autoencoder.jit
│   ...

Step-3: Run Inference

You can use the following example commands to encode and decode images or videos. For each, the same command works for both continuous and discrete tokenization. Simply provide the proper JIT-compiled ckpt to checkpoint_enc, checkpoint_dec, or the full autoencoder ckpt to checkpoint.

import torch
from cosmos_tokenizer.video_lib import CausalVideoTokenizer

model_name = "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV4x8x8"
input_tensor = torch.randn(1, 3, 9, 512, 512).to('cuda').to(torch.bfloat16)  # [B, C, T, H, W]
encoder = CausalVideoTokenizer(checkpoint_enc=f'pretrained_ckpts/{model_name}/encoder.jit')
(latent,) = encoder.encode(input_tensor)
torch.testing.assert_close(latent.shape, (1, 16, 3, 64, 64))

# The input tensor can be reconstructed by the decoder as:
decoder = CausalVideoTokenizer(checkpoint_dec=f'pretrained_ckpts/{model_name}/decoder.jit')
reconstructed_tensor = decoder.decode(latent)
torch.testing.assert_close(reconstructed_tensor.shape, input_tensor.shape)

The latent will have the shape (1, 16, 3, 64, 64), where the first of the three latents represents the first frame, and C=16 is the number of channels of the latent.

Note: More inference usage commands, including both TorchScript (JIT) and PyTorch Inference APIs on real images and videos, can be found on our GitHub repository github.com/NVIDIA/Cosmos-Tokenizer.

Inference with NeMo

Step-1: Install NeMo

Please install NeMo from the GitHub main branch following the instructions here.

Step-2: Run Inference

Run the following code to tokenize the video:

import torch
from nemo.collections.common.video_tokenizers.cosmos_vision_tokenizer import CausalVideoTokenizer
model_name = "Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV4x8x8"
model = CausalVideoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
input_tensor = torch.randn(1, 3, 9, 512, 512).to('cuda').to(torch.bfloat16)
(latent, ) = model.encode(input_tensor)

Please see the Cosmos Tokenizer README within the NeMo repository for additional examples to create training datasets with the Cosmos Tokenizer.

Evaluation

TokenizationPerformance Comparison

We have extensively evaluated the Cosmos Tokenizer suite on various image and video benchmark datasets. In addition to commonly used datasets such as MS-COCO and DAVIS, in order to cover a wide variety of visual data and standardize the evaluation, we created a benchmark called TokenBench, which is a mixed sampling of video data from diverse domains.

Tokenizer Compression Ratio Formulation PSNR (DAVIS) SSIM (DAVIS) rFVD (DAVIS) PSNR (TokenBench) SSIM (TokenBench) rFVD (TokenBench)
CogVideoX 4×8×8 VAE 31.74 0.860 19.58 33.14 0.908 6.97
Omnitokenizer 4×8×8 VAE 29.04 0.710 117.66 29.70 0.830 35.86
Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV 4×8×8 AE 35.28 0.890 15.93 37.27 0.928 6.849
Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV 8×8×8 AE 34.10 0.850 30.16 36.85 0.917 11.62
Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV 8×16×16 AE 32.55 0.770 93.82 35.15 0.875 43.08
  • We compare with the state-of-the-art continuous video tokenizers, CogVideoX and OmniTokenizer.
  • Evaluation metrics:
    • Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR)
    • Structural Similarity (SSIM)
    • Reconstruction Fréchet Video Distance (rFVD)

Runtime Comparison

The following table shows the number of parameters and the averaged encoding and decoding times per image or video frame, measured on a single A100 80GB GPU. For comparison, we also list the parameters and average speeds of prior state-of-the-art tokenizer(s) with the same compression ratio.

Tokenizer Resolution Compression Ratio Parameters Time (ms)
CogVideoX 720x1280 4×8×8 216M 414
OmniTokenizer 720x1280 4×8×8 54M 82.9
Cosmos-Tokenizer-CV 720x1280 4×8×8 105M 34.8

Note: We benchmarked the runtime for images under the 8x8 compression and videos under the 4×8×8 compression. Tokenizers with different compression ratios are not included in this comparison.

Ethical Considerations

NVIDIA believes Trustworthy AI is a shared responsibility and we have established policies and practices to enable development for a wide array of AI applications. When downloaded or used in accordance with our terms of service, developers should work with their internal model team to ensure this model meets requirements for the relevant industry and use case and addresses unforeseen product misuse.

For more detailed information on ethical considerations for this model, please see the subcards of Explainability, Bias, Safety & Security, and Privacy below. Please report security vulnerabilities or NVIDIA AI Concerns here.

Bias

Field Response
Participation considerations from adversely impacted groups protected classes in model design and testing: None
Measures taken to mitigate against unwanted bias: None

Explainability

Field Response
Intended Application & Domain: Tokenization of images and videos
Model Type: Auto-Encoder
Intended Users: Generative AI developers for image and video generation models
Output: Images/Videos and Latent Tokens
Describe how the model works: Compresses and decompresses visual input (image/video).
Technical Limitations: Due to tokenizer compression limitations, some visual information (such as small text and other structured fine details) may not be reconstructed accurately.
Verified to have met prescribed NVIDIA quality standards: Yes
Performance Metrics: Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structural Similarity (SSIM), Reconstruction Fréchet Video Distance (rFVD), Reconstruction Fréchet Inception Distance (rFID), Latency
Potential Known Risks: Tokenizer's output can parse all forms of input, including what may be considered toxic, offensive, or indecent.
Licensing: NVIDIA Open Model License

Privacy

Field Response
Generatable or reverse engineerable personal information? No
Protected class data used to create this model? None Known
Was consent obtained for any personal data used? None Known
How often is dataset reviewed? Before Release
Is a mechanism in place to honor data subject right of access or deletion of personal data? Not Applicable
If personal collected for the development of the model, was it collected directly by NVIDIA? Not Applicable
If personal collected for the development of the model by NVIDIA, do you maintain or have access to disclosures made to data subjects? Not Applicable
If personal collected for the development of this AI model, was it minimized to only what was required? Not Applicable
Is there provenance for all datasets used in training? Yes
Does data labeling (annotation, metadata) comply with privacy laws? Yes
Is data compliant with data subject requests for data correction or removal, if such a request was made? Not Applicable

Safety

Field Response
Model Application(s): Tokenization of images and videos
Describe the life critical impact (if present). None Known
Use Case Restrictions: See NVIDIA Open Model License
Model and dataset restrictions: The Principle of least privilege (PoLP) is applied limiting access for dataset generation and model development. Restrictions enforce dataset access during training, and dataset license constraints adhered to. Model checkpoints are made available on Hugging Face, and may become available on cloud providers' model catalog.

Plus Plus (++) Promise

We value you, the datasets, the diversity they represent, and what we have been entrusted with. This model and its associated data have been:

  • Verified to comply with current applicable disclosure laws, regulations, and industry standards.
  • Verified to comply with applicable privacy labeling requirements.
  • Annotated to describe the collector/source (NVIDIA or a third-party).
  • Characterized for technical limitations.
  • Reviewed to ensure proper disclosure is accessible to, maintained for, and in compliance with NVIDIA data subjects and their requests.
  • Reviewed before release.
  • Tagged for known restrictions and potential safety implications.

Core Contributors

Fitsum Reda, Jinwei Gu, Xian Liu, Songwei Ge, Ting-Chun Wang, Haoxiang Wang, Ming-Yu Liu

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