Kandinsky-6.0-VSR-distilled2steps-5s

We present Kandinsky 6.0 Video, a family of foundation diffusion models for synchronized text-to-audio-video generation, comprising Kandinsky 6.0 Video Lite (3B parameters) and Kandinsky 6.0 Video Pro (29B parameters). Both models generate 5-second video clips with synchronized 44 kHz audio, including lip-sync, in text-to-audio-video (T2AV) and image-to-audio-video (TI2AV) modes; a plug-in super-resolution model raises the output resolution to Full-HD (1920×1080).

The complete Kandinsky 6.0 video super-resolution pipeline as a single 🧨 Diffusers bundle: the 1.4B SR DiT distilled with π-Flow DX down to 2 model evaluations per tile, the KVAE video VAE and the x2 / x4 latent-upscaler bank. It upscales a video by x2, x2.25 or x4 with tiled diffusion in KVAE latent space. The Diffusers pipeline is video-only; mux the source audio back in if you need it in the output.

This repository contains all components needed for inference with from_pretrained. For the flow-matching teacher with 4 Euler steps per tile, see the flow-matching Diffusers bundle.

Usage with Diffusers

import torch
from diffusers import Kandinsky6SRPipeline
from diffusers.utils import export_to_video, load_video

torch._inductor.config.max_autotune = True  # required: lets inductor pick flex-attention tiles that fit the SR block mask

pipe = Kandinsky6SRPipeline.from_pretrained("kandinskylab/Kandinsky-6.0-VSR-distilled2steps-5s-Diffusers", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("flex")
pipe.transformer.compile_repeated_blocks(fullgraph=True)

video = load_video("lq.mp4")  # -> list[PIL.Image.Image]
output = pipe(
    video=video,
    resolution_scale=2.25,  # 2, 2.25 or 4
    num_inference_steps=2,  # must be set explicitly -- the pipeline's own default (4) is for the flow-matching checkpoint
    generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(1137),
)
export_to_video(output.frames[0], "lq_sr.mp4", fps=24)

Video Super Resolution Models

Components

model_index.json names the pipeline class Kandinsky6SRPipeline.

Citation

@misc{kandinsky2026kandinsky60videofoundation,
      title={Kandinsky 6.0 Video: Foundation Models for Synchronized Video and Audio Generation},
      author={Team Kandinsky and Julia Agafonova and Bulat Akhmatov and Mikhail Aksyutin and Grigorii Alekseenko and Anastasia Aliaskina and Olga Androsova and Vladimir Arkhipkin and Anna Averchenkova and Alexander Belykh and Serafima Bocharova and Sofiya Bogakovskaya and Anton Bukashkin and Mark Bulygin and Kirill Buzygin and Irina Cheremnykh and Kirill Chernyshev and Mikhail Chernyshov and Vladimir Chernyy and David Chikovani and Georgy Daniltsev and Denis Dimitrov and Anna Dmitrienko and Vladimir Dokholyan and Sergey Emelyanov and Dmitry Ermilov and Georgii Fedorov and Polina Gavrilova and Nikolai Gerasimenko and Aleksandr Gordeev and Andrey Inozemtsev and Andrei Ivaniuta and Alexander Ivanov and Mikhail Karaev and Anastasiia Kargapoltseva and Ivan Kirillov and Nikita Kiselev and Valeria Kobenko and Yury Kolabushin and Denis Koposov and Anatoly Korobov and Vladimir Korviakov and Kirill Kozlov and Denis Krzhivokolskiy and Konstantin Kuklev and Alexander Kunitsyn and Sergey Kuzin and Vladislav Lakhtionov and Alexey Letunovskiy and Maxim Litvinov and Alexander Lyulkov and Georgy Makarov and Kirill Malakhov and Egor Malykh and Mikhail Mamaev and Dmitrii Mikhailov and Polina Mikhailova and Ivan Mikheev and Elizaveta Muromtseva and Nikolai Nazarkin and Tatiana Nikulina and Lev Novitskiy and Stanislav Onuchin and Nikita Osterov and Denis Parkhomenko and Anatoliy Parpara and Vladimir Polovnikov and Konstantin Reznikov and Azat Saginbaev and Nikita Samsonov and Alexander Sentsov and Nikita Shaimov and Artem Sherstyuk and Andrey Shutkin and Egor Silvestrov and Bulat Suleimanov and Matvey Suprunov and Sergey Taranov and Irina Tolstykh and Tatiana Trofimuk and Ilya Trushkin and Aleksandra Tsybina and Olga Varlashina and Viacheslav Vasilev and Ilya Vasiliev and Eugeny Vilisov and Sergey Yakubson and Konstantin Zakharov},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2610.05608},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05608},
}