feat(ltx2): tile-parallel video VAE and the two-stage pipeline by pkisfaludi-nv · Pull Request #1586 · NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Connect

pkisfaludi-nv · 2026-10-05T19:03:08Z

Stacked on #1575 (LTX-2.5 family), which is stacked on #1574. Review only the last two commits: feat(ltx2): decode the video VAE in tiles shared across CP ranks and feat(ltx2): add the two-stage pipeline.

Background

Follow-up to #1575 (LTX-2.5 ltx2 family). Two latency gaps remained at 1280x704x241:

The video VAE decoded the whole clip on rank 0, so with context parallelism the second GPU
idled for the whole ~2.9 s decode. The untiled decoder also needed 16 GB of activations, which
set the 88-89 GiB peak.
Only the single-stage distilled recipe was available. The diffusers LTX-2.5 documentation
recommends a two-stage recipe: half-resolution stage 1, a learned 2x latent upsampler, then a
short full-resolution refinement. Stage 1 runs a quarter of the tokens, so the DiT work drops
by about 1.75x.

Exit Criteria

The VAE decodes in overlapping tiles. Context-parallel ranks decode disjoint tiles, and the
output is bit-identical to the single-GPU tiled decode.
trtmc ltx2 build --two-stage builds a bundle whose --set two_stage=true runs the diffusers
two-stage distilled recipe on 1 or 2 GPUs. Single-stage stays the default.
Tiny-random parity for the tile engine, the upsampler and the two-grid DiT (1 GPU and CP=2),
plus a 2-rank tile-parallel VAE test.
Real-weight comparison against a diffusers two-stage run.
Measurements at 1280x704x241 on 1 and 2 GPUs.
Non-goals: FP8, QKV fusion, the full (CFG) transformer, the distilled LoRA path.

Implementation

Two commits that can be reviewed and merged in order.

1. feat(ltx2): decode the video VAE in tiles shared across CP ranks

vae_tiling.py computes a tile plan of equal-shape tiles, so one static vae.plan serves
every tile.
- The geometry is the diffusers enable_tiling one (512 px tiles, at least 64 px overlap).
  Clips longer than 257 frames also split in time (256-frame tiles, at least 24 frames
  overlap, with the ltx-core causal frame mapping).
- The blend is the Lightricks / TRT-LLM linear-ramp blend, normalized by the summed weights.
- The plan, including the rank assignment, is written into runtime.json.
runtime/vae_tiling.h does the host-side work: tile latent gather, ramp weights, and a
multi-threaded blend. Every pixel accumulates its tiles in tile order, so the result does not
depend on which rank decoded a tile or on the thread count.
Tile exchange:
- Worker ranks pack their fp16 tiles in a device buffer and send them to rank 0 with NCCL
  point-to-point. The transfers use the engines' communicator, through a family-local
  PeerChannel in distributed_runtime.cpp.
- The last rank also decodes the audio and sends the waveform.
- Rank 0 receives into pinned memory and blends while nothing else waits. On one GPU, the blend
  overlaps the audio decode.
- A transfer that misses its 10 min deadline aborts the communicator.
run() starts with a rank barrier (64 KiB token, see Notes). Peer engine loading therefore no
longer lands in the first DiT step.
trtmc ltx2 build (family cli.json) is the owner build command. It has a family-local
BuildRequest and takes --vae-tile-pixels, --vae-tile-overlap-pixels, --vae-tile-frames
and --vae-tile-overlap-frames; setting both sizes to 0 builds the untiled decoder. The shared
trtmc build --family ltx2 still works through coerce_request. Bundles without a tile plan
keep the old rank-0 decode.
New diagnostic TRTMC_LTX2_DECODE_LATENTS decodes given final latents, used for the
bit-exactness check.

2. feat(ltx2): add the two-stage pipeline

upsampler_builder.py builds LTX2LatentUpsamplerModel as latent_upsampler.plan.
- The network is bf16 and strongly typed: zero-padded 3x3x3 convolutions, GroupNorm(32) with
  fp32 statistics, residual blocks, and a per-frame 3x3 convolution with 2x pixel shuffle.
- It denormalizes and renormalizes with the VAE statistics in fp32, so its I/O stays in the DiT
  packed layout.
The DiT plan serves both grids:
- The video token count becomes a run-time dimension (one optimization profile).
- The RoPE tables of both grids are baked in one after the other, and an int32 shape
  computation selects the block by token count.
- CP row shards use a shape-sized fill plus the rank offset. The fill only takes shape inputs,
  and the collective-derived start is added afterwards.
- Static single-stage plans are unchanged. Engine I/O is unchanged.
Runtime (--set two_stage=true):
1. Stage 1 runs at half resolution with the 8 distilled sigmas.
2. Every rank upsamples the stage 1 latents.
3. Video and audio are re-noised with noise_scale * noise + (1 - noise_scale) * x at
  0.909375. The noise draws continue the seeded stream (video, then audio).
4. Stage 2 runs at full resolution with 0.909375 / 0.725 / 0.421875.
5. The tiled decode follows.
Both stages use the distilled transformer. The diffusers doc confirms that the distilled
checkpoint needs no stage-2 LoRA.
TRTMC_LTX2_INITIAL_LATENTS appends the stage-2 draws, and TRTMC_LTX2_DUMP_LATENTS also
writes .stage1 and .upsampled.

Change categories

Bundle format: runtime.json gains the optional keys vae_tiling, audio_waveform_shape and
two_stage, and two-stage bundles gain a latent_upsampler.plan section. Older bundles still
load and use the untiled rank-0 decode.

Validation

Commands and Results

Linux premerge (clab, nvidia/cuda:13.3.0-devel-ubuntu24.04, TensorRT 11.1.0.106):

Legal headers, model_ci validate, cyclomatic complexity, ruff and clang-format, the
architecture tests, Python unit tests, families/ltx2/tests/test_model_contract.py +
test_e2e.py: all rc=0.
Native build and ctest --label-exclude gpu (all families, and -DTRTMC_FAMILIES=ltx2):
rc=0.
These ran for both commits (e0a600fe, a8396026).

Tiny-random engine tests on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (Windows 11, TensorRT-RTX 1.7.1.107):

pytest families/ltx2/tests/{test_vae_tiling,test_vae_parity,test_upsampler_parity,test_dit_parity,test_model_contract}.py:
73 passed.
- Every tile vs diffusers: cos >= 0.99992.
- Upsampler vs diffusers fp32 and bf16: cos 0.99989 / 0.99985, for both resampler variants.
- Two-grid DiT plan at 72 and 18 tokens vs fp32: cos >= 0.99997, and cos 1.000000 vs the
  static plan.
pytest families/ltx2/tests/test_context_parallel.py: 5 passed.
- The CP=2 two-grid plan switches grids full -> small -> full on one context, with per-shard
  cos >= 0.99998 vs the single-device plans.
- The 2-rank tile-parallel VAE matches the single-rank tiled decode bit for bit, and rank 1's
  tiles are bit-identical to rank 0's decode of the same tiles.
Note: these tiny tests ran on the tree before the final coerce_request / rank-barrier edits,
which do not touch the tested builders.

Real weights:

Latent upsampler engine vs diffusers bf16 on the reference stage 1 latents: cos 0.99997,
rel-L2 0.75%.
Same final latents (TRTMC_LTX2_DECODE_LATENTS):
- Tiled CP1 vs tile-parallel CP2: bit-identical frames (241/241) and audio.
- Untiled vs tiled: PSNR 44.8 dB mean (41.3 min), SSIM 0.997. Differences sit only in the
  overlap bands.
Two-stage native vs the diffusers two-stage reference, started from diffusers' noise for
stage 1 and the stage 2 re-noise:

Frame PSNR mean / min SSIM Log-spectrogram corr RMS ratio

CP1 21.5 / 19.4 dB 0.71 0.915 0.98

CP2 21.9 / 20.0 dB 0.71 0.916 0.95

For comparison, the single-stage native-vs-diffusers results were 19.1 / 18.2 dB, and diffusers
bf16 vs fp32 was 22.7-23.8 dB. The contact sheet shows the same scene and motion.

Performance: 1280x704x241, fox prompt, seed 42. Warm-up plus 3 alternating runs per mode,
medians, every run started idle at <= 50 C. The timer covers generation after the engines load.

Variant	1 GPU (s)	2 GPUs (s)	CP2 speedup	Decode 1 / 2 GPU (s)	Peak GiB (1 GPU, 2 GPUs)
#1575 bundles (untiled VAE)	47.26	23.47	2.01x	3.22 / 2.91	88.3, 89.3+70.1
Tiled VAE	46.50	22.03	2.11x	2.71 / 1.47	74.4, 74.4+76.1
Two-stage + tiled VAE	25.54	13.71	1.86x	2.46 / 1.46	77.1, 76.1+77.8

Two-stage phase breakdown:

Phase	1 GPU	2 GPUs
Stage 1 (8 x 6,820 tokens)	5.77 s (705 ms/step)	4.22 s (506 ms/step)
Upsample	0.06 s	0.06 s
Stage 2 (3 x 27,280 tokens)	17.06 s (5,667 ms/step)	7.79 s (2,587 ms/step)
Decode	2.46 s	1.46 s

End to end, two-stage is 1.85x faster on 1 GPU and 1.71x faster on 2 GPUs than the #1575
single-stage runs.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

Windows 11, 2x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (TCC, driver 610.88).
TensorRT-RTX 1.7.1.107, NCCL 2.32.3 built from source, MSVC 2022 native build.
Checkpoint Lightricks/LTX-2.5-Diffusers (plus latent_upsampler/).
Reference: diffusers 759164b, torch 2.14.1+cu130, bf16, all on GPU.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

Context parallelism beyond 2 ranks and temporal tiling at real weights: temporal tiling is only
covered by the tiny tests and the CPU plan tests.
On TensorRT-RTX, the dynamic-token DiT runs full-resolution steps 2-5% slower than the static
plan (5,667 vs 5,383 ms on 1 GPU; 2,587 vs 2,539 ms on 2 GPUs). Single-stage bundles keep the
static plan.
The real-checkpoint E2E pytest lane (--e2e-model ltx2) was not extended to two-stage.

Contributor Self-Review

I have completed a self-review of this change.

Notes For Future Readers

Review order: vae_tiling.py, runtime/vae_tiling.h, runtime/pipeline.cpp
(decode_tiled), distributed_runtime.cpp, then the second commit (upsampler_builder.py,
dit_builder.py _grid_rows, pipeline.cpp run).
With the Windows NCCL build on the RTX host, NCCL point-to-point transfers below 32 KiB never
complete: 1 B to 16 KiB hang, 32 KiB and up work, and NCCL_PROTO=Simple does not help. This
is likely also behind the earlier "all-to-all hangs at <= 4 KB per peer" observation. The rank
barrier uses 64 KiB tokens. Tile payloads are hundreds of MB.
In two-stage CP2 runs the output differs more from CP1 (24.6 dB PSNR vs 28.7 dB single-stage).
The tiny half-resolution stage 1 amplifies the bf16 differences of the CP split. Both match
diffusers equally well.
The 512 px tile default trades about 0.1 s (CP2) for 5 GB less activation memory than 768 px
tiles.

Risk level

Low
Medium
High

Risk rationale: two-stage is opt-in at build and run time and single-stage plans are unchanged,
but the default single-stage decode now runs tiled (near-lossless, not bit-identical to the
untiled decode), and the runtime uses NCCL point-to-point on the engines' communicator.

The native runtime, CLI, and family loader were ELF-only: they used dlopen/dladdr and /proc/self/exe directly, CMake passed GCC-only flags and a linker version script, and Conan packaging assumed patchelf. Multi-rank launches also required OpenMPI's mpirun. Add a model-agnostic platform layer in trtmc_core (trtmc/runtime/dynamic_library.h): LoadLibraryExW/GetProcAddress on Windows and dlopen/dlsym on ELF platforms, platform library file names, module and executable path lookup, and the shared NCCL library selection (TRTMC_NCCL_LIBRARY, else nccl.dll or libnccl.so.2). Load and missing-symbol errors name the purpose, the library, and the symbol. The family loader and the C API runtime-root lookup use it; the CLI dispatcher keeps its own small #ifdef so it stays free of trtmc/ headers. CMake gains an MSVC block: exported DLL symbols, one output directory for the executable and every DLL (the runtime root), /EHs so extern "C" plugin entry points may throw, and translation of the inline GCC warning flags. TRTMC_FAMILIES optionally restricts which families are built. On Windows, Conan provides nlohmann_json and packages the DLLs. tools/launch_ranks.py starts N local ranks with the same contract the family runtimes read under mpirun (OMPI_COMM_WORLD_* variables, one CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES list, a fresh TRTMC_NCCL_RENDEZVOUS file per launch) and tags rank output like mpirun --tag-output. Linux launches through mpirun are unchanged. The architecture tests accept either NCCL loader form, so each family can move to the portable loader independently. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com> (cherry picked from commit 305579a832b938afdce8618602748f6cb055b4c1)

…rank runtime caches - CMake finds the versioned Windows import library (tensorrt_rtx_<major>_<minor>.lib) when building the TensorRT-RTX backend. - --runtime-cache expands {rank} to OMPI_COMM_WORLD_RANK (0 when unset), so distributed ranks keep separate TensorRT-RTX runtime caches. Documented and covered by the CLI unit test. (cherry picked from commit 0e5d3d727c76c323eb3a7c42b45bec7792971934, without the Cosmos3 change) Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

…rtably The package build uses a preinstalled offline toolchain, and CI rejects self.requires() in conanfile.py. Drop the Windows nlohmann_json requirement; Windows builds install it separately and pass its CMake package directory through CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, which generate() now forwards like TRT_ROOT. test_dynamic_library took the address of an imported function to find trtmc_core. On Windows that address is the import thunk inside the executable, so the test now checks module_path_containing() with data in the executable and a symbol inside a loaded library. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com> (cherry picked from commit c415c56320fadd91f0ab5e08c02bee543efaa3e1) Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

NVIDIA publishes no Windows NCCL binaries, so native Windows multi-GPU runs need an nccl.dll built from the upstream source. Document the requirements (TCC mode, TensorRT 11.4+ or TensorRT-RTX 1.7.1+), the CMake build of NVIDIA/nccl v2.32.3-1 with CUDA 13.x, the two extra settings CUDA 12.9 needs until the upstream fixes land, and how TRTMC_NCCL_LIBRARY and tools/launch_ranks.py pick the library up. Validated on 2x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (TCC) with TensorRT 11.5.0.30: both builds, done exactly as documented, produce an nccl.dll that imports only Windows system DLLs. With either one, the LTX-Video CP=2 run gives 161/161 frames bit-identical to the reference run. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com> (cherry picked from commit 181768081ad44e69bfe1f54fdb4486aff34c7291)

_spawnvp joins its argument array with spaces and does not quote it, so a family command value with spaces, quotes, or trailing backslashes reached Python as different arguments. Quote every forwarded argument with the rules the C runtime and CommandLineToArgvW use to split a command line. The quoting function is portable and unit tested on every platform; on Windows the test also round-trips the arguments through CommandLineToArgvW. Also load family CLI adapters with critical-error dialogs suppressed, so a missing dependent DLL is reported as an error instead of blocking an unattended run on a modal loader dialog. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

…r MSVC The MSVC option translation stripped -W flags textually, which turned -Xcompiler=-Wall,-Wextra into a malformed -Xcompiler=, and left -O3 in C++ options, where cl.exe ignores it with D9002. It could also drop the closing '>' of a split generator expression. Rebuild each $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:...>:...> expression from its translated options instead: drop -W flags, drop GCC entries from nvcc host-compiler pass-through options (and the option when nothing remains), keep -O<n> for nvcc only, and omit expressions that end up empty. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

The Windows package did not contain families/<family>/cli.json, so an installed trtmc.exe could not resolve family commands. Copy the declarations of the packaged families beside the executable and check that the trtmc_cli_<family>.dll set matches the families that declare native commands, as the Linux package already does. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

Distributed families return results only from the output rank; the other ranks return the worker-completion sentinel. Video results already accept it, but an audio-video result required decoded frames, audio and an audio clock origin on every rank, so a context-parallel text-to-audio-video family could not report a worker rank's completion. An audio-video result whose video is the worker-completion sentinel is now accepted when it also carries no audio samples and no audio clock origin; its view has no frames and no samples. The video fixture covers the worker case. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

generate-video selects TextToAudioVideo for bundles whose task is text_to_audio_video (without --image). It writes the frames like other video Tasks and the soundtrack as OUTPUT/audio.wav (interleaved PCM at the result's sample rate and channel count), and reports the audio path, rate, channels and audio start time in the JSON output. Worker ranks report {"worker": true} without writing files. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

Onboard Lightricks LTX-2.5 (diffusers LTX2Pipeline) as the ltx2 family. A bundle generates a video and its 48 kHz stereo soundtrack with the distilled transformer's 8-step schedule, on one GPU or with the DiT context parallel over two GPUs. Builders (TensorRT network API, bf16 strongly typed with fp32 norm, RoPE and activation islands): - text encoder: the Gemma 4 text tower plus the LTX-2 text connectors that produce the video and audio contexts; - denoiser: the joint audio/video DiT, including the audio-video cross attention and gated attention. With context_parallel_size=2, one plan serves both ranks. Each rank owns half of the video tokens, video self-attention all-gathers the normed and rotated keys and values, and video-to-audio attention merges per-rank softmax statistics through one fp32 all-gather. Audio and text stay replicated. The graph uses no all-to-all collective; - video VAE decoder and the audio VAE decoder with the bandwidth-extension vocoder. model.build validates the request before loading any builder. It accepts only task text_to_audio_video, bf16, batch 1 and CP 1 or 2. With backend=trt_rtx and CP > 1 it requires TensorRT-RTX >= 1.7.1, because 1.6.x has no multi-device support. The C++ runtime implements ITextToAudioVideo. It tokenizes the prompt, draws the seeded noise, runs the Euler loop and decodes the video and audio on rank 0; the other ranks return the worker completion. TRTMC_LTX2_PROGRESS=1 prints per-step progress. Tests: tiny-random parity against diffusers for each engine, a 2-rank context-parallel DiT check with torch-free ranks, build-request and version-gate contract tests, the support identity test, and a manifest-driven E2E that compares the native CLI with LTX2Pipeline from the same noise. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

The docs model-support inventory requires every manifest to declare precision and tensor_parallel_size. Declare tensor_parallel_size=1 in both ltx2 manifests, assert it when indexing the cases, and pass it into the build request so the manifest key is a used family test input. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

Rank 0 wrote the unique-id file and never removed it. When a launch reused the path, a non-zero rank could read the previous run's id before rank 0 replaced it, and ncclCommInitRank, which has no timeout, then blocked every rank. ncclCommInitRank returns on rank 0 only after all ranks joined, so rank 0 now removes the file at that point, in the runtime and in the test communicator helper. The mpirun E2E lane also clears a file left by an interrupted launch before it starts the ranks. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

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Summary

Adds the LTX-2.5 text-to-audio-video family, with TensorRT engine builders, a native runtime pipeline, tokenizer support, and parity and runtime-contract tests.

The runtime supports context-parallel denoising and tiled VAE decoding. Ranks decode assigned tiles, then rank 0 blends them. An opt-in two-stage mode denoises at half resolution, upsamples and re-noises the latents, then refines them at full resolution. Single-stage generation remains the default.

Shared changes add cross-platform dynamic-library loading and module-path discovery, {rank} expansion for CLI runtime-cache paths, and a multi-rank launcher. Windows changes add family-library loading, Python-executor process launching, packaging, and build support. The video CLI and API add text-to-audio-video output handling.

Architecture impact

Family-owned files: families/ltx2/ owns its builders, runtime, configuration, and validation. Its runtime links to trtmc_core and uses the shared family/task interfaces. The inspected dependency direction is from the family runtime to shared runtime APIs, not from core to LTX-2.
Changed shared surfaces: core/runtime adds dynamic-library APIs. The family loader and API runtime use these APIs for shared-library loading and module-path discovery. apps/cli changes family loading and video dispatch. Build, packaging, launcher, and documentation changes affect shared project infrastructure.
Dependency directions and consumers: The shared family loader uses the new platform loader to load backend and family libraries. LTX-2 uses the shared loader API and task interfaces; CLI dispatches through family adapters. Other family adapters use the common family factory interface. The supplied evidence does not establish the complete set of consumers affected by the shared loader and CLI changes.
Unresolved blast-radius questions: Confirm compatibility across all shared-runtime and CLI consumers, and verify Windows builds and packaging across supported family selections. The supplied evidence does not resolve these questions.

Validation and review status

The PR objectives report 73 passes across selected LTX-2 parity and contract tests, 5 passes for context-parallel tests, plus real-weight comparisons and performance measurements. These are author-reported results; no independent test run is supplied. The objectives also report that context parallelism beyond two ranks and temporal tiling with real weights were not tested, and that the real-checkpoint E2E lane was not extended to two-stage generation. Current review finding counts are unavailable.

HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED — the inspected evidence does not resolve compatibility and blast-radius questions for the shared changes.

Walkthrough

This pull request adds the LTX-2.5 text-to-audio-video family, including TensorRT builders and a runtime for single-device and context-parallel generation. It also adds cross-platform library loading, native Windows build and CLI paths, a multi-rank launcher, and rank-specific runtime-cache paths.

Changes

Cross-platform runtime and rank launching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Platform library loading and build integration `CMakeLists.txt`, `core/runtime/include/trtmc/runtime/dynamic_library.h`, `core/runtime/primitives/dynamic_library.cpp`, `core/runtime/loader/family_loader.cpp`, `core/api/runtime/api.cpp`, `core/runtime/tests/*`, `tools/tests/test_architecture.py`	Adds platform-aware library loading, symbol lookup, filename generation, module-path lookup, and NCCL selection. Build configuration and runtime consumers use these utilities. Tests cover loader errors, symbol lookup, and module paths.
Windows CLI and package support `apps/cli/family_cli.*`, `apps/cli/tests/test_cli.cpp`, `conanfile.py`, `website/docs/features/multi-device.md`	Adds Windows DLL adapter loading, executable-path lookup, Python argument quoting and process launching, and Windows package validation. CLI tests cover quoting and argument preservation.
Rank launcher and rank-specific cache paths `tools/launch_ranks.py`, `tools/tests/test_launch_ranks.py`, `apps/cli/cli.cpp`, `website/docs/api/cli-reference.md`, `families/ltx2/README.md`	Adds local multi-rank process launching, per-rank environments, output tagging, timeout and failure handling, and `{rank}` expansion in runtime-cache paths. Tests and documentation describe these interfaces.

LTX-2.5 text-to-audio-video

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Build interface and bundle configuration `families/ltx2/cli.`, `families/ltx2/model.py`, `families/ltx2/checkpoint.py`, `families/ltx2/support.py`, `families/ltx2/parallel.py`, `families/ltx2/tests/manifests/`, `families/ltx2/tests/thresholds/*`, `families/ltx2/README.md`	Adds LTX-2.5 build requests, checkpoint access, model and parallel-layout validation, bundle construction, and runtime metadata. CLI settings, manifests, thresholds, and documentation describe supported settings.
TensorRT engine builders `families/ltx2/graph.py`, `families/ltx2/layers.py`, `families/ltx2/*_builder.py`, `families/ltx2/dit_builder.py`, `families/ltx2/text_encoder_builder.py`	Adds graph utilities and builders for the text encoder, joint audio/video denoiser, video and audio decoders, and latent upsampler. Parity tests compare outputs and RoPE tables with model references.
Runtime generation and media output `families/ltx2/runtime/`, `families/ltx2/vae_tiling.py`, `apps/cli/sdk_video.cpp`, `core/api/runtime/video.cpp`, `core/api/tests/video_`	Adds prompt encoding, latent denoising, optional two-stage generation, distributed execution, tiled VAE decoding, and audio/video result assembly. The CLI writes frames and audio. Worker-completion results have a separate path.
Runtime and model validation `families/ltx2/tests/*`, `families/ltx2/runtime/CMakeLists.txt`	Adds runtime contract, tile-planning, parity, context-parallel, and selected end-to-end tests. Test helpers, fixtures, manifests, and thresholds define inputs and comparison checks.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant LTX2Pipeline
  participant TextEncoder
  participant DiT
  participant Decoders
  CLI->>LTX2Pipeline: submit prompt and options
  LTX2Pipeline->>TextEncoder: encode prompt tokens
  TextEncoder-->>LTX2Pipeline: video and audio contexts
  LTX2Pipeline->>DiT: denoise video and audio latents
  DiT-->>LTX2Pipeline: video and audio velocities
  LTX2Pipeline->>Decoders: decode final latents
  Decoders-->>LTX2Pipeline: frames and waveform
  LTX2Pipeline-->>CLI: audio-video result

Possibly related PRs

NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Connect#1575: Adds the LTX-2.5 builders, runtime pipeline, and context-parallel support that this change extends.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-Model-Connect#1574: Adds cross-platform dynamic-library and Windows build/runtime support used by this change.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 19f1b

The CLI no longer produces an unusable audio file when a result lacks a valid sample rate. No actionable merge risk remains in this change.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6 | ❌ 2 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 29.80% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 453 functions across 50 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Benchmark Validation Integrity	⚠️ Warning	The new `vae_decode_ms` field measures different regions for tiled and untiled runs. In `pipeline.cpp:499-501`, the untiled path records only `decode_video`; that call synchronizes and copies the VAE …	Give `vae_decode_ms` the same start and end semantics for tiled and untiled runs. If it represents total decode-phase wall time, report that consistently for both modes and retain `decode_ms` or a clearly named field for that phase. If it r…
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: tile-parallel video VAE decoding and the two-stage pipeline.
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Family Ownership Boundary	✅ Passed	No cross-family implementation dependency or central family registration was introduced. The PR changes family-specific files only under `families/ltx2`. LTX2 production imports are internal to that p…
Shared Semantic Neutrality	✅ Passed	Shared changes do not add model-specific semantics. The CLI adds generic `TextToAudioVideo` task dispatch and writes frames plus WAV audio through the existing task result contract. The API accepts wo…

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The new vae_decode_ms field measures different regions for tiled and untiled runs. In pipeline.cpp:499-501, the untiled path records only decode_video; that call synchronizes and copies the VAE output to host (trt_module_impl.cpp:560-586). In pipeline.cpp:781-783, the tiled path records the full interval from denoising completion until decode_tiled returns. That interval also includes tile exchange and blending (pipeline.cpp:620-650) and audio decoding (pipeline.cpp:639-649). The same reported metric therefore cannot support a fair tiled-versus-untiled timing comparison. These timing paths were introduced by this PR.

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Give vae_decode_ms the same start and end semantics for tiled and untiled runs. If it represents total decode-phase wall time, report that consistently for both modes and retain decode_ms or a clearly named field for that phase. If it represents video VAE work, exclude audio work consistently and report exchange and blending as separate components. Add a focused check that verifies the accounting contract for both tile modes.

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The reviewed range changes shared surfaces, including the core dynamic-library loader and runtime-path lookup, the CLI, audio-video result handling, CMake, and the rank launcher. Repository evidence shows cross-family consumers: family_loader.cpp uses the new platform loader for backend, family, and BYOK libraries; api.cpp uses it to locate the runtime; and the audio-video result contract is used by multiple task registrations. The range also adds shared runtime, CLI, launcher, and API tests, plus Windows multi-device documentation. However, the supplied authored description is truncated before the implementation and validation details finish. The full description is unavailable in the checkout, so I cannot determine whether it identifies the required model-agnostic need, affected consumers, compatibility impact, validation, and why these changes cannot remain family-owned.

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Provide the complete authored pull-request description, especially any omitted rationale and validation for the shared Windows/runtime/CLI/API changes. Then assess those statements against the already identified consumers and changed shared surfaces.

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Use platform::DynamicLibrary instead of the duplicate CliLibrary loader.

CliLibrary duplicates the platform mechanics in core/runtime/primitives/dynamic_library.cpp. The two copies already behave differently. CliLibrary reports only a numeric Windows error code, without the system message or loader hint. CliLibrary also passes dlerror() directly into std::string without a null check. Apps may depend on public core APIs, and dynamic_library.h is installed as a public header. Replace CliLibrary with trtmc::platform::DynamicLibrary if trtmc_cli already links trtmc_core.
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Review comment at @apps/cli/family_cli.cpp around lines 380 - 436:
Replace the duplicate CliLibrary loader in the family CLI adapter with
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Review comments at @apps/cli/sdk_video.cpp:
- Around line 92-96: Update write_audio_video to reject a missing or zero
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write_audio_video wrote audio.wav with sample_rate.value_or(0) when a text_to_audio_video family returned no sample rate, producing a WAV header with rate 0 and reporting audio_sample_rate 0 while the command succeeded. Fail explicitly instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

The video VAE decoded the whole clip on rank 0, so the second GPU idled for the whole decode. The VAE now decodes overlapping tiles of one shape with one static tile plan. The tiles are blended with linear ramps that are normalized by the summed weights, as in the Lightricks and TRT-LLM tiled_decode. The build computes the tile plan (512 px tiles, >= 64 px overlap; time splits into 256-frame tiles only for longer clips) and writes it into runtime.json. With context parallelism the ranks decode disjoint tiles. Worker ranks send their fp16 tiles to rank 0 with NCCL point-to-point on the engines' communicator, and the last rank also decodes the audio and sends the waveform. Rank 0 blends every tile in tile order, so the output is the same bit for bit as the single-GPU tiled decode. A transfer that misses its deadline aborts the communicator. On one GPU, the host blend overlaps the audio decode. trtmc ltx2 build takes the tile options; sizes of 0 build the untiled decoder. Bundles without a tile plan keep the rank-0 decode. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

The diffusers LTX-2.5 two-stage recipe denoises at half resolution, doubles the latent grid with the learned latent upsampler and refines at full resolution with three distilled sigmas. Stage 1 runs about a quarter of the full-resolution tokens, so the run replaces 8 full DiT steps with 8 small steps and 3 full ones. trtmc ltx2 build --two-stage adds latent_upsampler.plan (bf16, with fp32 GroupNorm statistics) and builds the DiT for both grids. The video token count becomes a run-time dimension of one plan. The RoPE tables of both grids are constants that the plan selects by token count, and the CP row shards follow the run-time count. The engine I/O is unchanged. --set two_stage=true runs stage 1 with the distilled sigmas, upsamples on every rank, re-noises the video and audio latents to 0.909375 with draws that continue the seeded stream, and runs stage 2 with 0.909375/0.725/0.421875. Both stages use the distilled transformer; no LoRA is involved. Single-stage generation stays the default, also on two-stage bundles. Signed-off-by: Peter Kisfaludi <pkisfaludi@nvidia.com>

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	Frame PSNR mean / min	SSIM	Log-spectrogram corr	RMS ratio
CP1	21.5 / 19.4 dB	0.71	0.915	0.98
CP2	21.9 / 20.0 dB	0.71	0.916	0.95

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