---
slug: utilities/lora
title: LoRA Extraction and Merging
---
<a id="lora-extraction-and-merging"></a>

Generic runtime adapter extraction plus the existing legacy merge utilities for FastVideo models.

## Extract LoRA Adapter {#extract-lora-adapter}

```bash
python scripts/lora_extraction/extract_lora.py \
  --base Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers \
  --ft FastVideo/FastWan2.2-TI2V-5B-FullAttn-Diffusers \
  --out adapter_r32.safetensors \
  --rank 32 \
  --exact-tensor-pattern '^condition_embedder\.' \
  --exact-tensor-pattern '^proj_out\.weight$'
```

The extractor is runtime-agnostic and cannot determine from checkpoint tensors whether the target runtime
wraps a given matrix as a LoRA layer. Use `--exact-tensor-pattern` for changed matrices that the runtime does not wrap;
the extractor preserves them as exact `.diff` tensors instead of emitting factors that the runtime cannot apply. The
Wan patterns above cover its excluded condition embedders and its unwrapped output projection.

Exact CPU SVD remains the default. For a large transformer, stream its indexed safetensors and factorize on a GPU:

```bash
python scripts/lora_extraction/extract_lora.py \
  --base <base-model-or-path> \
  --ft <finetuned-model-or-path> \
  --out adapter_r64.safetensors \
  --rank 64 \
  --load-mode indexed \
  --device cuda:0 \
  --svd-method randomized \
  --randomized-q 320 \
  --niter 4 \
  --factor-dtype float16 \
  --dense-dtype float32 \
  --replacement-dtype source
```

`--load-mode indexed` downloads only `transformer/*` for a Hugging Face model and reads one base/fine-tuned tensor pair at a time. The default `auto` mode tries indexed loading first and falls back to the legacy FastVideo pipeline loader; `pipeline` selects the legacy loader directly.

Important options:

- `--base`, `--ft`: Hugging Face model IDs or local paths.
- `--rank`, `--full-rank`: truncated or full factorization rank.
- `--min-delta`: omit tensors whose maximum absolute FP32 delta is at or below this threshold (default: `1e-8`).
- `--device`: factorization device, such as `cpu` or `cuda:0`.
- `--svd-method`: `exact` or `randomized`.
- `--randomized-q`, `--niter`, `--seed`: randomized SVD accuracy and reproducibility.
- `--factor-dtype`, `--dense-dtype`, `--replacement-dtype`: adapter storage precision. Exact dense deltas default to `float32`.
- `--exact-tensor-pattern`: repeatable regex for a matrix that should remain an exact dense delta.
- `--base-revision`, `--ft-revision`: pin Hugging Face inputs in indexed mode; revisions are rejected for local paths and pipeline loading.
- `--work-dir`, `--resume`: resume an interrupted streaming extraction. Scratch is written to an
  output-specific namespace under `fastvideo-lora-extract/`, and only that namespace is cleaned up. Resume requires indexed
  safetensors and validates both checkpoints' index/shard fingerprints before reusing partial results.

The adapter retains changes that do not fit a low-rank product: `.diff` and `.diff_b` hold exact additive weight/bias deltas, `.diff_param` handles standalone parameters such as `scale_shift_table`, and `.set_weight`/`.set_param` hold parameters absent from the base checkpoint. Bit-identical parameters are omitted. The extractor writes an adjacent `*.report.json` with tensor counts, settings, and reconstruction residuals (`factorized_weighted_relative_residual` reports SVD truncation before
`--factor-dtype` casting; `factorized_weighted_reconstruction_relative_residual` reports the shipped factors'
fidelity including storage-precision loss).

For the validated MiniMax-H3 rank-64 command, including its exact-boundary patterns, see [`scripts/lora_extraction/README.md`](https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo/blob/main/scripts/lora_extraction/README.md).

Mixed low-rank/dense adapters produced by the generic extractor must be supplied when constructing FastVideo through
`ComponentConfig(lora_path=...)`; their dense payload cannot be swapped later with `set_lora_adapter`. The legacy
offline merger below retains its existing scope and is not part of this extraction workflow.

## Legacy Merge Adapter {#legacy-merge-adapter}

The command below documents the pre-existing merger for adapters it already supports. Do not pass a mixed adapter from
the generic extractor to it: the legacy merger does not apply the adapter's exact dense or replacement payloads.

```bash
python scripts/lora_extraction/merge_lora.py \
  --base Wan-AI/Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Diffusers \
  --adapter legacy_factor_only_adapter.safetensors \
  --ft FastVideo/FastWan2.2-TI2V-5B-FullAttn-Diffusers \
  --output merged_model
```

**Options:**

- `--base`: Base model (Hugging Face ID or local path)
- `--adapter`: LoRA adapter file (.safetensors)
- `--ft`: Fine-tuned model (for configuration)
- `--output`: Output directory

## Validate Quality (Optional) {#validate-quality-optional}

```bash
python scripts/lora_extraction/lora_inference_comparison.py \
  --base merged_model \
  --ft FastVideo/FastWan2.2-TI2V-5B-FullAttn-Diffusers \
  --adapter NONE \
  --output-dir results \
  --prompt "A cat sitting on a windowsill" \
  --seed 42 \
  --height 480 \
  --width 480 \
  --num-frames 49 \
  --num-inference-steps 32 \
  --compute-ssim \
  --compute-lpips
```

**Options:**

- `--base`: Merged model or base model path
- `--ft`: Fine-tuned model (reference)
- `--adapter`: Path to adapter or NONE
- `--output-dir`: Output directory
- `--prompt`: Text prompt (default: "A cat sitting on a windowsill")
- `--seed`: Random seed (default: 42)
- `--height`: Video height (default: 480)
- `--width`: Video width (default: 832)
- `--num-frames`: Number of frames (default: 49)
- `--num-inference-steps`: Inference steps (default: 32)
- `--compute-ssim`: Compute SSIM metric
- `--compute-lpips`: Compute LPIPS metric