Sber's Kandinsky team open-sources Time Adapter for temporally consistent video generation

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Sber's Kandinsky team introduced Time Adapter, a lightweight add-on under 1% of the base model's size that gives video generation models explicit control over frame rate (15-60 fps) and the dynamics of scene events. On Kandinsky 5.0 Video Lite it improved movement naturalness by 29%, visual quality by 8%, and prompt accuracy by 19%; code is released on Hugging Face under the MIT license, with a paper presented at ICML.

Why it matters

Temporal control is a known weak spot of video diffusion models; a tiny plug-in module that fixes frame-rate and dynamics without retraining the base model is a practical, open-licensed contribution from a Russian lab presented at a top-tier venue.

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Notable open-source contribution to video temporal control, ICML paper

kandinsky video-generation russia open-source

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official Sber researchers teach neural networks to understand the passage of time in video generation

media Researchers at Sber taught neural networks to understand the flow of time in video generation

media Sber taught video neural networks to better understand the passage of time