From 2681f75d2f77204c890b6dede13f8b3abe096835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prince Canuma <prince.gdt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:56:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor LTXModel to include a from_pretrained class method
 for loading and sanitizing model weights. Update generate.py to utilize this
 method, streamlining the transformer loading process and improving code
 clarity.

---
 mlx_video/generate.py       | 12 +++++------
 mlx_video/models/ltx/ltx.py | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mlx_video/generate.py b/mlx_video/generate.py
index 1ac4508..8c99153 100644
--- a/mlx_video/generate.py
+++ b/mlx_video/generate.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ console = Console()
 from mlx_video.models.ltx.config import LTXModelConfig, LTXModelType, LTXRopeType
 from mlx_video.models.ltx.ltx import LTXModel
 from mlx_video.models.ltx.transformer import Modality
-from mlx_video.convert import sanitize_transformer_weights
+
 from mlx_video.utils import to_denoised, load_image, prepare_image_for_encoding, get_model_path
 from mlx_video.models.ltx.video_vae.decoder import load_vae_decoder
 from mlx_video.models.ltx.video_vae.encoder import load_vae_encoder
@@ -891,9 +891,7 @@ def generate_video(
     # Load transformer
     transformer_desc = f"🤖 Loading {pipeline_name.lower()} transformer{' (A/V mode)' if audio else ''}..."
     with console.status(f"[blue]{transformer_desc}[/]", spinner="dots"):
-        raw_weights = mx.load(str(model_path / weight_file))
-        sanitized = sanitize_transformer_weights(raw_weights)
-        sanitized = {k: v.astype(mx.bfloat16) if v.dtype == mx.float32 else v for k, v in sanitized.items()}
+        
 
         model_type = LTXModelType.AudioVideo if audio else LTXModelType.VideoOnly
 
@@ -925,9 +923,9 @@ def generate_video(
             )
 
         config = LTXModelConfig(**config_kwargs)
-        transformer = LTXModel(config)
-        transformer.load_weights(list(sanitized.items()), strict=False)
-        mx.eval(transformer.parameters())
+
+        transformer = LTXModel.from_pretrained(model_path=model_path/weight_file, config=config, strict=True)
+
     console.print("[green]✓[/] Transformer loaded")
 
     # ==========================================================================
diff --git a/mlx_video/models/ltx/ltx.py b/mlx_video/models/ltx/ltx.py
index c7c51a2..f083485 100644
--- a/mlx_video/models/ltx/ltx.py
+++ b/mlx_video/models/ltx/ltx.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
 
 import mlx.core as mx
 import mlx.nn as nn
-
+from pathlib import Path    
 from mlx_video.models.ltx.config import (
     LTXModelConfig,
     LTXModelType,
@@ -497,19 +497,50 @@ class LTXModel(nn.Module):
 
     def sanitize(self, weights: dict) -> dict:
         sanitized = {}
+
         for key, value in weights.items():
             new_key = key
+            # Skip non-transformer weights (VAE, vocoder, audio_vae, connectors)
+            if not key.startswith("model.diffusion_model.") or "audio_embeddings_connector" in key or "video_embeddings_connector" in key:
+                continue
+
+            # Remove 'model.diffusion_model.' prefix
+            new_key = new_key.replace("model.diffusion_model.", "")
+
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".to_out.0.", ".to_out.")
+
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".ff.net.0.proj.", ".ff.proj_in.")
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".ff.net.2.", ".ff.proj_out.")
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".audio_ff.net.0.proj.", ".audio_ff.proj_in.")
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".audio_ff.net.2.", ".audio_ff.proj_out.")
+
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".linear_1.", ".linear1.")
+            new_key = new_key.replace(".linear_2.", ".linear2.")
 
-            # Handle common remappings
-            # transformer_blocks.X -> transformer_blocks[X]
-            if "transformer_blocks." in new_key:
-                # Keep as-is for now, MLX handles this
-                pass
 
             sanitized[new_key] = value
 
         return sanitized
 
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, model_path: [Path, List[Path]], config: LTXModelConfig, strict: bool = True) -> None:
+        model = cls(config)
+
+        weights = {}
+        if isinstance(model_path, Path):
+            model_path = [model_path]
+        for weight_file in model_path:
+            weights.update(mx.load(str(weight_file)))
+
+
+        sanitized = model.sanitize(weights)
+        sanitized = {k: v.astype(mx.bfloat16) if v.dtype == mx.float32 else v for k, v in sanitized.items()}
+
+        model.load_weights(list(sanitized.items()), strict=strict)
+        mx.eval(model.parameters())
+        model.eval()
+        return model
+
 
 class X0Model(nn.Module):