Refactor generate.py to ensure temporal coordinates and position grids are processed in bfloat16 for consistency with PyTorch's precision behavior. Update denoise_dev_av function to apply standard ratio rescaling for audio and video guidance, enhancing numerical fidelity and model compatibility.

mlx_video/generate.py

@@ -236,15 +236,16 @@ def create_position_grid(
             a_max=None
         )
 
-    # Compute temporal division in bfloat16 to match PyTorch's precision behavior
+    # Divide temporal coords by fps
-    # This ensures RoPE frequencies are computed identically to the reference implementation
+    pixel_coords[:, 0, :, :] = pixel_coords[:, 0, :, :] / fps
-    temporal_coords = mx.array(pixel_coords[:, 0, :, :], dtype=mx.bfloat16)
-    fps_bf16 = mx.array(fps, dtype=mx.bfloat16)
-    temporal_coords = temporal_coords / fps_bf16
-    mx.eval(temporal_coords)
-    pixel_coords[:, 0, :, :] = np.array(temporal_coords.astype(mx.float32))
 
-    return mx.array(pixel_coords, dtype=mx.float32)
+    # Cast entire position grid through bfloat16 to match PyTorch's behavior.
+    # PyTorch does: positions = positions.to(bfloat16) on ALL coordinates before
+    # passing to the transformer/RoPE. This quantization is what the model was
+    # trained with, so we must replicate it for numerical fidelity.
+    positions_bf16 = mx.array(pixel_coords, dtype=mx.bfloat16)
+    mx.eval(positions_bf16)
+    return positions_bf16.astype(mx.float32)
 
 
 def create_audio_position_grid(
@@ -270,7 +271,10 @@ def create_audio_position_grid(
     positions = positions[np.newaxis, np.newaxis, :, :]
     positions = np.tile(positions, (batch_size, 1, 1, 1))
 
-    return mx.array(positions, dtype=mx.float32)
+    # Cast through bfloat16 to match PyTorch's precision behavior
+    positions_bf16 = mx.array(positions, dtype=mx.bfloat16)
+    mx.eval(positions_bf16)
+    return positions_bf16.astype(mx.float32)
 
 
 def compute_audio_frames(num_video_frames: int, fps: float) -> int:
@@ -735,10 +739,16 @@ def denoise_dev_av(
                 # Always use standard CFG for audio
                 audio_x0_guided_f32 = audio_x0_pos_f32 + (cfg_scale - 1.0) * (audio_x0_pos_f32 - audio_x0_neg_f32)
 
-                # Apply CFG rescale if enabled
+                # Apply CFG rescale if enabled (std-ratio rescaling to reduce over-saturation)
+                # factor = rescale * (cond_std / pred_std) + (1 - rescale)
+                # pred = pred * factor
                 if cfg_rescale > 0.0:
-                    video_x0_guided_f32 = cfg_rescale * video_x0_pos_f32 + (1.0 - cfg_rescale) * video_x0_guided_f32
+                    v_factor = video_x0_pos_f32.std() / (video_x0_guided_f32.std() + 1e-8)
-                    audio_x0_guided_f32 = cfg_rescale * audio_x0_pos_f32 + (1.0 - cfg_rescale) * audio_x0_guided_f32
+                    v_factor = cfg_rescale * v_factor + (1.0 - cfg_rescale)
+                    video_x0_guided_f32 = video_x0_guided_f32 * v_factor
+                    a_factor = audio_x0_pos_f32.std() / (audio_x0_guided_f32.std() + 1e-8)
+                    a_factor = cfg_rescale * a_factor + (1.0 - cfg_rescale)
+                    audio_x0_guided_f32 = audio_x0_guided_f32 * a_factor
             else:
                 video_x0_guided_f32 = video_x0_pos_f32
                 audio_x0_guided_f32 = audio_x0_pos_f32

mlx_video/models/ltx/config.py

@@ -147,6 +147,12 @@ class LTXModelConfig(BaseModelConfig):
         if self.audio_positional_embedding_max_pos is None:
             self.audio_positional_embedding_max_pos = [20]
 
+        # PyTorch LTX-2 configurator has a bug: it reads "frequencies_precision"
+        # instead of "rope_double_precision" from the config, so double_precision_rope
+        # is always False in PyTorch regardless of what the config file says. Since the
+        # model was trained with this behavior, we must match it.
+        self.double_precision_rope = False
+
         # Convert string enum values if loading from dict
         if isinstance(self.model_type, str):
             self.model_type = LTXModelType(self.model_type)

mlx_video/models/ltx/rope.py

@@ -399,6 +399,14 @@ def precompute_freqs_cis(
             num_attention_heads, rope_type
         )
 
+    # Cast positions to bfloat16 to match PyTorch's behavior.
+    # In PyTorch, positions are in bfloat16 (model dtype) during the entire
+    # generate_freqs computation — fractional positions, scaling, etc. are all
+    # computed in bfloat16. The multiplication with float32 freq_indices then
+    # upcasts to float32. This precision behavior is what the model was trained
+    # with, so we must replicate it.
+    indices_grid = indices_grid.astype(mx.bfloat16)
+
     # Generate frequency indices
     indices = generate_freq_grid(theta, indices_grid.shape[1], dim)