Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive: A Suite of Autoregressive-based World Foundation Models
Model Overview
Description:
Cosmos World Foundation Models: A family of highly performant pre-trained world foundation models purpose-built for generating physics-aware videos and world states for physical AI development.
The Cosmos autoregressive models are a collection of pre-trained world foundation models that are ideal for predicting and rapidly generating video sequences from video or image inputs for physical AI. They can serve as the building block for various applications or research that are related to world generation. The models are ready for commercial use under NVIDIA Open Model license agreement.
Model Developer: NVIDIA
Model Versions
In Cosmos 1.0 release, the Cosmos Autoregressive WFM family includes the following models:
- Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-4B
- Given a 9-frame input video, predicts the future 24 frames.
- Given an image as the first frame, predicts the future 32 frames.
- Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-5B-Video2World
- Given text description and a 9-frame input video, predicts the future 24 frames.
- Given text description and an image as the first frame, predicts the future 32 frames.
- Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-12B)
- Given a 9-frame input video, predicts the future 24 frames.
- Given an image as the first frame, predicts the future 32 frames.
- Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-13B-Video2World
- Given text description and a 9-frame input video, predicts the future 24 frames.
- Given text description and an image as the first frame, predicts the future 32 frames.
License:
This model is released under the
NVIDIA Open Model License. For a custom license, please contact
cosmos-license@nvidia.com.
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- Models are commercially usable.
- You are free to create and distribute Derivative Models.
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Important Note: If you bypass, disable, reduce the efficacy of, or circumvent any technical limitation,
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- Cosmos-1.0-Guardrail is the safety guardrail for this model.
Model Architecture:
Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-12B is an autoregressive transformer model designed for world generation. The network is composed of interleaved self-attention and feedforward layers as its building blocks.
Input/Output Specifications
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Input
- Input Type(s): Video
- Input Format(s): mp4
- Input Parameters: Three-dimensional (3D)
- Other Properties Related to Input: The input video should be of 1024x640 resolution with at least 9 frames.
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Output
- Output Type(s): Video
- Output Format(s): mp4
- Output Parameters: Three-dimensional (3D)
- Other Properties Related to Output: The generated video will be a 24-frame clip with a resolution of 1024x640 pixels, conditioned on the first 9 frames of the input video.
Software Integration:
Runtime Engine(s):
Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:
- NVIDIA Blackwell
- NVIDIA Hopper
- NVIDIA Ampere
Note: We have only tested doing inference with BF16 precision.
Operating System(s):
- Linux (We have not tested on other operating systems.)
Usage
Evaluation
Please see our
technical paper for detailed evaluations.
Inference Time and GPU Memory Usage
These numbers may vary based on system specifications and are provided for reference only.
| Offloading Strategy | Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-4B | Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-12B |
|---|
| No offloading | 31.3 GB | 47.5 GB |
| Guardrails | 28.9 GB | 45.2 GB |
| Guardrails & Diffusion decoder | 28.5 GB | 43.1 GB |
| Guardrails & Diffusion decoder & Tokenizer | 27.3 GB | 42.9 GB |
| Guardrails & Diffusion decoder & Tokenizer & AR model | 18.7 GB | 27.4 GB |
End-to-end inference runtime on one H100 without offloading and after model initialization:
| Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-4B | Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-12B |
|---|
| ~62 seconds | ~119 seconds |
Failure Analysis
Our models now support video extension up to 33 frames. Starting from either a single image or a 9-frame video input, it can generate the remaining frames to reach the 33-frame length (generating 32 or 24 frames respectively).
We have evaluated all eight possible configurations (4 models × 2 vision input types: image or video) using 100 test videos from physical AI domains. Below are the failure rates for each configuration:
| Model | Image input | Video input (9 frames) |
|---|
| Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-4B | 15% | 1% |
| Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-5B-Video2World | 7% | 2% |
| Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-12B | 2% | 1% |
| Cosmos-1.0-Autoregressive-13B-Video2World | 3% | 0% |
We define failure cases as videos with severe distortions, such as:
- Sudden appearance of large unexpected objects
- Video degrading to a single solid color
Note that the following are not considered failures in our analysis:
- Static video frames
- Minor object distortions or artifacts
Ethical Considerations
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- Verified to comply with applicable privacy labeling requirements.
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Bias
| Field | Response |
|---|
| Participation considerations from adversely impacted groups protected classes in model design and testing: | None |
| Measures taken to mitigate against unwanted bias: | None |
Explainability
| Field | Response |
|---|
| Intended Application & Domain: | World Generation |
| Model Type: | Transformer |
| Intended Users: | Physical AI developers |
| Output: | Videos |
| Describe how the model works: | Generates videos based on video inputs |
| Technical Limitations: | The model may not follow the video input accurately. |
| Verified to have met prescribed NVIDIA quality standards: | Yes |
| Performance Metrics: | Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation |
| Potential Known Risks: | The model's output can generate all forms of videos, including what may be considered toxic, offensive, or indecent. |
| Licensing: | NVIDIA Open Model License |
Privacy
| Field | Response |
|---|
| Generatable or reverse engineerable personal information? | None Known |
| Protected class data used to create this model? | None Known |
| Was consent obtained for any personal data used? | None Known |
| How often is dataset reviewed? | Before Release |
| Is a mechanism in place to honor data subject right of access or deletion of personal data? | Not Applicable |
| If personal data was collected for the development of the model, was it collected directly by NVIDIA? | Not Applicable |
| If personal data was collected for the development of the model by NVIDIA, do you maintain or have access to disclosures made to data subjects? | Not Applicable |
| If personal data was collected for the development of this AI model, was it minimized to only what was required? | Not Applicable |
| Is there provenance for all datasets used in training? | Yes |
| Does data labeling (annotation, metadata) comply with privacy laws? | Yes |
| Is data compliant with data subject requests for data correction or removal, if such a request was made? | Not Applicable |
Safety
| Field | Response |
|---|
| Model Application(s): | World Generation |
| Describe the life critical impact (if present). | None Known |
| Use Case Restrictions: | NVIDIA Open Model License |
| Model and dataset restrictions: | The Principle of least privilege (PoLP) is applied limiting access for dataset generation and model development. Restrictions enforce dataset access during training, and dataset license constraints adhered to. Model checkpoints are made available on Hugging Face, and may become available on cloud providers' model catalog. |
