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+# Diffusion Model Fine-tuning with Automodel Backend
+
+Train diffusion models with distributed training support using NeMo Automodel and flow matching.
+
+**Currently Supported:** Wan 2.1 Text-to-Video (1.3B and 14B models)
+
+---
+
+## Quick Start
+
+### 1. Docker Setup
+
+```bash
+# Build image
+docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.ci -t dfm-training .
+
+# Run container
+docker run --gpus all -it \
+  -v $(pwd):/workspace \
+  -v /path/to/data:/data \
+  --ipc=host \
+  --ulimit memlock=-1 \
+  --ulimit stack=67108864 \
+  dfm-training bash
+
+# Inside container: Initialize submodules
+export UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=
+git submodule update --init --recursive 3rdparty/
+```
+
+### 2. Prepare Data
+
+We provide two ways to prepare your dataset:
+
+- Start with raw videos: Place your `.mp4` files in a folder and use our data-preparation scripts to scan the videos and generate a `meta.json` entry for each sample (which includes `width`, `height`, `start_frame`, `end_frame`, and a caption). If you have captions, you can also include per-video named `<video>.jsonl`; the scripts will pick up the text automatically. The final dataset layout is shown below.
+- Bring your own `meta.json`: If you already have annotations, create `meta.json` yourself following the schema shown below.
+
+**Create video dataset:**
+In the following exaample we use two video files, solely for demonstration purposes. Actual training datasets will have a large number of files.
+```
+<your_video_folder>/
+├── video1.mp4
+├── video2.mp4
+└── meta.json
+```
+
+**meta.json format:**
+```json
+[
+  {
+    "file_name": "video1.mp4",
+    "width": 1280,
+    "height": 720,
+    "start_frame": 0,
+    "end_frame": 121,
+    "vila_caption": "A detailed description of the video1.mp4 contents..."
+  },
+  {
+    "file_name": "video2.mp4",
+    "width": 1280,
+    "height": 720,
+    "start_frame": 0,
+    "end_frame": 12,
+    "vila_caption": "A detailed description of the video2.mp4 contents..."
+  }
+]
+```
+
+**Preprocess videos to .meta files:**
+
+There are two preprocessing modes. Use this guide to choose the right mode:
+
+- **Full Video (`--mode video`)**
+  - **What it is**: Converts each source video into a single `.meta` that preserves the full temporal sequence as latents. Training can sample temporal windows/clips from the sequence on the fly.
+  - **When to use**: Fine-tuning text-to-video models where motion and temporal consistency matter. This is the recommended default for most training runs.
+
+- **Extract frames (`--mode frames`)**
+  - **What it is**: Uniformly samples `N` frames per video and writes each as its own one-frame `.meta` sample (no temporal continuity).
+  - **When to use**: Image/frame-level training objectives, quick smoke tests, or ablations where learning motion is not required.
+
+**Mode 1: Full video (recommended for training)**
+```bash
+python dfm/src/automodel/utils/data/preprocess_resize.py \
+  --mode video \
+  --video_folder <your_video_folder> \
+  --output_folder ./processed_meta \
+  --model Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers \
+  --height 480 \
+  --width 720 \
+  --center-crop
+```
+
+**Mode 2: Extract frames (for frame-based training)**
+```bash
+python dfm/src/automodel/utils/data/preprocess_resize.py \
+  --mode frames \
+  --num-frames 40 \
+  --video_folder <your_video_folder> \
+  --output_folder ./processed_frames \
+  --model Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers \
+  --height 240 \
+  --width 416 \
+  --center-crop
+```
+
+**Key arguments:**
+- `--mode`: `video` (full video) or `frames` (extract evenly-spaced frames)
+- `--num-frames`: Number of frames to extract (only for `frames` mode)
+- `--height/--width`: Target resolution
+- `--center-crop`: Crop to exact size after aspect-preserving resize
+
+**Preprocessing modes:**
+- **`video` mode**: Processes entire video sequence, creates one `.meta` file per video
+- **`frames` mode**: Extracts N evenly-spaced frames, creates one `.meta` file per frame (treated as 1-frame videos)
+
+**Output:** Creates `.meta` files containing:
+- Encoded video latents (normalized)
+- Text embeddings (from UMT5)
+- First frame as JPEG (video mode only)
+- Metadata
+
+### 3. Train
+
+**Single-node (8 GPUs):**
+```bash
+export UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT=
+
+uv run --group automodel --with . \
+  torchrun --nproc-per-node=8 \
+  examples/automodel/finetune/finetune.py \
+  -c examples/automodel/finetune/wan2_1_t2v_flow.yaml
+```
+
+**Multi-node with SLURM:**
+```bash
+#!/bin/bash
+#SBATCH -N 2
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node 1
+#SBATCH --gpus-per-node=8
+#SBATCH --exclusive
+
+export MASTER_ADDR=$(scontrol show hostnames $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST | head -n 1)
+export MASTER_PORT=29500
+export NUM_GPUS=8
+
+# Per-rank UV cache to avoid conflicts
+unset UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT
+mkdir -p /opt/uv_cache/${SLURM_JOB_ID}_${SLURM_PROCID}
+export UV_CACHE_DIR=/opt/uv_cache/${SLURM_JOB_ID}_${SLURM_PROCID}
+
+uv run --group automodel --with . \
+  torchrun \
+  --nnodes=$SLURM_NNODES \
+  --nproc-per-node=$NUM_GPUS \
+  --rdzv_backend=c10d \
+  --rdzv_endpoint=$MASTER_ADDR:$MASTER_PORT \
+  examples/automodel/finetune/finetune.py \
+  -c examples/automodel/finetune/wan2_1_t2v_flow_multinode.yaml
+```
+
+### 4. Validate
+
+Use this step to perform a quick qualitative check of a trained checkpoint. The validation script:
+- Reads prompts from `.meta` files in `--meta_folder` (uses `metadata.vila_caption`; latents are ignored).
+- Loads the `WanPipeline` and, if provided, restores weights from `--checkpoint` (prefers `ema_shadow.pt`, then `consolidated_model.bin`, then sharded FSDP `model/*.distcp`).
+- Generates short videos for each prompt with the specified settings (`--guidance_scale`, `--num_inference_steps`, `--height/--width`, `--num_frames`, `--fps`, `--seed`) and writes them to `--output_dir`.
+- Intended for qualitative comparison across checkpoints; it does not compute quantitative metrics.
+
+```bash
+uv run --group automodel --with . \
+  python examples/automodel/generate/wan_validate.py \
+  --meta_folder <your_meta_folder> \
+  --guidance_scale 5 \
+  --checkpoint ./checkpoints/step_1000 \
+  --num_samples 10
+```
+
+**Note:** You can use `--checkpoint ./checkpoints/LATEST` to automatically use the most recent checkpoint.
+
+---
+
+## Configuration
+
+### Fine-tuning Config (`wan2_1_t2v_flow.yaml`)
+
+Note: The inline configuration below is provided for quick reference. The canonical, up-to-date files are maintained in the repository: [examples/automodel/](../../examples/automodel/), [examples/automodel/finetune/wan2_1_t2v_flow.yaml](../../examples/automodel/finetune/wan2_1_t2v_flow.yaml), and [examples/automodel/finetune/wan2_1_t2v_flow_multinode.yaml](../../examples/automodel/finetune/wan2_1_t2v_flow_multinode.yaml).
+
+```yaml
+model:  # Base pretrained model to fine-tune
+  pretrained_model_name_or_path: Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers  # HF repo or local path
+
+step_scheduler:  # Global training schedule
+  global_batch_size: 8  # Effective batch size across all GPUs
+  local_batch_size: 1  # Per-GPU batch size
+  num_epochs: 10  # Number of passes over the dataset
+  ckpt_every_steps: 100  # Save a checkpoint every N steps
+
+data:  # Data input configuration
+  dataloader:  # DataLoader parameters
+    meta_folder: "<your_processed_meta_folder>"  # Folder containing .meta files
+    num_workers: 2  # Worker processes per rank
+
+optim:  # Optimizer/training hyperparameters
+  learning_rate: 5e-6  # Base learning rate
+
+flow_matching:  # Flow-matching training settings
+  timestep_sampling: "uniform"  # Strategy for sampling timesteps
+  flow_shift: 3.0  # Scalar shift applied to the target flow
+
+fsdp:  # Distributed training (e.g., FSDP) configuration
+  dp_size: 8  # Total data-parallel replicas (single node: 8 GPUs)
+
+checkpoint:  # Checkpointing behavior
+  enabled: true  # Enable periodic checkpoint saving
+  checkpoint_dir: "./checkpoints"  # Output directory for checkpoints
+```
+
+### Multi-node Config Differences
+
+```yaml
+fsdp:  # Overrides for multi-node runs
+  dp_size: 16           # Total data-parallel replicas (2 nodes × 8 GPUs)
+  dp_replicate_size: 2  # Number of replicated groups across nodes
+```
+
+### Pretraining vs Fine-tuning
+
+| Setting | Fine-tuning | Pretraining |
+|---------|-------------|-------------|
+| `learning_rate` | 5e-6 | 5e-5 |
+| `weight_decay` | 0.01 | 0.1 |
+| `flow_shift` | 3.0 | 2.5 |
+| `logit_std` | 1.0 | 1.5 |
+| Dataset size | 100s-1000s | 10K+ |
+
+---
+
+## Hardware Requirements
+
+| Component | Minimum | Recommended |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| GPU | A100 40GB | A100 80GB / H100 |
+| GPUs | 4 | 8+ |
+| RAM | 128 GB | 256 GB+ |
+| Storage | 500 GB SSD | 2 TB NVMe |
+
+---
+
+## Features
+
+- ✅ **Flow Matching**: Pure flow matching training
+- ✅ **Distributed**: FSDP2 + Tensor Parallelism
+- ✅ **Mixed Precision**: BF16 by default
+- ✅ **WandB**: Automatic logging
+- ✅ **Checkpointing**: consolidated, and sharded formats
+- ✅ **Multi-node**: SLURM and torchrun support
+
+---
+
+## Supported Models
+
+| Model | Parameters | Parallelization | Status |
+|-------|------------|-----------------|--------|
+| Wan 2.1 T2V 1.3B | 1.3B | FSDP2 via Automodel + DDP | ✅ |
+| Wan 2.1 T2V 14B | 14B | FSDP2 via Automodel + DDP | ✅ |
+| FLUX | TBD | TBD | 🔄 In Progress |
+
+---
+
+## Advanced
+
+**Custom parallelization:**
+```yaml
+fsdp:
+  tp_size: 2  # Tensor parallel
+  dp_size: 4  # Data parallel
+```
+
+**Checkpoint cleanup:**
+```python
+from pathlib import Path
+import shutil
+
+def cleanup_old_checkpoints(checkpoint_dir, keep_last_n=3):
+    checkpoints = sorted(Path(checkpoint_dir).glob("step_*"))
+    for old_ckpt in checkpoints[:-keep_last_n]:
+        shutil.rmtree(old_ckpt)
+```