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SANA-Video 2.0: Hybrid Linear Attention with Attention Residuals for Efficient Video Generation

Research Multimodal & Generative

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TL;DR - SANA-Video 2.0 is a 5B/14B hybrid-attention video diffusion transformer that targets softmax-level quality with linear-attention efficiency. It enables high-quality 720p generation on a single GPU while substantially reducing latency.

  • Combines gated linear attention with periodic softmax anchors at a 3:1 ratio to preserve efficient long-sequence scaling and full-rank interactions.
  • Block Attention Residuals reuse anchor features across layers, increasing deep-layer effective rank by about 12%.
  • The 14B model scores 84.30 on VBench in 13.2 seconds at 480p using 40 sampling steps on one H100.
  • A compiled forward pass is 3.2× faster than matched full-softmax attention at 720p/60s; additional Sol-Engine optimizations accelerate the backbone by 3.58×.

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SANA-Video 2.0: Hybrid Linear Attention with Attention Residuals for Efficient Video Generation

arXiv cs.CV Junsong Chen, Jincheng Yu, Yitong Li, Shuchen Xue, Haozhe Liu, Jingyu Xin, Yuyang Zhao, Tian Ye, Zhangjie Wu, Zian Wang, Daquan Zhou, Ping Luo, Song Han, Enze Xie 2026-07-23 arXiv:2607.21553

TL;DR - SANA-Video 2.0 is a 5B/14B hybrid-attention video diffusion transformer that targets softmax-level quality with linear-attention efficiency. It enables high-quality 720p generation on a single GPU while substantially reducing latency.

  • Combines gated linear attention with periodic softmax anchors at a 3:1 ratio to preserve efficient long-sequence scaling and full-rank interactions.
  • Block Attention Residuals reuse anchor features across layers, increasing deep-layer effective rank by about 12%.
  • The 14B model scores 84.30 on VBench in 13.2 seconds at 480p using 40 sampling steps on one H100.
  • A compiled forward pass is 3.2× faster than matched full-softmax attention at 720p/60s; additional Sol-Engine optimizations accelerate the backbone by 3.58×.
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