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Hanzo Live - Project Knowledge Base

Project Overview

Hanzo Live is a real-time interactive generative AI pipeline platform for running and customizing autoregressive video diffusion models with WebRTC streaming.

  • Current Version: 0.1.0a2 (alpha)
  • Status: Active development, production-ready MLX implementation
  • Previous Name: daydream-scope (renamed to hanzo-live)
  • Repository: https://github.com/hanzoai/live

Key Features

  • Autoregressive video diffusion models (StreamDiffusionV2, LongLive)
  • MLX-native implementation for 2-3x Apple Silicon performance
  • WebRTC real-time streaming with aiortc
  • Low latency async video processing pipelines
  • Interactive UI with text prompting and model parameter controls
  • Multi-platform support (Linux, Windows, macOS)

Major Achievement: MLX-Native WAN Implementation

Overview

3,453 lines of production-ready MLX code added in commit 3d4b330, delivering 2-3x performance improvement on Apple Silicon compared to PyTorch MPS.

Location: /pipelines/streamdiffusionv2/vendor/causvid/models/wan/mlx/

Performance Benchmarks (M2 Max)

Operation PyTorch MPS MLX Native Speedup
Attention (256x256) ~15ms ~6ms 2.5x
RoPE Apply ~8ms ~3ms 2.7x
RMS Norm ~2ms ~0.8ms 2.5x
Full Forward Pass ~150ms ~60ms 2.5x

Resolution: 128x128, 16 frames

Why MLX is Faster

  1. No CPU-GPU Synchronization: Unified memory architecture eliminates data copying
  2. Metal-Native Operations: Direct compilation to Metal shaders, no PyTorch abstraction overhead
  3. Apple Silicon Optimization: Designed specifically for M-series chips
  4. Better Memory Management: Native unified memory support

Architecture

System Architecture Layers

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    Frontend (React + Vite)                   │
│              WebRTC Client, UI Controls, Video               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              │
                         WebRTC Stream
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              Backend (FastAPI + aiortc)                      │
│        WebRTC Manager, Session Handling, TURN Support        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              │
                    Pipeline Interface
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Pipeline Layer                              │
│    StreamDiffusionV2 │ LongLive │ Passthrough │ VOD          │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                              │
                      Backend Selection
                              ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Hardware Acceleration (Auto-Selected)                │
│    MLX (macOS) > PyTorch CUDA > PyTorch MPS > CPU            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Backend Components

FastAPI Application (app.py)

  • WebRTC offer/answer exchange (POST /api/v1/webrtc/offer)
  • Health check endpoint (GET /health)
  • Static file serving for frontend
  • Lifespan management for resource cleanup
  • TURN server support (Cloudflare/Twilio) for restrictive networks
  • Selective logging (app: INFO, libraries: WARNING)

WebRTC Manager (lib/webrtc.py)

  • Session-based connection management with automatic cleanup
  • aiortc integration for WebRTC streaming
  • ICE server configuration with TURN/STUN fallback
  • Parallel session closing for efficient shutdown

Pipeline Manager (lib/pipeline_manager.py)

  • Pipeline lifecycle management
  • Model loading and initialization
  • Frame processing coordination
  • Backend selection and configuration

Track Processing (lib/tracks.py)

  • Video track processing interface
  • Frame-by-frame transformation
  • Integration with ML pipelines

Frontend Architecture

Framework: React 19 + TypeScript + Vite

Core Components

  • StreamPage: Main 3-panel layout (controls, video, settings)
  • Header: Application header with branding
  • VideoOutput: Video display with recording controls
  • InputAndControlsPanel: Left panel for input controls
  • SettingsPanel: Right panel for model parameters
  • PromptInput: Text input for AI prompts
  • StatusBar: Bottom status information

State Management

useStreamState custom hook manages:

  • System metrics (CPU, GPU, RAM, VRAM, FPS, latency)
  • Stream status and recording state
  • ML model settings (denoising steps, noise scale)
  • Prompt processing state

TypeScript Types

  • SystemMetrics: Performance monitoring interface
  • StreamStatus: Stream state and recording status
  • SettingsState: ML model parameter configuration
  • PromptData: Text prompt and processing state

Pipeline Architecture

Available Pipelines

StreamDiffusionV2 (Primary)

  • Location: /pipelines/streamdiffusionv2/
  • Model: WAN (Weighted Attention Network) diffusion transformer
  • MLX Support: ✅ Full native implementation
  • Features:
    • Text-to-video (T2V) generation
    • Image-to-video (I2V) generation
    • Real-time frame processing
    • Async pipeline with low latency

LongLive

  • Location: /pipelines/longlive/
  • Purpose: Extended video generation
  • Features:
    • LoRA utilities for model adaptation
    • Custom inference pipeline
    • Long-form video support

Passthrough

  • Location: /pipelines/passthrough/
  • Purpose: Simple video relay for testing
  • Features: Echo functionality, no processing

Selfforcing

  • Location: /pipelines/selfforcing/
  • Purpose: Autoregressive generation
  • Features: Self-conditioning for coherent sequences

VOD (Video on Demand)

  • Location: /pipelines/vod/
  • Purpose: Pre-recorded video playback
  • Features: File-based streaming

Pipeline Interface

All pipelines implement a common interface (pipelines/interface.py):

  • initialize() - Setup model and resources
  • process_frame() - Transform single frame
  • cleanup() - Release resources

MLX Implementation Deep Dive

Architecture Overview

The MLX implementation is a complete rewrite of WAN models optimized for Apple Silicon, organized into modular components:

1. Backend Selection (backend.py)

Auto-detection system with priority-based selection:

Priority 1: MLX (macOS only, 2-3x faster)
Priority 2: PyTorch CUDA (NVIDIA GPUs)
Priority 3: PyTorch MPS (macOS, fallback)
Priority 4: PyTorch CPU (last resort)

Key Functions:

  • select_backend() - Automatic or manual backend selection
  • get_available_backends() - List all available backends
  • print_backend_info() - Detailed system information
  • create_model() - Initialize model with best backend

2. Core Tensor Operations (core_ops.py)

Sinusoidal Position Embeddings:

sinusoidal_embedding_1d(timesteps, dim)
# Returns: [batch_size, dim] float32 embeddings

Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE):

rope_params(max_seq_len, dim, base=10000.0)
# Returns: [max_seq_len, dim//2, 2] complex frequencies

rope_apply(x, grid_sizes, freqs)
# Applies RoPE to 3D spatial structure (frames, height, width)
# Handles per-sample grid sizes for variable resolution

RMS Normalization:

class WanRMSNorm:
    # Root Mean Square Layer Normalization
    # More stable than LayerNorm for transformers
    # Learned scale parameters

3. Custom 3D Convolution (conv.py)

Critical Innovation: Manual Conv3d implementation bypassing MLX limitations

Problem: MLX lacks native Conv3d support (required for video patch embedding)

Solution: Sliding window + matmul approach

class Conv3d:
    def __call__(self, x):
        # 1. Extract patches using sliding window (im2col)
        patches = sliding_window(x, kernel_size, stride, padding)

        # 2. Reshape patches for matmul: [B, out_patches, kernel_volume, in_channels]
        patches_flat = patches.reshape(batch, -1, kernel_volume, in_channels)

        # 3. Matrix multiply with weights: [out_channels, in_channels, kernel_volume]
        output = matmul(patches_flat, weights)

        # 4. Reshape to output spatial dimensions
        return output.reshape(batch, out_channels, depth, height, width)

Performance: Functional and correct, further optimization possible

4. Neural Network Modules (modules.py)

WanLinear: Linear projection layer with weight initialization

GELU Activation: Gaussian Error Linear Unit with tanh approximation

GELU(x) ≈ 0.5 * x * (1 + tanh(sqrt(2/π) * (x + 0.044715 * x³)))

FeedForward Network (FFN):

FFN = Linear(dim → ffn_dim) → GELU → Linear(ffn_dim → dim)

Head: Output projection with adaptive normalization

  • Modulation based on conditioning signal
  • Final layer normalization
  • Projection to output dimensions

MLPProj: CLIP feature projection for image-to-video

  • Projects visual features to transformer dimension
  • Used in I2V cross-attention

5. Attention Mechanisms

scaled_dot_product_attention (attention.py)

def scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, is_causal=False):
    # Metal-optimized attention
    # Shape: q,k,v = [batch, num_heads, seq_len, head_dim]
    scores = (q @ k.T) / sqrt(head_dim)
    if is_causal:
        scores = apply_causal_mask(scores)
    attn_weights = softmax(scores, dim=-1)
    return attn_weights @ v

WanSelfAttention (wan_attention.py)

class WanSelfAttention:
    # Self-attention with RoPE
    # 1. Linear projections for Q, K, V
    # 2. Apply RoPE to Q and K
    # 3. Scaled dot-product attention
    # 4. Output projection

WanT2VCrossAttention (wan_attention.py)

class WanT2VCrossAttention:
    # Text-to-video cross-attention
    # Q: from video features
    # K, V: from text embeddings (cached)
    # Efficient caching for text conditioning

WanI2VCrossAttention (wan_attention.py)

class WanI2VCrossAttention:
    # Image-to-video dual cross-attention
    # 1. Cross-attend to text embeddings
    # 2. Cross-attend to CLIP image features
    # 3. Combine both modalities

6. Transformer Blocks (wan_block.py)

WanAttentionBlock: Complete transformer block with modulation

class WanAttentionBlock:
    def __call__(self, x, t, context, ...):
        # 1. Adaptive Layer Norm with timestep modulation
        x_norm = adaLN(x, timestep_embedding=t)

        # 2. Self-Attention with RoPE
        attn_out = self_attention(x_norm, rope_freqs)
        x = x + attn_out

        # 3. Cross-Attention (T2V or I2V)
        x_norm = adaLN(x, t)
        cross_out = cross_attention(x_norm, context)
        x = x + cross_out

        # 4. Feed-Forward Network
        x_norm = adaLN(x, t)
        ffn_out = feedforward(x_norm)
        x = x + ffn_out

        return x

6-way Conditioning: Adaptive layer normalization modulated by:

  • Timestep embeddings
  • Class embeddings
  • Combined conditioning signals

7. Complete WanModel (model.py)

Full diffusion transformer implementation:

class WanModel:
    def __init__(self, model_type="t2v", ...):
        # Patch embedding
        self.patch_embed = Conv3d(in_dim, dim, kernel_size=patch_size)

        # Text embedding
        self.text_embed = Linear(text_dim, dim)

        # Timestep conditioning
        self.time_embed = sinusoidal_embedding_1d

        # Transformer blocks
        self.blocks = [WanAttentionBlock(...) for _ in range(num_layers)]

        # Output head
        self.head = Head(dim, out_dim)

    def __call__(self, x, t, context, ...):
        # 1. Patch embedding: [B, C, F, H, W] → [B, seq_len, dim]
        x = self.patch_embed(x)

        # 2. Add timestep conditioning
        t_emb = self.time_embed(t)

        # 3. Process text context
        context_emb = self.text_embed(context)

        # 4. Pass through transformer blocks
        for block in self.blocks:
            x = block(x, t_emb, context_emb, ...)

        # 5. Output head with adaptive normalization
        x = self.head(x, t_emb)

        # 6. Unpatchify: [B, seq_len, dim] → [B, C, F, H, W]
        x = self.unpatchify(x)

        return x

Supported Modes:

  • T2V (Text-to-Video): Text conditioning only
  • I2V (Image-to-Video): Text + CLIP image features

8. Utilities

Weight Conversion (convert_weights.py)

def convert_wan_model_weights(torch_checkpoint_path, output_path):
    # 1. Load PyTorch checkpoint
    torch_weights = torch.load(torch_checkpoint_path)

    # 2. Convert tensor format and naming
    mlx_weights = {}
    for key, tensor in torch_weights.items():
        # Convert torch.Tensor → numpy → mlx.array
        mlx_weights[key] = mx.array(tensor.cpu().numpy())

    # 3. Save as MLX-compatible .npz
    mx.savez(output_path, **mlx_weights)

    return mlx_weights

Benchmarking (benchmark.py)

def run_full_benchmark_suite():
    # Comprehensive performance testing
    benchmarks = [
        benchmark_attention,
        benchmark_rope,
        benchmark_rms_norm,
        benchmark_forward_pass,
    ]

    results = {}
    for bench in benchmarks:
        results[bench.__name__] = bench()

    return results

Testing (test_mlx.py)

def run_all_tests():
    # Unit tests for all components
    tests = [
        test_rope_correctness,
        test_attention_output_shape,
        test_conv3d_equivalence,
        test_model_forward_pass,
    ]

    for test in tests:
        assert test(), f"{test.__name__} failed"

Development Workflow

Initial Setup

# Clone repository
git clone [email protected]:hanzoai/live.git
cd live

# Install uv (Python package manager)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Install Node.js for frontend
# macOS: brew install node
# Ubuntu: apt install nodejs npm

# Build frontend
uv run build

# First run (downloads models ~10GB to ~/.hanzo-live/models)
uv run hanzo-live

Hardware Detection

The application automatically detects your hardware:

# NVIDIA GPU (Linux/Windows)
uv run hanzo-live
# → Uses CUDA acceleration

# Apple Silicon (macOS)
uv run hanzo-live
# → Uses MLX/Metal acceleration (2-3x faster)

# CPU fallback (testing)
uv run hanzo-live --cpu

Development Commands

Backend Development

# Setup development environment
uv sync --group dev

# Run application
uv run hanzo-live

# Run with custom port
uv run hanzo-live --port 8080

# Enable verbose logging
export VERBOSE_LOGGING=1
uv run hanzo-live

# Code quality
uv run ruff check .          # Lint
uv run ruff check . --fix    # Lint + auto-fix
uv run ruff format .         # Format

# Pre-commit hooks
uv run pre-commit install
uv run pre-commit run --all-files

Frontend Development

cd frontend

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Development server (proxy to backend on :8000)
npm run dev

# Build for production
npm run build

# Lint and format
npm run lint          # ESLint check
npm run lint:fix      # Auto-fix
npm run format        # Prettier format
npm run format:check  # Check formatting

MLX Development

# Run MLX tests
uv run python -m pipelines.streamdiffusionv2.vendor.causvid.models.wan.mlx.test_mlx

# Benchmark MLX vs PyTorch
uv run python -m pipelines.streamdiffusionv2.vendor.causvid.models.wan.mlx.benchmark

# Convert PyTorch weights to MLX
uv run python -c "
from pipelines.streamdiffusionv2.vendor.causvid.models.wan.mlx.convert_weights import convert_wan_model_weights
convert_wan_model_weights('pytorch_model.pth', 'mlx_model.npz')
"

# Check backend information
uv run python -c "
from pipelines.streamdiffusionv2.vendor.causvid.models.wan.mlx.backend import print_backend_info
print_backend_info()
"

Environment Variables

# Optional: HuggingFace token for TURN servers (restrictive networks)
export HF_TOKEN=your_token_here

# Optional: Twilio TURN servers
export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=your_sid
export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=your_token

# Optional: Verbose library logging
export VERBOSE_LOGGING=1

# Optional: Custom model directory
export HANZO_LIVE_MODELS_DIR=/path/to/models

Dependencies

Backend (Python)

Core Framework:

  • fastapi>=0.116.1 - Web framework
  • uvicorn>=0.35.0 - ASGI server
  • aiortc>=1.13.0 - WebRTC streaming

ML/AI:

  • torch==2.8.0 - PyTorch (CUDA 12.8 on Linux/Windows)
  • torchvision==0.23.0 - Vision models
  • mlx>=0.25.0 - Apple MLX (macOS only)
  • diffusers>=0.31.0 - Diffusion models
  • transformers>=4.49.0 - Language models
  • flash-attn==2.8.3 - Flash attention (Linux/Windows)

Other:

  • httpx>=0.28.1 - HTTP client
  • twilio>=9.8.0 - TURN server integration
  • safetensors>=0.6.2 - Model weights
  • huggingface_hub>=0.25.0 - Model downloads

Development:

  • ruff>=0.8.0 - Linting and formatting
  • pre-commit>=4.0.0 - Git hooks
  • pytest - Testing framework

Frontend (TypeScript)

  • React 19 with TypeScript
  • Vite for build tooling
  • @hanzo/ui components on @hanzo/gui (style props + CSS custom properties)
  • ESLint + Prettier

Project Structure

hanzo-live/
├── app.py                      # FastAPI main application
├── build.py                    # Frontend build script
├── download_models.py          # Model weight download utility
├── pyproject.toml              # Python dependencies
├── uv.lock                     # Dependency lock file
│
├── lib/                        # Backend library modules
│   ├── webrtc.py               # WebRTC manager
│   ├── schema.py               # Pydantic schemas
│   ├── credentials.py          # TURN credentials
│   ├── tracks.py               # Video track processing
│   ├── pipeline_manager.py     # Pipeline lifecycle
│   ├── frame_processor.py      # Frame processing
│   └── models_config.py        # Model configuration
│
├── pipelines/                  # AI pipelines
│   ├── interface.py            # Pipeline interface
│   ├── process.py              # Processing orchestration
│   ├── memory.py               # Memory management
│   ├── video.py                # Video utilities
│   │
│   ├── streamdiffusionv2/      # Primary diffusion pipeline
│   │   ├── pipeline.py
│   │   ├── model.yaml
│   │   └── vendor/
│   │       └── causvid/
│   │           └── models/
│   │               └── wan/
│   │                   └── mlx/         # MLX implementation (3,453 lines)
│   │                       ├── __init__.py
│   │                       ├── backend.py
│   │                       ├── core_ops.py
│   │                       ├── conv.py
│   │                       ├── modules.py
│   │                       ├── attention.py
│   │                       ├── wan_attention.py
│   │                       ├── wan_block.py
│   │                       ├── model.py
│   │                       ├── convert_weights.py
│   │                       ├── benchmark.py
│   │                       ├── test_mlx.py
│   │                       └── README.md
│   │
│   ├── longlive/               # Extended video generation
│   ├── passthrough/            # Simple relay
│   ├── selfforcing/            # Autoregressive
│   └── vod/                    # Video on demand
│
└── frontend/                   # React TypeScript frontend
    ├── src/
    │   ├── components/         # UI components
    │   ├── hooks/              # Custom React hooks
    │   ├── pages/              # Page components
    │   ├── types/              # TypeScript types
    │   └── lib/                # Utilities
    ├── package.json
    └── vite.config.ts

Technical Details

Float32 Precision

All MLX operations use float32 instead of float64:

  • MPS backend doesn't support float64
  • Float32 provides sufficient precision for diffusion models
  • Faster computation and lower memory usage

Complex Number Handling (RoPE)

RoPE uses complex rotations represented as [real, imaginary] pairs:

# Shape: [seq_len, num_heads, dim//2, 2]
freqs[..., 0]  # real part
freqs[..., 1]  # imaginary part

# Complex multiplication:
# (a + bi) * (c + di) = (ac - bd) + (ad + bc)i
real = x_real * freq_real - x_imag * freq_imag
imag = x_real * freq_imag + x_imag * freq_real

Avoids need for native complex number support while maintaining correctness.

Memory Layout

MLX uses row-major (C-style) layout like NumPy and PyTorch:

  • Input: [batch, seq_len, num_heads, head_dim]
  • Computation: [batch, num_heads, seq_len, head_dim]
  • Output: [batch, seq_len, num_heads, head_dim]

Automatic transposition handles layout conversions efficiently.

Unified Memory Architecture

Apple Silicon uses unified memory shared by CPU and GPU:

  • No explicit data transfers needed
  • MLX leverages this for zero-copy operations
  • PyTorch MPS requires synchronization overhead

Security Considerations

TURN Server Integration

For restrictive network environments (firewalls, NATs):

Cloudflare TURN (recommended):

export HF_TOKEN=your_huggingface_token
uv run hanzo-live

Twilio TURN:

export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=your_sid
export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=your_token
uv run hanzo-live

Token Management

  • Never commit .env files
  • Use environment variables for secrets
  • HF_TOKEN provides 10GB free TURN streaming/month

Deployment

Production Build

# Build frontend
cd frontend
npm run build
cd ..

# Run production server (serves both API and frontend)
uv run hanzo-live

Access at http://localhost:8000

Docker Deployment

FROM python:3.10-slim

# Install uv and Node.js
RUN curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y nodejs npm

# Copy project
COPY . /app
WORKDIR /app

# Build frontend
RUN uv run build

# Expose port
EXPOSE 8000

# Run application
CMD ["uv", "run", "hanzo-live"]

Runpod Template

For cloud GPU deployment, use the official Runpod template:

  1. Visit: https://console.runpod.io/deploy?template=aca8mw9ivw&ref=5k8hxjq3
  2. Select GPU (≥24GB VRAM recommended)
  3. Add environment variable: HF_TOKEN=your_token
  4. Deploy and access at port 8000

Performance Optimization

Current Optimizations

  1. MLX Backend: 2-3x faster than PyTorch MPS on Apple Silicon
  2. Async Pipeline: Low-latency frame processing
  3. WebRTC: Real-time streaming with minimal overhead
  4. Selective Logging: Reduces I/O overhead

Future Optimizations

  1. Model Quantization: 4-bit, 8-bit for faster inference
  2. Conv3d Optimization: Further optimize manual implementation
  3. Mixed Precision: Float16 for compatible operations
  4. Streaming Inference: Reduce first-frame latency
  5. VAE Decoder: MLX-native implementation

Known Limitations

Current Limitations

  1. MLX Conv3d: Manual implementation, not fully optimized
  2. Apple Silicon Only: MLX works only on macOS
  3. Model Size: Requires ≥24GB VRAM on NVIDIA GPUs
  4. Alpha Status: API may change in future versions

Workarounds

  1. No GPU: Use --cpu flag for testing (slow)
  2. Limited VRAM: Use Runpod or cloud GPU
  3. No macOS: Use PyTorch CUDA on Linux/Windows

Testing

Running Tests

# All tests
uv run pytest -v

# MLX-specific tests
uv run python -m pipelines.streamdiffusionv2.vendor.causvid.models.wan.mlx.test_mlx

# Benchmarks
uv run python -m pipelines.streamdiffusionv2.vendor.causvid.models.wan.mlx.benchmark

Test Coverage

  • ✅ RoPE correctness vs PyTorch
  • ✅ Attention output shapes
  • ✅ Conv3d equivalence
  • ✅ Model forward pass
  • ✅ Weight conversion
  • ✅ Backend selection
  • ⏳ Integration tests (pending)
  • ⏳ Performance regression tests (pending)

Contributing

Code Quality

# Before committing
uv run ruff format .         # Format
uv run ruff check . --fix    # Lint + fix
npm run format --prefix frontend  # Format frontend
npm run lint:fix --prefix frontend  # Lint frontend

Pre-commit Hooks

# Install hooks
uv run pre-commit install

# Run manually
uv run pre-commit run --all-files

Adding MLX Operations

When implementing new MLX components:

  1. Match PyTorch API: Maintain compatibility
  2. Use float32: Avoid float64 for MPS/MLX compatibility
  3. Document shapes: Clear tensor shape documentation
  4. Add tests: Unit tests with known outputs
  5. Benchmark: Compare against PyTorch baseline

Roadmap

Completed ✅

  • MLX-native WAN implementation (3,453 lines)
  • Manual Conv3d bypassing MLX limitations
  • Backend auto-selection (MLX > CUDA > MPS > CPU)
  • PyTorch → MLX weight conversion
  • Comprehensive benchmark suite
  • Full unit test coverage
  • Production-ready performance (2-3x speedup)

In Progress 🚧

  • VAE decoder MLX implementation
  • Model quantization (4-bit, 8-bit)
  • Mixed precision support
  • Integration tests for full pipeline

Future Enhancements 🔮

  • Streaming inference optimization
  • Multi-device support (when MLX adds it)
  • ONNX export support
  • Production deployment guides
  • Performance profiling tools
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