Summary
Image-to-video generation with Lightricks/LTX-2 now reaches Stage 1 and then fails while loading the unified VAE decoder for latent upsampling.
The unified Hugging Face VAE safetensors do not include per_channel_statistics.mean or per_channel_statistics.std. The decoder module initializes identity defaults for these values, but strict load still requires them to be present in the sanitized weights.
Reproduction
Run distilled I2V generation with Lightricks/LTX-2 and a source image. After Stage 1 completes, generation loads vae/decoder from the unified VAE checkpoint.
Actual result
ValueError: Missing 2 parameters:
per_channel_statistics.mean,
per_channel_statistics.std.
Expected result
The decoder should keep its identity per-channel statistics defaults when the unified checkpoint omits these optional statistics, allowing strict loading to continue.
Impact
Distilled I2V generation cannot proceed from Stage 1 latent upsampling to Stage 2 decoding with the current Lightricks/LTX-2 unified VAE checkpoint.
Summary
Image-to-video generation with Lightricks/LTX-2 now reaches Stage 1 and then fails while loading the unified VAE decoder for latent upsampling.
The unified Hugging Face VAE safetensors do not include per_channel_statistics.mean or per_channel_statistics.std. The decoder module initializes identity defaults for these values, but strict load still requires them to be present in the sanitized weights.
Reproduction
Run distilled I2V generation with Lightricks/LTX-2 and a source image. After Stage 1 completes, generation loads vae/decoder from the unified VAE checkpoint.
Actual result
ValueError: Missing 2 parameters:
per_channel_statistics.mean,
per_channel_statistics.std.
Expected result
The decoder should keep its identity per-channel statistics defaults when the unified checkpoint omits these optional statistics, allowing strict loading to continue.
Impact
Distilled I2V generation cannot proceed from Stage 1 latent upsampling to Stage 2 decoding with the current Lightricks/LTX-2 unified VAE checkpoint.