WAN 2.1 Repurposed into a Multi-Task Vision Model
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-07-15
This post discusses an open-source model effort jokingly dubbed "Abadon generative models", praising a technical pivot in the multimodal/generative space.
Key points include:
- Built upon Alibaba's open-weights video generation model, WAN 2.1.
- Modifying DiT to act as a feature extractor capable of handling multiple visual tasks.
- Fine-tuning the model to achieve strong performance in image-to-image and various other visual tasks.
- Applying tricks similar to Rothko Raymap for high-dimensional tasks like Camera Pose Estimation.
The overarching message is that repurposing a generative foundation model can yield exceptional performance across a wide array of visual tasks.
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