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+# 🧪 FastVideo & DMD Distillation: Development, Debugging, and Reproduction
+
+This guide provides streamlined instructions for working with the **FastVideo distillation** and **DMD (CausVid)** repositories, including development/debug branches, environment setup, dataset/model preparation, and execution scripts.
+
+---
+
+## 🔧 FastVideo Distill
+
+### 🔗 Branches
+
+- **Development branch:**  
+  [`yq/distill-dmd`](https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo/tree/yq/distill-dmd)
+
+- **Debug branch (fixed seed):**  
+  [`yq/distill-dmd-fixseed`](https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo/tree/yq/distill-dmd-fixseed)
+
+### 🛠️ Environment Setup
+
+Follow the official FastVideo installation instructions:  
+📄 [Create and activate a conda environment](https://hao-ai-lab.github.io/FastVideo/getting_started/installation.html#create-and-activate-a-conda-environment-for-fastvideo)
+
+### 📁 Dataset Preparation
+
+Ensure the dataset is available by running:
+
+```bash
+python scripts/huggingface/download_hf.py \
+  --repo_id=FastVideo/mini_i2v_dataset \
+  --local_dir=mini_i2v_dataset \
+  --repo_type=dataset
+```
+
+This downloads a minimal example dataset sufficient for running the distillation script.
+
+### 🚀 Distillation Script
+
+Use the same script for both `distill-dmd` and `distill-dmd-fixseed`:
+
+📄 [`v1_distill_dmd_wan.sh`](https://github.com/hao-ai-lab/FastVideo/blob/yq/distill-dmd/scripts/distill/v1_distill_dmd_wan.sh)
+
+### 🐛 Debugging Tip
+
+To set a breakpoint in fastvideo codebase:
+```python
+torch.distributed.breakpoint()
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🧩 DMD Official Repo (Forked)
+
+### 🔗 Branches
+
+- **Reproduce branch:**  
+  [`yq/debug`](https://github.com/BrianChen1129/CausVid/tree/yq/debug)
+
+- **Debug branch (with fixed seed):**  
+  [`yq/debug-fixseed`](https://github.com/BrianChen1129/CausVid/tree/yq/debug-fixseed)
+
+### 🛠️ Environment Setup
+
+- **For `yq/debug` (reproduce branch):**  
+  Follow the official DMD README instructions.
+
+- **For `yq/debug-fixseed`:**  
+  Use the same environment as FastVideo and then:
+
+```bash
+# Inside the FastVideo directory
+python setup.py develop
+
+# Then install any missing packages
+pip install <missing-packages>
+```
+
+### 📦 Model & Dataset
+
+- Download the **official Wan base model** and dataset from Hugging Face:  
+  📦 [mixkit_latents_lmdb](https://huggingface.co/tianweiy/CausVid/tree/main/mixkit_latents_lmdb)  
+  ➡️ Place the dataset under `checkpoints/`.
+
+### 🚀 Running Scripts
+
+- **Reproduce branch script (8-node run):**  
+  📄 [`dmd_8n_simple.sh`](https://github.com/BrianChen1129/CausVid/blob/yq/debug/local_scripts/dmd_8n_simple.sh)
+
+- **Debug branch script (fixed seed and input):**  
+  📄 [`debug.sh`](https://github.com/BrianChen1129/CausVid/blob/yq/debug-fixseed/local_scripts/debug.sh)
+
+---