The runbook now gives the FASTVIDEO_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN
FASTVIDEO_FA4=1 launch prefix and the SDPA fallback, the tier override,
and measured GB200 timings and memory. The example selects the bucket
with --resolution/--aspect, the frame count with --duration, and
--offload resident|lazy.
Expose the exported H3 NVFP4 VAE decoder through ComponentConfig and map it to FastVideoArgs, alongside the existing text-encoder weight override. Add example flags and docs for the 36L quality and 8L fast decoder tiers, including the 8L depth-cut and no-NVFP4-VAE-encoder caveats. Add compat translation tests.
Remove the unsupported pipeline.preset selection from the example; the compatibility adapter rejects it before model loading. Load the last image as a PIL image because the request adapter does not do it for the stage. Document that the local Ref2VA path enforces reference counts and the 22-frame video floor, but not Pika's hosted per-clip/per-modality duration caps.
Add Pika H3 Flex (MiniMax-H3 plus the released fl2va/ref2va rank-128 adapters) as a FastVideo model family: registry/config/presets, bucket geometry with tiered reference sizing, automatic adapter selection and manifest validation, the fixed six-forward re-noise sampler, T2VA/I2VA/L2VA/FL2VA/Ref2VA pipeline support, an example, docs, and CPU unit tests.
GPU end-to-end validation is still pending. This change does not add PDD, VSA, or new kernel paths.
Aryan Kumar