LTX-2.3 22B IC-LoRA Deblur (v2)

This is a Deblur IC-LoRA trained on top of LTX-2.3-22B, which restores sharpness to out-of-focus / defocused video by conditioning on the blurry clip and regenerating it in sharp focus while preserving the original subject, framing, and scene geometry.

It is based on the LTX-2.3 foundation model.

Model Files

ltx-2.3-22b-ic-lora-deblur-0.9.safetensors

The shipped checkpoint is step 1000. This run was planned for 1500 steps and stopped early at 1000; the quality sweet spot is in the ~800–1000 range, and step 1000 is the recommended default. Earlier checkpoints (steps 100–900) are available from the training run if you want to trade restoration strength for a gentler effect.

Model Details

• Base Model: LTX-2.3-22B Video
• Training Type: IC-LoRA (video-to-video, paired reference→target)
• Control Type: Defocus/out-of-focus blur — the model conditions on a blurry reference video and outputs the sharp version
• Reference Downscale Factor: 1 (the reference is processed at the same resolution as the output)
• Pipeline details: No special pre/post color transform. Reference (blurry) and target (sharp) share identical content; only focus/sharpness differ.

Intended Use & Out-of-Scope

Intended use: Recovering sharpness from genuinely out-of-focus or softly defocused footage — landscape and portrait, mixed real-world content (people, wildlife, nature, cities, food, night). Designed to be driven by the production IC-LoRA video-to-video inference pipeline at native 1080p.

Out of scope: Motion-blur removal (the dataset contains no temporal/motion blur), heavy compression-artifact repair, denoising, or super-resolution of already-sharp footage. Extreme blur where the underlying content is essentially destroyed will be hallucinated rather than faithfully reconstructed.

Control Signal Requirements

• Control signal type: Spatial defocus blur (the degradation the model inverts).
• Expected input: A single video clip — the blurry footage — supplied as the IC-LoRA reference.
• Preprocessing: None. Feed the blurry video directly; no extractor, mask, or normalization is required.
• Alignment: The reference drives content directly. Best results when the reference is run through the standard IC-LoRA pipeline at the trained bucket (960×544, 121 frames @ 24 fps); the production pipeline handles res/length bucketing.
• Mask support: Not supported — the effect is applied to the whole frame.

How It Works

The IC-LoRA conditions on the reference (blurry) video's latents together with a dual-panel "DEBLUR" prompt that describes the scene and asks for the same scene in sharp focus. Because the reference stays attached for the entire denoise (stage-1-only inference, see Usage), subject identity, framing, and background geometry are preserved while focus and sharpness are restored. The trained convention is a two-part caption:

Reference shows <scene description>, heavily out of focus with soft defocused blur and no fine detail. Edited shows the same scene in sharp focus with crisp detail and clean edges. DEBLUR <scene description> Subject identity, framing, and background geometry are identical to the reference; only focus and sharpness differ between reference and edited.

Usage

🔌 ComfyUI

1. Copy ltx-2.3-22b-ic-lora-deblur-0.9.safetensors into models/loras.
2. Load the LTX-2.3-22B base model and add the LoRA.
3. Use an IC-LoRA (video-to-video) workflow from the LTX-2 ComfyUI repository, which wires the reference/guide nodes correctly. Connect the blurry clip as the reference/control video.
4. Start at LoRA strength 1.0 and lower toward 0.8 if the output over-sharpens (haloing/ringing).

Production pipeline (recommended)

Evaluate and ship with the IC-LoRA video-to-video pipeline (python -m ltx_pipelines.ic_lora) using the identity-safe stage-1-only native hi-res recipe: it renders on a 2× canvas and decodes the half-canvas as the final 1920×1088, keeping the reference attached for the whole denoise so both identity and sharpness hold at full resolution. The dev-trained LoRA loads cleanly onto the ltx-2.3-22b-distilled-1.1 inference base. Avoid the trainer's basic scripts/inference.py for production output, and avoid the two-stage path for identity-critical clips.

Recommended Settings

• LoRA strength / weight: 1.0 (sweep 0.5–1.0 if it over-modifies — oversaturation, baked-in artifacts, or haloing).
• Resolution & frames: Trained at 960×544 (landscape and portrait), 121 frames @ 24 fps; generates well at native 1920×1088 via the stage-1-only pipeline.
• Prompting: Follow the trained DEBLUR dual-panel convention above. The reference video does most of the work; the prompt mainly anchors the scene and the "sharp focus, crisp detail, clean edges" intent.
• Suggested negative prompt: worst quality, blurry, out of focus, defocused, soft, hazy, smeared, low detail, jittery, distorted, oversharpened, haloing, ringing (used during training validation; note the production distilled pipeline does not take a negative prompt).

References

• Code: GitHub Repository
• ComfyUI: ComfyUI-LTXVideo
• IC-LoRA docs: IC-LoRA usage guide

Tips & Troubleshooting

• Over-sharpening / ringing or halos: lower --lora-strength toward 0.8.
• Effect looks weak at 1080p: lower the native generation resolution (e.g. --width 1536 --height 896) closer to the training bucket.
• Identity drift at high res: use the stage-1-only default rather than the two-stage path — stage 2 has no reference anchor and drifts on identity-critical content.
• Motion blur not removed: expected — the model was trained only on spatial defocus, not temporal/motion blur.

Dataset

The model was trained on a proprietary dataset of 500 (blurry → sharp) video pairs built specifically for in-context deblur training (details below).

Dataset construction (v2)

Motivation. The v1 deblur dataset applied a single degradation recipe to every clip (boxblur + a light gblur). That cheap disc-defocus look was too synthetic — the LoRA learned to invert that specific filter rather than real optical blur and generalized poorly to genuine out-of-focus footage. v2 spans three blur families at varied strengths so the model sees the full "blurry → sharp" distribution it will be asked to invert.

Pairs are built for IC-LoRA training as:

• target (videos/): the sharp original clip
• reference (references/): the same clip degraded with one blur style + strength

Source footage. 5-second clips at native resolution — a deliberate mix of 4K and 1080p, landscape and portrait (kept native; the trainer's resolution bucketing handles downscaling). 395 clips reused from an existing stock pool plus 150 new Pexels clips across 8 themes (city, nature, ocean, people, food, wildlife, portraits, night), deduplicated, trimmed to exactly 5 s (libx264 -crf 18, audio stripped, yuv420p). Combined into a 545-clip pool; the build draws 500.

Composition (500 clips).

Within each style, clips are split evenly across four strength tiers (light / medium / heavy / extreme).

Resolution-scaled strength. A fixed pixel radius blurs a 4K frame far less (perceptually) than a 1080p one. Every strength is anchored at a 1080p long edge (1920 px) and scaled per clip by long_edge / 1920, so a light 4K clip gets ~2× the pixel radius of a light 1080p clip and the two look perceptually equivalent.

Realistic disk defocus. Rather than an ffmpeg filter, each frame is convolved with a uniform circular kernel (the optical circle of confusion): cropdetect excludes letterbox/pillarbox bars so they don't smear in; convolution is done in linear light (sRGB → linear → convolve → sRGB) to avoid muddy gamma-space blur; BORDER_REPLICATE avoids dark edge halos; and it is purely spatial (no temporal blur, so no motion ghost-trails). Frames are streamed raw (bgr24) out of ffmpeg, processed with NumPy/OpenCV, and piped back into libx264, preserving source resolution, frame rate, and frame count.

Reproducibility & parity. A seeded RNG (seed 42) shuffles the pool, partitions it into per-style counts (150/150/200), and assigns the four strength tiers round-robin within each style, recording every assignment to recipes.json (resumable). All references encode with libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -pix_fmt yuv420p, audio stripped, preserving source resolution/frame-count/pixel-format. A verification pass confirmed 500/500 pairs valid, 0 mismatches. Captions are generated on the training machine (visual-only) and merged into dataset.json before training. After preprocessing, 1 clip was filtered for insufficient frames, leaving 499 valid training pairs.

Training

• Technique: IC-LoRA (rank 128, alpha 128, dropout 0.05) on the DiT transformer, targeting attn1 (self-attention to_q/k/v/out.0) + FFN (ff.net.0.proj, ff.net.2); cross-attention (attn2) intentionally not targeted.
• Hyperparameters: bf16 mixed precision, AdamW, learning rate 1.5e-4, cosine schedule, max_grad_norm 1.0, gradient checkpointing on, first_frame_conditioning_p 0.15, shifted-logit-normal flow-matching timestep sampling.
• Resolution / data: preprocessed at 960×544 (landscape + portrait, 121/97/89-frame buckets), 499 valid (blurry→sharp) pairs.
• Steps: planned 1500, stopped at step 1000 (recommended checkpoint); checkpoints saved every 100 steps.
• Infrastructure: LTX-2 Community Trainer, DDP across 8× NVIDIA H100.

License

See the LTX-2-community-license for full terms.

Acknowledgments

• Base model by Lightricks
• Training infrastructure: LTX-2 Community Trainer