We’ve been running Qwen-Max as the vision backbone for our choreo pipeline. The model ingests a reference video at 24fps and outputs per-frame pose embeddings. Those embeddings feed directly into Wan 2.1’s motion transformer. The trick is timing. Off-the-shelf Wan 2.1 drifts after about 8 seconds. Likeness Lock v2.4 fixes that by injecting a periodic identity anchor every 12 frames. It’s a simple cross-attention modulation, but it keeps the character’s silhouette consistent across long sequences.
The real bottleneck was distribution. A single 30-second choreo clip takes about 4 minutes to generate on an A100. That’s fine for one user, but we needed to serve hundreds of concurrent requests. Burst-ECS-Caddy is our edge weaving layer. We decompose the generation into 2-second chunks, each processed by a separate ECS entity on a Caddy cluster. The chunks are stitched at the edge using a temporal blending kernel that smooths the motion vectors. Latency dropped from 4 minutes to 12 seconds for the first chunk, with the rest streaming in behind it.
We also had to handle the cache miss problem. Likeness Lock v2.4 stores a compressed latent for each user’s avatar. If the edge node doesn’t have it, it fetches from the regional store. That fetch adds about 800ms. We pre-warm the cache by predicting likely users based on session activity. It’s not perfect, but it cuts misses by 60%.
The whole stack is open source. You can find the Likeness Lock module in our repo under llock_v2.4. The edge weaving config is in burst-ecs-caddy/weave.toml. If you’re building something similar, start with the pose alignment test. Most failures come from mismatched frame rates between Qwen-Max and Wan 2.1. We fixed that by resampling the pose embeddings to 30fps before they hit the motion transformer.
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