Open-source video models

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Training a character LoRA for video

Lesson 9 of 10 in Open-source video models.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 25 September 2026.

How to Train a LTX-2.3 Character LoRA with AI Toolkit · Ostris AI
How to Train a Wan 2.2 5B Image to Video LoRA With AI Toolkit · Ostris AI
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A LoRA is a small file of adjustments trained on top of a frozen base model, a method from a 2021 Microsoft paper that is now the usual way to teach an image or video model one face, product or style. For video, a character LoRA is often trained on stills of the person, sometimes with short clips added, and loaded alongside the base model when you generate. It is model-specific. A Wan 2.2 LoRA does nothing for LTX-2.5, and Lightricks' README says plainly that a LoRA only works with the model it was trained on.

photos +captionswritten consentbase model,frozentrainerlora filenewroomnewlightnewanglesame room every time? add variety, or fewer steps
A character LoRA from start to check: photos with captions and written consent, and a frozen base model, go into the trainer; out comes a small LoRA file, tested in a new room, new light and new angle.
An ink drawing of a photographer's contact sheet: twelve small frames of one person in different rooms and poses, with a small signed paper release clipped to its top corner.
A training set is a contact sheet of one person in many rooms and lights, with the signed release clipped on.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Low-Rank Adaptation, a small add-on file that nudges a large model towards one subject or style without retraining the model itself.”

    • LoRA
    • Pipeline
    • Compute unit
    • Test brief
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A made-up word in every caption that you later put in a prompt to call the character up; ai-toolkit writes it as [trigger] in caption files.”

    • Trigger word
    • Volume
    • Commit hash
    • Model card
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A .txt file with the same name as each image or clip, describing it in words, which the trainers read automatically.”

    • Caption file
    • Model CPU offload
    • Workflow
    • Open source AI

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