From 97a1477b0afbc8f116b3ec9c036738207f31eaa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2026 23:10:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 01/21] Add MiniMax-H3

---
 docs/source/en/_toctree.yml                   |  10 +
 .../en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md |  38 +
 .../models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3_audio.md  |  36 +
 .../en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md |  41 +
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md    | 157 +++
 docs/source/en/api/schedulers/minimax_h3.md   |  23 +
 scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py    | 956 ++++++++++++++++++
 src/diffusers/__init__.py                     |  20 +
 src/diffusers/models/__init__.py              |   6 +
 src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/__init__.py |   2 +
 .../autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py | 905 +++++++++++++++++
 .../autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py        | 675 +++++++++++++
 src/diffusers/models/transformers/__init__.py |   1 +
 .../transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py    | 644 ++++++++++++
 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py   |  12 +
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py  |  47 +
 .../minimax_h3/before_denoise.py              | 426 ++++++++
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              | 409 ++++++++
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py  | 198 ++++
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py   | 325 ++++++
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py  | 626 ++++++++++++
 .../minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py   | 339 +++++++
 .../minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py            | 108 ++
 .../modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py     |   2 +
 src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py           |   2 +
 .../pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py          |  54 +
 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py | 538 ++++++++++
 .../pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py    | 841 +++++++++++++++
 .../minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py         | 663 ++++++++++++
 .../minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py  | 903 +++++++++++++++++
 .../pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py   |  26 +
 src/diffusers/schedulers/__init__.py          |   2 +
 .../schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py       | 288 ++++++
 src/diffusers/utils/dummy_pt_objects.py       |  60 ++
 .../dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py   |  90 ++
 .../test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py  | 137 +++
 ..._models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py | 132 +++
 .../test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py     | 239 +++++
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py  |   0
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       | 272 +++++
 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py        |   0
 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py | 397 ++++++++
 .../minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py      | 760 ++++++++++++++
 43 files changed, 11410 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md
 create mode 100644 docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3_audio.md
 create mode 100644 docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
 create mode 100644 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
 create mode 100644 docs/source/en/api/schedulers/minimax_h3.md
 create mode 100644 scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
 create mode 100644 tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py
 create mode 100644 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py

diff --git a/docs/source/en/_toctree.yml b/docs/source/en/_toctree.yml
index 8466cebe2a8c..2d0bf5707ad9 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/_toctree.yml
+++ b/docs/source/en/_toctree.yml
@@ -375,6 +375,8 @@
         title: Lumina2Transformer2DModel
       - local: api/models/lumina_nextdit2d
         title: LuminaNextDiT2DModel
+      - local: api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d
+        title: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
       - local: api/models/mochi_transformer3d
         title: MochiTransformer3DModel
       - local: api/models/motif_video_transformer_3d
@@ -459,6 +461,10 @@
         title: AutoencoderKLLTXVideo
       - local: api/models/autoencoderkl_magvit
         title: AutoencoderKLMagvit
+      - local: api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3
+        title: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+      - local: api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3_audio
+        title: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
       - local: api/models/autoencoderkl_mochi
         title: AutoencoderKLMochi
       - local: api/models/autoencoderkl_qwenimage
@@ -691,6 +697,8 @@
         title: LTX-2
       - local: api/pipelines/ltx_video
         title: LTXVideo
+      - local: api/pipelines/minimax_h3
+        title: MiniMax-H3
       - local: api/pipelines/mochi
         title: Mochi
       - local: api/pipelines/motif_video
@@ -770,6 +778,8 @@
       title: LCMScheduler
     - local: api/schedulers/lms_discrete
       title: LMSDiscreteScheduler
+    - local: api/schedulers/minimax_h3
+      title: MiniMaxH3Scheduler
     - local: api/schedulers/pndm
       title: PNDMScheduler
     - local: api/schedulers/repaint
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<!-- Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on
+an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
+
+# AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+
+The video variational autoencoder (VAE) model with KL loss used in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) by MiniMax. It pairs a causal 3D CNN encoder with a non-causal ViT decoder and compresses 16x spatially and 4x temporally.
+
+Three things set it apart from most autoencoders in the library:
+
+- **Latents are normalized per channel.** There is no `scaling_factor`: a pipeline encodes with `(latent - latents_mean) / latents_std` and decodes with `latent * latents_std + latents_mean`.
+- **The pixel convention is ImageNet-normalized RGB over a `[0, 1]` base range**, not the usual `[-1, 1]`. `encode` expects `(pixel - imagenet_mean) / imagenet_std` and `decode` returns values in that same space, so a pipeline applies `sample * imagenet_std + imagenet_mean` and clamps to `[0, 1]` before postprocessing.
+- **Spatial tiling is on by default.** MiniMax-H3 was released with tiling enabled for both encoding and decoding and the released frames are the blended-tile ones, so turning it off changes the output. Use `enable_tiling` to change the tile geometry and `disable_tiling` to switch it off.
+
+The temporal geometry is fixed by `clip_length` (17 pixel frames per encoder chunk) and `token_drop` (3 trailing latent frames dropped per encode), so `17 * n + 5` pixel frames map to `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+
+```python
+import torch
+from diffusers import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+
+vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3.from_pretrained(
+    "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="vae", dtype=torch.float32
+).to("cuda")
+```
+
+## AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+
+[[autodoc]] AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+    - encode
+    - decode
+    - all
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3_audio.md b/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3_audio.md
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+++ b/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3_audio.md
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<!-- Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on
+an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
+
+# AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+
+The audio autoencoder used in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) by MiniMax. It is waveform in and waveform out, with no mel front-end and no separate vocoder: a DAC-lineage strided convolutional encoder, a causal-attention projection onto the diffusion latent width, and a BigVGAN decoder.
+
+The encoder hops 800 samples at 32 kHz, i.e. 40 latents per second, so a waveform of `800 * n` samples encodes to `n` latents. Waveforms that are not a whole number of hops are right-padded.
+
+The causal-attention projection goes through the attention dispatcher, so `set_attention_backend` applies to it; its mask is `is_causal=True`, which every backend honours except `_native_npu`, whose kernel takes no causal flag.
+
+The autoencoder is **mono**, and it normalizes latents per channel with `latents_mean` / `latents_std` rather than a scalar `scaling_factor`. MiniMax-H3 carries stereo as two *batch* items, and it always consumes the posterior mean (`latent_dist.mode()`), never a sample.
+
+```python
+import torch
+from diffusers import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+
+audio_vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio.from_pretrained(
+    "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="audio_vae", dtype=torch.float32
+).to("cuda")
+```
+
+## AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+
+[[autodoc]] AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+    - encode
+    - decode
+    - all
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md b/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<!-- Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on
+an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
+
+# MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+
+A Diffusion Transformer model for joint video and audio generation, introduced in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) by MiniMax.
+
+MiniMax-H3 runs a single stack of blocks over **one packed 1-D sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the conditioning image and video rows, the audio rows and the target video rows at once. Attention is full self-attention over that sequence, so there is no cross-attention and no per-modality block weights. Modality-specific behaviour comes only from the two input patch projections, the per-row modality tag that selects the AdaLN modulation parameters, and the two output heads.
+
+Building the packed layout is the caller's job, which is why the forward signature takes the layout apart from the latents: the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags, the per-row timestep indices and the three index tensors that address the video, audio and text rows. [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] and [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] build all of it.
+
+A layout that carries padding rows (tag `-1`) needs a masked attention backend, since those rows are kept in their own attention document by a boolean mask; a padless sequence needs no mask and keeps every backend available.
+
+One repository holds both released checkpoint partitions, so the subfolder is what selects the task: `transformer/` for the text and keyframe tasks, `transformer_ref/` for the omni-reference task.
+
+```python
+import torch
+from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+
+transformer = MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel.from_pretrained(
+    "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="transformer", dtype=torch.bfloat16
+).to("cuda")
+```
+
+The checkpoint is mixed precision: the two input patch projections, the timestep MLP and the two output heads are float32 while the block stack is bfloat16. `from_pretrained` keeps that layout through `_keep_in_fp32_modules`, so pass `dtype=torch.bfloat16` and let it place the float32 modules rather than casting the model with `.to(torch.bfloat16)` afterwards.
+
+## MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+
+## MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput
+
+[[autodoc]] models.transformers.transformer_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
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+<!-- Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on
+an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
+
+# MiniMax-H3
+
+MiniMax-H3 generates video and its soundtrack **jointly**. One transformer denoises a single packed sequence that holds the text conditioning, the conditioning image, video and audio rows, the target audio rows and the target video rows at once, with full self-attention over all of it. There is no separate vocoder and no audio post-hoc pass: video and audio come out of the same denoising loop.
+
+You can find the original MiniMax-H3 checkpoints under the [MiniMaxAI](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) organization.
+
+## Checkpoint layout
+
+MiniMax-H3 was released as two checkpoint partitions that share every component except the transformer, so the diffusers conversion puts both in **one repository**:
+
+| Subfolder | Pipeline | Tasks |
+|---|---|---|
+| `transformer/` | [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] | `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) |
+| `transformer_ref/` | [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] | `ref2va` (an ordered mix of image, video and audio references) |
+
+Each pipeline declares only its own transformer, so `from_pretrained` on the same repository id downloads and loads only the partition that pipeline needs. Everything else, the video VAE, the audio VAE, the Qwen3-VL conditioner, its tokenizer and processor, and the two schedulers, is shared.
+
+The conditioner is a `Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`, and MiniMax-H3 reads the *unnormalized* hidden state after its 50th decoder layer rather than the last one, so the full released checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused.
+
+## Two schedulers
+
+Video and audio latents step down two different schedules inside a single transformer call per step, which is why both pipelines register two [`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`] instances: `scheduler` for the video latents (`shift=12.0` in the released checkpoints) and `audio_scheduler` for the audio latents (`shift=3.0`).
+
+The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: there is no `guidance_scale` and no negative prompt, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
+
+## Generation constraints
+
+- **24 fps, 5 to 15 seconds.** `num_frames` is snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode, and the resulting duration has to stay in that window.
+- **A 768 pixel short edge.** `height` and `width` default to MiniMax-H3's own canvas for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe (or 16:9 without one) and must be multiples of 32.
+- **One generator, three draws.** A request draws the keyframe or reference conditioning noise first, then the video noise, then the audio noise, all from the `generator` it is passed, so two runs from the same generator state return the same video and soundtrack. Passing `latents` or `audio_latents` replaces the corresponding draw.
+- **`num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points**, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model evaluation less.
+
+## Text and keyframes
+
+[`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] covers text-to-video-and-audio and keyframe conditioning. A keyframe can be the frame the video starts from (`image`), the frame it ends on (`last_image`), or both.
+
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+from diffusers.utils import load_image
+from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
+
+pipe = MiniMaxH3Pipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+
+prompt = "A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot"
+
+# Text to video + audio.
+output = pipe(prompt=prompt, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+
+# First frame (and optionally last frame) to video + audio. The canvas follows the first keyframe.
+image = load_image(
+    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
+)
+output = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+
+encode_video(
+    output.frames[0],
+    fps=24,
+    output_path="minimax_h3_fl2va.mp4",
+    audio=output.audio[0],
+    audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
+)
+```
+
+## Omni-references
+
+[`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] conditions on an ordered list of references: up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total. The order is semantic. It labels the references in the prompt presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same references is a different request.
+
+Unlike the keyframes above, references do not bind the generated geometry: they are encoded at their own resolution and the target canvas defaults to MiniMax-H3's 16:9. The duration may be left to a reference soundtrack, but only when exactly one reference carries audio.
+
+Every reference is a [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference`], and it takes a path or a URL as well as in-memory media: a path is decoded when the reference is built, with [`~utils.load_image`] for an image and [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV) for a video or an audio file, so the pipeline itself never opens a media file. Decoding brings the rates along, which is what the model needs: a video reference reads its frame rate off the container and adopts the container's soundtrack when it has one, and an audio reference its sample rate.
+
+In-memory media declares the rates it carries instead, defaulting to MiniMax-H3's own: `fps=24.0` and the audio VAE's sample rate, so only self-generated data at another rate has to say so. An explicit `fps` or `sample_rate` also wins over a container whose metadata is wrong. Frames are resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, and a waveform onto the audio VAE's sample rate. A video reference conditions on its motion **and**, when it carries an `audio` waveform, on that soundtrack, which is then packed as this reference's own.
+
+A request that carries a single reference may name its medium on the call itself, as `image=`, `video=` or `audio=`, which is the same request as a one-item `references` list. The two ways are mutually exclusive.
+
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
+from diffusers.utils import load_image, load_video
+from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
+
+pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+
+subject = load_image(
+    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
+)
+
+# A single reference may name its medium on the call itself.
+output = pipe(
+    prompt="The subject walks toward camera, turning slightly, natural arm swing",
+    image=subject,
+    generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
+)
+
+# A reference decodes a path or a URL as it is built, rates included: the video brings its own frame rate and its
+# soundtrack, the audio clip its sample rate. An audio reference sets the duration on its own.
+output = pipe(
+    prompt="The character speaks in time with the reference recording, natural lip movement",
+    references=[
+        MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject),
+        MiniMaxH3Reference(
+            video="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/hiker.mp4"
+        ),
+        MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
+    ],
+)
+
+# In-memory media says which rates it carries, MiniMax-H3's own by default.
+motion = load_video("motion_ref.mp4")
+output = pipe(
+    prompt="The subject walks toward camera, matching the reference video's shot rhythm",
+    references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject), MiniMaxH3Reference(video=motion, fps=30.0)],
+)
+
+encode_video(
+    output.frames[0],
+    fps=24,
+    output_path="minimax_h3_ref2va.mp4",
+    audio=output.audio[0],
+    audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
+)
+```
+
+## MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+  - all
+  - __call__
+
+## MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+  - all
+  - __call__
+
+## MiniMaxH3Reference
+
+[[autodoc]] pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference
+
+## MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
+
+[[autodoc]] pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_output.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
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+
+# MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+
+`MiniMaxH3Scheduler` is the rectified-flow Euler scheduler (`eta = 0`) with an exponential sigma shift used by [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI), `sigma' = s * sigma / (1 + (s - 1) * sigma)`.
+
+The MiniMax-H3 pipelines register **two** of them, because video and audio latents step down two different schedules inside a single transformer call per step: `scheduler` carries the video schedule (`shift=12.0` in the released checkpoints) and `audio_scheduler` the audio one (`shift=3.0`).
+
+## MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+
+## MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput
+[[autodoc]] schedulers.scheduling_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput
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+"""Convert an original MiniMax-H3 checkpoint into the diffusers layout.
+
+The transformer checkpoint is streamed shard by shard, so peak memory stays close to a single shard (~4.9 GiB) and
+never approaches the 62 GiB of the full 33B DiT.
+
+Every source key maps onto a diffusers module by renaming alone, except for three things:
+
+* the fused QKV projection is split into `to_q` / `to_k` / `to_v`. Raw checkpoint shards store QKV per-head
+  interleaved; the shard streamer first reorders them into the reference's in-memory `[q_all; k_all; v_all]` layout
+  (`reorder_interleaved_qkv`, mirroring the reference's load-time transform), then `convert_transformer_key` splits
+  contiguous thirds (`split_fused_qkv`),
+* the gated FFN's fused `mlp.fc1` becomes `ff.net.0.proj` and its two halves are swapped, because diffusers'
+  [`SwiGLU`] reads `[value; gate]` where the reference stores `[gate; value]` (the same transform the video VAE needs,
+  see `convert_video_vae_key`); `mlp.fc2` becomes `ff.net.2`,
+* `rope.inv_freq` is dropped: it is a pure function of `rope_theta` and `rope_freq_dim`, the port recomputes it in a
+  non-persistent buffer, and the recomputed value is bitwise equal to the shipped one for both released variants.
+
+There are no transposes anywhere.
+
+The FL2VA and Ref2VA variants differ only in the transformer weights, so the variant is selected by pointing
+`--checkpoint_path` at the corresponding folder.
+
+Usage:
+
+```bash
+# Validate the key mapping without any weights present.
+python scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py \
+    --checkpoint_path /path/to/MiniMax-H3/FL2VA --output_path /tmp/h3-diffusers --dry_run
+
+# Convert.
+python scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py \
+    --checkpoint_path /path/to/MiniMax-H3/FL2VA --output_path /tmp/h3-diffusers
+```
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import glob
+import json
+import math
+import os
+import struct
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from safetensors import safe_open
+from safetensors.torch import save_file
+
+from diffusers.models.autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+from diffusers.utils.constants import SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME
+
+
+# `MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel` argument names. The original config uses the sglang-native names listed in the
+# comments; everything else in the original config (`adaln_out_features`, `final_adaln_out_features`) is derived.
+MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_CONFIG = {
+    "num_attention_heads": 56,
+    "attention_head_dim": 128,
+    "hidden_size": 5376,
+    "num_layers": 50,
+    "num_refiner_layers": 2,  # token_refiner_num_layers
+    "ffn_dim": 14336,  # ffn_hidden_size
+    "in_channels": 24,  # latents_dim
+    "audio_in_channels": 32,  # audio_latents_dim
+    "patch_size": [1, 2, 2],
+    "text_dim": 5120,
+    "freq_dim": 256,  # timestep_input_dim
+    "time_embed_hidden_dim": 5376,  # time_embed_hidden_size
+    "time_embed_dim": 2688,
+    "rope_freq_dim": 16,  # rope_inv_freq_len
+    "rope_theta": 10000.0,
+    "norm_eps": 1e-05,
+    "qk_norm_eps": 1e-05,
+    "final_norm_eps": 1e-05,
+}
+
+# A tiny configuration with the checkpoint-tied dimensions left intact, for building fixtures.
+MINIMAX_H3_TEST_TRANSFORMER_CONFIG = {
+    **MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_CONFIG,
+    "num_attention_heads": 2,
+    "attention_head_dim": 32,
+    "hidden_size": 64,
+    "num_layers": 2,
+    "num_refiner_layers": 2,
+    "ffn_dim": 128,
+    "text_dim": 48,
+    "freq_dim": 16,
+    "time_embed_hidden_dim": 64,
+    "time_embed_dim": 32,
+    "rope_freq_dim": 4,
+}
+
+# MiniMax-H3 ships a mixed-precision checkpoint. These *original* keys are float32; everything else is bfloat16 —
+# including the AdaLN projections.
+MINIMAX_H3_FP32_SOURCE_PREFIXES = (
+    "video_patch_proj.",
+    "audio_patch_proj.",
+    "time_embedder.",
+    "final_layer.video_out.",
+    "final_layer.audio_out.",
+)
+
+# `rope.inv_freq` is `1 / rope_theta ** (arange(0, 2 * rope_freq_dim, 2) / (2 * rope_freq_dim))`, which
+# `MiniMaxH3RotaryPosEmbed` recomputes into a non-persistent buffer. The recomputed tensor is bitwise equal to the
+# shipped one in both released variants, so the key is not carried into the diffusers checkpoint.
+MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_DROPPED_KEYS = ("rope.inv_freq",)
+
+
+def reorder_interleaved_qkv(weight: torch.Tensor, num_attention_heads: int, attention_head_dim: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Reorder a *raw-checkpoint* per-head-interleaved fused QKV weight into `[q_all; k_all; v_all]`.
+
+    The original checkpoint shards store rows as `[head0: q(head_dim) k(head_dim) v(head_dim), head1: q, k, v, ...]`.
+    The reference implementation applies exactly this reorder at load time (`_reorder_grouped_qkv_to_qkv` with one head
+    per query group), so `[q_all; k_all; v_all]` is the reference's in-memory / state-dict layout. There is no
+    transpose.
+    """
+    expected_rows = num_attention_heads * 3 * attention_head_dim
+    if weight.shape[0] != expected_rows:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"fused qkv weight has {weight.shape[0]} rows, expected "
+            f"{expected_rows} = {num_attention_heads} heads * 3 * {attention_head_dim}."
+        )
+    grouped = weight.reshape(num_attention_heads, 3 * attention_head_dim, *weight.shape[1:])
+    query, key, value = grouped.split(attention_head_dim, dim=1)
+    return torch.cat(
+        [
+            tensor.reshape(num_attention_heads * attention_head_dim, *weight.shape[1:])
+            for tensor in (query, key, value)
+        ],
+        dim=0,
+    )
+
+
+def split_fused_qkv(
+    weight: torch.Tensor, num_attention_heads: int, attention_head_dim: int
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, ...]:
+    """Split a fused `[q_all; k_all; v_all]` QKV weight into separate `to_q` / `to_k` / `to_v` weights.
+
+    The input is the *reference model* layout — what `MiniMaxH3DiTModel.state_dict()` holds after the reference's
+    load-time reorder — i.e. the three logical projection matrices stacked contiguously, NOT the raw checkpoint's
+    per-head interleave (see `reorder_interleaved_qkv`, which the shard streamer applies first).
+    """
+    inner_dim = num_attention_heads * attention_head_dim
+    if weight.shape[0] != 3 * inner_dim:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"fused qkv weight has {weight.shape[0]} rows, expected "
+            f"{3 * inner_dim} = 3 * {num_attention_heads} heads * {attention_head_dim}."
+        )
+    query, key, value = weight.split(inner_dim, dim=0)
+    return tuple(tensor.contiguous() for tensor in (query, key, value))
+
+
+def get_transformer_key_plan(config: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, list[tuple[str, list[int]]]]:
+    """Map every original transformer key to the diffusers key(s) it produces, with the resulting shapes.
+
+    The plan is derived from the config alone, so it can be printed and checked without any weights present.
+    """
+    hidden_size = config["hidden_size"]
+    heads = config["num_attention_heads"]
+    head_dim = config["attention_head_dim"]
+    inner_dim = heads * head_dim
+    ffn_dim = config["ffn_dim"]
+    time_embed_dim = config["time_embed_dim"]
+    video_patch_dim = (
+        config["in_channels"] * config["patch_size"][0] * config["patch_size"][1] * config["patch_size"][2]
+    )
+
+    plan: dict[str, list[tuple[str, list[int]]]] = {
+        "video_patch_proj.weight": [("proj_in.weight", [hidden_size, video_patch_dim])],
+        "video_patch_proj.bias": [("proj_in.bias", [hidden_size])],
+        "audio_patch_proj.weight": [("audio_proj_in.weight", [hidden_size, config["audio_in_channels"]])],
+        "audio_patch_proj.bias": [("audio_proj_in.bias", [hidden_size])],
+        "condition_proj.weight": [("context_embedder.weight", [hidden_size, config["text_dim"]])],
+        "condition_proj.bias": [("context_embedder.bias", [hidden_size])],
+        # `Timesteps` + `TimestepEmbedding` reproduce the reference sinusoid and MLP exactly, so the timestep MLP is
+        # renamed onto `TimestepEmbedding`'s `linear_1` / `linear_2`.
+        "time_embedder.proj_in.weight": [
+            ("time_embedder.linear_1.weight", [config["time_embed_hidden_dim"], config["freq_dim"]])
+        ],
+        "time_embedder.proj_in.bias": [("time_embedder.linear_1.bias", [config["time_embed_hidden_dim"]])],
+        "time_embedder.proj_out.weight": [
+            ("time_embedder.linear_2.weight", [time_embed_dim, config["time_embed_hidden_dim"]])
+        ],
+        "time_embedder.proj_out.bias": [("time_embedder.linear_2.bias", [time_embed_dim])],
+        "token_refiner.final_norm.weight": [("token_refiner.final_norm.weight", [hidden_size])],
+        "final_layer.norm.weight": [("norm_out.norm.weight", [hidden_size])],
+        "final_layer.adaln_proj.linear.weight": [("norm_out.linear.weight", [2 * hidden_size, time_embed_dim])],
+        "final_layer.adaln_proj.linear.bias": [("norm_out.linear.bias", [2 * hidden_size])],
+        "final_layer.video_out.weight": [("proj_out.weight", [video_patch_dim, hidden_size])],
+        "final_layer.video_out.bias": [("proj_out.bias", [video_patch_dim])],
+        "final_layer.audio_out.weight": [("audio_proj_out.weight", [config["audio_in_channels"], hidden_size])],
+        "final_layer.audio_out.bias": [("audio_proj_out.bias", [config["audio_in_channels"]])],
+    }
+    for key in MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_DROPPED_KEYS:
+        plan[key] = []
+
+    block_specs = [
+        ("blocks", "transformer_blocks", config["num_layers"], True),
+        ("token_refiner.blocks", "token_refiner.refiner_blocks", config["num_refiner_layers"], False),
+    ]
+    for source_prefix, target_prefix, num_layers, has_adaln in block_specs:
+        for i in range(num_layers):
+            source = f"{source_prefix}.{i}"
+            target = f"{target_prefix}.{i}"
+            plan[f"{source}.norm1.weight"] = [(f"{target}.norm1.weight", [hidden_size])]
+            plan[f"{source}.norm2.weight"] = [(f"{target}.norm2.weight", [hidden_size])]
+            plan[f"{source}.attn.qkv_proj.weight"] = [
+                (f"{target}.attn.to_q.weight", [inner_dim, hidden_size]),
+                (f"{target}.attn.to_k.weight", [inner_dim, hidden_size]),
+                (f"{target}.attn.to_v.weight", [inner_dim, hidden_size]),
+            ]
+            plan[f"{source}.attn.q_norm.weight"] = [(f"{target}.attn.norm_q.weight", [head_dim])]
+            plan[f"{source}.attn.k_norm.weight"] = [(f"{target}.attn.norm_k.weight", [head_dim])]
+            plan[f"{source}.attn.out_proj.weight"] = [(f"{target}.attn.to_out.0.weight", [hidden_size, inner_dim])]
+            # `fc1` stays fused, as diffusers' `SwiGLU` also fuses its two projections, but the halves are swapped
+            # from `[gate; value]` to `[value; gate]` (see `convert_transformer_key`).
+            plan[f"{source}.mlp.fc1.weight"] = [(f"{target}.ff.net.0.proj.weight", [2 * ffn_dim, hidden_size])]
+            plan[f"{source}.mlp.fc2.weight"] = [(f"{target}.ff.net.2.weight", [hidden_size, ffn_dim])]
+            if has_adaln:
+                plan[f"{source}.adaln_proj.linear.weight"] = [
+                    (f"{target}.adaln_proj.linear.weight", [6 * 3 * hidden_size, time_embed_dim])
+                ]
+                plan[f"{source}.adaln_proj.linear.bias"] = [
+                    (f"{target}.adaln_proj.linear.bias", [6 * 3 * hidden_size])
+                ]
+
+    return plan
+
+
+def convert_transformer_key(
+    source_key: str, tensor: torch.Tensor, config: dict[str, Any]
+) -> list[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]:
+    """Convert one original key/tensor pair into the diffusers key/tensor pair(s) it maps to."""
+    if source_key in MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_DROPPED_KEYS:
+        return []
+
+    target_key = source_key
+    if target_key.startswith("token_refiner.blocks."):
+        target_key = target_key.replace("token_refiner.blocks.", "token_refiner.refiner_blocks.", 1)
+    elif target_key.startswith("blocks."):
+        target_key = target_key.replace("blocks.", "transformer_blocks.", 1)
+    target_key = target_key.replace("time_embedder.proj_in.", "time_embedder.linear_1.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("time_embedder.proj_out.", "time_embedder.linear_2.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("video_patch_proj.", "proj_in.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("audio_patch_proj.", "audio_proj_in.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("condition_proj.", "context_embedder.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("final_layer.norm.", "norm_out.norm.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("final_layer.adaln_proj.linear.", "norm_out.linear.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("final_layer.video_out.", "proj_out.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace("final_layer.audio_out.", "audio_proj_out.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".attn.q_norm.", ".attn.norm_q.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".attn.k_norm.", ".attn.norm_k.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".attn.out_proj.", ".attn.to_out.0.")
+
+    if target_key.endswith(".attn.qkv_proj.weight"):
+        # `convert_transformer_key` consumes tensors in the reference model's state-dict layout, where the fused QKV
+        # rows are already `[q_all; k_all; v_all]`. Raw checkpoint shards are per-head interleaved instead; the shard
+        # streamer (`convert_transformer`) normalizes them with `reorder_interleaved_qkv` before calling this.
+        query, key, value = split_fused_qkv(tensor, config["num_attention_heads"], config["attention_head_dim"])
+        prefix = target_key.removesuffix("qkv_proj.weight")
+        return [(f"{prefix}to_q.weight", query), (f"{prefix}to_k.weight", key), (f"{prefix}to_v.weight", value)]
+
+    if target_key.endswith(".mlp.fc1.weight"):
+        # The reference computes `fc2(silu(gate) * value)` from a fused `[gate; value]`; diffusers' `SwiGLU` computes
+        # `value * silu(gate)` from a fused `[value; gate]`, so the two halves swap places. Identical transform to the
+        # video VAE's `ff.w1` (see `convert_video_vae_key`).
+        gate, value = tensor.chunk(2, dim=0)
+        target_key = target_key.replace(".mlp.fc1.weight", ".ff.net.0.proj.weight")
+        return [(target_key, torch.cat([value, gate], dim=0).contiguous())]
+
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".mlp.fc2.", ".ff.net.2.")
+    return [(target_key, tensor)]
+
+
+#
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Video VAE
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
+# `AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3` argument names. Field-for-field equal to `video_vae/source/config.json`, with the original
+# names in the comments. The keys that only ever take one value in the release (`use_3d_conv`, `use_vit_decoder`,
+# `causal_encoder`, `causal_decoder`, `use_t_isolated_gn`, `space_up` / `time_up`, `zq_ch_*`, `num_res_blocks_decoder`,
+# `shift_factor` / `scaling_factor`) are baked into the port instead of being config knobs.
+MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_VAE_CONFIG = {
+    "in_channels": 3,
+    "out_channels": 3,  # out_ch
+    "latent_channels": 24,  # z_channels == embed_dim
+    "block_out_channels": [128, 256, 256, 512, 512, 1024],  # ch * ch_mult
+    "layers_per_block": 2,  # num_res_blocks
+    "spatial_downsample_factors": [2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1],  # space_down
+    "temporal_downsample_factors": [1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1],  # time_down
+    "norm_num_groups": 32,
+    "norm_eps": 1e-06,
+    "spatial_padding_mode": "reflect",  # padding_mode
+    "decoder_num_layers": 36,  # vit_decoder_kwargs.num_layers
+    "decoder_num_attention_heads": 32,  # vit_decoder_kwargs.heads
+    "decoder_attention_head_dim": 64,  # vit_decoder_kwargs.dim_head
+    "decoder_num_register_tokens": 4,  # ViT3DDecoder default
+    "decoder_ffn_mult": 4,  # FeedForward default
+    "decoder_rope_theta": 100.0,  # vit_decoder_kwargs.rope_theta
+    "decoder_rope_dim_ratio": 0.75,  # vit_decoder_kwargs.rope_dim_ratio
+    "decoder_norm_eps": 1e-05,  # ViT3DDecoder eps
+    "clip_length": 17,  # video_vae/config.json vae_clip_length
+    "token_drop": 3,  # video_vae/config.json vae_token_drop
+}
+
+# A tiny configuration with the checkpoint-tied dimensions (`latent_channels`, the temporal geometry and the rotary
+# ratio) left intact, for building fixtures and for the CPU parity check.
+MINIMAX_H3_TEST_VIDEO_VAE_CONFIG = {
+    **MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_VAE_CONFIG,
+    "block_out_channels": [32, 64],
+    "layers_per_block": 1,
+    "spatial_downsample_factors": [2, 2],
+    "temporal_downsample_factors": [2, 2],
+    "decoder_num_layers": 4,
+    "decoder_num_attention_heads": 4,
+    "decoder_attention_head_dim": 32,
+}
+
+# `decoder.mask_token` is an all-zero buffer belonging to the masked-autoencoding training objective; the released
+# decoder never reads it, so the port does not carry the module and the conversion drops the key.
+MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_VAE_DROPPED_KEYS = ("decoder.mask_token",)
+
+
+def convert_video_vae_key(
+    source_key: str, tensor: torch.Tensor, config: dict[str, Any]
+) -> list[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]:
+    """Convert one original video-VAE key/tensor pair into the diffusers key/tensor pair(s) it maps to.
+
+    `quant_conv` / `post_quant_conv`, the encoder's `conv_in` / `norm_out` / `conv_out` and the ViT decoder's
+    `register_tokens` / `norm_out` / `proj_out` / `norm{1,2}` / `scale{1,2}` are pure pass-throughs. What moves:
+
+    * the encoder's CNN levels are renamed from the original CompVis spelling onto the diffusers autoencoder idiom:
+      `down.{i}.block.{j}` -> `down_blocks.{i}.resnets.{j}`, `nin_shortcut` -> `conv_shortcut`, and
+      `down.{i}.downsample` -> `down_blocks.{i}.downsamplers.0`,
+    * the ViT decoder's `x_embedder` becomes `proj_in`, the counterpart of the `proj_out` it already ships,
+    * the fused per-head-interleaved `attn.to_qkv` is split into `attn.to_q` / `to_k` / `to_v`,
+    * `attn.to_out` becomes `attn.to_out.0` (diffusers wraps the output projection in an `nn.ModuleList`),
+    * the gated FFN's `w1` / `w2` become `ff.net.0.proj` / `ff.net.2`, and the two halves of `w1` are swapped because
+      diffusers' `SwiGLU` reads `[up; gate]` where the reference stores `[gate; up]`.
+    """
+    if source_key in MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_VAE_DROPPED_KEYS:
+        return []
+
+    if ".attn.to_qkv." in source_key:
+        # Same per-head interleave as the DiT: `[head0: q k v, head1: q k v, ...]`.
+        reordered = reorder_interleaved_qkv(
+            tensor, config["decoder_num_attention_heads"], config["decoder_attention_head_dim"]
+        )
+        query, key, value = split_fused_qkv(
+            reordered, config["decoder_num_attention_heads"], config["decoder_attention_head_dim"]
+        )
+        prefix, suffix = source_key.split(".attn.to_qkv.")
+        return [
+            (f"{prefix}.attn.to_q.{suffix}", query),
+            (f"{prefix}.attn.to_k.{suffix}", key),
+            (f"{prefix}.attn.to_v.{suffix}", value),
+        ]
+
+    target_key = _rename_video_vae_key(source_key)
+
+    if ".ff.w1." in source_key:
+        gate, up = tensor.chunk(2, dim=0)
+        return [(target_key, torch.cat([up, gate], dim=0).contiguous())]
+
+    return [(target_key, tensor)]
+
+
+def _rename_video_vae_key(source_key: str) -> str:
+    """Rename one original video-VAE key onto its diffusers module path (no tensor transform)."""
+    target_key = source_key
+    if target_key.startswith("encoder.down."):
+        level, rest = target_key.removeprefix("encoder.down.").split(".", 1)
+        rest = rest.replace("block.", "resnets.", 1).replace("nin_shortcut.", "conv_shortcut.", 1)
+        rest = rest.replace("downsample.", "downsamplers.0.", 1)
+        target_key = f"encoder.down_blocks.{level}.{rest}"
+    target_key = target_key.replace("decoder.x_embedder.", "decoder.proj_in.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".attn.to_out.", ".attn.to_out.0.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".ff.w1.", ".ff.net.0.proj.")
+    target_key = target_key.replace(".ff.w2.", ".ff.net.2.")
+    return target_key
+
+
+def get_video_vae_key_plan(config: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, list[str]]:
+    """Map every original video-VAE key to the diffusers key(s) it produces, derived from the config alone."""
+    block_out_channels = config["block_out_channels"]
+    block_in_channels = [block_out_channels[0]] + block_out_channels[:-1]
+    plan: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+
+    def renamed(*keys: str) -> None:
+        """Register keys whose diffusers name is `_rename_video_vae_key(key)` and whose tensor is unchanged."""
+        for key in keys:
+            plan[key] = [_rename_video_vae_key(key)]
+
+    renamed("quant_conv.weight", "quant_conv.bias", "post_quant_conv.weight", "post_quant_conv.bias")
+    renamed("encoder.conv_in.weight", "encoder.conv_in.bias")
+    for level, (in_channels, out_channels) in enumerate(zip(block_in_channels, block_out_channels)):
+        for i in range(config["layers_per_block"]):
+            prefix = f"encoder.down.{level}.block.{i}"
+            for name in ("norm1", "conv1", "norm2", "conv2"):
+                renamed(f"{prefix}.{name}.weight", f"{prefix}.{name}.bias")
+            if (in_channels if i == 0 else out_channels) != out_channels:
+                renamed(f"{prefix}.nin_shortcut.weight", f"{prefix}.nin_shortcut.bias")
+        if config["spatial_downsample_factors"][level] * config["temporal_downsample_factors"][level] > 1:
+            renamed(f"encoder.down.{level}.downsample.conv.weight", f"encoder.down.{level}.downsample.conv.bias")
+    renamed("encoder.norm_out.weight", "encoder.norm_out.bias", "encoder.conv_out.weight", "encoder.conv_out.bias")
+
+    renamed("decoder.x_embedder.weight", "decoder.x_embedder.bias", "decoder.register_tokens")
+    renamed("decoder.norm_out.weight", "decoder.norm_out.bias", "decoder.proj_out.weight", "decoder.proj_out.bias")
+    for i in range(config["decoder_num_layers"]):
+        prefix = f"decoder.transformer_blocks.{i}"
+        renamed(f"{prefix}.norm1.weight", f"{prefix}.norm2.weight", f"{prefix}.scale1", f"{prefix}.scale2")
+        for suffix in ("weight", "bias"):
+            plan[f"{prefix}.attn.to_qkv.{suffix}"] = [
+                f"{prefix}.attn.to_q.{suffix}",
+                f"{prefix}.attn.to_k.{suffix}",
+                f"{prefix}.attn.to_v.{suffix}",
+            ]
+            plan[f"{prefix}.attn.to_out.{suffix}"] = [f"{prefix}.attn.to_out.0.{suffix}"]
+            plan[f"{prefix}.ff.w1.{suffix}"] = [f"{prefix}.ff.net.0.proj.{suffix}"]
+            plan[f"{prefix}.ff.w2.{suffix}"] = [f"{prefix}.ff.net.2.{suffix}"]
+    for key in MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_VAE_DROPPED_KEYS:
+        plan[key] = []
+    return plan
+
+
+def convert_video_vae(
+    checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, config: dict[str, Any], diffusers_version: str, max_shard_size: int
+) -> None:
+    """Convert the video VAE and emit its config.
+
+    The original weights live one level deeper than the rest of the checkpoint
+    (`video_vae/source/model.safetensors`, resolved by a hook in the reference); the diffusers layout flattens that to
+    `vae/`. `latents_mean` / `latents_std` and the tiling geometry come from `video_vae/config.json` — MiniMax-H3
+    normalizes latents per channel instead of with a `scaling_factor`.
+    """
+    source_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "video_vae")
+    with open(os.path.join(source_dir, "config.json")) as f:
+        wrapper_config = json.load(f)
+    for key in ("latents_mean", "latents_std"):
+        if key not in wrapper_config:
+            raise KeyError(f"{source_dir}/config.json does not carry `{key}`.")
+
+    weights_path = os.path.join(source_dir, wrapper_config["source_path"], wrapper_config["source_safetensors_path"])
+    plan = get_video_vae_key_plan(config)
+
+    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
+    weight_map: dict[str, str] = {}
+    total_size = 0
+    written: list[str] = []
+    buffer: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+    buffer_size = 0
+    seen_source_keys: set[str] = set()
+
+    def flush() -> None:
+        nonlocal buffer, buffer_size
+        if not buffer:
+            return
+        path = os.path.join(output_path, f".tmp-shard-{len(written):05d}.safetensors")
+        save_file(buffer, path, metadata={"format": "pt"})
+        for key in buffer:
+            weight_map[key] = path
+        written.append(path)
+        buffer = {}
+        buffer_size = 0
+
+    # `safe_open` memory-maps the file, so only the tensor being read is materialized.
+    with safe_open(weights_path, framework="pt", device="cpu") as f:
+        for source_key in f.keys():
+            if source_key not in plan:
+                raise KeyError(f"Unexpected key in {weights_path}: {source_key}")
+            seen_source_keys.add(source_key)
+            for target_key, tensor in convert_video_vae_key(source_key, f.get_tensor(source_key), config):
+                if tensor.dtype != torch.float32:
+                    raise ValueError(f"{source_key}: expected torch.float32, got {tensor.dtype}.")
+                buffer[target_key] = tensor
+                buffer_size += tensor.numel() * tensor.element_size()
+                total_size += tensor.numel() * tensor.element_size()
+            if buffer_size >= max_shard_size:
+                flush()
+    flush()
+
+    missing = sorted(set(plan) - seen_source_keys)
+    if missing:
+        raise KeyError(f"{len(missing)} planned key(s) missing from {weights_path}, e.g. {missing[:5]}.")
+
+    renames = {
+        path: os.path.join(output_path, f"diffusion_pytorch_model-{i + 1:05d}-of-{len(written):05d}.safetensors")
+        for i, path in enumerate(written)
+    }
+    for old, new in renames.items():
+        os.rename(old, new)
+    index = {
+        "metadata": {"total_size": total_size},
+        "weight_map": {key: os.path.basename(renames[path]) for key, path in weight_map.items()},
+    }
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(index, f, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
+
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, "config.json"), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(
+            {
+                "_class_name": "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3",
+                "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version,
+                **config,
+                "latents_mean": wrapper_config["latents_mean"],
+                "latents_std": wrapper_config["latents_std"],
+            },
+            f,
+            indent=2,
+        )
+
+    print(
+        f"video_vae: {len(seen_source_keys)} original keys -> {len(weight_map)} diffusers keys in "
+        f"{len(written)} shard(s), {total_size / 1024**3:.2f} GiB "
+        f"(latents_mean/latents_std: {len(wrapper_config['latents_mean'])}/"
+        f"{len(wrapper_config['latents_std'])} channels; tiling {wrapper_config['vae_tile_size']}px / "
+        f"{wrapper_config['vae_tile_overlap_min']}px min overlap)."
+    )
+
+
+# Not present in `audio_vae/metadata.json`: the reference implementation hardcodes these in its DAC audio VAE and its
+# attention projection, keyed off the sample rate.
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_VAE_FIXED_CONFIG = {
+    "num_attention_heads": 8,
+    "resblock_kernel_sizes": [3, 7, 11],
+    "resblock_dilation_sizes": [[1, 3, 5], [1, 3, 5], [1, 3, 5]],
+}
+
+
+def get_audio_vae_config(checkpoint_path: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Build the `AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio` config from the original audio-VAE metadata.
+
+    `audio_vae/metadata.json` carries the constructor kwargs the checkpoint was built with, and
+    `audio_vae/config.json` carries the per-channel `latents_mean` / `latents_std` MiniMax-H3 normalizes with. The two
+    are cross-checked here because they duplicate the latent width and sample rate.
+    """
+    source_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "audio_vae")
+    with open(os.path.join(source_dir, "metadata.json")) as f:
+        kwargs = json.load(f)["metadata"]["kwargs"]
+    with open(os.path.join(source_dir, "config.json")) as f:
+        wrapper_config = json.load(f)
+
+    if kwargs["decoder_type"] != "bigvgan":
+        raise ValueError(f"Only the BigVGAN decoder is supported, got {kwargs['decoder_type']!r}.")
+    if not kwargs["attn_proj"]:
+        raise ValueError("The audio VAE is expected to carry the causal-attention latent projection.")
+    latent_channels = kwargs["vae_latent_channels"]
+    if wrapper_config["latent_channels"] != latent_channels:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"latent width disagreement: metadata.json says {latent_channels}, "
+            f"config.json says {wrapper_config['latent_channels']}."
+        )
+    if wrapper_config["sample_rate"] != kwargs["sample_rate"]:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"sample rate disagreement: metadata.json says {kwargs['sample_rate']}, "
+            f"config.json says {wrapper_config['sample_rate']}."
+        )
+    for key in ("latents_mean", "latents_std"):
+        if len(wrapper_config[key]) != latent_channels:
+            raise KeyError(f"{source_dir}/config.json `{key}` does not have {latent_channels} entries.")
+
+    return {
+        "encoder_dim": kwargs["encoder_dim"],
+        "encoder_rates": kwargs["encoder_rates"],
+        "latent_dim": kwargs["latent_dim"],
+        "latent_channels": latent_channels,
+        "decoder_dim": kwargs["decoder_dim"],
+        "decoder_rates": kwargs["decoder_rates"],
+        # The reference's two hardcoded BigVGAN tables (16 kHz and 32 kHz) both pair rate `u` with kernel
+        # `2u` for even `u` and `2u - 1` for odd `u`, i.e. [5, 5, 2, ...] -> [9, 9, 4, ...].
+        "decoder_kernel_sizes": [2 * rate - (rate % 2) for rate in kwargs["decoder_rates"]],
+        **MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_VAE_FIXED_CONFIG,
+        # Renamed from the original `sample_rate` to the diffusers audio convention.
+        "sampling_rate": kwargs["sample_rate"],
+        "latents_mean": wrapper_config["latents_mean"],
+        "latents_std": wrapper_config["latents_std"],
+    }
+
+
+def convert_audio_vae(checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, diffusers_version: str) -> None:
+    """Convert the audio VAE and emit its config.
+
+    The mapping is an identity: `AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio` reproduces the original module tree name for name,
+    including `torch.nn.utils.weight_norm`'s `weight_g` / `weight_v` spelling and the Kaiser-window `filter` buffers of
+    the anti-aliased activations. The keys are therefore only *validated* against a freshly built model, not renamed.
+    """
+    config = get_audio_vae_config(checkpoint_path)
+    expected_keys = set(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(**config).state_dict())
+
+    weights_path = os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "audio_vae", "model.safetensors")
+    state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+    total_size = 0
+    with safe_open(weights_path, framework="pt", device="cpu") as f:
+        for key in f.keys():
+            if key not in expected_keys:
+                raise KeyError(f"Unexpected key in {weights_path}: {key}")
+            tensor = f.get_tensor(key)
+            if tensor.dtype != torch.float32:
+                raise ValueError(f"{key}: expected torch.float32, got {tensor.dtype}.")
+            state_dict[key] = tensor
+            total_size += tensor.numel() * tensor.element_size()
+
+    missing = sorted(expected_keys - set(state_dict))
+    if missing:
+        raise KeyError(f"{len(missing)} key(s) missing from {weights_path}, e.g. {missing[:5]}.")
+
+    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
+    save_file(
+        state_dict,
+        os.path.join(output_path, "diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors"),
+        metadata={"format": "pt"},
+    )
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, "config.json"), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(
+            {"_class_name": "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio", "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version, **config},
+            f,
+            indent=2,
+        )
+
+    print(
+        f"audio_vae: {len(state_dict)} keys carried over unchanged, {total_size / 1024**3:.2f} GiB "
+        f"({config['sampling_rate'] // math.prod(config['encoder_rates'])} latents/s, "
+        f"latents_mean/latents_std: {len(config['latents_mean'])}/{len(config['latents_std'])} channels)."
+    )
+
+
+def write_scheduler_configs(checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, diffusers_version: str) -> None:
+    """Emit the two `MiniMaxH3Scheduler` configs, one per modality.
+
+    The source `model_index.json` leaves `scheduler` null and instead carries the schedule constants in its
+    `_minimax_h3.sigma_shift_scales` block. The sigma shift is the only per-modality difference, so it becomes two
+    scheduler folders holding the same class at different `shift` values.
+    """
+    with open(os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "model_index.json")) as f:
+        shift_scales = json.load(f)["_minimax_h3"]["sigma_shift_scales"]
+
+    for folder, modality in (("scheduler", "video"), ("audio_scheduler", "audio")):
+        folder_path = os.path.join(output_path, folder)
+        os.makedirs(folder_path, exist_ok=True)
+        with open(os.path.join(folder_path, "scheduler_config.json"), "w") as f:
+            json.dump(
+                {
+                    "_class_name": "MiniMaxH3Scheduler",
+                    "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version,
+                    "shift": float(shift_scales[modality]),
+                },
+                f,
+                indent=2,
+            )
+    print(f"scheduler: shift={shift_scales['video']} (video), audio_scheduler: shift={shift_scales['audio']} (audio).")
+
+
+def read_safetensors_header(path: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Read the metadata header of a safetensors file without touching the tensor payload."""
+    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+        header_size = struct.unpack("<Q", f.read(8))[0]
+        header = json.loads(f.read(header_size))
+    header.pop("__metadata__", None)
+    return header
+
+
+def dry_run(checkpoint_path: str, config: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+    plan = get_transformer_key_plan(config)
+
+    transformer_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "transformer")
+    shards = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(transformer_dir, "*.safetensors")))
+    header: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    for shard in shards:
+        header.update(read_safetensors_header(shard))
+    if shards:
+        print(f"Read headers of {len(shards)} shard(s) in {transformer_dir}: {len(header)} keys present.\n")
+    else:
+        print(f"No shards found under {transformer_dir}; validating the plan against the config only.\n")
+
+    print(f"{'original key':<48} {'->':^4} {'diffusers key':<52} {'shape':<24} dtype")
+    print("-" * 150)
+    num_target_keys = 0
+    shape_mismatches: list[str] = []
+    for source_key, targets in plan.items():
+        present = source_key in header
+        if not targets:
+            print(f"{source_key:<48} {'-x':^4} {'(dropped, recomputed by the port)':<52}")
+            continue
+        for index, (target_key, shape) in enumerate(targets):
+            num_target_keys += 1
+            expected_dtype = "F32" if source_key.startswith(MINIMAX_H3_FP32_SOURCE_PREFIXES) else "BF16"
+            if present:
+                actual_dtype = header[source_key]["dtype"]
+                actual_shape = header[source_key]["shape"]
+                if index == 0 and len(targets) == 1 and actual_shape != shape:
+                    shape_mismatches.append(f"{source_key}: header {actual_shape} != planned {shape}")
+                if actual_dtype != expected_dtype:
+                    shape_mismatches.append(f"{source_key}: header dtype {actual_dtype} != expected {expected_dtype}")
+                marker = "->"
+            else:
+                marker = "->?"
+            left = source_key if index == 0 else ""
+            print(f"{left:<48} {marker:^4} {target_key:<52} {str(shape):<24} {expected_dtype}")
+
+    missing = [key for key in plan if key not in header]
+    unexpected = [key for key in header if key not in plan]
+
+    print("\n" + "=" * 150)
+    print(f"planned original keys : {len(plan)}")
+    print(f"planned diffusers keys: {num_target_keys}")
+    print(
+        f"dropped original keys : {len(MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_DROPPED_KEYS)} {list(MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_DROPPED_KEYS)}"
+    )
+    print(f"fp32 diffusers keys   : {sum(1 for key in plan if key.startswith(MINIMAX_H3_FP32_SOURCE_PREFIXES))}")
+    if shards:
+        print(f"keys present in shards: {len(header)}")
+        print(f"planned but absent    : {len(missing)}" + (" (shards still downloading?)" if missing else ""))
+        print(f"present but unplanned : {len(unexpected)}")
+        if unexpected:
+            print(f"  {unexpected}")
+        print(f"header disagreements  : {len(shape_mismatches)}")
+        for line in shape_mismatches:
+            print(f"  {line}")
+    total_bytes = sum(
+        (4 if source_key.startswith(MINIMAX_H3_FP32_SOURCE_PREFIXES) else 2) * torch.Size(shape).numel()
+        for source_key, targets in plan.items()
+        for _, shape in targets
+    )
+    print(f"total output bytes    : {total_bytes} ({total_bytes / 1024**3:.2f} GiB)")
+
+
+def convert_transformer(checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, config: dict[str, Any], max_shard_size: int) -> None:
+    plan = get_transformer_key_plan(config)
+    transformer_dir = os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "transformer")
+    shards = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(transformer_dir, "*.safetensors")))
+    if not shards:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No `*.safetensors` shards found under {transformer_dir}.")
+
+    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
+    weight_map: dict[str, str] = {}
+    total_size = 0
+    written: list[str] = []
+    buffer: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+    buffer_size = 0
+    seen_source_keys: set[str] = set()
+
+    def flush() -> None:
+        nonlocal buffer, buffer_size
+        if not buffer:
+            return
+        path = os.path.join(output_path, f".tmp-shard-{len(written):05d}.safetensors")
+        save_file(buffer, path, metadata={"format": "pt"})
+        for key in buffer:
+            weight_map[key] = path
+        written.append(path)
+        buffer = {}
+        buffer_size = 0
+
+    for shard in shards:
+        # `safe_open` memory-maps the file, so only the tensor being read is materialized.
+        with safe_open(shard, framework="pt", device="cpu") as f:
+            for source_key in f.keys():
+                if source_key not in plan:
+                    raise KeyError(f"Unexpected key in {os.path.basename(shard)}: {source_key}")
+                seen_source_keys.add(source_key)
+                source_tensor = f.get_tensor(source_key)
+                if source_key.endswith(".attn.qkv_proj.weight"):
+                    # Raw shards store fused QKV per-head interleaved; normalize to the reference's
+                    # `[q_all; k_all; v_all]` layout (the same transform the reference applies at load time) so
+                    # `convert_transformer_key` sees its state-dict-layout contract. The composition is bit-identical
+                    # to de-interleaving the raw tensor directly.
+                    source_tensor = reorder_interleaved_qkv(
+                        source_tensor, config["num_attention_heads"], config["attention_head_dim"]
+                    )
+                for target_key, tensor in convert_transformer_key(source_key, source_tensor, config):
+                    expected_dtype = (
+                        torch.float32 if source_key.startswith(MINIMAX_H3_FP32_SOURCE_PREFIXES) else torch.bfloat16
+                    )
+                    if tensor.dtype != expected_dtype:
+                        raise ValueError(f"{source_key}: expected {expected_dtype}, got {tensor.dtype}.")
+                    buffer[target_key] = tensor
+                    buffer_size += tensor.numel() * tensor.element_size()
+                    total_size += tensor.numel() * tensor.element_size()
+                if buffer_size >= max_shard_size:
+                    flush()
+    flush()
+
+    missing = sorted(set(plan) - seen_source_keys)
+    if missing:
+        raise KeyError(f"{len(missing)} planned key(s) missing from the checkpoint, e.g. {missing[:5]}.")
+
+    # The shard count is only known once every source shard has been streamed, so the files are written under
+    # provisional names and renamed here.
+    renames = {
+        path: os.path.join(output_path, f"diffusion_pytorch_model-{i + 1:05d}-of-{len(written):05d}.safetensors")
+        for i, path in enumerate(written)
+    }
+    for old, new in renames.items():
+        os.rename(old, new)
+    index = {
+        "metadata": {"total_size": total_size},
+        "weight_map": {key: os.path.basename(renames[path]) for key, path in weight_map.items()},
+    }
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(index, f, indent=2, sort_keys=True)
+
+    print(
+        f"transformer: {len(seen_source_keys)} original keys -> {len(weight_map)} diffusers keys "
+        f"in {len(written)} shard(s), {total_size / 1024**3:.2f} GiB."
+    )
+
+
+def write_transformer_config(output_path: str, config: dict[str, Any], diffusers_version: str) -> None:
+    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, "config.json"), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(
+            {"_class_name": "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel", "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version, **config},
+            f,
+            indent=2,
+        )
+
+
+def write_model_index(checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, repo_id: str, diffusers_version: str) -> None:
+    """Emit `model_index.json` for the standard pipelines and `modular_model_index.json` for the modular ones.
+
+    A modular repository declares one entry per component with its full loading spec rather than just its class, so
+    the two files carry the same component map in two shapes; `video_processor` is absent from both, since the modular
+    blocks create it from config.
+    """
+    with open(os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "model_index.json")) as f:
+        source_index = json.load(f)
+
+    if source_index.get("scheduler") is not None:
+        raise ValueError("The source `model_index.json` is expected to carry `scheduler: null`.")
+
+    index = {
+        "_class_name": "MiniMaxH3Pipeline",
+        "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version,
+        # The source names a checkpoint-local wrapper class (`MiniMaxH3Qwen3VLHFEncoder`); the conditioner is a
+        # Qwen3-VL truncated to its first 50 decoder layers, which the pipeline does at load time.
+        "text_encoder": ["transformers", "Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration"],
+        "tokenizer": source_index["tokenizer"],
+        "processor": source_index["processor"],
+        # Renamed to the diffusers audio/video VAE convention (see `LTX2Pipeline`).
+        "vae": ["diffusers", "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3"],
+        "audio_vae": ["diffusers", "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio"],
+        "transformer": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"],
+        # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: `transformer/` serves `MiniMaxH3Pipeline` (`t2va` /
+        # `fl2va`) and `transformer_ref/` serves `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`, while every other component is shared and
+        # converted once. Each pipeline declares only its own transformer, so `from_pretrained` loads only that one.
+        "transformer_ref": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"],
+        # The source leaves `scheduler` null. MiniMax-H3 samples with Euler at eta=0 over shifted flow-matching
+        # sigmas, at a different shift per modality, so it needs two scheduler entries (see
+        # `write_scheduler_configs`).
+        "scheduler": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Scheduler"],
+        "audio_scheduler": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Scheduler"],
+    }
+    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, "model_index.json"), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(index, f, indent=2)
+    source_meta = source_index["_minimax_h3"]
+    print(f"model_index.json: source partition={source_meta['partition']}, tasks={source_meta['tasks']}.")
+
+    # `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` reads this one first and falls back to `model_index.json`. `_class_name` and
+    # `_blocks_class_name` name the `t2va` / `fl2va` half, which is what `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` resolves to.
+    # The `ref2va` half reads the very same file through `MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline(repo_id)`: a component
+    # entry is only picked up when the blocks expect it, so each half loads its own transformer partition and shares
+    # everything else.
+    modular_index = {
+        "_class_name": "MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline",
+        "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version,
+        "_blocks_class_name": "MiniMaxH3Blocks",
+    }
+    for name, entry in index.items():
+        if name.startswith("_"):
+            continue
+        library, class_name = entry
+        modular_index[name] = [
+            library,
+            class_name,
+            {
+                "type_hint": [library, class_name],
+                "pretrained_model_name_or_path": repo_id,
+                "subfolder": name,
+                "variant": None,
+                "revision": None,
+            },
+        ]
+    with open(os.path.join(output_path, "modular_model_index.json"), "w") as f:
+        json.dump(modular_index, f, indent=2)
+    print(f"modular_model_index.json: components load from {repo_id}.")
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--checkpoint_path",
+        type=str,
+        required=True,
+        help="Local path to an original MiniMax-H3 variant folder (the one holding `transformer/`, `audio_vae/`, ...).",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--output_path", type=str, required=True, help="Where the diffusers checkpoint is written.")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--modular_repo_id",
+        type=str,
+        default=None,
+        help=(
+            "Repository the component entries of `modular_model_index.json` point at. Defaults to `--output_path`, so "
+            "pass the Hub id the checkpoint is published under."
+        ),
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--version",
+        type=str,
+        default="h3",
+        choices=["h3", "test"],
+        help="`test` emits the tiny config used for fixtures.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max_shard_size",
+        type=int,
+        default=5 * 1024**3,
+        help="Maximum size of an output safetensors shard, in bytes.",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--dry_run",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Print the full planned key mapping (and cross-check any shard headers already present) without writing.",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main(args):
+    from diffusers import __version__ as diffusers_version
+
+    config = MINIMAX_H3_TEST_TRANSFORMER_CONFIG if args.version == "test" else MINIMAX_H3_TRANSFORMER_CONFIG
+
+    if args.dry_run:
+        dry_run(args.checkpoint_path, config)
+        return
+
+    transformer_path = os.path.join(args.output_path, "transformer")
+    convert_transformer(args.checkpoint_path, transformer_path, config, args.max_shard_size)
+    write_transformer_config(transformer_path, config, diffusers_version)
+    video_vae_config = MINIMAX_H3_TEST_VIDEO_VAE_CONFIG if args.version == "test" else MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_VAE_CONFIG
+    convert_video_vae(
+        args.checkpoint_path,
+        os.path.join(args.output_path, "vae"),
+        video_vae_config,
+        diffusers_version,
+        args.max_shard_size,
+    )
+    convert_audio_vae(args.checkpoint_path, os.path.join(args.output_path, "audio_vae"), diffusers_version)
+    write_scheduler_configs(args.checkpoint_path, args.output_path, diffusers_version)
+    write_model_index(
+        args.checkpoint_path, args.output_path, args.modular_repo_id or args.output_path, diffusers_version
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main(get_args())
diff --git a/src/diffusers/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/__init__.py
index 7a8d727aefea..0cb9aa37835c 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/__init__.py
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@
             "AutoencoderKLLTX2Video",
             "AutoencoderKLLTXVideo",
             "AutoencoderKLMagvit",
+            "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3",
+            "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio",
             "AutoencoderKLMochi",
             "AutoencoderKLQwenImage",
             "AutoencoderKLTemporalDecoder",
@@ -309,6 +311,7 @@
             "LTXVideoTransformer3DModel",
             "Lumina2Transformer2DModel",
             "LuminaNextDiT2DModel",
+            "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel",
             "MochiTransformer3DModel",
             "ModelMixin",
             "MotifVideoTransformer3DModel",
@@ -443,6 +446,7 @@
             "KDPM2DiscreteScheduler",
             "LCMScheduler",
             "LTXEulerAncestralRFScheduler",
+            "MiniMaxH3Scheduler",
             "PNDMScheduler",
             "RePaintScheduler",
             "SASolverScheduler",
@@ -531,6 +535,10 @@
             "Krea2TurboModularPipeline",
             "LTXAutoBlocks",
             "LTXModularPipeline",
+            "MiniMaxH3Blocks",
+            "MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline",
+            "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks",
+            "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline",
             "QwenImageAutoBlocks",
             "QwenImageEditAutoBlocks",
             "QwenImageEditModularPipeline",
@@ -717,6 +725,8 @@
             "MarigoldDepthPipeline",
             "MarigoldIntrinsicsPipeline",
             "MarigoldNormalsPipeline",
+            "MiniMaxH3Pipeline",
+            "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline",
             "MochiPipeline",
             "MotifVideoImage2VideoPipeline",
             "MotifVideoPipeline",
@@ -1089,6 +1099,8 @@
             AutoencoderKLLTX2Video,
             AutoencoderKLLTXVideo,
             AutoencoderKLMagvit,
+            AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
+            AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
             AutoencoderKLMochi,
             AutoencoderKLQwenImage,
             AutoencoderKLTemporalDecoder,
@@ -1150,6 +1162,7 @@
             LTXVideoTransformer3DModel,
             Lumina2Transformer2DModel,
             LuminaNextDiT2DModel,
+            MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
             MochiTransformer3DModel,
             ModelMixin,
             MotifVideoTransformer3DModel,
@@ -1280,6 +1293,7 @@
             KDPM2DiscreteScheduler,
             LCMScheduler,
             LTXEulerAncestralRFScheduler,
+            MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
             PNDMScheduler,
             RePaintScheduler,
             SASolverScheduler,
@@ -1351,6 +1365,10 @@
             Krea2TurboModularPipeline,
             LTXAutoBlocks,
             LTXModularPipeline,
+            MiniMaxH3Blocks,
+            MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
+            MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
+            MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
             QwenImageAutoBlocks,
             QwenImageEditAutoBlocks,
             QwenImageEditModularPipeline,
@@ -1533,6 +1551,8 @@
             MarigoldDepthPipeline,
             MarigoldIntrinsicsPipeline,
             MarigoldNormalsPipeline,
+            MiniMaxH3Pipeline,
+            MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline,
             MochiPipeline,
             MotifVideoImage2VideoPipeline,
             MotifVideoPipeline,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/models/__init__.py
index 167ee7a534de..a78702ab34fa 100755
--- a/src/diffusers/models/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/__init__.py
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
     _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_ltx2"] = ["AutoencoderKLLTX2Video"]
     _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_ltx2_audio"] = ["AutoencoderKLLTX2Audio"]
     _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_magvit"] = ["AutoencoderKLMagvit"]
+    _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3"] = ["AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3"]
+    _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio"] = ["AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio"]
     _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_mochi"] = ["AutoencoderKLMochi"]
     _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_qwenimage"] = ["AutoencoderKLQwenImage"]
     _import_structure["autoencoders.autoencoder_kl_temporal_decoder"] = ["AutoencoderKLTemporalDecoder"]
@@ -128,6 +130,7 @@
     _import_structure["transformers.transformer_ltx"] = ["LTXVideoTransformer3DModel"]
     _import_structure["transformers.transformer_ltx2"] = ["LTX2VideoTransformer3DModel"]
     _import_structure["transformers.transformer_lumina2"] = ["Lumina2Transformer2DModel"]
+    _import_structure["transformers.transformer_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"]
     _import_structure["transformers.transformer_mochi"] = ["MochiTransformer3DModel"]
     _import_structure["transformers.transformer_motif_video"] = ["MotifVideoTransformer3DModel"]
     _import_structure["transformers.transformer_nucleusmoe_image"] = ["NucleusMoEImageTransformer2DModel"]
@@ -180,6 +183,8 @@
             AutoencoderKLLTX2Video,
             AutoencoderKLLTXVideo,
             AutoencoderKLMagvit,
+            AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
+            AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
             AutoencoderKLMochi,
             AutoencoderKLQwenImage,
             AutoencoderKLTemporalDecoder,
@@ -260,6 +265,7 @@
             LTXVideoTransformer3DModel,
             Lumina2Transformer2DModel,
             LuminaNextDiT2DModel,
+            MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
             MochiTransformer3DModel,
             MotifVideoTransformer3DModel,
             NucleusMoEImageTransformer2DModel,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/__init__.py
index 145f62376192..dc481370204b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/__init__.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 from .autoencoder_kl_ltx2 import AutoencoderKLLTX2Video
 from .autoencoder_kl_ltx2_audio import AutoencoderKLLTX2Audio
 from .autoencoder_kl_magvit import AutoencoderKLMagvit
+from .autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3 import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+from .autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
 from .autoencoder_kl_mochi import AutoencoderKLMochi
 from .autoencoder_kl_qwenimage import AutoencoderKLQwenImage
 from .autoencoder_kl_temporal_decoder import AutoencoderKLTemporalDecoder
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..edb44891e320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,905 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import math
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from ...configuration_utils import ConfigMixin, register_to_config
+from ...utils import logging
+from ...utils.accelerate_utils import apply_forward_hook
+from ..attention import AttentionMixin, AttentionModuleMixin, FeedForward
+from ..attention_dispatch import dispatch_attention_fn
+from ..modeling_outputs import AutoencoderKLOutput
+from ..modeling_utils import ModelMixin
+from .vae import AutoencoderMixin, DecoderOutput, DiagonalGaussianDistribution
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(nn.Conv3d):
+    r"""
+    3D convolution used throughout the MiniMax-H3 video encoder.
+
+    Spatial padding is symmetric and uses `spatial_padding_mode` (`"reflect"` in the released checkpoint); temporal
+    padding is causal, i.e. `kernel_size_t - 1` zero frames are prepended and nothing is appended.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        kernel_size: int | tuple[int, int, int],
+        stride: int | tuple[int, int, int] = 1,
+        spatial_padding: int = 0,
+        temporal_padding: int = 0,
+        spatial_padding_mode: str = "reflect",
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=kernel_size, stride=stride, padding=0)
+        self.spatial_padding = spatial_padding
+        self.temporal_padding = temporal_padding
+        self.spatial_padding_mode = spatial_padding_mode
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if self.spatial_padding > 0:
+            padding = self.spatial_padding
+            hidden_states = F.pad(
+                hidden_states, (padding, padding, padding, padding, 0, 0), mode=self.spatial_padding_mode
+            )
+        if self.temporal_padding > 0:
+            hidden_states = F.pad(hidden_states, (0, 0, 0, 0, self.temporal_padding, 0), mode="constant")
+        return F.conv3d(hidden_states, self.weight, self.bias, stride=self.stride, padding=0, dilation=self.dilation)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoGroupNorm(nn.GroupNorm):
+    r"""
+    Group normalization applied to each latent frame in isolation (`use_t_isolated_gn` in the original config): the
+    temporal axis is folded into the batch axis so statistics never mix across frames.
+    """
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        batch_size, num_channels, num_frames, height, width = hidden_states.shape
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.permute(0, 2, 1, 3, 4).contiguous()
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.view(batch_size * num_frames, num_channels, 1, height, width)
+        hidden_states = super().forward(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.view(batch_size, num_frames, num_channels, height, width)
+        return hidden_states.permute(0, 2, 1, 3, 4).contiguous()
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoResnetBlock3d(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        norm_num_groups: int = 32,
+        norm_eps: float = 1e-6,
+        spatial_padding_mode: str = "reflect",
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_channels = in_channels
+        self.out_channels = out_channels
+
+        self.norm1 = MiniMaxH3VideoGroupNorm(norm_num_groups, in_channels, eps=norm_eps, affine=True)
+        self.conv1 = MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(
+            in_channels,
+            out_channels,
+            kernel_size=3,
+            spatial_padding=1,
+            temporal_padding=2,
+            spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+        )
+        self.norm2 = MiniMaxH3VideoGroupNorm(norm_num_groups, out_channels, eps=norm_eps, affine=True)
+        self.conv2 = MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(
+            out_channels,
+            out_channels,
+            kernel_size=3,
+            spatial_padding=1,
+            temporal_padding=2,
+            spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+        )
+        self.conv_shortcut = None
+        if in_channels != out_channels:
+            self.conv_shortcut = MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=1)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = F.silu(self.norm1(hidden_states))
+        hidden_states = self.conv1(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = F.silu(self.norm2(hidden_states))
+        hidden_states = self.conv2(hidden_states)
+        if self.conv_shortcut is not None:
+            residual = self.conv_shortcut(residual)
+        return residual + hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoDownsample3d(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    Strided 3x3x3 downsampling convolution. A spatial stride of 2 is preceded by an asymmetric bottom/right pad of 1
+    (the convolution itself carries no spatial padding), so the output is exactly `ceil(size / 2)`.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        temporal_stride: int = 1,
+        spatial_stride: int = 2,
+        spatial_padding_mode: str = "reflect",
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.spatial_stride = spatial_stride
+        self.spatial_padding_mode = spatial_padding_mode
+        self.conv = MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(
+            in_channels,
+            out_channels,
+            kernel_size=3,
+            stride=(temporal_stride, spatial_stride, spatial_stride),
+            spatial_padding=0,
+            temporal_padding=2,
+            spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if self.spatial_stride == 2:
+            hidden_states = F.pad(hidden_states, (0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0), mode=self.spatial_padding_mode)
+        return self.conv(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoDownBlock3d(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        out_channels: int,
+        num_layers: int,
+        temporal_downsample_factor: int,
+        spatial_downsample_factor: int,
+        norm_num_groups: int = 32,
+        norm_eps: float = 1e-6,
+        spatial_padding_mode: str = "reflect",
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.resnets = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3VideoResnetBlock3d(
+                    in_channels=in_channels if i == 0 else out_channels,
+                    out_channels=out_channels,
+                    norm_num_groups=norm_num_groups,
+                    norm_eps=norm_eps,
+                    spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+                )
+                for i in range(num_layers)
+            ]
+        )
+        self.downsamplers = None
+        if temporal_downsample_factor * spatial_downsample_factor > 1:
+            self.downsamplers = nn.ModuleList(
+                [
+                    MiniMaxH3VideoDownsample3d(
+                        out_channels,
+                        out_channels,
+                        temporal_stride=temporal_downsample_factor,
+                        spatial_stride=spatial_downsample_factor,
+                        spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+                    )
+                ]
+            )
+
+        self.gradient_checkpointing = False
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        for resnet in self.resnets:
+            if torch.is_grad_enabled() and self.gradient_checkpointing:
+                hidden_states = self._gradient_checkpointing_func(resnet, hidden_states)
+            else:
+                hidden_states = resnet(hidden_states)
+        if self.downsamplers is not None:
+            for downsampler in self.downsamplers:
+                hidden_states = downsampler(hidden_states)
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoEncoder3d(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    Causal 3D CNN encoder. `block_out_channels` gives the channel count of every level; the per-level
+    `spatial_downsample_factors` / `temporal_downsample_factors` multiply out to the total compression ratios.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int = 3,
+        out_channels: int = 48,
+        block_out_channels: tuple[int, ...] = (128, 256, 256, 512, 512, 1024),
+        layers_per_block: int = 2,
+        spatial_downsample_factors: tuple[int, ...] = (2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1),
+        temporal_downsample_factors: tuple[int, ...] = (1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1),
+        norm_num_groups: int = 32,
+        norm_eps: float = 1e-6,
+        spatial_padding_mode: str = "reflect",
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.conv_in = MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(
+            in_channels,
+            block_out_channels[0],
+            kernel_size=3,
+            spatial_padding=1,
+            temporal_padding=2,
+            spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+        )
+
+        block_in_channels = (block_out_channels[0],) + tuple(block_out_channels[:-1])
+        self.down_blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3VideoDownBlock3d(
+                    in_channels=block_in_channels[i],
+                    out_channels=block_out_channels[i],
+                    num_layers=layers_per_block,
+                    temporal_downsample_factor=temporal_downsample_factors[i],
+                    spatial_downsample_factor=spatial_downsample_factors[i],
+                    norm_num_groups=norm_num_groups,
+                    norm_eps=norm_eps,
+                    spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+                )
+                for i in range(len(block_out_channels))
+            ]
+        )
+
+        self.norm_out = MiniMaxH3VideoGroupNorm(norm_num_groups, block_out_channels[-1], eps=norm_eps, affine=True)
+        self.conv_out = MiniMaxH3VideoCausalConv3d(
+            block_out_channels[-1],
+            out_channels,
+            kernel_size=3,
+            spatial_padding=1,
+            temporal_padding=2,
+            spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.conv_in(hidden_states)
+        for down_block in self.down_blocks:
+            hidden_states = down_block(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = F.silu(self.norm_out(hidden_states))
+        return self.conv_out(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoRotaryPosEmbed(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    3-axis rotary embedding for the ViT decoder. Coordinates are length-normalized to `[-1, 1)` per axis and scaled by
+    `2 * pi`, and the resulting `(t, h, w)` angles are concatenated and then duplicated, so the first
+    `rope_dim_ratio * attention_head_dim` channels of every head are rotated.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, theta: float = 100.0, num_axes: int = 3) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        if dim % (2 * num_axes) != 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"`dim` {dim} must be divisible by `2 * num_axes` {2 * num_axes}.")
+        inv_freq = 1.0 / theta ** torch.arange(0, 1, 2 * num_axes / dim, dtype=torch.float32)
+        self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False)
+
+    def forward(self, position_ids: torch.Tensor) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        angles = 2.0 * math.pi * position_ids[:, :, :, None] * self.inv_freq[None, None, None, :]
+        angles = angles.flatten(2, 3).tile(2).unsqueeze(2)
+        return angles.cos(), angles.sin()
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoAttnProcessor:
+    _attention_backend = None
+    _parallel_config = None
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        attn: "MiniMaxH3VideoAttention",
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        rotary_emb: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor] | None = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        query = attn.to_q(hidden_states).unflatten(2, (attn.heads, -1))
+        key = attn.to_k(hidden_states).unflatten(2, (attn.heads, -1))
+        value = attn.to_v(hidden_states).unflatten(2, (attn.heads, -1))
+
+        # The reference normalizes Q/K in float32 regardless of the compute dtype.
+        query = attn.norm_q(query.float()).to(query.dtype)
+        key = attn.norm_k(key.float()).to(key.dtype)
+
+        if rotary_emb is not None:
+            cos, sin = rotary_emb
+            cos = cos.to(query.dtype)
+            sin = sin.to(query.dtype)
+            rotary_dim = cos.shape[-1]
+            query_rotary, query_pass = query[..., :rotary_dim], query[..., rotary_dim:]
+            key_rotary, key_pass = key[..., :rotary_dim], key[..., rotary_dim:]
+            query_first, query_second = query_rotary.chunk(2, dim=-1)
+            key_first, key_second = key_rotary.chunk(2, dim=-1)
+            query_rotated = torch.cat([-query_second, query_first], dim=-1)
+            key_rotated = torch.cat([-key_second, key_first], dim=-1)
+            query = torch.cat([query_rotary * cos + query_rotated * sin, query_pass], dim=-1)
+            key = torch.cat([key_rotary * cos + key_rotated * sin, key_pass], dim=-1)
+
+        hidden_states = dispatch_attention_fn(
+            query,
+            key,
+            value,
+            attn_mask=None,
+            backend=self._attention_backend,
+            parallel_config=self._parallel_config,
+        )
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.flatten(2, 3)
+        return attn.to_out[0](hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoAttention(nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
+    _default_processor_cls = MiniMaxH3VideoAttnProcessor
+    _available_processors = [MiniMaxH3VideoAttnProcessor]
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, heads: int, dim_head: int, eps: float = 1e-5, bias: bool = True) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.heads = heads
+        self.dim_head = dim_head
+        self.use_bias = bias
+        inner_dim = heads * dim_head
+
+        self.norm_q = nn.RMSNorm(dim_head, eps=eps, elementwise_affine=False)
+        self.norm_k = nn.RMSNorm(dim_head, eps=eps, elementwise_affine=False)
+        self.to_q = nn.Linear(dim, inner_dim, bias=bias)
+        self.to_k = nn.Linear(dim, inner_dim, bias=bias)
+        self.to_v = nn.Linear(dim, inner_dim, bias=bias)
+        self.to_out = nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(inner_dim, dim, bias=bias), nn.Dropout(0.0)])
+
+        self.set_processor(MiniMaxH3VideoAttnProcessor())
+
+    def forward(
+        self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, rotary_emb: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor] | None = None
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.processor(self, hidden_states, rotary_emb)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoTransformerBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        dim: int,
+        heads: int,
+        dim_head: int,
+        ffn_mult: int = 4,
+        eps: float = 1e-5,
+        bias: bool = True,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm1 = nn.RMSNorm(dim, eps=eps, elementwise_affine=True)
+        self.attn = MiniMaxH3VideoAttention(dim=dim, heads=heads, dim_head=dim_head, eps=eps, bias=bias)
+        self.scale1 = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(dim))
+        self.norm2 = nn.RMSNorm(dim, eps=eps, elementwise_affine=True)
+        self.ff = FeedForward(dim, mult=ffn_mult, activation_fn="swiglu", bias=bias)
+        self.scale2 = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(dim))
+
+    def forward(
+        self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, rotary_emb: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor] | None = None
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        # The reference normalizes in float32 regardless of the compute dtype.
+        norm_hidden_states = self.norm1(hidden_states.float()).to(hidden_states.dtype)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states + self.attn(norm_hidden_states, rotary_emb) * self.scale1
+        norm_hidden_states = self.norm2(hidden_states.float()).to(hidden_states.dtype)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states + self.ff(norm_hidden_states) * self.scale2
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoViTDecoder3d(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    Non-causal ViT decoder. Every latent voxel becomes one token; `num_register_tokens` learned register tokens plus a
+    single all-zero token are appended (all at position `0`), attended over with full self-attention, and dropped
+    again before the patch projection expands each token into a `patch_size_t x patch_size x patch_size` pixel block.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int = 24,
+        out_channels: int = 3,
+        patch_size: int = 16,
+        patch_size_t: int = 4,
+        num_layers: int = 36,
+        num_attention_heads: int = 32,
+        attention_head_dim: int = 64,
+        num_register_tokens: int = 4,
+        ffn_mult: int = 4,
+        rope_theta: float = 100.0,
+        rope_dim_ratio: float = 0.75,
+        norm_eps: float = 1e-5,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        dim = num_attention_heads * attention_head_dim
+        self.patch_size = patch_size
+        self.patch_size_t = patch_size_t
+        self.out_channels = out_channels
+        self.num_register_tokens = num_register_tokens
+
+        self.rope = MiniMaxH3VideoRotaryPosEmbed(int(attention_head_dim * rope_dim_ratio), theta=rope_theta)
+        self.proj_in = nn.Linear(in_channels, dim)
+        self.register_tokens = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(1, num_register_tokens, dim))
+        self.transformer_blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3VideoTransformerBlock(
+                    dim=dim,
+                    heads=num_attention_heads,
+                    dim_head=attention_head_dim,
+                    ffn_mult=ffn_mult,
+                    eps=norm_eps,
+                )
+                for _ in range(num_layers)
+            ]
+        )
+        self.norm_out = nn.LayerNorm(dim, elementwise_affine=True, eps=norm_eps)
+        self.proj_out = nn.Linear(dim, out_channels * patch_size_t * patch_size * patch_size)
+
+        self.gradient_checkpointing = False
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        batch_size, num_channels, num_frames, height, width = hidden_states.shape
+
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.permute(0, 2, 3, 4, 1).reshape(
+            batch_size, num_frames * height * width, num_channels
+        )
+        hidden_states = self.proj_in(hidden_states)
+        num_patches = hidden_states.shape[1]
+
+        register_tokens = self.register_tokens.expand(batch_size, -1, -1)
+        cls_token = torch.zeros_like(hidden_states[:, :1, :])
+        hidden_states = torch.cat([hidden_states, register_tokens, cls_token], dim=1)
+
+        grids = [
+            2.0 * (torch.arange(0.5, size, dtype=torch.float32, device=hidden_states.device) / size) - 1.0
+            for size in (num_frames, height, width)
+        ]
+        position_ids = torch.stack(torch.meshgrid(*grids, indexing="ij"), dim=-1).flatten(0, 2)
+        position_ids = position_ids.unsqueeze(0).expand(batch_size, -1, -1)
+        suffix_ids = position_ids.new_zeros((batch_size, self.num_register_tokens + 1, 3))
+        position_ids = torch.cat([position_ids, suffix_ids], dim=1)
+        rotary_emb = self.rope(position_ids)
+
+        for block in self.transformer_blocks:
+            if torch.is_grad_enabled() and self.gradient_checkpointing:
+                hidden_states = self._gradient_checkpointing_func(block, hidden_states, rotary_emb)
+            else:
+                hidden_states = block(hidden_states, rotary_emb)
+
+        hidden_states = self.norm_out(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.proj_out(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states[:, :num_patches, :]
+
+        patch_size, patch_size_t = self.patch_size, self.patch_size_t
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.view(
+            batch_size,
+            num_frames,
+            height,
+            width,
+            self.out_channels,
+            patch_size_t,
+            patch_size,
+            patch_size,
+        )
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.permute(0, 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7).contiguous()
+        return hidden_states.reshape(
+            batch_size,
+            self.out_channels,
+            num_frames * patch_size_t,
+            height * patch_size,
+            width * patch_size,
+        )
+
+
+class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin, AutoencoderMixin):
+    r"""
+    A VAE model with a causal 3D CNN encoder and a non-causal ViT decoder, used in
+    [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI).
+
+    This model inherits from [`ModelMixin`]. Check the superclass documentation for it's generic methods implemented
+    for all models (such as downloading or saving).
+
+    Latents are normalized with per-channel `latents_mean` / `latents_std` rather than a `scaling_factor`; a pipeline
+    encodes with `(latent - latents_mean) / latents_std` and decodes with `latent * latents_std + latents_mean`.
+
+    The pixel convention is ImageNet-normalized RGB over a `[0, 1]` base range, not the usual `[-1, 1]`: `encode`
+    expects `(pixel - imagenet_mean) / imagenet_std` and `decode` returns values in that same space, so a pipeline has
+    to apply `sample * imagenet_std + imagenet_mean` (mean `(0.485, 0.456, 0.406)`, std `(0.229, 0.224, 0.225)`) and
+    clamp to `[0, 1]` before postprocessing.
+
+    The temporal geometry is fixed by `clip_length` (17 pixel frames per encoder chunk) and `token_drop` (3 trailing
+    latent frames dropped per encode): `17 * n + 5` pixel frames map to `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+
+    Unlike most autoencoders in the library, spatial tiling is **on by default**: MiniMax-H3 was released with tiling
+    enabled for both encoding and decoding, and the released frames are the blended-tile ones, so disabling tiling
+    changes the output. Use `enable_tiling` to change the tile geometry, `disable_tiling` to turn it off.
+    """
+
+    _supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
+    _no_split_modules = ["MiniMaxH3VideoResnetBlock3d", "MiniMaxH3VideoTransformerBlock"]
+    _repeated_blocks = ["MiniMaxH3VideoTransformerBlock"]
+    _skip_layerwise_casting_patterns = ["norm"]
+
+    @register_to_config
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int = 3,
+        out_channels: int = 3,
+        latent_channels: int = 24,
+        block_out_channels: tuple[int, ...] = (128, 256, 256, 512, 512, 1024),
+        layers_per_block: int = 2,
+        spatial_downsample_factors: tuple[int, ...] = (2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1),
+        temporal_downsample_factors: tuple[int, ...] = (1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1),
+        norm_num_groups: int = 32,
+        norm_eps: float = 1e-6,
+        spatial_padding_mode: str = "reflect",
+        decoder_num_layers: int = 36,
+        decoder_num_attention_heads: int = 32,
+        decoder_attention_head_dim: int = 64,
+        decoder_num_register_tokens: int = 4,
+        decoder_ffn_mult: int = 4,
+        decoder_rope_theta: float = 100.0,
+        decoder_rope_dim_ratio: float = 0.75,
+        decoder_norm_eps: float = 1e-5,
+        clip_length: int = 17,
+        token_drop: int = 3,
+        latents_mean: tuple[float, ...] = (0.0,) * 24,
+        latents_std: tuple[float, ...] = (1.0,) * 24,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.spatial_compression_ratio = math.prod(spatial_downsample_factors)
+        self.temporal_compression_ratio = math.prod(temporal_downsample_factors)
+
+        self.encoder = MiniMaxH3VideoEncoder3d(
+            in_channels=in_channels,
+            out_channels=2 * latent_channels,
+            block_out_channels=block_out_channels,
+            layers_per_block=layers_per_block,
+            spatial_downsample_factors=spatial_downsample_factors,
+            temporal_downsample_factors=temporal_downsample_factors,
+            norm_num_groups=norm_num_groups,
+            norm_eps=norm_eps,
+            spatial_padding_mode=spatial_padding_mode,
+        )
+        self.quant_conv = nn.Conv3d(2 * latent_channels, 2 * latent_channels, kernel_size=1)
+        self.post_quant_conv = nn.Conv3d(latent_channels, latent_channels, kernel_size=1)
+        self.decoder = MiniMaxH3VideoViTDecoder3d(
+            in_channels=latent_channels,
+            out_channels=out_channels,
+            patch_size=self.spatial_compression_ratio,
+            patch_size_t=self.temporal_compression_ratio,
+            num_layers=decoder_num_layers,
+            num_attention_heads=decoder_num_attention_heads,
+            attention_head_dim=decoder_attention_head_dim,
+            num_register_tokens=decoder_num_register_tokens,
+            ffn_mult=decoder_ffn_mult,
+            rope_theta=decoder_rope_theta,
+            rope_dim_ratio=decoder_rope_dim_ratio,
+            norm_eps=decoder_norm_eps,
+        )
+
+        # Derived temporal-chunking geometry. `clip_length` pixel frames are encoded at a time; because
+        # `clip_length` is not a multiple of `temporal_compression_ratio`, the decoder has to re-derive the
+        # implicit leading pad (`frame_pre_padding`) and the overlap that `token_drop` leaves behind.
+        self.frame_pre_padding = (-clip_length) % self.temporal_compression_ratio
+        self.tokens_chunk_size = math.ceil(clip_length / self.temporal_compression_ratio)
+        self.token_overlap = (-token_drop) % self.tokens_chunk_size
+        self.frame_overlap = max(self.token_overlap * self.temporal_compression_ratio - self.frame_pre_padding, 0)
+
+        # When decoding a batch of video latents at a time, one can save memory by slicing across the batch dimension
+        # to perform decoding of a single video latent at a time.
+        self.use_slicing = False
+
+        # When encoding/decoding spatially large videos, the memory requirement is very high. By splitting the frames
+        # into smaller tiles, running the encoder/decoder per tile and blending the overlaps, the memory requirement
+        # can be lowered. MiniMax-H3 ships with tiling enabled.
+        self.use_tiling = True
+
+        # The tile size in pixel space, and the minimum overlap between two neighbouring tiles. The actual overlaps are
+        # widened (in multiples of `spatial_compression_ratio`) so that the tiles cover the frame exactly.
+        self.tile_sample_min_height = 256
+        self.tile_sample_min_width = 256
+        self.tile_sample_min_overlap_height = 64
+        self.tile_sample_min_overlap_width = 64
+
+    def enable_tiling(
+        self,
+        tile_sample_min_height: int | None = None,
+        tile_sample_min_width: int | None = None,
+        tile_sample_min_overlap_height: int | None = None,
+        tile_sample_min_overlap_width: int | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        r"""
+        Enable tiled VAE encoding/decoding. When this option is enabled, the VAE splits the frames into tiles, encodes
+        or decodes each tile separately and linearly blends the overlaps back together. This lowers the memory
+        requirement and allows processing larger frames.
+
+        Args:
+            tile_sample_min_height (`int`, *optional*):
+                The tile height in pixel space. Frames taller than this are split along the height dimension.
+            tile_sample_min_width (`int`, *optional*):
+                The tile width in pixel space. Frames wider than this are split along the width dimension.
+            tile_sample_min_overlap_height (`int`, *optional*):
+                The minimum overlap, in pixels, between two consecutive vertical tiles.
+            tile_sample_min_overlap_width (`int`, *optional*):
+                The minimum overlap, in pixels, between two consecutive horizontal tiles.
+        """
+        self.use_tiling = True
+        self.tile_sample_min_height = tile_sample_min_height or self.tile_sample_min_height
+        self.tile_sample_min_width = tile_sample_min_width or self.tile_sample_min_width
+        self.tile_sample_min_overlap_height = tile_sample_min_overlap_height or self.tile_sample_min_overlap_height
+        self.tile_sample_min_overlap_width = tile_sample_min_overlap_width or self.tile_sample_min_overlap_width
+
+    def _split_tiles(self, length: int, tile_size: int, min_overlap: int) -> tuple[list[int], list[int], list[int]]:
+        r"""
+        Lay `tile_size`-wide tiles over `length` pixels. The number of tiles is the smallest one whose union can cover
+        `length` while keeping every overlap at least `min_overlap`; the slack is then distributed round-robin over the
+        overlaps in whole `spatial_compression_ratio` steps so that every tile boundary stays latent-aligned.
+        """
+        if tile_size >= length:
+            return [0], [length], []
+
+        num_tiles = math.ceil(length / tile_size)
+        while tile_size * num_tiles - min_overlap * (num_tiles - 1) - length < 0:
+            num_tiles += 1
+
+        overlaps = [min_overlap] * (num_tiles - 1)
+        remaining = tile_size * num_tiles - sum(overlaps) - length
+        for i in range(remaining // self.spatial_compression_ratio):
+            overlaps[i % (num_tiles - 1)] += self.spatial_compression_ratio
+
+        tile_start_indices = [0]
+        for i in range(num_tiles - 1):
+            tile_start_indices.append(tile_start_indices[-1] + tile_size - overlaps[i])
+        return tile_start_indices, [tile_size] * num_tiles, overlaps
+
+    def _blend(self, a: torch.Tensor, b: torch.Tensor, blend_extent: int, dim: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+        blend_extent = min(a.shape[dim], b.shape[dim], blend_extent)
+        positions = torch.arange(blend_extent, device=b.device, dtype=b.dtype)
+        shape = [1] * a.ndim
+        shape[dim] = blend_extent
+        weight_a = (1 - positions / blend_extent).view(shape)
+        weight_b = (positions / blend_extent).view(shape)
+
+        slice_a = [slice(None)] * a.ndim
+        slice_a[dim] = slice(-blend_extent, None)
+        slice_b = [slice(None)] * b.ndim
+        slice_b[dim] = slice(0, blend_extent)
+        blended = a[tuple(slice_a)] * weight_a + b[tuple(slice_b)] * weight_b
+
+        if blend_extent == b.shape[dim]:
+            return blended
+        slice_rest = [slice(None)] * b.ndim
+        slice_rest[dim] = slice(blend_extent, None)
+        return torch.cat([blended, b[tuple(slice_rest)]], dim=dim)
+
+    def _stitch_tiles(
+        self,
+        tiles: list[list[torch.Tensor]],
+        height_overlaps: list[int],
+        width_overlaps: list[int],
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        result_rows = []
+        for i, row in enumerate(tiles):
+            result_row = []
+            for j, tile in enumerate(row):
+                if i > 0:
+                    tile = self._blend(tiles[i - 1][j], tile, height_overlaps[i - 1], dim=-2)
+                if j > 0:
+                    tile = self._blend(row[j - 1], tile, width_overlaps[j - 1], dim=-1)
+                if i < len(tiles) - 1:
+                    tile = tile[..., : -height_overlaps[i], :]
+                if j < len(row) - 1:
+                    tile = tile[..., :, : -width_overlaps[j]]
+                result_row.append(tile)
+            result_rows.append(torch.cat(result_row, dim=-1))
+        return torch.cat(result_rows, dim=-2)
+
+    def _encode_clip(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""Encode one temporal clip, spatially tiled when tiling is enabled."""
+        if not self.use_tiling:
+            return self.quant_conv(self.encoder(x))
+
+        height, width = x.shape[-2], x.shape[-1]
+        y_indices, y_lengths, y_overlaps = self._split_tiles(
+            height, self.tile_sample_min_height, self.tile_sample_min_overlap_height
+        )
+        x_indices, x_lengths, x_overlaps = self._split_tiles(
+            width, self.tile_sample_min_width, self.tile_sample_min_overlap_width
+        )
+
+        rows = []
+        for i_pos, i_len in zip(y_indices, y_lengths):
+            row = []
+            for j_pos, j_len in zip(x_indices, x_lengths):
+                tile = x[..., i_pos : i_pos + i_len, j_pos : j_pos + j_len]
+                row.append(self.quant_conv(self.encoder(tile)))
+            rows.append(row)
+
+        latent_y_overlaps = [overlap // self.spatial_compression_ratio for overlap in y_overlaps]
+        latent_x_overlaps = [overlap // self.spatial_compression_ratio for overlap in x_overlaps]
+        return self._stitch_tiles(rows, latent_y_overlaps, latent_x_overlaps)
+
+    def _decode_clip(self, z: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""Decode one temporal clip, spatially tiled when tiling is enabled."""
+        if not self.use_tiling:
+            return self.decoder(self.post_quant_conv(z))
+
+        # Tiles are laid out in pixel space and then mapped back onto the latent grid.
+        height = z.shape[-2] * self.spatial_compression_ratio
+        width = z.shape[-1] * self.spatial_compression_ratio
+        y_indices, y_lengths, y_overlaps = self._split_tiles(
+            height, self.tile_sample_min_height, self.tile_sample_min_overlap_height
+        )
+        x_indices, x_lengths, x_overlaps = self._split_tiles(
+            width, self.tile_sample_min_width, self.tile_sample_min_overlap_width
+        )
+
+        ratio = self.spatial_compression_ratio
+        rows = []
+        for i_pos, i_len in zip(y_indices, y_lengths):
+            row = []
+            for j_pos, j_len in zip(x_indices, x_lengths):
+                tile = z[
+                    ...,
+                    i_pos // ratio : i_pos // ratio + i_len // ratio,
+                    j_pos // ratio : j_pos // ratio + j_len // ratio,
+                ]
+                row.append(self.decoder(self.post_quant_conv(tile)))
+            rows.append(row)
+
+        return self._stitch_tiles(rows, y_overlaps, x_overlaps)
+
+    def _encode(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""Encode a video in `clip_length`-frame chunks and drop the `token_drop` trailing latent frames."""
+        clip_length = self.config.clip_length
+        num_frames = x.shape[2]
+        if num_frames % clip_length != 0:
+            pad_frames = x[:, :, -1:].repeat(1, 1, (-num_frames) % clip_length, 1, 1)
+            x = torch.cat([x, pad_frames], dim=2)
+
+        moments = torch.cat(
+            [
+                self._encode_clip(x[:, :, i * clip_length : (i + 1) * clip_length])
+                for i in range(x.shape[2] // clip_length)
+            ],
+            dim=2,
+        )
+        if self.config.token_drop > 0:
+            moments = moments[:, :, : -self.config.token_drop]
+        return moments
+
+    def _decode(self, z: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""
+        Decode a latent video, mirroring the chunking that `_encode` applied.
+
+        `token_drop` removed the tail of every encoded chunk, so consecutive decoded chunks overlap by
+        `frame_overlap` pixel frames and are linearly cross-faded. Latent frames are repeated at the end when the
+        length is not a whole number of chunks; the extra pixel frames are cut off again at the end.
+        """
+        tokens_chunk_size = self.tokens_chunk_size
+        token_drop = self.config.token_drop
+        temporal_ratio = self.temporal_compression_ratio
+        chunk_num_frames = tokens_chunk_size * temporal_ratio
+
+        num_tokens = z.shape[2] + token_drop
+        pad_tokens = (-num_tokens) % tokens_chunk_size
+        num_chunks = (num_tokens + pad_tokens) // tokens_chunk_size - int(token_drop > 0)
+        if pad_tokens > 0:
+            z = torch.cat([z, z[:, :, -1:].repeat(1, 1, pad_tokens, 1, 1)], dim=2)
+
+        decoded_chunks = []
+        overlap = None
+        for i in range(num_chunks):
+            start = i * tokens_chunk_size
+            clip = self._decode_clip(z[:, :, start : start + tokens_chunk_size + self.token_overlap])
+            for j in range(int(token_drop > 0) + 1):
+                frame_start = j * chunk_num_frames
+                chunk = clip[:, :, frame_start : frame_start + chunk_num_frames]
+                chunk = chunk[:, :, self.frame_pre_padding :]
+                if j == 0:
+                    if overlap is not None:
+                        chunk = self._blend(overlap, chunk, self.frame_overlap, dim=-3)
+                    decoded_chunks.append(chunk)
+                else:
+                    overlap = chunk
+        if overlap is not None:
+            decoded_chunks.append(overlap)
+
+        dec = torch.cat(decoded_chunks, dim=2)
+
+        # `pad_tokens` repeated latent frames produced trailing pixel frames that were never requested. A chunk's
+        # last latent frame only covers `clip_length % temporal_ratio` pixel frames, the others cover `temporal_ratio`.
+        if pad_tokens > 0:
+            intra_tail = self.config.clip_length % temporal_ratio
+            num_tokens_before_pad = z.shape[2] - pad_tokens
+            pad_frames = sum(
+                intra_tail if intra_tail and (num_tokens_before_pad + k) % tokens_chunk_size == 0 else temporal_ratio
+                for k in range(pad_tokens)
+            )
+            dec = dec[:, :, :-pad_frames]
+        return dec
+
+    @apply_forward_hook
+    def encode(self, x: torch.Tensor, return_dict: bool = True) -> AutoencoderKLOutput | tuple[torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Encode a batch of videos into latents.
+
+        Args:
+            x (`torch.Tensor`):
+                Input batch of videos, shape `(batch_size, in_channels, num_frames, height, width)`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~models.autoencoders.autoencoder_kl.AutoencoderKLOutput`] instead of a plain
+                tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            The latent distribution of the encoded videos. Note that MiniMax-H3 normalizes the sampled latents with
+            `latents_mean` / `latents_std` afterwards.
+        """
+        if self.use_slicing and x.shape[0] > 1:
+            moments = torch.cat([self._encode(x_slice) for x_slice in x.split(1)])
+        else:
+            moments = self._encode(x)
+        posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (posterior,)
+        return AutoencoderKLOutput(latent_dist=posterior)
+
+    @apply_forward_hook
+    def decode(self, z: torch.Tensor, return_dict: bool = True) -> DecoderOutput | tuple[torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Decode a batch of latent videos.
+
+        Args:
+            z (`torch.Tensor`):
+                Input batch of latent videos, shape `(batch_size, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, height, width)`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The decoded videos, shape `(batch_size, out_channels, num_frames, height, width)`.
+        """
+        if self.use_slicing and z.shape[0] > 1:
+            decoded = torch.cat([self._decode(z_slice) for z_slice in z.split(1)])
+        else:
+            decoded = self._decode(z)
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (decoded,)
+        return DecoderOutput(sample=decoded)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        sample: torch.Tensor,
+        sample_posterior: bool = False,
+        generator: torch.Generator | None = None,
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+    ) -> DecoderOutput | tuple[torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Encode then decode a batch of videos.
+
+        Args:
+            sample (`torch.Tensor`):
+                Input batch of videos, shape `(batch_size, in_channels, num_frames, height, width)`.
+            sample_posterior (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
+                Whether to sample the posterior instead of taking its mode.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*):
+                Generator used when `sample_posterior=True`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The round-tripped videos, shape `(batch_size, out_channels, num_frames, height, width)`.
+        """
+        posterior = self.encode(sample).latent_dist
+        z = posterior.sample(generator=generator) if sample_posterior else posterior.mode()
+        return self.decode(z, return_dict=return_dict)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -0,0 +1,675 @@
+# Copyright 2025 The MiniMax authors and The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder.
+
+Waveform in / waveform out — there is no mel front-end and no separate vocoder:
+
+* the **encoder** is a DAC-lineage strided convolutional stack (Snake activations, weight-normed
+  `Conv1d`) that downsamples by `prod(encoder_rates) = 800`, i.e. 40 latents/s at 32 kHz;
+* a **causal-attention projection** (`pre_block`) rewires the 2048-wide encoder trunk to the
+  32-channel latent width, followed by the `mean_proj` / `logs_proj` posterior heads;
+* the **decoder** is BigVGAN (anti-aliased SnakeBeta activations, transposed-conv upsamplers, AMP
+  residual blocks) preceded by `dec_in_proj`, upsampling by `prod(decoder_rates) = 800`.
+
+The autoencoder is **mono**. MiniMax-H3 carries stereo as two *batch* items — the pipeline decodes
+`[2, 32, T]` into `[2, 1, samples]` and interleaves at the output boundary — so no stereo handling
+belongs here.
+
+Latents are normalized with per-channel `latents_mean` / `latents_std` (32 floats each) rather than a
+scalar `scaling_factor`; both live in the config and are applied by the pipeline.
+
+Module and parameter names are identical to the original checkpoint, so conversion is a passthrough.
+That includes `torch.nn.utils.weight_norm` (the `weight_g` / `weight_v` spelling, as used by the
+other diffusers audio autoencoders) and the registered Kaiser-window resampling `filter` buffers of
+the anti-aliased activations.
+"""
+
+import math
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from torch.nn.utils import weight_norm
+
+from ...configuration_utils import ConfigMixin, register_to_config
+from ...utils import BaseOutput
+from ...utils.accelerate_utils import apply_forward_hook
+from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+from ..attention import AttentionMixin, AttentionModuleMixin
+from ..attention_dispatch import dispatch_attention_fn
+from ..modeling_utils import ModelMixin, get_parameter_dtype
+from .vae import DecoderOutput
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution:
+    r"""Posterior of the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder, parameterized as `(mean, log_std)`.
+
+    The checkpoint keeps two separate `Conv1d` heads (`mean_proj`, `logs_proj`) instead of one fused
+    moments projection, and the second head predicts the **log standard deviation**, not the log
+    variance. The two tensors are therefore stored as produced, and `mode()` is bit-for-bit
+    `mean_proj`'s output.
+
+    Args:
+        mean (`torch.Tensor`): Posterior mean, `[batch_size, latent_channels, num_frames]`.
+        logs (`torch.Tensor`): Posterior log standard deviation, same shape as `mean`.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, mean: torch.Tensor, logs: torch.Tensor):
+        self.mean = mean
+        self.logs = logs
+        self.std = torch.exp(logs)
+
+    def mode(self) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.mean
+
+    def sample(self, generator: torch.Generator | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
+        noise = randn_tensor(self.mean.shape, generator=generator, device=self.mean.device, dtype=self.mean.dtype)
+        return self.mean + self.std * noise
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput(BaseOutput):
+    r"""
+    Output of [`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio.encode`].
+
+    Args:
+        latent_dist (`MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution`):
+            Posterior over the audio latents. MiniMax-H3 always consumes `latent_dist.mode()`.
+    """
+
+    latent_dist: MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution
+
+
+def _wn_conv1d(*args, **kwargs) -> nn.Module:
+    return weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(*args, **kwargs))
+
+
+def kaiser_sinc_filter1d(cutoff: float, half_width: float, kernel_size: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""Kaiser-windowed sinc low-pass filter of shape `[1, 1, kernel_size]`.
+
+    Kept arithmetically identical to the `alias-free-torch` implementation the checkpoint was trained
+    with, because the resulting tensor is stored as a persistent buffer.
+    """
+    half_size = kernel_size // 2
+
+    attenuation = 2.285 * (half_size - 1) * math.pi * (4 * half_width) + 7.95
+    if attenuation > 50.0:
+        beta = 0.1102 * (attenuation - 8.7)
+    elif attenuation >= 21.0:
+        beta = 0.5842 * (attenuation - 21) ** 0.4 + 0.07886 * (attenuation - 21.0)
+    else:
+        beta = 0.0
+    window = torch.kaiser_window(kernel_size, beta=beta, periodic=False)
+
+    if kernel_size % 2 == 0:
+        time = torch.arange(-half_size, half_size) + 0.5
+    else:
+        time = torch.arange(kernel_size) - half_size
+
+    filter_ = 2 * cutoff * window * torch.sinc(2 * cutoff * time)
+    # Normalize to sum 1 so a constant input does not leak through the resampler.
+    filter_ /= filter_.sum()
+    return filter_.view(1, 1, kernel_size)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(nn.Module):
+    r"""`x + (alpha + 1e-9)^-1 * sin(alpha * x)^2` over `[batch_size, channels, length]`, with a
+    per-channel learnable `alpha` of shape `[1, channels, 1]`. Used throughout the DAC encoder."""
+
+    def __init__(self, channels: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.alpha = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(1, channels, 1))
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return hidden_states + (self.alpha + 1e-9).reciprocal() * torch.sin(self.alpha * hidden_states).pow(2)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioSnakeBeta(nn.Module):
+    r"""`x + (exp(beta) + 1e-9)^-1 * sin(exp(alpha) * x)^2` over `[batch_size, channels, length]`.
+
+    The BigVGAN decoder's activation: separate frequency (`alpha`) and magnitude (`beta`) parameters,
+    both stored in log space as `[channels]` vectors.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, channels: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.alpha = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(channels))
+        self.beta = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(channels))
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        alpha = torch.exp(self.alpha.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(-1))
+        beta = torch.exp(self.beta.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(-1))
+        return hidden_states + (beta + 1e-9).reciprocal() * torch.sin(alpha * hidden_states).pow(2)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioLowPassFilter1d(nn.Module):
+    r"""Depthwise Kaiser-sinc low-pass filter with a stride, i.e. the anti-aliased downsampler."""
+
+    def __init__(self, cutoff: float, half_width: float, stride: int, kernel_size: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        even = kernel_size % 2 == 0
+        self.pad_left = kernel_size // 2 - int(even)
+        self.pad_right = kernel_size // 2
+        self.stride = stride
+        self.register_buffer("filter", kaiser_sinc_filter1d(cutoff, half_width, kernel_size))
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        num_channels = hidden_states.shape[1]
+        hidden_states = F.pad(hidden_states, (self.pad_left, self.pad_right), mode="replicate")
+        return F.conv1d(
+            hidden_states, self.filter.expand(num_channels, -1, -1), stride=self.stride, groups=num_channels
+        )
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioUpSample1d(nn.Module):
+    r"""Anti-aliased `ratio`x upsampler (transposed depthwise Kaiser-sinc convolution)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, ratio: int, kernel_size: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.ratio = ratio
+        self.stride = ratio
+        self.pad = kernel_size // ratio - 1
+        self.pad_left = self.pad * self.stride + (kernel_size - self.stride) // 2
+        self.pad_right = self.pad * self.stride + (kernel_size - self.stride + 1) // 2
+        self.register_buffer(
+            "filter",
+            kaiser_sinc_filter1d(cutoff=0.5 / ratio, half_width=0.6 / ratio, kernel_size=kernel_size),
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        num_channels = hidden_states.shape[1]
+        hidden_states = F.pad(hidden_states, (self.pad, self.pad), mode="replicate")
+        hidden_states = self.ratio * F.conv_transpose1d(
+            hidden_states, self.filter.expand(num_channels, -1, -1), stride=self.stride, groups=num_channels
+        )
+        return hidden_states[..., self.pad_left : -self.pad_right]
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioDownSample1d(nn.Module):
+    r"""Anti-aliased `ratio`x downsampler."""
+
+    def __init__(self, ratio: int, kernel_size: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.lowpass = MiniMaxH3AudioLowPassFilter1d(
+            cutoff=0.5 / ratio, half_width=0.6 / ratio, stride=ratio, kernel_size=kernel_size
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.lowpass(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioActivation1d(nn.Module):
+    r"""Upsample -> activation -> downsample: the alias-free activation wrapper used by BigVGAN."""
+
+    def __init__(self, activation: nn.Module, ratio: int = 2, kernel_size: int = 12):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.act = activation
+        self.upsample = MiniMaxH3AudioUpSample1d(ratio, kernel_size)
+        self.downsample = MiniMaxH3AudioDownSample1d(ratio, kernel_size)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.upsample(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.act(hidden_states)
+        return self.downsample(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioResidualUnit(nn.Module):
+    r"""DAC residual unit: `Snake -> dilated Conv1d(k=7) -> Snake -> Conv1d(k=1)`, plus a shortcut
+    that is center-cropped when the dilated convolution shrinks the time axis."""
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, dilation: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.block = nn.Sequential(
+            MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(dim),
+            _wn_conv1d(dim, dim, kernel_size=7, dilation=dilation, padding=((7 - 1) * dilation) // 2),
+            MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(dim),
+            _wn_conv1d(dim, dim, kernel_size=1),
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        residual = self.block(hidden_states)
+        pad = (hidden_states.shape[-1] - residual.shape[-1]) // 2
+        if pad > 0:
+            hidden_states = hidden_states[..., pad:-pad]
+        return hidden_states + residual
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderBlock(nn.Module):
+    r"""Three residual units at dilations 1/3/9, then a strided channel-doubling convolution."""
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int, stride: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.block = nn.Sequential(
+            MiniMaxH3AudioResidualUnit(dim // 2, dilation=1),
+            MiniMaxH3AudioResidualUnit(dim // 2, dilation=3),
+            MiniMaxH3AudioResidualUnit(dim // 2, dilation=9),
+            MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(dim // 2),
+            _wn_conv1d(
+                dim // 2,
+                dim,
+                kernel_size=2 * stride,
+                stride=stride,
+                padding=math.ceil(stride / 2),
+            ),
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.block(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioEncoder(nn.Module):
+    r"""DAC waveform encoder: `[batch_size, 1, samples] -> [batch_size, latent_dim, samples / 800]`."""
+
+    def __init__(self, d_model: int, strides: tuple[int, ...], d_latent: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        block: list[nn.Module] = [_wn_conv1d(1, d_model, kernel_size=7, padding=3)]
+        for stride in strides:
+            d_model *= 2
+            block.append(MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderBlock(d_model, stride=stride))
+        block += [
+            MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(d_model),
+            _wn_conv1d(d_model, d_latent, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
+        ]
+        self.block = nn.Sequential(*block)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.block(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioGeGluMlp(nn.Module):
+    r"""Pre-norm GeGLU MLP used inside the attention projection block."""
+
+    def __init__(self, in_features: int, hidden_features: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(in_features)
+        self.act = nn.GELU(approximate="tanh")
+        self.w0 = nn.Linear(in_features, hidden_features)
+        self.w1 = nn.Linear(in_features, hidden_features)
+        self.w2 = nn.Linear(hidden_features, in_features)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.act(self.w0(hidden_states)) * self.w1(hidden_states)
+        return self.w2(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProcessor:
+    r"""Processor of [`MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention`].
+
+    The causal mask is expressed as `is_causal=True` rather than as a materialized mask. Every
+    attention backend honours that flag, with two exceptions: `_native_npu`, whose kernel takes no
+    causal argument and would compute *bidirectional* attention, and context parallelism, which
+    raises for causal attention.
+    """
+
+    _attention_backend = None
+    _parallel_config = None
+
+    def __call__(self, attn: "MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention", hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        batch_size, seq_len, _ = hidden_states.shape
+        qkv = F.linear(
+            input=hidden_states,
+            weight=attn.qkv.weight,
+            bias=torch.cat((attn.q_bias, attn.zero_k_bias, attn.v_bias)),
+        )
+        query, key, value = (
+            qkv.reshape(batch_size, seq_len, 3, attn.num_heads, attn.head_dim).permute(2, 0, 1, 3, 4).unbind(0)
+        )
+        hidden_states = dispatch_attention_fn(
+            query,
+            key,
+            value,
+            attn_mask=None,
+            is_causal=True,
+            backend=self._attention_backend,
+            parallel_config=self._parallel_config,
+        )
+        # The heads are mean-pooled away instead of being concatenated, and the head dimension that
+        # remains is adaptively average-pooled down to `out_dim`.
+        hidden_states = torch.mean(hidden_states, dim=2)
+        hidden_states = F.adaptive_avg_pool1d(hidden_states, attn.out_dim)
+        return attn.proj(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention(nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
+    r"""Causal self-attention that narrows the feature width from `in_dim` to `out_dim`.
+
+    QKV is a single bias-less `nn.Linear`; query and value biases are separate parameters and the key
+    bias is a frozen zero buffer (`zero_k_bias`), exactly as stored in the checkpoint. Heads are
+    `in_dim // num_heads` wide; instead of being concatenated they are **mean-pooled away**, and the
+    remaining head dimension is adaptively average-pooled down to `out_dim`.
+    """
+
+    _default_processor_cls = MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProcessor
+    _available_processors = [MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProcessor]
+    # The checkpoint stores one fused `qkv` projection, so there is nothing to fuse.
+    _supports_qkv_fusion = False
+
+    def __init__(self, in_dim: int, out_dim: int, num_heads: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.out_dim = out_dim
+        self.num_heads = num_heads
+        self.head_dim = in_dim // num_heads
+        self.qkv = nn.Linear(in_dim, in_dim * 3, bias=False)
+        self.q_bias = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(in_dim))
+        self.v_bias = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(in_dim))
+        self.register_buffer("zero_k_bias", torch.zeros(in_dim))
+        self.proj = nn.Linear(out_dim, out_dim)
+
+        self.set_processor(MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProcessor())
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.processor(self, hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProjection(nn.Module):
+    r"""`pre_block`: residual causal-attention + GeGLU block that rewires `latent_dim` -> `latent_channels`."""
+
+    def __init__(self, in_dim: int, out_dim: int, num_heads: int, mlp_ratio: int = 2):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm1 = nn.LayerNorm(in_dim)
+        self.attn = MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention(in_dim, out_dim, num_heads)
+        self.proj = nn.Linear(in_dim, out_dim)
+        self.norm3 = nn.LayerNorm(in_dim)
+        self.norm2 = nn.LayerNorm(out_dim)
+        self.mlp = MiniMaxH3AudioGeGluMlp(in_features=out_dim, hidden_features=out_dim * mlp_ratio)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.proj(self.norm3(hidden_states)) + self.attn(self.norm1(hidden_states))
+        return hidden_states + self.mlp(self.norm2(hidden_states))
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioAMPBlock(nn.Module):
+    r"""BigVGAN anti-aliased multi-periodicity block (`AMPBlock1`).
+
+    Each dilation contributes a `(dilated conv, dilation-1 conv)` pair, and every convolution is
+    preceded by its own alias-free SnakeBeta activation.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, channels: int, kernel_size: int, dilation: tuple[int, ...]):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.convs1 = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                _wn_conv1d(channels, channels, kernel_size, dilation=d, padding=(kernel_size * d - d) // 2)
+                for d in dilation
+            ]
+        )
+        self.convs2 = nn.ModuleList(
+            [_wn_conv1d(channels, channels, kernel_size, dilation=1, padding=(kernel_size - 1) // 2) for _ in dilation]
+        )
+        self.activations = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3AudioActivation1d(activation=MiniMaxH3AudioSnakeBeta(channels))
+                for _ in range(2 * len(dilation))
+            ]
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        acts1, acts2 = self.activations[::2], self.activations[1::2]
+        for conv1, conv2, act1, act2 in zip(self.convs1, self.convs2, acts1, acts2):
+            residual = conv1(act1(hidden_states))
+            residual = conv2(act2(residual))
+            hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioBigVGANDecoder(nn.Module):
+    r"""BigVGAN decoder: `[batch_size, latent_dim, num_frames] -> [batch_size, 1, num_frames * 800]`."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        in_channels: int,
+        upsample_initial_channel: int,
+        upsample_rates: tuple[int, ...],
+        upsample_kernel_sizes: tuple[int, ...],
+        resblock_kernel_sizes: tuple[int, ...],
+        resblock_dilation_sizes: tuple[tuple[int, ...], ...],
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.num_kernels = len(resblock_kernel_sizes)
+        self.num_upsamples = len(upsample_rates)
+
+        self.conv_pre = _wn_conv1d(in_channels, upsample_initial_channel, 7, 1, padding=3)
+
+        # Each upsampler is wrapped in a one-element `ModuleList` in the original checkpoint
+        # (`ups.<i>.0`); the extra nesting is kept so the state dict stays a passthrough.
+        self.ups = nn.ModuleList()
+        for i, (rate, kernel) in enumerate(zip(upsample_rates, upsample_kernel_sizes)):
+            self.ups.append(
+                nn.ModuleList(
+                    [
+                        weight_norm(
+                            nn.ConvTranspose1d(
+                                upsample_initial_channel // (2**i),
+                                upsample_initial_channel // (2 ** (i + 1)),
+                                kernel,
+                                rate,
+                                padding=(kernel - rate) // 2,
+                            )
+                        )
+                    ]
+                )
+            )
+
+        self.resblocks = nn.ModuleList()
+        for i in range(self.num_upsamples):
+            channels = upsample_initial_channel // (2 ** (i + 1))
+            for kernel, dilation in zip(resblock_kernel_sizes, resblock_dilation_sizes):
+                self.resblocks.append(MiniMaxH3AudioAMPBlock(channels, kernel, tuple(dilation)))
+
+        self.activation_post = MiniMaxH3AudioActivation1d(activation=MiniMaxH3AudioSnakeBeta(channels))
+        self.conv_post = _wn_conv1d(channels, 1, 7, 1, padding=3, bias=False)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = self.conv_pre(hidden_states)
+
+        for i in range(self.num_upsamples):
+            hidden_states = self.ups[i][0](hidden_states)
+            residual = None
+            for j in range(self.num_kernels):
+                block = self.resblocks[i * self.num_kernels + j](hidden_states)
+                residual = block if residual is None else residual + block
+            hidden_states = residual / self.num_kernels
+
+        hidden_states = self.activation_post(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.conv_post(hidden_states)
+        return torch.clamp(hidden_states, min=-1.0, max=1.0)
+
+
+class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin):
+    r"""
+    The audio autoencoder used by [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI): a DAC-lineage
+    convolutional encoder and a BigVGAN decoder, operating directly on mono 32 kHz waveforms.
+
+    This model inherits from [`ModelMixin`]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the library
+    implements for all models (such as downloading or saving).
+
+    Args:
+        encoder_dim (`int`, defaults to `64`):
+            Channel width of the encoder's first convolution; doubles at every downsampling stage.
+        encoder_rates (`tuple[int]`, defaults to `(2, 4, 4, 5, 5)`):
+            Encoder strides. Their product (`800`) is the hop length, i.e. 40 latents/s at 32 kHz.
+        latent_dim (`int`, defaults to `2048`):
+            Width of the encoder trunk and of the decoder input, before/after the latent projections.
+        latent_channels (`int`, defaults to `32`):
+            Width of the diffusion latent, i.e. the `mean_proj` / `logs_proj` output channels.
+        num_attention_heads (`int`, defaults to `8`):
+            Number of heads in the causal-attention projection `pre_block`.
+        decoder_dim (`int`, defaults to `1024`):
+            BigVGAN initial channel count; halved at every upsampling stage.
+        decoder_rates (`tuple[int]`, defaults to `(5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2)`):
+            BigVGAN upsampling rates. Their product must equal `prod(encoder_rates)`.
+        decoder_kernel_sizes (`tuple[int]`, defaults to `(9, 9, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4)`):
+            Transposed-convolution kernel size per upsampling stage.
+        resblock_kernel_sizes (`tuple[int]`, defaults to `(3, 7, 11)`):
+            Kernel sizes of the parallel AMP residual blocks at each upsampling stage.
+        resblock_dilation_sizes (`tuple[tuple[int]]`, defaults to `((1, 3, 5), (1, 3, 5), (1, 3, 5))`):
+            Per-AMP-block dilations.
+        sampling_rate (`int`, defaults to `32000`):
+            Waveform sampling rate.
+        latents_mean (`list[float]`, *optional*):
+            Per-channel latent mean the pipeline uses to normalize / denormalize latents.
+        latents_std (`list[float]`, *optional*):
+            Per-channel latent standard deviation the pipeline uses to normalize / denormalize latents.
+    """
+
+    _supports_gradient_checkpointing = False
+
+    @register_to_config
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        encoder_dim: int = 64,
+        encoder_rates: tuple[int, ...] = (2, 4, 4, 5, 5),
+        latent_dim: int = 2048,
+        latent_channels: int = 32,
+        num_attention_heads: int = 8,
+        decoder_dim: int = 1024,
+        decoder_rates: tuple[int, ...] = (5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2),
+        decoder_kernel_sizes: tuple[int, ...] = (9, 9, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4),
+        resblock_kernel_sizes: tuple[int, ...] = (3, 7, 11),
+        resblock_dilation_sizes: tuple[tuple[int, ...], ...] = ((1, 3, 5), (1, 3, 5), (1, 3, 5)),
+        sampling_rate: int = 32000,
+        latents_mean: list[float] | None = None,
+        latents_std: list[float] | None = None,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        encoder_rates = tuple(int(rate) for rate in encoder_rates)
+        decoder_rates = tuple(int(rate) for rate in decoder_rates)
+        self.hop_length = math.prod(encoder_rates)
+        if math.prod(decoder_rates) != self.hop_length:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`decoder_rates` must upsample by the encoder hop length {self.hop_length}, got "
+                f"{math.prod(decoder_rates)}."
+            )
+        if latent_dim % latent_channels != 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`latent_dim` ({latent_dim}) must be a multiple of `latent_channels` ({latent_channels})."
+            )
+
+        self.encoder = MiniMaxH3AudioEncoder(d_model=encoder_dim, strides=encoder_rates, d_latent=latent_dim)
+        self.pre_block = MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProjection(latent_dim, latent_channels, num_heads=num_attention_heads)
+        self.mean_proj = nn.Conv1d(latent_channels, latent_channels, 1)
+        self.logs_proj = nn.Conv1d(latent_channels, latent_channels, 1)
+
+        self.dec_in_proj = nn.Conv1d(latent_channels, latent_dim, 1)
+        self.decoder = MiniMaxH3AudioBigVGANDecoder(
+            in_channels=latent_dim,
+            upsample_initial_channel=decoder_dim,
+            upsample_rates=decoder_rates,
+            upsample_kernel_sizes=tuple(int(kernel) for kernel in decoder_kernel_sizes),
+            resblock_kernel_sizes=tuple(int(kernel) for kernel in resblock_kernel_sizes),
+            resblock_dilation_sizes=tuple(tuple(int(d) for d in dilation) for dilation in resblock_dilation_sizes),
+        )
+
+    @apply_forward_hook
+    def encode(
+        self, sample: torch.Tensor, return_dict: bool = True
+    ) -> MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput | tuple[MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution]:
+        r"""
+        Encode a waveform into the audio latent posterior.
+
+        The waveform is right-padded to a multiple of `hop_length` (800 samples) first. MiniMax-H3
+        always consumes the posterior **mean** (`latent_dist.mode()`) — the `logs_proj` head is never
+        evaluated by the reference pipeline.
+
+        Args:
+            sample (`torch.Tensor`):
+                Mono waveform of shape `[batch_size, 1, samples]`. MiniMax-H3 passes the two stereo
+                channels of a reference clip as `batch_size = 2`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The latent posterior over `[batch_size, latent_channels, samples / 800]`.
+        """
+        if sample.ndim != 3 or sample.shape[1] != 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"`sample` must have shape [batch_size, 1, samples], got {tuple(sample.shape)}.")
+
+        right_pad = math.ceil(sample.shape[-1] / self.hop_length) * self.hop_length - sample.shape[-1]
+        if right_pad > 0:
+            sample = F.pad(sample, (0, right_pad))
+
+        encoder_dtype = get_parameter_dtype(self.encoder)
+        hidden_states = self.encoder(sample.to(encoder_dtype))
+        hidden_states = self.pre_block(hidden_states.transpose(1, 2)).transpose(1, 2)
+        mean, logs = self.mean_proj(hidden_states), self.logs_proj(hidden_states)
+        if encoder_dtype != torch.float32:
+            mean, logs = mean.float(), logs.float()
+
+        posterior = MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution(mean, logs)
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (posterior,)
+        return MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput(latent_dist=posterior)
+
+    @apply_forward_hook
+    def decode(self, latents: torch.Tensor, return_dict: bool = True) -> DecoderOutput | tuple[torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Decode audio latents into a waveform.
+
+        Args:
+            latents (`torch.Tensor`):
+                Denormalized latents of shape `[batch_size, latent_channels, num_frames]`. MiniMax-H3
+                passes the two stereo channels as `batch_size = 2`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                Waveform of shape `[batch_size, 1, num_frames * 800]`, clamped to `[-1, 1]`.
+        """
+        if latents.ndim != 3:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`latents` must have shape [batch_size, latent_channels, num_frames], got {tuple(latents.shape)}."
+            )
+
+        decoder_dtype = get_parameter_dtype(self.decoder)
+        decoded = self.decoder(self.dec_in_proj(latents.to(decoder_dtype)))
+        if decoder_dtype != torch.float32:
+            decoded = decoded.float()
+
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (decoded,)
+        return DecoderOutput(sample=decoded)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        sample: torch.Tensor,
+        sample_posterior: bool = False,
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+        generator: torch.Generator | None = None,
+    ) -> DecoderOutput | tuple[torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Encode then decode a waveform.
+
+        Args:
+            sample (`torch.Tensor`):
+                Mono waveform of shape `[batch_size, 1, samples]`.
+            sample_posterior (`bool`, defaults to `False`):
+                Whether to sample the posterior instead of taking its mode. MiniMax-H3 uses the mode.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*):
+                Generator used when `sample_posterior=True`.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The round-tripped waveform of shape `[batch_size, 1, num_frames * 800]`, clamped to `[-1, 1]`.
+        """
+        posterior = self.encode(sample).latent_dist
+        latents = posterior.sample(generator=generator) if sample_posterior else posterior.mode()
+        return self.decode(latents, return_dict=return_dict)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/__init__.py
index 21f5cb853643..7a1213639e3d 100755
--- a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/__init__.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
     from .transformer_ltx import LTXVideoTransformer3DModel
     from .transformer_ltx2 import LTX2VideoTransformer3DModel
     from .transformer_lumina2 import Lumina2Transformer2DModel
+    from .transformer_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
     from .transformer_mochi import MochiTransformer3DModel
     from .transformer_motif_video import MotifVideoTransformer3DModel
     from .transformer_nucleusmoe_image import NucleusMoEImageTransformer2DModel
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5170f149a8ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,644 @@
+# Copyright 2025 The MiniMax Team and The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from ...configuration_utils import ConfigMixin, register_to_config
+from ...loaders import PeftAdapterMixin
+from ...utils import BaseOutput, apply_lora_scale, logging
+from ..attention import AttentionMixin, AttentionModuleMixin, FeedForward
+from ..attention_dispatch import dispatch_attention_fn
+from ..cache_utils import CacheMixin
+from ..embeddings import TimestepEmbedding, Timesteps
+from ..modeling_utils import ModelMixin
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+# MiniMax-H3 tags every row of the packed sequence with the modality it belongs to and keeps one set of AdaLN
+# modulation parameters per (timestep, modality) pair: 0 = video, 1 = text, 2 = audio.
+MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM = 3
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput(BaseOutput):
+    r"""
+    The output of [`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`].
+
+    Args:
+        sample (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_video_tokens, in_channels * prod(patch_size))`):
+            The video velocity prediction for the rows addressed by `video_indices`, in the same order. Conditioning
+            rows are returned unmasked — masking them out before the scheduler step is the caller's job.
+        audio_sample (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_audio_tokens, audio_in_channels)`):
+            The audio velocity prediction for the rows addressed by `audio_indices`, in the same order.
+    """
+
+    sample: torch.Tensor
+    audio_sample: torch.Tensor
+
+
+def _apply_rotary_emb(hidden_states: torch.Tensor, cos: torch.Tensor, sin: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Rotate the leading `rotary_dim` channels of every head and pass the remaining channels through unchanged.
+    `hidden_states` is `(batch_size, seq_len, num_heads, head_dim)` and `cos`/`sin` are `(seq_len, rotary_dim)`.
+    """
+    rotary_dim = cos.shape[-1]
+    hidden_states_rotary = hidden_states[..., :rotary_dim]
+    hidden_states_pass = hidden_states[..., rotary_dim:]
+
+    cos = cos.to(hidden_states.dtype)[None, :, None, :]
+    sin = sin.to(hidden_states.dtype)[None, :, None, :]
+    x1, x2 = hidden_states_rotary.chunk(2, dim=-1)
+    hidden_states_rotated = torch.cat((-x2, x1), dim=-1)
+    hidden_states_rotary = hidden_states_rotary * cos + hidden_states_rotated * sin
+    return torch.cat((hidden_states_rotary, hidden_states_pass), dim=-1).contiguous()
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3RotaryPosEmbed(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    3-axis rotary embedding over the `(t, h, w)` coordinates of the packed sequence.
+
+    A single `inv_freq` buffer of `rope_freq_dim` frequencies is shared by the three axes. Each axis contributes
+    `rope_freq_dim` angles, the three blocks are concatenated to `3 * rope_freq_dim` and then concatenated with
+    themselves so that the `rotate_half` convention rotates `2 * 3 * rope_freq_dim` of the `head_dim` channels.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, rope_freq_dim: int = 16, rope_theta: float = 10000.0):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.rope_freq_dim = rope_freq_dim
+        inv_freq = 1.0 / (
+            rope_theta ** (torch.arange(0, 2 * rope_freq_dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / (2 * rope_freq_dim))
+        )
+        self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False)
+
+    def forward(self, position_ids: torch.Tensor) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        # position_ids: (seq_len, 3) -> cos/sin: (seq_len, 2 * 3 * rope_freq_dim)
+        position_ids = position_ids.to(torch.float32)
+        freqs = position_ids.unsqueeze(-1) * self.inv_freq.view(1, 1, -1)  # (seq_len, 3, rope_freq_dim)
+        freqs_t, freqs_h, freqs_w = freqs.unbind(dim=1)
+        freqs = torch.cat((freqs_t, freqs_h, freqs_w), dim=-1)
+        freqs = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1)
+        return freqs.cos(), freqs.sin()
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormModulation(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    Projects the shared timestep embedding into the six per-(timestep, modality) modulation parameters of one
+    transformer block.
+
+    `(num_timesteps, time_embed_dim)` -> six tensors of shape `(num_timesteps * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM,
+    hidden_size)`, in the diffusers `shift_msa, scale_msa, gate_msa, shift_mlp, scale_mlp, gate_mlp` order. The row
+    layout of the returned tensors is `[t0_mod0, t0_mod1, t0_mod2, t1_mod0, ...]`, which is what `timestep_indices *
+    MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM + token_tags` addresses.
+
+    A single projection is shared by `norm1` and `norm2` and by the three modalities, so it cannot be folded into
+    either norm the way [`~models.normalization.AdaLayerNormZero`] does. It is therefore a block-level module of its
+    own, named after the checkpoint's `adaln_proj`, with the modulation projection under the `linear` name diffusers
+    uses inside every AdaLN module.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, time_embed_dim: int, hidden_size: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
+        self.linear = nn.Linear(time_embed_dim, 6 * hidden_size * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM, bias=True)
+
+    def forward(self, temb: torch.Tensor) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, ...]:
+        # The activation runs at `temb`'s own precision — float32, since `time_embedder` is a float32 module in this
+        # mixed-precision checkpoint — and only its result is cast down to the bfloat16 projection. Every block reads
+        # the same `temb`, so a rounding applied before the activation biases every block's modulation parameters
+        # identically at every sampling step, which accumulates coherently over the denoising trajectory.
+        temb = self.linear(nn.functional.silu(temb).to(self.linear.weight.dtype))
+        temb = temb.view(-1, 6 * self.hidden_size)
+        return temb.chunk(6, dim=-1)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormOut(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    Final norm of the packed sequence, shift/scale modulated per row.
+
+    Same module layout and checkpoint keys as [`~models.normalization.AdaLayerNormContinuous`] (`norm` plus a `linear`
+    projecting the conditioning embedding to `2 * hidden_size`), with two MiniMax-H3 specifics: the modulation table
+    holds one row per *timestep* and is addressed per row of the packed sequence rather than per batch item, and the
+    two halves of the projection are `shift` then `scale`, the order `LTX2Transformer3DModel` and
+    `WanTransformer3DModel` also use in their output layers.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, hidden_size: int, time_embed_dim: int, eps: float):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm = nn.RMSNorm(hidden_size, eps=eps)
+        self.linear = nn.Linear(time_embed_dim, 2 * hidden_size, bias=True)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, temb: torch.Tensor, timestep_indices: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        # As in `MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormModulation`: activate at `temb`'s precision, cast to the projection's dtype after.
+        shift, scale = self.linear(nn.functional.silu(temb).to(self.linear.weight.dtype)).chunk(2, dim=-1)
+        # The modulation itself stays at the block stack's precision; `forward` casts to the output heads' dtype.
+        hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states)
+        return hidden_states * (1.0 + scale.index_select(0, timestep_indices)) + shift.index_select(
+            0, timestep_indices
+        )
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AttnProcessor:
+    r"""
+    Full self-attention over one packed sequence. There is no cross-attention anywhere in MiniMax-H3.
+    """
+
+    _attention_backend = None
+    _parallel_config = None
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        attn: "MiniMaxH3Attention",
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        rotary_emb: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor] | None = None,
+        attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if attn.fused_projections:
+            query, key, value = attn.to_qkv(hidden_states).chunk(3, dim=-1)
+        else:
+            query = attn.to_q(hidden_states)
+            key = attn.to_k(hidden_states)
+            value = attn.to_v(hidden_states)
+
+        query = query.unflatten(-1, (attn.heads, -1))
+        key = key.unflatten(-1, (attn.heads, -1))
+        value = value.unflatten(-1, (attn.heads, -1))
+
+        query = attn.norm_q(query)
+        key = attn.norm_k(key)
+
+        if rotary_emb is not None:
+            query = _apply_rotary_emb(query, *rotary_emb)
+            key = _apply_rotary_emb(key, *rotary_emb)
+
+        # Without padding rows the packed sequence is a single attention document and no mask is needed (passing an
+        # all-zero float mask here would hard-fail the flash / sage backends). When padding rows are present, the
+        # caller supplies a boolean mask that keeps them in their own attention document, mirroring the reference's
+        # `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]` split; masked backends (SDPA & co.) are required in that case.
+        hidden_states = dispatch_attention_fn(
+            query,
+            key,
+            value,
+            attn_mask=attention_mask,
+            dropout_p=0.0,
+            is_causal=False,
+            backend=self._attention_backend,
+            parallel_config=self._parallel_config,
+        )
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.flatten(2, 3).type_as(query)
+        hidden_states = attn.to_out[0](hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = attn.to_out[1](hidden_states)
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Attention(nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
+    _default_processor_cls = MiniMaxH3AttnProcessor
+    _available_processors = [MiniMaxH3AttnProcessor]
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        heads: int,
+        dim_head: int,
+        qk_norm_eps: float = 1e-5,
+        processor=None,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.heads = heads
+        self.head_dim = dim_head
+        self.inner_dim = heads * dim_head
+        self.use_bias = False
+
+        self.to_q = nn.Linear(hidden_size, self.inner_dim, bias=False)
+        self.to_k = nn.Linear(hidden_size, self.inner_dim, bias=False)
+        self.to_v = nn.Linear(hidden_size, self.inner_dim, bias=False)
+        self.norm_q = nn.RMSNorm(dim_head, eps=qk_norm_eps)
+        self.norm_k = nn.RMSNorm(dim_head, eps=qk_norm_eps)
+        self.to_out = nn.ModuleList([nn.Linear(self.inner_dim, hidden_size, bias=False), nn.Dropout(0.0)])
+
+        if processor is None:
+            processor = self._default_processor_cls()
+        self.set_processor(processor)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        rotary_emb: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor] | None = None,
+        attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.processor(self, hidden_states, rotary_emb, attention_mask)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3TokenRefinerBlock(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    Plain pre-norm transformer block used to refine the projected text stream. No AdaLN and no rotary embedding.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        num_attention_heads: int,
+        attention_head_dim: int,
+        ffn_dim: int,
+        norm_eps: float,
+        qk_norm_eps: float,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm1 = nn.RMSNorm(hidden_size, eps=norm_eps)
+        self.attn = MiniMaxH3Attention(
+            hidden_size=hidden_size,
+            heads=num_attention_heads,
+            dim_head=attention_head_dim,
+            qk_norm_eps=qk_norm_eps,
+        )
+        self.norm2 = nn.RMSNorm(hidden_size, eps=norm_eps)
+        self.ff = FeedForward(hidden_size, inner_dim=ffn_dim, activation_fn="swiglu", bias=False)
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        hidden_states = hidden_states + self.attn(self.norm1(hidden_states))
+        hidden_states = hidden_states + self.ff(self.norm2(hidden_states))
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3TokenRefiner(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        num_attention_heads: int,
+        attention_head_dim: int,
+        ffn_dim: int,
+        num_layers: int,
+        norm_eps: float,
+        qk_norm_eps: float,
+        final_norm_eps: float,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.refiner_blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3TokenRefinerBlock(
+                    hidden_size=hidden_size,
+                    num_attention_heads=num_attention_heads,
+                    attention_head_dim=attention_head_dim,
+                    ffn_dim=ffn_dim,
+                    norm_eps=norm_eps,
+                    qk_norm_eps=qk_norm_eps,
+                )
+                for _ in range(num_layers)
+            ]
+        )
+        self.final_norm = nn.RMSNorm(hidden_size, eps=final_norm_eps)
+        self.gradient_checkpointing = False
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        for block in self.refiner_blocks:
+            if torch.is_grad_enabled() and self.gradient_checkpointing:
+                hidden_states = self._gradient_checkpointing_func(block, hidden_states)
+            else:
+                hidden_states = block(hidden_states)
+        return self.final_norm(hidden_states)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
+    r"""
+    MiniMax-H3 block: pre-norm self-attention and feed-forward, each modulated by AdaLN parameters selected per row of
+    the packed sequence from the `(timestep, modality)` table.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        hidden_size: int,
+        num_attention_heads: int,
+        attention_head_dim: int,
+        ffn_dim: int,
+        time_embed_dim: int,
+        norm_eps: float,
+        qk_norm_eps: float,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm1 = nn.RMSNorm(hidden_size, eps=norm_eps)
+        self.attn = MiniMaxH3Attention(
+            hidden_size=hidden_size,
+            heads=num_attention_heads,
+            dim_head=attention_head_dim,
+            qk_norm_eps=qk_norm_eps,
+        )
+        self.norm2 = nn.RMSNorm(hidden_size, eps=norm_eps)
+        self.ff = FeedForward(hidden_size, inner_dim=ffn_dim, activation_fn="swiglu", bias=False)
+        self.adaln_proj = MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormModulation(time_embed_dim=time_embed_dim, hidden_size=hidden_size)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        temb: torch.Tensor,
+        adaln_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        rotary_emb: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor],
+        attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        shift_msa, scale_msa, gate_msa, shift_mlp, scale_mlp, gate_mlp = self.adaln_proj(temb)
+
+        residual = hidden_states
+        norm_hidden_states = self.norm1(hidden_states)
+        norm_hidden_states = norm_hidden_states * (
+            1.0 + scale_msa.index_select(0, adaln_indices)
+        ) + shift_msa.index_select(0, adaln_indices)
+        attn_output = self.attn(norm_hidden_states, rotary_emb, attention_mask)
+        hidden_states = residual + gate_msa.index_select(0, adaln_indices) * attn_output
+
+        residual = hidden_states
+        norm_hidden_states = self.norm2(hidden_states)
+        norm_hidden_states = norm_hidden_states * (
+            1.0 + scale_mlp.index_select(0, adaln_indices)
+        ) + shift_mlp.index_select(0, adaln_indices)
+        ff_output = self.ff(norm_hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = residual + gate_mlp.index_select(0, adaln_indices) * ff_output
+
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin, PeftAdapterMixin, CacheMixin):
+    r"""
+    A Transformer model for joint video + audio generation, introduced in MiniMax-H3.
+
+    MiniMax-H3 runs a single stack of blocks over **one packed 1-D sequence** that holds the text condition, the
+    conditioning image / video rows, the audio rows and the target video rows. Attention is full self-attention over
+    that sequence; there is no cross-attention and no per-modality block weights. Modality-specific behaviour comes
+    only from the two input patch projections, the per-row AdaLN modality tag, and the two output heads.
+
+    The caller is responsible for building the packed layout: patchifying the video latents, ordering the rows, and
+    producing the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags and the per-row timestep indices. Padding rows
+    (tag `-1`) are kept in a separate attention document, matching the reference implementation, which pads to a
+    multiple of 64 for FlashAttention with `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`. Prefer dropping them — a padless sequence
+    needs no attention mask, keeping the unmasked attention backends available.
+
+    The batch axis is a pure replication axis: the structural arguments (`timestep`, `timestep_indices`, `token_tags`,
+    `position_ids` and the three index tensors) describe one packed layout that every batch item shares, and each item
+    is a single attention document.
+
+    Args:
+        num_attention_heads (`int`, defaults to `56`):
+            The number of heads to use for multi-head attention.
+        attention_head_dim (`int`, defaults to `128`):
+            The number of channels in each attention head. Note that `num_attention_heads * attention_head_dim` is
+            *larger* than `hidden_size` in MiniMax-H3.
+        hidden_size (`int`, defaults to `5376`):
+            The number of channels of the packed sequence (the residual stream).
+        num_layers (`int`, defaults to `50`):
+            The number of transformer blocks.
+        num_refiner_layers (`int`, defaults to `2`):
+            The number of token refiner blocks applied to the projected text stream.
+        ffn_dim (`int`, defaults to `14336`):
+            The inner dimension of the SwiGLU feed-forward layers.
+        in_channels (`int`, defaults to `24`):
+            The number of channels of the video latents.
+        audio_in_channels (`int`, defaults to `32`):
+            The number of channels of the audio latents.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`, defaults to `(1, 2, 2)`):
+            The `(t, h, w)` patch used to pack the video latents into rows.
+        text_dim (`int`, defaults to `5120`):
+            The number of channels of the text conditioning produced by the text encoder.
+        freq_dim (`int`, defaults to `256`):
+            The dimension of the sinusoidal timestep embedding. Timesteps are consumed unscaled in `[0, 1]`.
+        time_embed_hidden_dim (`int`, defaults to `5376`):
+            The inner dimension of the timestep MLP.
+        time_embed_dim (`int`, defaults to `2688`):
+            The output dimension of the timestep MLP, i.e. the input of every AdaLN projection.
+        rope_freq_dim (`int`, defaults to `16`):
+            The number of rotary frequencies per axis. The `(t, h, w)` axes share one `inv_freq` buffer of this length
+            and `2 * 3 * rope_freq_dim` of the `attention_head_dim` channels are rotated.
+        rope_theta (`float`, defaults to `10000.0`):
+            The base of the rotary frequency schedule the `rope.inv_freq` buffer is computed from.
+        norm_eps (`float`, defaults to `1e-5`):
+            Epsilon of the pre-attention and pre-feed-forward norms.
+        qk_norm_eps (`float`, defaults to `1e-5`):
+            Epsilon of the per-head query/key norms.
+        final_norm_eps (`float`, defaults to `1e-5`):
+            Epsilon of the token refiner output norm and of `norm_out`.
+    """
+
+    _supports_gradient_checkpointing = True
+    _no_split_modules = ["MiniMaxH3TransformerBlock", "MiniMaxH3TokenRefinerBlock", "MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormOut"]
+    _repeated_blocks = ["MiniMaxH3TransformerBlock", "MiniMaxH3TokenRefinerBlock"]
+    _skip_layerwise_casting_patterns = ["norm"]
+    # MiniMax-H3 ships a mixed-precision checkpoint: the two input patch projections, the timestep MLP and the two
+    # output heads are float32 while everything else (including the AdaLN projections) is bfloat16. The `rope.inv_freq`
+    # buffer is computed rather than loaded and is kept float32 for the same reason the reference ships it float32.
+    # Entries are matched as substrings of the parameter name, so `proj_in` / `proj_out` also cover the audio heads.
+    _keep_in_fp32_modules = [
+        "proj_in",
+        "audio_proj_in",
+        "time_embedder",
+        "proj_out",
+        "audio_proj_out",
+        "rope",
+    ]
+
+    @register_to_config
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        num_attention_heads: int = 56,
+        attention_head_dim: int = 128,
+        hidden_size: int = 5376,
+        num_layers: int = 50,
+        num_refiner_layers: int = 2,
+        ffn_dim: int = 14336,
+        in_channels: int = 24,
+        audio_in_channels: int = 32,
+        patch_size: tuple[int, int, int] = (1, 2, 2),
+        text_dim: int = 5120,
+        freq_dim: int = 256,
+        time_embed_hidden_dim: int = 5376,
+        time_embed_dim: int = 2688,
+        rope_freq_dim: int = 16,
+        rope_theta: float = 10000.0,
+        norm_eps: float = 1e-5,
+        qk_norm_eps: float = 1e-5,
+        final_norm_eps: float = 1e-5,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+
+        video_patch_dim = in_channels * patch_size[0] * patch_size[1] * patch_size[2]
+
+        # 1. Per-modality input projections
+        self.proj_in = nn.Linear(video_patch_dim, hidden_size, bias=True)
+        self.audio_proj_in = nn.Linear(audio_in_channels, hidden_size, bias=True)
+        self.context_embedder = nn.Linear(text_dim, hidden_size, bias=True)
+
+        # 2. Timestep embedding, shared by every AdaLN projection
+        self.time_proj = Timesteps(num_channels=freq_dim, flip_sin_to_cos=True, downscale_freq_shift=0)
+        self.time_embedder = TimestepEmbedding(
+            in_channels=freq_dim, time_embed_dim=time_embed_hidden_dim, out_dim=time_embed_dim
+        )
+
+        # 3. Rotary embedding over the packed (t, h, w) grid
+        self.rope = MiniMaxH3RotaryPosEmbed(rope_freq_dim=rope_freq_dim, rope_theta=rope_theta)
+
+        # 4. Text stream refiner
+        self.token_refiner = MiniMaxH3TokenRefiner(
+            hidden_size=hidden_size,
+            num_attention_heads=num_attention_heads,
+            attention_head_dim=attention_head_dim,
+            ffn_dim=ffn_dim,
+            num_layers=num_refiner_layers,
+            norm_eps=norm_eps,
+            qk_norm_eps=qk_norm_eps,
+            final_norm_eps=final_norm_eps,
+        )
+
+        # 5. The block stack
+        self.transformer_blocks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3TransformerBlock(
+                    hidden_size=hidden_size,
+                    num_attention_heads=num_attention_heads,
+                    attention_head_dim=attention_head_dim,
+                    ffn_dim=ffn_dim,
+                    time_embed_dim=time_embed_dim,
+                    norm_eps=norm_eps,
+                    qk_norm_eps=qk_norm_eps,
+                )
+                for _ in range(num_layers)
+            ]
+        )
+
+        # 6. Shared output norm and the two per-modality output heads. Both heads run over every row of the packed
+        # sequence; the rows of each modality are selected afterwards.
+        self.norm_out = MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormOut(
+            hidden_size=hidden_size, time_embed_dim=time_embed_dim, eps=final_norm_eps
+        )
+        self.proj_out = nn.Linear(hidden_size, video_patch_dim, bias=True)
+        self.audio_proj_out = nn.Linear(hidden_size, audio_in_channels, bias=True)
+
+        self.gradient_checkpointing = False
+
+    @apply_lora_scale("attention_kwargs")
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        audio_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        encoder_hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        timestep: torch.Tensor,
+        timestep_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        token_tags: torch.Tensor,
+        position_ids: torch.Tensor,
+        video_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        audio_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        text_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        attention_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+    ) -> MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput | tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Args:
+            hidden_states (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_video_tokens, in_channels * prod(patch_size))`):
+                Patchified video latent rows — conditioning rows and target rows — ordered as they appear in the packed
+                sequence, i.e. matching `video_indices`.
+            audio_hidden_states (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_audio_tokens, audio_in_channels)`):
+                Audio latent rows, ordered to match `audio_indices`.
+            encoder_hidden_states (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, num_text_tokens, text_dim)`):
+                Text conditioning, ordered to match `text_indices`.
+            timestep (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_timesteps,)`):
+                The *distinct* timestep values present in the packed sequence, in `[0, 1]` and unscaled. One forward
+                serves rows at different noise levels (target video, target audio, conditioning rows).
+            timestep_indices (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(seq_len,)`):
+                For every row of the packed sequence, the index of its timestep in `timestep`.
+            token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(seq_len,)`):
+                For every row of the packed sequence, its modality: `0` video, `1` text, `2` audio, `-1` padding.
+                Padding rows form their own attention document and never reach the outputs.
+            position_ids (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(seq_len, 3)`):
+                The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinates of every row of the packed sequence.
+            video_indices (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_video_tokens,)`):
+                Positions of the video rows in the packed sequence.
+            audio_indices (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_audio_tokens,)`):
+                Positions of the audio rows in the packed sequence.
+            text_indices (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
+                Positions of the text rows in the packed sequence.
+            attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+                A kwargs dictionary that, if specified, may carry a `scale` entry which is applied to the LoRA layers.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The video velocity of shape `(batch_size, num_video_tokens, in_channels * prod(patch_size))` and the
+                audio velocity of shape `(batch_size, num_audio_tokens, audio_in_channels)`, in the row order of
+                `video_indices` and `audio_indices`.
+        """
+        # `attention_kwargs` is consumed by the `@apply_lora_scale` decorator on this method.
+        if position_ids.ndim != 2 or position_ids.shape[-1] != 3:
+            raise ValueError(f"`position_ids` must be a `(seq_len, 3)` tensor, got {list(position_ids.shape)}.")
+        sequence_length = position_ids.shape[0]
+        if token_tags.shape != (sequence_length,) or timestep_indices.shape != (sequence_length,):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "`token_tags` and `timestep_indices` must both be `(seq_len,)` tensors matching `position_ids`, got "
+                f"{list(token_tags.shape)} and {list(timestep_indices.shape)} for seq_len={sequence_length}."
+            )
+
+        rotary_emb = self.rope(position_ids)
+
+        # 1. Project each modality and scatter the rows into the packed sequence buffer. The checkpoint is
+        # mixed-precision (the two patch projections are float32 while `context_embedder` and the block stack are
+        # bfloat16 — see `_keep_in_fp32_modules`), so every input is aligned with its projection's parameter dtype,
+        # mirroring the reference's explicit casts. The text stream sets the dtype of the packed sequence.
+        video_embeds = self.proj_in(hidden_states.to(self.proj_in.weight.dtype))
+        audio_embeds = self.audio_proj_in(audio_hidden_states.to(self.audio_proj_in.weight.dtype))
+        text_embeds = self.context_embedder(encoder_hidden_states.to(self.context_embedder.weight.dtype))
+        text_embeds = self.token_refiner(text_embeds)
+
+        hidden_states = text_embeds.new_zeros((text_embeds.shape[0], sequence_length, text_embeds.shape[-1]))
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.index_copy(1, text_indices, text_embeds)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.index_copy(1, video_indices, video_embeds.to(text_embeds.dtype))
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.index_copy(1, audio_indices, audio_embeds.to(text_embeds.dtype))
+
+        # 2. One timestep embedding per distinct noise level. `temb` is shared by all AdaLN projections, which are
+        # bfloat16 in the checkpoint while `time_embedder` is float32, so it stays at the time embedder's precision:
+        # each AdaLN module applies its own activation to it and casts to its projection's dtype afterwards.
+        temb = self.time_proj(timestep)
+        temb = self.time_embedder(temb.to(self.time_embedder.linear_1.weight.dtype))
+
+        # 3. Row -> AdaLN table row. `clamp(min=0)` mirrors the reference, where padding rows carry the tag `-1`; the
+        # clamp keeps the `-1` from indexing backwards (padding rows never reach the outputs, which are selected by
+        # `video_indices` / `audio_indices`).
+        adaln_indices = timestep_indices * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM + token_tags.clamp(min=0)
+
+        # 4. Padding rows (tag `-1`) must not exchange attention with live rows: the reference keeps the padding tail
+        # as a separate attention document (`cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`). A boolean mask that pairs live rows with live
+        # rows and padding rows with padding rows reproduces that split exactly. Padless sequences keep `None` so the
+        # unmasked fast paths (flash & co.) stay available.
+        attention_mask = None
+        is_pad = token_tags < 0
+        if bool(is_pad.any()):
+            attention_mask = is_pad[None, :] == is_pad[:, None]
+
+        for block in self.transformer_blocks:
+            if torch.is_grad_enabled() and self.gradient_checkpointing:
+                hidden_states = self._gradient_checkpointing_func(
+                    block, hidden_states, temb, adaln_indices, rotary_emb, attention_mask
+                )
+            else:
+                hidden_states = block(hidden_states, temb, adaln_indices, rotary_emb, attention_mask)
+
+        # 5. Both heads run over every row, then the rows of each modality are selected. The heads are listed in
+        # `_keep_in_fp32_modules`, so they stay float32 while the block stack runs in the requested `torch_dtype`;
+        # align the activation with their parameter dtype.
+        hidden_states = self.norm_out(hidden_states, temb, timestep_indices).to(self.proj_out.weight.dtype)
+        video_output = self.proj_out(hidden_states).index_select(1, video_indices)
+        audio_output = self.audio_proj_out(hidden_states).index_select(1, audio_indices)
+
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (video_output, audio_output)
+        return MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput(sample=video_output, audio_sample=audio_output)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py
index 6471b951285a..a107a004b7f2 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@
         "LTXAutoBlocks",
         "LTXModularPipeline",
     ]
+    _import_structure["minimax_h3"] = [
+        "MiniMaxH3Blocks",
+        "MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline",
+        "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks",
+        "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline",
+    ]
     _import_structure["z_image"] = [
         "ZImageAutoBlocks",
         "ZImageModularPipeline",
@@ -175,6 +181,12 @@
             Krea2TurboModularPipeline,
         )
         from .ltx import LTXAutoBlocks, LTXModularPipeline
+        from .minimax_h3 import (
+            MiniMaxH3Blocks,
+            MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
+            MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
+            MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
+        )
         from .modular_pipeline import (
             AutoPipelineBlocks,
             BlockState,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c7826b77a2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from ...utils import (
+    DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT,
+    OptionalDependencyNotAvailable,
+    _LazyModule,
+    get_objects_from_module,
+    is_torch_available,
+    is_transformers_available,
+)
+
+
+_dummy_objects = {}
+_import_structure = {}
+
+try:
+    if not (is_transformers_available() and is_torch_available()):
+        raise OptionalDependencyNotAvailable()
+except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
+    from ...utils import dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects  # noqa F403
+
+    _dummy_objects.update(get_objects_from_module(dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects))
+else:
+    _import_structure["modular_blocks_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Blocks", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks"]
+    _import_structure["modular_pipeline"] = ["MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline"]
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING or DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT:
+    try:
+        if not (is_transformers_available() and is_torch_available()):
+            raise OptionalDependencyNotAvailable()
+    except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
+        from ...utils.dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects import *  # noqa F403
+    else:
+        from .modular_blocks_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Blocks, MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+        from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+else:
+    import sys
+
+    sys.modules[__name__] = _LazyModule(
+        __name__,
+        globals()["__file__"],
+        _import_structure,
+        module_spec=__spec__,
+    )
+
+    for name, value in _dummy_objects.items():
+        setattr(sys.modules[__name__], name, value)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6aa1a7c2bcb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
@@ -0,0 +1,426 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
+    MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
+    build_packed_sequence,
+    build_row_timesteps,
+    patchify_video_latents,
+)
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3PreparedReference, build_ref2va_packed_sequence
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging
+from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+def _layout_inputs() -> list[InputParam]:
+    r"""What both packed layouts are built from, beyond the conditioning of the task itself."""
+    return [
+        InputParam(
+            name="text_token_tags",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.",
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Number of video latent frames."
+        ),
+        InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
+        InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
+        InputParam(
+            name="num_audio_latents",
+            type_hint=int,
+            required=True,
+            description="Number of audio latents per channel.",
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+def _layout_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
+    r"""The row layout of the packed sequence, shared by the two tasks."""
+    return [
+        OutputParam(
+            "layout",
+            type_hint=MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
+            description="The structural description of the packed sequence.",
+        ),
+        OutputParam(
+            "position_ids",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            description="The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row, in float64.",
+        ),
+        OutputParam("token_tags", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="The modality tag of every row."),
+        OutputParam(
+            "video_indices",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            description="Sequence positions of the video rows, conditioning rows first.",
+        ),
+        OutputParam(
+            "audio_indices",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            description="Sequence positions of the audio rows, reference rows first.",
+        ),
+        OutputParam("text_indices", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="Sequence positions of the text rows."),
+        OutputParam(
+            "num_condition_video_rows",
+            type_hint=int,
+            description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows rather than generated rows.",
+        ),
+        OutputParam(
+            "num_condition_audio_rows",
+            type_hint=int,
+            description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows rather than generated rows.",
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+def _set_layout_state(block_state, layout: MiniMaxH3PackedSequence, device: torch.device) -> None:
+    block_state.layout = layout
+    block_state.position_ids = layout.position_ids.to(device)
+    block_state.token_tags = layout.token_tags.to(device)
+    block_state.video_indices = layout.video_indices.to(device)
+    block_state.audio_indices = layout.audio_indices.to(device)
+    block_state.text_indices = layout.text_indices.to(device)
+    block_state.num_condition_video_rows = layout.num_condition_video_rows
+    block_state.num_condition_audio_rows = layout.num_condition_audio_rows
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Builds the packed layout of a `t2va` / `fl2va` request — `[text | keyframe conditions | target audio | "
+            "target video]` — and its fp64 rotary grid. MiniMax-H3 runs full self-attention over this one sequence, "
+            "so the layout is what every later block addresses rows through."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            *_layout_inputs(),
+            InputParam(
+                name="keyframe_anchors",
+                type_hint=tuple,
+                default=(),
+                description="Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return _layout_outputs()
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+
+        layout = build_packed_sequence(
+            block_state.text_token_tags,
+            block_state.num_latent_frames,
+            block_state.latent_height,
+            block_state.latent_width,
+            block_state.num_audio_latents,
+            components.patch_size,
+            block_state.keyframe_anchors,
+        )
+        _set_layout_state(block_state, layout, components._execution_device)
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Builds the packed layout of a `ref2va` request — `[text | reference blocks | target audio | target "
+            "video]` — and its fp64 rotary grid. The reference order advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so "
+            "it is part of the layout rather than a detail of the presentation."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            *_layout_inputs(),
+            InputParam(
+                name="prepared_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                required=True,
+                description="The prepared references, in packed order, with their latent geometry filled in.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return _layout_outputs()
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+
+        layout = build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
+            block_state.text_token_tags,
+            block_state.prepared_references,
+            block_state.num_latent_frames,
+            block_state.latent_height,
+            block_state.latent_width,
+            block_state.num_audio_latents,
+            components.patch_size,
+        )
+        _set_layout_state(block_state, layout, components._execution_device)
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Draws the initial noise of the generated rows and prepends the conditioning rows. MiniMax-H3 draws the "
+            "video noise as a latent tensor and patchifies it afterwards, then the audio noise directly in row "
+            "layout — both off the request's generator, after the conditioning noise of the encoder step."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Number of video latent frames."
+            ),
+            InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
+            InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_audio_latents",
+                type_hint=int,
+                required=True,
+                description="Number of audio latents per channel.",
+            ),
+            InputParam.template(
+                "generator",
+                description=(
+                    "The generator of the request. The video noise is drawn from it first, then the audio noise."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description=(
+                    "Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, "
+                    "used instead of the draw."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="condition_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The video conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_condition_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The audio conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.prepare_latents with self->components
+    def prepare_latents(
+        components,
+        num_latent_frames: int,
+        latent_height: int,
+        latent_width: int,
+        num_audio_latents: int,
+        device: torch.device,
+        generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
+        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Draw the initial noise of both modalities and pack it into transformer rows.
+
+        A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
+        reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
+        [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
+        that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
+        `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
+
+        Args:
+            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of video latent frames.
+            latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
+            latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
+            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
+            device (`torch.device`): The device the rows are drawn on.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
+            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+                latent_width)`, used instead of the draw.
+            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the video rows and the channel-major audio rows.
+        """
+        if latents is None:
+            latents = randn_tensor(
+                (1, components.vae_latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+            )
+        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(torch.float32), components.patch_size)
+
+        if audio_latents is None:
+            audio_rows = randn_tensor(
+                (num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, components.audio_latent_channels),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+            )
+        else:
+            audio_rows = audio_latents.to(torch.float32).permute(0, 2, 1).reshape(-1, components.audio_latent_channels)
+        return video_rows.to(device), audio_rows.to(device)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+
+        latents, audio_latents = self.prepare_latents(
+            components,
+            block_state.num_latent_frames,
+            block_state.latent_height,
+            block_state.latent_width,
+            block_state.num_audio_latents,
+            components._execution_device,
+            block_state.generator,
+            block_state.latents,
+            block_state.audio_latents,
+        )
+        if block_state.condition_latents is not None:
+            latents = torch.cat([block_state.condition_latents, latents])
+        if block_state.audio_condition_latents is not None:
+            audio_latents = torch.cat([block_state.audio_condition_latents, audio_latents])
+        block_state.latents, block_state.audio_latents = latents, audio_latents
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Initializes the two schedules — `shift = 12.0` for video, `shift = 3.0` for audio — and stages the "
+            "row-to-timestep plan of every step. One forward serves every modality and every noise level at once: "
+            "the generated rows step down their own schedule while the conditioning rows stay pinned at their "
+            "noise-augmentation level, and that assignment is static per step."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+            ComponentSpec("audio_scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam.template("num_inference_steps", required=True),
+            InputParam(
+                name="layout",
+                type_hint=MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
+                required=True,
+                description="The structural description of the packed sequence.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam("timesteps", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="Timesteps of the video schedule."),
+            OutputParam("audio_timesteps", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="Timesteps of the audio schedule."),
+            OutputParam(
+                "row_timestep_plan",
+                type_hint=list,
+                description=(
+                    "One `(timestep, timestep_indices)` pair per step: the distinct timesteps of the sequence and the "
+                    "index of every row into them."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        components.scheduler.set_timesteps(block_state.num_inference_steps, device=device)
+        components.audio_scheduler.set_timesteps(block_state.num_inference_steps, device=device)
+        block_state.timesteps = components.scheduler.timesteps
+        block_state.audio_timesteps = components.audio_scheduler.timesteps
+
+        block_state.row_timestep_plan = [
+            tuple(
+                tensor.to(device)
+                for tensor in build_row_timesteps(
+                    block_state.layout,
+                    float(timestep),
+                    float(audio_timestep),
+                    max(float(timestep), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG),
+                    1.0,
+                )
+            )
+            for timestep, audio_timestep in zip(block_state.timesteps, block_state.audio_timesteps)
+        ]
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b4e6f997e148
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -0,0 +1,409 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import PIL
+import torch
+from PIL import Image, ImageOps
+
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
+    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION,
+    align_num_frames,
+    audio_latent_num_frames,
+    prepare_keyframe_image,
+    resolve_canvas_size,
+    video_latent_num_frames,
+)
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing_ref2va import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES,
+    MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
+    MiniMaxH3Reference,
+    prepare_reference_frames,
+    prepare_reference_image,
+    prepare_reference_waveform,
+    reference_kind,
+    reference_media_to_uint8,
+    resample_reference_frames,
+    resolve_reference_image_size,
+)
+from ...utils import logging
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+def _latent_geometry(components, height: int, width: int, num_frames: int) -> tuple[int, int, int, int]:
+    r"""The latent geometry the packed layout, the noise draws and the decoders all key off."""
+    ratio = components.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+    return video_latent_num_frames(num_frames), height // ratio, width // ratio, audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
+
+
+def _latent_geometry_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
+    r"""The declaration of what [`_latent_geometry`] resolves, shared by the two setup blocks."""
+    return [
+        OutputParam("num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated video latent frames."),
+        OutputParam("latent_height", type_hint=int, description="Height of the generated video latents."),
+        OutputParam("latent_width", type_hint=int, description="Width of the generated video latents."),
+        OutputParam("num_audio_latents", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated audio latents per channel."),
+    ]
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3SetupStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Resolves the plan shared by the `t2va` and `fl2va` tasks: the canvas (MiniMax-H3's own 768-short-edge "
+            "geometry for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe, or 16:9 without keyframes), the `17 * n + 5` frame "
+            "count the video VAE can decode, the latent geometry every later block keys off, and the keyframes put "
+            "onto that canvas."
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _check_inputs(block_state) -> None:
+        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
+        if block_state.height is not None and (
+            block_state.height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or block_state.width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got "
+                f"{block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
+            )
+        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
+        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
+        duration = aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
+        if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
+                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
+                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {block_state.num_frames} (rounded up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
+            )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="image",
+                type_hint=PIL.Image.Image,
+                description=(
+                    "Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is "
+                    "derived from its own aspect ratio."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="last_image",
+                type_hint=PIL.Image.Image,
+                description=(
+                    "Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with "
+                    "`image` it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam.template("height", description="Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
+            InputParam.template("width", description="Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_frames",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=124,
+                description=(
+                    "Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video "
+                    "VAE can decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam("height", type_hint=int, description="Resolved height of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("width", type_hint=int, description="Resolved width of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("num_frames", type_hint=int, description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5."),
+            *_latent_geometry_outputs(),
+            OutputParam(
+                "keyframes",
+                type_hint=list,
+                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order (empty for `t2va`).",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "keyframe_anchors",
+                type_hint=tuple,
+                description="Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        self._check_inputs(block_state)
+
+        keyframes = [
+            ImageOps.exif_transpose(keyframe).convert("RGB")
+            for keyframe in (block_state.image, block_state.last_image)
+            if keyframe is not None
+        ]
+        block_state.keyframe_anchors = tuple(
+            anchor
+            for anchor, keyframe in (("first", block_state.image), ("last", block_state.last_image))
+            if keyframe is not None
+        )
+        if block_state.height is None:
+            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(*(keyframes[0].size if keyframes else (16, 9)))
+
+        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
+        if aligned_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {block_state.num_frames} "
+                f"up to {aligned_num_frames}."
+            )
+            block_state.num_frames = aligned_num_frames
+
+        (
+            block_state.num_latent_frames,
+            block_state.latent_height,
+            block_state.latent_width,
+            block_state.num_audio_latents,
+        ) = _latent_geometry(components, block_state.height, block_state.width, block_state.num_frames)
+
+        block_state.keyframes = [
+            prepare_keyframe_image(keyframe, block_state.height, block_state.width, stretch=index == 0)
+            for index, keyframe in enumerate(keyframes)
+        ]
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Resolves the `ref2va` plan: the canvas (MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 unless asked otherwise — references never "
+            "bind the generated geometry), the references prepared at their own resolutions, the frame count they "
+            "imply when it was left open, and the latent geometry every later block keys off."
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _check_inputs(components, block_state) -> None:
+        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
+        if block_state.height is not None and (
+            block_state.height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or block_state.width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got "
+                f"{block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
+            )
+        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
+        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        aligned_num_frames = None if block_state.num_frames is None else align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
+        duration = None if aligned_num_frames is None else aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
+        if duration is not None and not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
+                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
+                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {block_state.num_frames} (rounded up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
+            )
+
+        if not block_state.references:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "`ref2va` needs at least one reference; use `MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline` for text-only requests."
+            )
+        kinds = [reference_kind(index, entry) for index, entry in enumerate(block_state.references)]
+        for kind, limit in (
+            ("image", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES),
+            ("video", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS),
+            ("audio", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS),
+        ):
+            if kinds.count(kind) > limit:
+                raise ValueError(f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {limit} {kind} references, got {kinds.count(kind)}.")
+        if len(kinds) > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES} references in total, got {len(kinds)}."
+            )
+        if set(kinds) == {"audio"}:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "An audio reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference and cannot be used "
+                "on its own."
+            )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
+                required=True,
+                description=(
+                    "The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels "
+                    "them in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different "
+                    "order is a different request. Every [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] carries exactly one medium, a path or "
+                    "in-memory media — `image` (at most 9), `video` at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` "
+                    "soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or `audio` at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at "
+                    "most 12 references in total, and audio references cannot be the only ones. A path is decoded "
+                    "when the reference is built, so these blocks only ever see pixels and samples."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam.template("height", description="Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
+            InputParam.template("width", description="Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_frames",
+                type_hint=int,
+                description=(
+                    "Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video "
+                    "VAE can decode. May be left out, but only when exactly one reference carries audio, in which "
+                    "case the duration is that soundtrack's."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam("height", type_hint=int, description="Resolved height of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("width", type_hint=int, description="Resolved width of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("num_frames", type_hint=int, description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5."),
+            *_latent_geometry_outputs(),
+            OutputParam(
+                "prepared_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                description="The references prepared at their own resolutions, in packed order.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.prepare_references with self->components
+    def prepare_references(
+        components, references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference], num_frames: int | None
+    ) -> tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]:
+        r"""
+        Resolve the references and, if it was left open, the duration they imply.
+
+        Every reference is prepared at its own resolution: an image is resized to a 2048 pixel short edge, a video is
+        resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps, rescaled onto the 768 pixel canvas of *its own* aspect ratio and
+        truncated to the generated frame count, and a soundtrack is put on the audio VAE's sample rate and truncated to
+        the generated duration. None of this touches the target canvas.
+
+        A reference that left its `fps` or its `sample_rate` out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own rate, and
+        its frames or its samples then flow through untouched.
+
+        A video reference goes through the two passes the reference implementation's `ffmpeg` decode applied, in the
+        same order: the constant frame rate resample of `resample_reference_frames` and the LANCZOS rescale of
+        `prepare_reference_frames`. Frames handed over at 24 fps and already at the canvas their own aspect ratio
+        resolves to therefore reach the VAE untouched, which is the parity-exact route.
+
+        Args:
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
+                The `references` argument of [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.__call__`].
+            num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
+                The requested frame count, or `None` to derive it from the single audio-bearing reference.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]`: the prepared references, in packed order, and the frame
+            count.
+        """
+        resolved = [
+            MiniMaxH3PreparedReference(kind=reference_kind(index, entry), has_audio=entry.has_audio)
+            for index, entry in enumerate(references)
+        ]
+
+        # The duration may be left open, but then exactly one reference may carry audio, or the request is ambiguous.
+        if num_frames is None:
+            audio_bearing = [index for index, reference in enumerate(resolved) if reference.has_audio]
+            if len(audio_bearing) != 1:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "`num_frames` may only be left to the references when exactly one of them carries audio, got "
+                    f"{len(audio_bearing)}."
+                )
+            index = audio_bearing[0]
+            sample_rate = references[index].sample_rate or components.audio_sampling_rate
+            duration = references[index].audio.shape[-1] / sample_rate
+            if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, outside the "
+                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} to {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates."
+                )
+            num_frames = align_num_frames(round(duration * MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
+            # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the
+            # ceiling has to hold for: a 14.99 second soundtrack rounds up to 362 frames, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+            if num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, which rounds up to {num_frames} frames "
+                    f"(`17 * n + 5`), i.e. {num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS:g} seconds — past the "
+                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates. Pass `num_frames` to generate a "
+                    "shorter video from this soundtrack."
+                )
+        num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
+
+        for reference, entry in zip(resolved, references):
+            if reference.kind == "image":
+                image = entry.image
+                if not isinstance(image, Image.Image):
+                    image = Image.fromarray(reference_media_to_uint8(image))
+                image = ImageOps.exif_transpose(image).convert("RGB")
+                height, width = resolve_reference_image_size(*image.size)
+                reference.image = prepare_reference_image(image, height, width)
+            elif reference.kind == "video":
+                frames = resample_reference_frames(reference_media_to_uint8(entry.video), float(entry.fps))
+                reference.frames = prepare_reference_frames(frames, num_frames)
+            if reference.has_audio:
+                reference.waveform = prepare_reference_waveform(
+                    entry.audio,
+                    entry.sample_rate or components.audio_sampling_rate,
+                    components.audio_sampling_rate,
+                    max_duration=num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
+                )
+        return resolved, num_frames
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        self._check_inputs(components, block_state)
+
+        if block_state.height is None:
+            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(16, 9)
+
+        requested_num_frames = block_state.num_frames
+        block_state.prepared_references, block_state.num_frames = self.prepare_references(
+            components, block_state.references, block_state.num_frames
+        )
+        if requested_num_frames is not None and requested_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {requested_num_frames} up "
+                f"to {block_state.num_frames}."
+            )
+
+        (
+            block_state.num_latent_frames,
+            block_state.latent_height,
+            block_state.latent_width,
+            block_state.num_audio_latents,
+        ) = _latent_geometry(components, block_state.height, block_state.width, block_state.num_frames)
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9323c3e51de7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+from ...configuration_utils import FrozenDict
+from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
+    unpack_audio_tokens,
+    unpatchify_video_tokens,
+)
+from ...utils import logging
+from ...video_processor import VideoProcessor
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Unpacks the generated video rows back into latents, denormalizes them and decodes them into video. The "
+            "spatial tiling of the video VAE covers the canvas exactly, so the decoded frames need no crop back, but "
+            "the decode itself runs under float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32, and the VAE "
+            "produces ImageNet-normalized RGB that is reverted here."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3),
+            ComponentSpec(
+                "video_processor",
+                VideoProcessor,
+                # The video VAE decodes into ImageNet-normalized RGB over a [0, 1] base range, which this block
+                # reverts itself, so the processor must not denormalize a second time.
+                config=FrozenDict({"vae_scale_factor": 16, "do_normalize": False}),
+                default_creation_method="from_config",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The denoised video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows and are dropped here.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Number of video latent frames."
+            ),
+            InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
+            InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
+            InputParam.template(
+                "output_type", description="Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents."
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [OutputParam.template("videos", description="The generated video.")]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        latents = unpatchify_video_tokens(
+            block_state.latents[block_state.num_condition_video_rows :],
+            block_state.num_latent_frames,
+            block_state.latent_height,
+            block_state.latent_width,
+            components.vae_latent_channels,
+            components.patch_size,
+        )
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents = latents * latents_std + latents_mean
+
+        if block_state.output_type == "latent":
+            block_state.videos = latents
+        else:
+            with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
+                video = components.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+            pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+            video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
+            block_state.videos = components.video_processor.postprocess_video(
+                video, output_type=block_state.output_type
+            )
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Unpacks the generated audio rows back into latents, denormalizes them and decodes them into a stereo "
+            "waveform. The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [ComponentSpec("audio_vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio)]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The denoised audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows and are dropped here.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_audio_latents",
+                type_hint=int,
+                required=True,
+                description="Number of audio latents per channel.",
+            ),
+            InputParam.template(
+                "output_type", description="Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents."
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "sampling_rate",
+                type_hint=int,
+                description="Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        audio_latents = unpack_audio_tokens(
+            block_state.audio_latents[block_state.num_condition_audio_rows :], block_state.num_audio_latents
+        )
+        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
+        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
+        audio_latents = audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
+
+        if block_state.output_type == "latent":
+            block_state.audio = audio_latents
+        else:
+            audio = components.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            block_state.audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
+        block_state.sampling_rate = components.audio_sampling_rate
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d149273371bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py
@@ -0,0 +1,325 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+from ...models import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging
+from ..modular_pipeline import (
+    BlockState,
+    LoopSequentialPipelineBlocks,
+    ModularPipelineBlocks,
+    PipelineState,
+)
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+def _denoiser_inputs() -> list[InputParam]:
+    r"""Everything one MiniMax-H3 forward reads, beyond the transformer itself."""
+    return [
+        InputParam(
+            name="latents",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="audio_latents",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+        ),
+        InputParam.template("prompt_embeds"),
+        InputParam(
+            name="row_timestep_plan",
+            type_hint=list,
+            required=True,
+            description="One `(timestep, timestep_indices)` pair per step.",
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="token_tags", type_hint=torch.Tensor, required=True, description="The modality tag of every row."
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="position_ids",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row.",
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="video_indices",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="Sequence positions of the video rows.",
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="audio_indices",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="Sequence positions of the audio rows.",
+        ),
+        InputParam(
+            name="text_indices",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            required=True,
+            description="Sequence positions of the text rows.",
+        ),
+        InputParam.template("attention_kwargs"),
+    ]
+
+
+def _denoiser_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
+    return [
+        OutputParam(
+            "noise_pred", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="Predicted velocity of the video rows of the sequence."
+        ),
+        OutputParam(
+            "audio_noise_pred",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            description="Predicted velocity of the audio rows of the sequence.",
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+def _predict_velocity(transformer: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel, block_state: BlockState, i: int):
+    r"""One MiniMax-H3 forward pass: every row of the packed sequence, at its own noise level, at once."""
+    unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = block_state.row_timestep_plan[i]
+    return transformer(
+        hidden_states=block_state.latents[None],
+        audio_hidden_states=block_state.audio_latents[None],
+        encoder_hidden_states=block_state.prompt_embeds,
+        timestep=unique_timesteps,
+        timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
+        token_tags=block_state.token_tags,
+        position_ids=block_state.position_ids,
+        video_indices=block_state.video_indices,
+        audio_indices=block_state.audio_indices,
+        text_indices=block_state.text_indices,
+        attention_kwargs=block_state.attention_kwargs,
+        return_dict=False,
+    )
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3LoopDenoiser(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Runs the one MiniMax-H3 forward pass of a denoising iteration, which predicts the velocity of every row "
+            "of the packed sequence at once. The checkpoint is guidance-distilled, so there is no unconditional pass "
+            "and no guider."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [ComponentSpec("transformer", MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel)]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return _denoiser_inputs()
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return _denoiser_outputs()
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, block_state: BlockState, i: int, t: torch.Tensor):
+        block_state.noise_pred, block_state.audio_noise_pred = _predict_velocity(
+            components.transformer, block_state, i
+        )
+        return components, block_state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VALoopDenoiser(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Runs the one MiniMax-H3 forward pass of a `ref2va` denoising iteration, against the `transformer_ref` "
+            "partition of the checkpoint."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [ComponentSpec("transformer_ref", MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel)]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return _denoiser_inputs()
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return _denoiser_outputs()
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, block_state: BlockState, i: int, t: torch.Tensor):
+        block_state.noise_pred, block_state.audio_noise_pred = _predict_velocity(
+            components.transformer_ref, block_state, i
+        )
+        return components, block_state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3LoopSchedulerStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Steps the generated video and audio rows down their own schedule. The conditioning rows are re-imposed "
+            "by construction: only the generated rows are ever written, so the anchors survive the whole loop."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+            ComponentSpec("audio_scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="noise_pred",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="Predicted velocity of the video rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_noise_pred",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="Predicted velocity of the audio rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_timesteps",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="Timesteps of the audio schedule.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The video rows of the packed sequence after one step.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The audio rows of the packed sequence after one step.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, block_state: BlockState, i: int, t: torch.Tensor):
+        num_condition_video_rows = block_state.num_condition_video_rows
+        num_condition_audio_rows = block_state.num_condition_audio_rows
+
+        block_state.latents[num_condition_video_rows:] = components.scheduler.step(
+            block_state.noise_pred[0, num_condition_video_rows:].float(),
+            t,
+            block_state.latents[num_condition_video_rows:],
+            return_dict=False,
+        )[0]
+        block_state.audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:] = components.audio_scheduler.step(
+            block_state.audio_noise_pred[0, num_condition_audio_rows:].float(),
+            block_state.audio_timesteps[i],
+            block_state.audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:],
+            return_dict=False,
+        )[0]
+        return components, block_state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3DenoiseLoopWrapper(LoopSequentialPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return "Iteratively denoises the packed MiniMax-H3 sequence over the two schedules."
+
+    @property
+    def loop_expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+            ComponentSpec("audio_scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def loop_inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam.template("timesteps", required=True, description="Timesteps of the video schedule."),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        with self.progress_bar(total=len(block_state.timesteps)) as progress_bar:
+            for i, t in enumerate(block_state.timesteps):
+                components, block_state = self.loop_step(components, block_state, i=i, t=t)
+                progress_bar.update()
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep(MiniMaxH3DenoiseLoopWrapper):
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3LoopDenoiser, MiniMaxH3LoopSchedulerStep]
+    block_names = ["denoiser", "update"]
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return "Runs the `t2va` / `fl2va` MiniMax-H3 denoising loop, one forward pass per step."
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep(MiniMaxH3DenoiseLoopWrapper):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3Ref2VALoopDenoiser, MiniMaxH3LoopSchedulerStep]
+    block_names = ["denoiser", "update"]
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return "Runs the `ref2va` MiniMax-H3 denoising loop, one forward pass per step."
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
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+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from transformers import Qwen2TokenizerFast, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
+
+from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
+    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER,
+    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
+    keyframe_condition_noise,
+    patchify_video_latents,
+)
+from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing_ref2va import (
+    MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
+    build_ref2va_presentation,
+    sample_reference_video_frames,
+    trim_reference_num_frames,
+)
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+def _check_prompt(prompt) -> None:
+    r"""MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing."""
+    if not isinstance(prompt, str):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got {type(prompt)}."
+        )
+
+
+def _conditioner_components() -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+    r"""MiniMax-H3's conditioner: a Qwen3-VL read at its 50th decoder layer, with its language-model head unused."""
+    return [
+        ComponentSpec("text_encoder", Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration),
+        ComponentSpec("tokenizer", Qwen2TokenizerFast),
+        ComponentSpec("processor", Qwen3VLProcessor),
+    ]
+
+
+def _conditioner_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
+    return [
+        OutputParam.template(
+            "prompt_embeds",
+            description=(
+                "The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the "
+                "50th decoder layer of the Qwen3-VL conditioner."
+            ),
+        ),
+        OutputParam(
+            "text_token_tags",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            description="The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`; a vision block is tagged as video.",
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `t2va` / `fl2va` request: the prompt verbatim, preceded by a "
+            '`"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block per keyframe, with no chat template and no special tokens. '
+            "The checkpoint is guidance-distilled, so there is no negative prompt and no unconditional branch."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return _conditioner_components()
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam.template("prompt", description="The prompt to guide generation, a single string."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="keyframes",
+                type_hint=list,
+                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order (empty or None for `t2va`).",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return _conditioner_outputs()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.encode_prompt with self->components
+    def encode_prompt(
+        components,
+        prompt: str,
+        images: list | None = None,
+        device: torch.device | None = None,
+        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a request and encode it.
+
+        The presentation is the verbatim prompt for `t2va`. Every keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a
+        vision block (`<|vision_start|>`, one `<|image_pad|>` per vision patch, `<|vision_end|>`) — no chat template
+        and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the
+        transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
+            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, *optional*):
+                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
+            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
+            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
+        """
+        device = device or components._execution_device
+        dtype = dtype or components.transformer.dtype
+
+        num_layers = components.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
+                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
+                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
+            )
+
+        pixel_values, image_grid_thw = None, None
+        token_ids, token_tags = [], []
+        if images:
+            vision = components.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
+            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
+            merge_size = components.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
+            for index in range(len(images)):
+                num_image_tokens = int(image_grid_thw[index].prod()) // merge_size
+                label_ids = components.tokenizer(f"<Picture {index + 1}>: ", add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+                vision_ids = (
+                    [components.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
+                    + [components.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|image_pad|>")] * num_image_tokens
+                    + [components.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
+                )
+                token_ids += label_ids + vision_ids
+                token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(label_ids) + [MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG] * len(vision_ids)
+        prompt_ids = components.tokenizer(prompt, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+        token_ids += prompt_ids
+        token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(prompt_ids)
+
+        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
+        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
+        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
+            components.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+        outputs = components.text_encoder.model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
+            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
+            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, components.text_encoder.dtype),
+            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
+            use_cache=False,
+            output_hidden_states=True,
+        )
+        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        _check_prompt(block_state.prompt)
+
+        # The standard pipeline defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser
+        # of its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
+        block_state.prompt_embeds, block_state.text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(
+            components,
+            block_state.prompt,
+            block_state.keyframes,
+            device=components._execution_device,
+            dtype=components.text_encoder.dtype,
+        )
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Encodes the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows and noises them to MiniMax-H3's "
+            "conditioning level. The rows are the anchors of the whole denoising loop: the loop only ever writes the "
+            "generated rows, so they are never updated again."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3),
+            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="keyframes",
+                type_hint=list,
+                required=True,
+                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
+            InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
+            InputParam.template(
+                "generator",
+                description=(
+                    "The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise "
+                    "of the prepare-latents step."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "condition_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The noise-augmented video conditioning rows, in packed order.",
+            )
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.encode_keyframes with self->components
+    def encode_keyframes(components, images: list, device: torch.device | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""
+        Encode the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows.
+
+        The keyframes go through the video VAE's spatial encoder only — they are single frames, so none of its
+        17-frame temporal chunking applies — and the posterior is *sampled*, under a generator seeded with 42
+        independently of the request seed. The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized, as in the
+        reference implementation; both are part of reproducing the released model's conditioning.
+
+        Args:
+            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`):
+                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAE on.
+
+        Returns:
+            `torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_condition_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`: the float32
+            conditioning rows.
+        """
+        device = device or components._execution_device
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+
+        rows = []
+        for image in images:
+            pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
+            pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
+            # `vae.encode` chunks along time for videos; a keyframe is one frame and is encoded by the (tiled)
+            # spatial encoder alone, which is what the released model conditions on.
+            moments = components.vae._encode_clip(pixels)
+            posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
+            latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
+            # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
+            # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
+            latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
+            rows.append(patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, components.patch_size))
+        return torch.cat(rows)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        condition_latents = self.encode_keyframes(components, block_state.keyframes, device=device)
+        noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
+            ((1, block_state.latent_height, block_state.latent_width),) * len(block_state.keyframes),
+            components.patch_size,
+            components.vae_latent_channels,
+            generator=block_state.generator,
+            device=device,
+        )
+        block_state.condition_latents = components.scheduler.scale_noise(
+            condition_latents.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
+        )
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request: a label per reference, numbered per modality "
+            '(`"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision block, `"<Audio j>: "` alone, `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped '
+            "vision block per merged frame pair), then the prompt verbatim. The checkpoint is guidance-distilled, so "
+            "there is no negative prompt and no unconditional branch."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return _conditioner_components()
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam.template("prompt", description="The prompt to guide generation, a single string."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="prepared_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                required=True,
+                description="The prepared references, in packed order.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return _conditioner_outputs()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.encode_prompt with self->components
+    def encode_prompt(
+        components,
+        prompt: str,
+        references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+        device: torch.device | None = None,
+        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request and encode it.
+
+        Every reference prepends a label, in request order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision
+        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio (a waveform never reaches the conditioner), and
+        `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries
+        sound is labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The
+        prompt then follows, verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are
+        tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
+                The prepared references, in packed order, as returned by
+                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.prepare_references`].
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
+            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
+            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
+        """
+        device = device or components._execution_device
+        dtype = dtype or components.transformer_ref.dtype
+
+        num_layers = components.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
+                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
+                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
+            )
+
+        merge_size = components.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
+        pixel_values, image_grid_thw, image_token_counts = None, None, []
+        images = [reference.image for reference in references if reference.kind == "image"]
+        if images:
+            vision = components.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
+            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
+            image_token_counts = [int(grid.prod()) // merge_size for grid in image_grid_thw]
+
+        pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw, video_block_token_counts = None, None, []
+        videos = [reference for reference in references if reference.kind == "video"]
+        if videos:
+            sampled = [sample_reference_video_frames(reference.frames) for reference in videos]
+            for reference, (_, block_timestamps) in zip(videos, sampled):
+                reference.block_timestamps = block_timestamps
+            vision = components.processor.video_processor(
+                videos=[np.stack(frames) for frames, _ in sampled], do_sample_frames=False, return_tensors="pt"
+            )
+            pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values_videos"], vision["video_grid_thw"]
+            video_block_token_counts = [int(grid[1]) * int(grid[2]) // merge_size for grid in video_grid_thw]
+            for reference, grid in zip(videos, video_grid_thw):
+                if int(grid[0]) != len(reference.block_timestamps):
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"The processor merged a reference video into {int(grid[0])} vision blocks, but MiniMax-H3 "
+                        f"labels {len(reference.block_timestamps)} of them."
+                    )
+
+        token_ids, token_tags = build_ref2va_presentation(
+            components.tokenizer, prompt, references, image_token_counts, video_block_token_counts
+        )
+        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
+        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
+        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
+            components.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+        outputs = components.text_encoder.model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
+            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
+            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, components.text_encoder.dtype),
+            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
+            pixel_values_videos=(
+                None if pixel_values_videos is None else pixel_values_videos.to(device, components.text_encoder.dtype)
+            ),
+            video_grid_thw=None if video_grid_thw is None else video_grid_thw.to(device),
+            use_cache=False,
+            output_hidden_states=True,
+        )
+        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        _check_prompt(block_state.prompt)
+
+        # The standard pipeline defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser
+        # of its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
+        block_state.prompt_embeds, block_state.text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(
+            components,
+            block_state.prompt,
+            block_state.prepared_references,
+            device=components._execution_device,
+            dtype=components.text_encoder.dtype,
+        )
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Encodes the `ref2va` references into packed conditioning rows — image and video references through the "
+            "video VAE, soundtracks through the audio VAE — and noises the visual ones to MiniMax-H3's conditioning "
+            "level. Audio references ride along clean, at `t = 1.0`. Both are anchors of the whole denoising loop, "
+            "which only ever writes the generated rows. The latent geometry of every reference is resolved here, so "
+            "this runs before the packed layout is built."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3),
+            ComponentSpec("audio_vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio),
+            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="prepared_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                required=True,
+                description="The prepared references, in packed order. Their latent geometry is filled in here.",
+            ),
+            InputParam.template(
+                "generator",
+                description=(
+                    "The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise "
+                    "of the prepare-latents step."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "condition_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description=(
+                    "The noise-augmented video conditioning rows of the image and video references, in packed order, "
+                    "or None when the references carry none."
+                ),
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_condition_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description=(
+                    "The clean audio conditioning rows of the reference soundtracks, in packed order, or None when "
+                    "the references carry none."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.encode_references with self->components
+    def encode_references(
+        components, references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], device: torch.device | None = None
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor | None, torch.Tensor | None]:
+        r"""
+        Encode the references into packed conditioning rows, and resolve their latent geometry.
+
+        Image and video references go through the video VAE with the same recipe the `fl2va` keyframes use: the
+        posterior is *sampled* under a generator seeded with 42 independently of the request seed, and the sampled
+        latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized. An image is a single frame and is encoded by the spatial
+        encoder alone, while a video reference goes through the 17-frames-per-5-latents temporal chunking. Reference
+        soundtracks instead take the posterior *mean*, and are never sampled.
+
+        Args:
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
+                The prepared references, in packed order. Their latent geometry is filled in here.
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAEs on.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(num_condition_video_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`
+            video rows and the `(num_condition_audio_rows, audio_latent_channels)` audio rows, both float32 on CPU and
+            both `None` when the references carry no such rows.
+        """
+        device = device or components._execution_device
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, 1, -1)
+        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_std).view(1, 1, -1)
+
+        video_rows, audio_rows = [], []
+        for reference in references:
+            if reference.kind != "audio":
+                if reference.kind == "image":
+                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(reference.image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
+                else:
+                    frames = reference.frames[: trim_reference_num_frames(reference.frames.shape[0])]
+                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(frames.copy()).to(device).permute(3, 0, 1, 2)[None]
+                pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
+                # A single frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a video goes through the temporal
+                # chunking, which is what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+                moments = (
+                    components.vae._encode_clip(pixels)
+                    if reference.kind == "image"
+                    else components.vae._encode(pixels)
+                )
+                posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
+                latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
+                # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
+                # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
+                latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
+                reference.num_latent_frames = latents.shape[2]
+                reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width = latents.shape[3], latents.shape[4]
+                video_rows.append(
+                    patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, components.patch_size)
+                )
+
+            if reference.has_audio:
+                posterior = components.audio_vae.encode(reference.waveform.to(device)[:, None], return_dict=False)[0]
+                # Channel-major rows: the two stereo channels are two batch items of the mono audio VAE.
+                latents = posterior.mode().float().cpu().transpose(1, 2)
+                reference.num_audio_latents = latents.shape[1]
+                normalized = (latents - audio_latents_mean) / audio_latents_std
+                audio_rows.append(normalized.reshape(-1, components.audio_latent_channels))
+
+        return (
+            torch.cat(video_rows) if video_rows else None,
+            torch.cat(audio_rows) if audio_rows else None,
+        )
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        condition_latents, audio_condition_latents = self.encode_references(
+            components, block_state.prepared_references, device=device
+        )
+        if condition_latents is not None:
+            noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
+                tuple(
+                    (reference.num_latent_frames, reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width)
+                    for reference in block_state.prepared_references
+                    if reference.kind != "audio"
+                ),
+                components.patch_size,
+                components.vae_latent_channels,
+                generator=block_state.generator,
+                device=device,
+            )
+            condition_latents = components.scheduler.scale_noise(
+                condition_latents.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
+            )
+        if audio_condition_latents is not None:
+            audio_condition_latents = audio_condition_latents.to(device)
+
+        block_state.condition_latents = condition_latents
+        block_state.audio_condition_latents = audio_condition_latents
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
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+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+from ..modular_pipeline import ConditionalPipelineBlocks, SequentialPipelineBlocks
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import OutputParam
+from .before_denoise import (
+    MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
+    MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep,
+    MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
+)
+from .before_encoder import MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep, MiniMaxH3SetupStep
+from .decoders import MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep, MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep
+from .denoise import MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep, MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep
+from .encoders import (
+    MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep,
+    MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep,
+)
+
+
+def _generation_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
+    r"""Video and audio are generated jointly; muxing them into one file is up to the caller."""
+    return [
+        OutputParam.template("videos", description="The generated video."),
+        OutputParam(
+            "audio",
+            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+            description="The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.",
+        ),
+        OutputParam("sampling_rate", type_hint=int, description="Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz."),
+    ]
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3AutoKeyframeVaeEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Keyframe conditioning block.
+       - MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep runs for the `fl2va` task, whichever of the two keyframes is given.
+       - when neither `image` nor `last_image` is provided (`t2va`), this block is skipped.
+
+      Components:
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          keyframes (`list`, *optional*):
+              The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+          latent_height (`int`, *optional*):
+              Height of the video latents.
+          latent_width (`int`, *optional*):
+              Width of the video latents.
+          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise of the
+              prepare-latents step.
+
+      Outputs:
+          condition_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The noise-augmented video conditioning rows, in packed order.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep]
+    block_names = ["keyframes"]
+    block_trigger_inputs = ["image", "last_image"]
+    default_block_name = None
+
+    def select_block(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
+        if kwargs.get("image") is not None or kwargs.get("last_image") is not None:
+            return "keyframes"
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Keyframe conditioning block.\n"
+            + " - MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep runs for the `fl2va` task, whichever of the two keyframes is given.\n"
+            + " - when neither `image` nor `last_image` is provided (`t2va`), this block is skipped."
+        )
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3DecodeStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack.
+
+      Components:
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) video_processor (`VideoProcessor`) audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              The denoised video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.
+          num_condition_video_rows (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 0):
+              How many leading video rows are conditioning rows and are dropped here.
+          num_latent_frames (`int`):
+              Number of video latent frames.
+          latent_height (`int`):
+              Height of the video latents.
+          latent_width (`int`):
+              Width of the video latents.
+          output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
+              Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The denoised audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.
+          num_condition_audio_rows (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 0):
+              How many leading audio rows are reference rows and are dropped here.
+          num_audio_latents (`int`):
+              Number of audio latents per channel.
+
+      Outputs:
+          videos (`list`):
+              The generated video.
+          audio (`Tensor`):
+              The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.
+          sampling_rate (`int`):
+              Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep, MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep]
+    block_names = ["video", "audio"]
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return "Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack."
+
+    @property
+    def outputs(self):
+        return _generation_outputs()
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text only) and
+    `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint.
+
+      Supported workflows:
+        - `t2va`: requires `prompt`
+        - `fl2va`: requires `prompt`, `image`
+        - `fl2va_last_frame`: requires `prompt`, `last_image`
+
+      Components:
+          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`) tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`) processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) video_processor (`VideoProcessor`) audio_vae
+          (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          image (`Image`, *optional*):
+              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived
+              from its own aspect ratio.
+          last_image (`Image`, *optional*):
+              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image`
+              it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
+          height (`int`, *optional*):
+              Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          width (`int`, *optional*):
+              Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
+              decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+          prompt (`str`):
+              The prompt to guide generation, a single string.
+          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise of the
+              prepare-latents step.
+          latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+          condition_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              The video conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.
+          audio_condition_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              The audio conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.
+          num_inference_steps (`int`):
+              The number of denoising steps.
+          attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+              Additional kwargs for attention processors.
+          output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
+              Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents.
+
+      Outputs:
+          videos (`list`):
+              The generated video.
+          audio (`Tensor`):
+              The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.
+          sampling_rate (`int`):
+              Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [
+        MiniMaxH3SetupStep,
+        MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AutoKeyframeVaeEncoderStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep,
+        MiniMaxH3DecodeStep,
+    ]
+    block_names = [
+        "setup",
+        "text_encoder",
+        "vae_encoder",
+        "prepare_layout",
+        "prepare_latents",
+        "set_timesteps",
+        "denoise",
+        "decode",
+    ]
+    _workflow_map = {
+        "t2va": {"prompt": True},
+        "fl2va": {"prompt": True, "image": True},
+        "fl2va_last_frame": {"prompt": True, "last_image": True},
+    }
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text "
+            "only) and `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def outputs(self):
+        return _generation_outputs()
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation from an ordered list of image, video and audio
+    references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the Ref2VA checkpoint.
+
+      Supported workflows:
+        - `ref2va`: requires `prompt`, `references`
+
+      Components:
+          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`) tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`) processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) video_processor
+          (`VideoProcessor`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          references (`list`):
+              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the
+              prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
+              request. Every [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] carries exactly one medium, a path or in-memory media — `image` (at
+              most 9), `video` at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or
+              `audio` at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio references
+              cannot be the only ones. A path is decoded when the reference is built, so these blocks only ever see
+              pixels and samples.
+          height (`int`, *optional*):
+              Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          width (`int`, *optional*):
+              Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
+              decode. May be left out, but only when exactly one reference carries audio, in which case the duration is
+              that soundtrack's.
+          prompt (`str`):
+              The prompt to guide generation, a single string.
+          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise of the
+              prepare-latents step.
+          latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+          num_inference_steps (`int`):
+              The number of denoising steps.
+          attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+              Additional kwargs for attention processors.
+          output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
+              Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents.
+
+      Outputs:
+          videos (`list`):
+              The generated video.
+          audio (`Tensor`):
+              The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.
+          sampling_rate (`int`):
+              Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
+    """
+
+    # The `ref2va` task family has its own `MODULAR_PIPELINE_MAPPING` key, so that `init_pipeline` resolves
+    # `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline` (and its `transformer_ref` partition) rather than the FL2VA one.
+    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    block_classes = [
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep,
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep,
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep,
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep,
+        MiniMaxH3DecodeStep,
+    ]
+    block_names = [
+        "setup",
+        "text_encoder",
+        "reference_encoder",
+        "prepare_layout",
+        "prepare_latents",
+        "set_timesteps",
+        "denoise",
+        "decode",
+    ]
+    _workflow_map = {
+        "ref2va": {"prompt": True, "references": True},
+    }
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation from an ordered list of image, video and "
+            "audio references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the Ref2VA checkpoint."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def outputs(self):
+        return _generation_outputs()
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1b9aedbbaeae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from ...utils import logging
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipeline
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(ModularPipeline):
+    """
+    A ModularPipeline for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va`
+    (first and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint.
+
+    MiniMax-H3 denoises **one packed sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the keyframe conditioning latents,
+    the audio latents and the video latents at once, which is why the blocks pass a row layout around rather than
+    per-modality tensors, and why the pipeline carries two schedulers (`shift = 12.0` for video, `shift = 3.0` for
+    audio) that are stepped inside a single transformer call.
+
+    The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so there is no guider, no
+    `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
+
+    This class carries only the config-derived values [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] resolves in its `__init__`. The
+    packed-sequence geometry lives in `pipelines.minimax_h3.packing`, which both pipeline systems import, and the
+    conditioning, encoding and noise contracts live in the blocks, as `# Copied from` of the standard pipeline's
+    methods.
+
+    > [!WARNING] > This is an experimental feature and is likely to change in the future.
+    """
+
+    default_blocks_name = "MiniMaxH3Blocks"
+
+    @property
+    def vae_spatial_compression_ratio(self):
+        if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None:
+            return self.vae.spatial_compression_ratio
+        return 16
+
+    @property
+    def vae_latent_channels(self):
+        if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None:
+            return self.vae.config.latent_channels
+        return 24
+
+    @property
+    def audio_sampling_rate(self):
+        if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None:
+            return self.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
+        return 32000
+
+    @property
+    def audio_latent_channels(self):
+        if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None:
+            return self.audio_vae.config.latent_channels
+        return 32
+
+    @property
+    def patch_size(self):
+        if getattr(self, "transformer", None) is not None:
+            return tuple(self.transformer.config.patch_size)
+        return (1, 2, 2)
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline(MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline):
+    """
+    A ModularPipeline for joint video + audio generation from omni-references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the
+    Ref2VA checkpoint.
+
+    A request carries an ordered list of references — up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total — and
+    MiniMax-H3 packs one block per reference in front of the generated rows. The order is semantic: it labels the
+    references in the prompt presentation and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same
+    references is a different request.
+
+    The transformer is registered as `transformer_ref`, so one repository can hold both checkpoint partitions
+    (`transformer/` for [`MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline`], `transformer_ref/` for this one) and either pipeline loads only
+    its own weights. One repository also means one `modular_model_index.json`, which names the `t2va` / `fl2va` half;
+    load this one through its blocks instead, which reads the very same file:
+
+    ```py
+    pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+    pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+    ```
+
+    The blocks carry the `ref2va` conditioning, encoding and noise contracts as `# Copied from` of
+    [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`]'s methods.
+
+    > [!WARNING] > This is an experimental feature and is likely to change in the future.
+    """
+
+    default_blocks_name = "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks"
+
+    @property
+    def patch_size(self):
+        if getattr(self, "transformer_ref", None) is not None:
+            return tuple(self.transformer_ref.config.patch_size)
+        return (1, 2, 2)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
index fe0448acbde6..45d98775708b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ def _helios_pyramid_map_fn(config_dict=None):
         ("helios-pyramid", _helios_pyramid_map_fn),
         ("hunyuan-video-1.5", _create_default_map_fn("HunyuanVideo15ModularPipeline")),
         ("ltx", _create_default_map_fn("LTXModularPipeline")),
+        ("minimax-h3", _create_default_map_fn("MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline")),
+        ("minimax-h3-ref2va", _create_default_map_fn("MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline")),
         ("ernie-image", _create_default_map_fn("ErnieImageModularPipeline")),
     ]
 )
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py
index 6c0c8667aab5..452cd1de9251 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@
             "MarigoldNormalsPipeline",
         ]
     )
+    _import_structure["minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Pipeline", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline"]
     _import_structure["mochi"] = ["MochiPipeline"]
     _import_structure["motif_video"] = [
         "MotifVideoPipeline",
@@ -809,6 +810,7 @@
             MarigoldIntrinsicsPipeline,
             MarigoldNormalsPipeline,
         )
+        from .minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Pipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
         from .mochi import MochiPipeline
         from .motif_video import (
             MotifVideoImage2VideoPipeline,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3717b93219d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from ...utils import (
+    DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT,
+    OptionalDependencyNotAvailable,
+    _LazyModule,
+    get_objects_from_module,
+    is_torch_available,
+    is_transformers_available,
+)
+
+
+_dummy_objects = {}
+_import_structure = {}
+
+
+try:
+    if not (is_transformers_available() and is_torch_available()):
+        raise OptionalDependencyNotAvailable()
+except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
+    from ...utils import dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects  # noqa F403
+
+    _dummy_objects.update(get_objects_from_module(dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects))
+else:
+    _import_structure["packing_ref2va"] = ["MiniMaxH3Reference"]
+    _import_structure["pipeline_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Pipeline"]
+    _import_structure["pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va"] = ["MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline"]
+    _import_structure["pipeline_output"] = ["MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput"]
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING or DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT:
+    try:
+        if not (is_transformers_available() and is_torch_available()):
+            raise OptionalDependencyNotAvailable()
+
+    except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
+        from ...utils.dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects import *
+    else:
+        from .packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3Reference
+        from .pipeline_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+        from .pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va import MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+        from .pipeline_output import MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
+
+else:
+    import sys
+
+    sys.modules[__name__] = _LazyModule(
+        __name__,
+        globals()["__file__"],
+        _import_structure,
+        module_spec=__spec__,
+    )
+
+    for name, value in _dummy_objects.items():
+        setattr(sys.modules[__name__], name, value)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..238348b83f83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,538 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+r"""
+Packed-sequence and conditioning machinery shared by the MiniMax-H3 pipelines.
+
+This module holds no pipeline of its own: it is the checkpoint's geometry and its constants, imported both by the
+standard pipelines here and by the blocks of `modular_pipelines.minimax_h3`, so that neither reimplements it.
+
+MiniMax-H3 runs its transformer over a single packed 1-D sequence that holds every modality at once. For the
+text/keyframe tasks the row order is
+
+```
+[ text (L) | keyframe conditions (C) | target audio (A) | target video (V) ]
+```
+
+and every piece of geometry in this module exists to place a row in that sequence and to give it its `(t, h, w)`
+rotary coordinate. The coordinates are built in float64 because video and audio share one 40-units-per-second
+rotary clock — video advances `5/3` rotary units per pixel frame at 24 fps, audio advances one unit per latent at
+40 latents/s — and that shared clock *is* the audio/video alignment.
+
+The reference implementation pads the packed sequence up to a multiple of 64 and keeps the padding tail as a
+separate attention document. Padding therefore cannot influence a live row, and this module builds the sequence
+without it: `MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel` then needs no attention mask, which keeps the unmasked attention
+backends available.
+"""
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+
+from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+
+
+# Per-row modality tags. They index the transformer's AdaLN table, so the values are a checkpoint contract.
+MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG = 0
+MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG = 1
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG = 2
+
+# MiniMax-H3 generates at a fixed 24 fps and was released for a 768 pixel short edge only, with a soft area cap of
+# 768x1344 and both axes rounded to a multiple of 32.
+MINIMAX_H3_FPS = 24
+MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE = 768
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS = 768 * 1344
+MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE = 32
+MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO = 1 / 4
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO = 4
+MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION = 5.0
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION = 15.0
+
+# The video VAE encodes 17 pixel frames per chunk and drops the 3 trailing latent frames of every chunk, so
+# `17 * n + 5` pixel frames map to `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK = 17
+MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK = 5
+
+# The pixel convention of the video VAE: ImageNet-normalized RGB over a `[0, 1]` base range.
+MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN = (0.485, 0.456, 0.406)
+MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD = (0.229, 0.224, 0.225)
+
+# MiniMax-H3 conditions on the *unnormalized* hidden state its Qwen3-VL conditioner produces after the 50th of its 64
+# decoder layers, i.e. `hidden_states[50]` (`hidden_states[0]` being the embedding output).
+MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER = 50
+
+# The audio VAE hops 800 samples at 32 kHz, i.e. 40 latents per second. Stereo is carried as two channel-major
+# blocks of audio rows (and as two batch items at the audio VAE boundary, which is mono).
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND = 40
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS = 2
+
+# Conditioning rows are not fully clean: the released model noises keyframe latents to `t = 0.999` and runs them at
+# that timestep for every denoising step.
+MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG = 0.999
+
+# The seeded posterior sample of the keyframe VAE encode. Fixed at 42 independently of the request seed.
+MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED = 42
+
+# Rotary-time constants. One latent frame spans `5/3 * frames_per_latent` rotary units, where the pattern
+# `(1, 4, 4, 4, 4)` mirrors the VAE's 17-pixel-frames-to-5-latent-frames grouping; the spatial axes are normalized
+# by the square root of the latent area and scaled by 32.
+_ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE = 5.0 / 3.0
+_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT = (1, 4, 4, 4, 4)
+_ROPE_SPATIAL_SCALE = 32
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3PackedSequence:
+    r"""
+    The structural description of one packed MiniMax-H3 sequence.
+
+    Attributes:
+        sequence_length (`int`):
+            Total number of rows, `L + C + A + V`.
+        position_ids (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(sequence_length, 3)`, float64):
+            The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row.
+        token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(sequence_length,)`):
+            The modality tag of every row.
+        video_indices (`torch.Tensor`):
+            Sequence positions of the video rows: the keyframe conditioning rows first, then the target rows.
+        audio_indices (`torch.Tensor`):
+            Sequence positions of the audio rows: reference rows first (`ref2va` only), then the target rows.
+        text_indices (`torch.Tensor`):
+            Sequence positions of the text rows.
+        num_condition_video_rows (`int`):
+            How many leading entries of `video_indices` are conditioning rows rather than generated rows.
+        num_condition_audio_rows (`int`):
+            How many leading entries of `audio_indices` are reference rows rather than generated rows.
+    """
+
+    sequence_length: int
+    position_ids: torch.Tensor
+    token_tags: torch.Tensor
+    video_indices: torch.Tensor
+    audio_indices: torch.Tensor
+    text_indices: torch.Tensor
+    num_condition_video_rows: int
+    num_condition_audio_rows: int
+
+
+def resolve_canvas_size(aspect_width: float, aspect_height: float) -> tuple[int, int]:
+    r"""
+    Resolve a display aspect ratio into a MiniMax-H3 canvas.
+
+    The short edge starts at 768, the area is capped at `768 * 1344` and both axes are then rounded to the nearest
+    multiple of 32 — so the final area may end up slightly above the pre-rounding budget. Only the ratio of the two
+    arguments matters; pass either the aspect ratio (`16, 9`) or the source dimensions of a keyframe.
+
+    Args:
+        aspect_width (`float`): Width of the target ratio.
+        aspect_height (`float`): Height of the target ratio.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[int, int]`: the `(height, width)` of the canvas.
+    """
+    if aspect_width <= 0 or aspect_height <= 0:
+        raise ValueError(f"The aspect ratio must be positive, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height}.")
+
+    ratio = aspect_width / aspect_height
+    if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO <= ratio <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"MiniMax-H3 supports aspect ratios from 1:4 to 4:1, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height} ({ratio:g})."
+        )
+
+    if ratio >= 1.0:
+        width, height = MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE * ratio, float(MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE)
+    else:
+        width, height = float(MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE), MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE / ratio
+
+    area = width * height
+    if area > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS:
+        scale = (MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS / area) ** 0.5
+        width, height = width * scale, height * scale
+
+    multiple = MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
+    return max(multiple, round(height / multiple) * multiple), max(multiple, round(width / multiple) * multiple)
+
+
+def align_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    Snap a frame count up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can encode.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): The requested number of frames.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The aligned number of frames.
+    """
+    if num_frames < 1:
+        raise ValueError(f"`num_frames` must be positive, got {num_frames}.")
+    while num_frames % MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK != MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK:
+        num_frames += 1
+    return num_frames
+
+
+def video_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    The number of latent frames the video VAE produces for a `17 * n + 5` frame count.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): An aligned number of frames.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The number of latent frames, `5 * n + 2`.
+    """
+    if num_frames % MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK != MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK:
+        raise ValueError(f"`num_frames` must be of the form 17 * n + 5, got {num_frames}.")
+    return (
+        num_frames - MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK
+    ) // MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK * MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK + 2
+
+
+def audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    The number of audio latents that covers a video of `num_frames` frames at 24 fps.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): The number of video frames.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The number of audio latents, rounded at the 40 Hz latent grid.
+    """
+    return int(round(num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND))
+
+
+def prepare_keyframe_image(image, height: int, width: int, stretch: bool):
+    r"""
+    Put a keyframe onto the target canvas.
+
+    The first keyframe of a request is the geometry anchor and is *stretched* onto the canvas, while a second
+    keyframe follows that canvas and is cover-cropped (aspect-preserving max-scale LANCZOS resize plus a centre
+    crop). An image that already is the canvas is returned untouched, without a resampling pass.
+
+    Args:
+        image (`PIL.Image.Image`): The keyframe, in RGB and already EXIF-transposed.
+        height (`int`): Canvas height.
+        width (`int`): Canvas width.
+        stretch (`bool`): Whether to stretch (geometry anchor) instead of cover-cropping (follower).
+
+    Returns:
+        `PIL.Image.Image`: The prepared keyframe.
+    """
+    if image.size == (width, height):
+        return image
+    if stretch:
+        return image.resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
+
+    scale = max(width / image.size[0], height / image.size[1])
+    resized_size = (max(width, round(image.size[0] * scale)), max(height, round(image.size[1] * scale)))
+    left = max(0, (resized_size[0] - width) // 2)
+    top = max(0, (resized_size[1] - height) // 2)
+    resized = image.resize(resized_size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
+    return resized.crop((left, top, left + width, top + height))
+
+
+def patchify_video_latents(latents: torch.Tensor, patch_size: tuple[int, int, int]) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Pack video latents into transformer rows.
+
+    Args:
+        latents (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, channels, num_frames, height, width)`):
+            The latents to pack.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The `(t, h, w)` patch.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size * num_patches, channels * prod(patch_size))`: The packed rows, ordered
+        frame-major then row-major.
+    """
+    patch_t, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+    batch_size, channels, num_frames, height, width = latents.shape
+    if num_frames % patch_t or height % patch_h or width % patch_w:
+        raise ValueError(f"Latents of shape {tuple(latents.shape)} are not divisible by the patch {patch_size}.")
+
+    latents = latents.reshape(
+        batch_size,
+        channels,
+        num_frames // patch_t,
+        patch_t,
+        height // patch_h,
+        patch_h,
+        width // patch_w,
+        patch_w,
+    )
+    latents = latents.permute(0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 7)
+    return latents.reshape(-1, channels * patch_t * patch_h * patch_w).contiguous()
+
+
+def unpatchify_video_tokens(
+    rows: torch.Tensor,
+    num_latent_frames: int,
+    latent_height: int,
+    latent_width: int,
+    channels: int,
+    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Unpack transformer rows back into video latents. The inverse of [`patchify_video_latents`].
+
+    Args:
+        rows (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_patches, channels * prod(patch_size))`): The packed rows.
+        num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of latent frames.
+        latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
+        latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
+        channels (`int`): Number of latent channels.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The `(t, h, w)` patch.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+    """
+    patch_t, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+    rows = rows.reshape(
+        -1,
+        num_latent_frames // patch_t,
+        latent_height // patch_h,
+        latent_width // patch_w,
+        channels,
+        patch_t,
+        patch_h,
+        patch_w,
+    )
+    rows = rows.permute(0, 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7)
+    return rows.reshape(-1, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width).contiguous()
+
+
+def unpack_audio_tokens(rows: torch.Tensor, num_audio_latents: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Unpack the channel-major audio rows into audio VAE latents.
+
+    Args:
+        rows (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_audio_latents * 2, latent_channels)`): The packed audio rows.
+        num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`: One batch item per stereo channel, which
+        is what the mono audio VAE consumes.
+    """
+    rows = rows.reshape(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, num_audio_latents, rows.shape[-1])
+    return rows.permute(0, 2, 1).contiguous()
+
+
+def _spatial_position_grid(dim: int, patch: int, sqrt_area: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    One aspect-normalized spatial rotary axis: `dim // patch` coordinates centred on the unit interval, scaled up by
+    32. The right endpoint is excluded, so a square canvas spans `[0, 32)`.
+    """
+    ratio = dim / sqrt_area
+    left = (1.0 - ratio) / 2.0
+    # Built with numpy: `np.linspace(..., endpoint=False)` is `start + arange(num) * (stop - start) / num`, which is
+    # not what `torch.linspace` computes, and the float64 grid has to be reproduced exactly.
+    grid = np.linspace(left, left + ratio, dim // patch, endpoint=False) * _ROPE_SPATIAL_SCALE
+    return torch.from_numpy(grid).to(torch.float64)
+
+
+def _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames: int, origin: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""The rotary time of every latent frame, starting at `origin`. Spacing is non-uniform: `5/3 * (1, 4, 4, 4, 4)`."""
+    spans = torch.tensor(
+        [
+            _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
+            for index in range(num_latent_frames)
+        ],
+        dtype=torch.float64,
+    )
+    return origin + torch.cat([torch.zeros(1, dtype=torch.float64), spans[:-1].cumsum(0)])
+
+
+def _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
+    r"""
+    The rotary time spanned by `num_latent_frames` latent frames.
+
+    Summed by numpy (pairwise summation) rather than sequentially: the reference computes the keyframe anchor this
+    way and the two summation orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards.
+    """
+    spans = np.ones(num_latent_frames, dtype=np.float64) * _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
+    for index in range(len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)):
+        spans[index :: len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)] *= _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index]
+    return float(spans.sum())
+
+
+def build_packed_sequence(
+    text_token_tags: torch.Tensor,
+    num_latent_frames: int,
+    latent_height: int,
+    latent_width: int,
+    num_audio_latents: int,
+    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+    keyframe_anchors: tuple[str, ...] = (),
+) -> MiniMaxH3PackedSequence:
+    r"""
+    Build the `[text | keyframe conditions | target audio | target video]` layout used by the `t2va` and `fl2va`
+    tasks.
+
+    Args:
+        text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
+            The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a keyframe's vision block,
+            which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
+        num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
+        latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
+        latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
+        num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+        keyframe_anchors (`tuple[str, ...]`):
+            One entry per keyframe conditioning block, in packed order: `"first"` anchors the block at the first
+            latent frame, `"last"` at the last one.
+
+    Returns:
+        [`MiniMaxH3PackedSequence`]
+    """
+    _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+    rows_per_frame = (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
+    num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
+    num_condition_rows = len(keyframe_anchors) * rows_per_frame
+    num_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+    num_video_rows = num_latent_frames * rows_per_frame
+    sequence_length = num_text_tokens + num_condition_rows + num_audio_rows + num_video_rows
+
+    condition_start = num_text_tokens
+    audio_start = condition_start + num_condition_rows
+    video_start = audio_start + num_audio_rows
+
+    # 1. The (t, h, w) grid. Text rows sit on the time axis at their row index, and the media rows continue the time
+    # axis from there, so text length shifts the whole media clock.
+    position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
+    position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
+
+    sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
+    height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
+    width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
+    frame_grid = torch.stack([grid.reshape(-1) for grid in torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")], -1)
+
+    for index, anchor in enumerate(keyframe_anchors):
+        if anchor == "first":
+            anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens)
+        elif anchor == "last":
+            anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens) + _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames) - _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"A keyframe anchor must be 'first' or 'last', got {anchor!r}.")
+        rows = slice(condition_start + index * rows_per_frame, condition_start + (index + 1) * rows_per_frame)
+        position_ids[rows, 0] = anchor_time
+        position_ids[rows, 1:] = frame_grid
+
+    # Audio rows are channel-major and share the video's rotary clock: one unit per latent at 40 latents/s equals
+    # 24 fps * 5/3. They carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid.
+    audio_time = float(num_text_tokens) + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
+    position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 0] = audio_time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
+    position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 2] = torch.cat(
+        [
+            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
+            torch.full((num_audio_rows - num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[-1]), dtype=torch.float64),
+        ]
+    )
+
+    video_position_ids = torch.empty(num_latent_frames, rows_per_frame, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
+    video_position_ids[:, :, 0] = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, float(num_text_tokens))[:, None]
+    video_position_ids[:, :, 1:] = frame_grid[None]
+    position_ids[video_start:] = video_position_ids.reshape(-1, 3)
+
+    # 2. Row indices and modality tags.
+    video_indices = torch.cat([torch.arange(condition_start, audio_start), torch.arange(video_start, sequence_length)])
+    audio_indices = torch.arange(audio_start, video_start)
+    text_indices = torch.arange(num_text_tokens)
+
+    token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
+    token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
+    token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
+    token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+
+    return MiniMaxH3PackedSequence(
+        sequence_length=sequence_length,
+        position_ids=position_ids,
+        token_tags=token_tags,
+        video_indices=video_indices,
+        audio_indices=audio_indices,
+        text_indices=text_indices,
+        num_condition_video_rows=num_condition_rows,
+        num_condition_audio_rows=0,
+    )
+
+
+def build_row_timesteps(
+    layout: MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
+    video_timestep: float,
+    audio_timestep: float,
+    condition_video_timestep: float,
+    condition_audio_timestep: float,
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    r"""
+    Assign a timestep to every row of the packed sequence and reduce it to the transformer's `(timestep,
+    timestep_indices)` pair.
+
+    One forward serves rows at different noise levels: the generated video and audio rows step down their own
+    schedules while the conditioning rows stay pinned at their noise-augmentation level. Text rows never reach an
+    output head and inherit the video timestep.
+
+    Args:
+        layout ([`MiniMaxH3PackedSequence`]): The packed layout.
+        video_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the generated video rows.
+        audio_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the generated audio rows.
+        condition_video_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the video conditioning rows.
+        condition_audio_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the audio reference rows.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the distinct timesteps, sorted, and the index of every row into them.
+    """
+    row_timesteps = torch.full((layout.sequence_length,), video_timestep, dtype=torch.float32)
+    row_timesteps[layout.video_indices[: layout.num_condition_video_rows]] = condition_video_timestep
+    row_timesteps[layout.audio_indices[layout.num_condition_audio_rows :]] = audio_timestep
+    row_timesteps[layout.audio_indices[: layout.num_condition_audio_rows]] = condition_audio_timestep
+    return torch.unique(row_timesteps, sorted=True, return_inverse=True)
+
+
+def keyframe_condition_noise(
+    condition_latent_shapes: tuple[tuple[int, int, int], ...],
+    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+    latent_channels: int,
+    generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
+    device: torch.device | None = None,
+    dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float32,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Draw the noise that the keyframe (or reference) conditioning rows are mixed with.
+
+    One draw per condition, in packed order, off the request's generator. The conditioning rows are prepared before
+    the target rows, so these are the *first* draws of a request, ahead of the video and audio noise of
+    [`~MiniMaxH3Pipeline.prepare_latents`] — the order is part of what a generator reproduces.
+
+    Args:
+        condition_latent_shapes (`tuple[tuple[int, int, int], ...]`):
+            The `(num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` of every condition, in packed order.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+        latent_channels (`int`): Number of video latent channels.
+        generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
+        device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device the noise is drawn on.
+        dtype (`torch.dtype`, defaults to `torch.float32`): The dtype of the noise.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_condition_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`: the noise rows,
+        concatenated in packed order.
+    """
+    rows = []
+    for num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width in condition_latent_shapes:
+        noise = randn_tensor(
+            (1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
+            generator=generator,
+            device=device,
+            dtype=dtype,
+        )
+        rows.append(patchify_video_latents(noise, patch_size))
+    return torch.cat(rows)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
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+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+r"""
+The `ref2va` half of MiniMax-H3's packed sequence: omni-reference conditioning.
+
+`ref2va` takes an ordered list of references — images, videos (with their soundtrack) and audio clips — and packs one
+block per reference ahead of the generated rows:
+
+```
+[ text (L) | reference block 1 | reference block 2 | ... | target audio (A) | target video (V) ]
+```
+
+The blocks are packed in **request order**, and a video reference packs its soundtrack rows immediately *before* its
+own video rows. Order is semantic twice over: it fixes the `"<Picture i>"` / `"<Audio j>"` / `"<Video k>"` labels of
+the prompt presentation, and it advances the shared rotary clock — an image reference occupies one rotary slot, an
+audio reference as many as it has latents, and a video reference the longer of its own two spans, its soundtrack and
+its frames sharing one origin.
+
+Unlike a `fl2va` keyframe, a reference never binds the target geometry: every reference is prepared at its own
+resolution (2048 pixel short edge for images, MiniMax-H3's 768 pixel canvas for videos) and carries its own
+aspect-normalized spatial grid.
+
+References reach the pipeline as in-memory media: a video is decoded frames plus the `fps` they carry, and a soundtrack
+a waveform plus its sample rate. A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] takes a path or a URL too, but it decodes it when it is
+built, so that no pipeline of this model ever opens a media file.
+"""
+
+import contextlib
+import math
+import os
+import tempfile
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Any
+from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
+
+import numpy as np
+import requests
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+
+from ...utils import is_av_available, load_image
+from ...utils.constants import DIFFUSERS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
+from .packing import (
+    _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE,
+    _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT,
+    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
+    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK,
+    MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK,
+    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
+    MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
+    _spatial_position_grid,
+    _temporal_position_grid,
+    resolve_canvas_size,
+)
+
+
+# Reference images are resized to a 2048 pixel short edge — upscaling included — and both axes are rounded to a
+# multiple of 32 independently. There is no area cap, so a 4:1 reference is 8192x2048.
+MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 2048
+
+# The conditioner sees a reference video at 2 fps, and Qwen3-VL merges every two of those frames into one vision
+# block labelled with the mean timestamp of the pair.
+MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_VIDEO_SAMPLE_FPS = 2.0
+MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH = 2
+
+# Documented per-request limits of the omni-reference task.
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES = 9
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS = 3
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS = 3
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES = 12
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _local_media_file(media):
+    r"""The reference media as a local file: a URL is downloaded to a temporary file, removed on the way out."""
+    path = str(media)
+    if not path.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
+        if not os.path.isfile(path):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Incorrect path or URL. URLs must start with `http://` or `https://`, and {path} is not a valid path."
+            )
+        yield path
+        return
+
+    response = requests.get(path, stream=True, timeout=DIFFUSERS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+    if response.status_code != 200:
+        raise ValueError(f"Failed to download {path}. Status code: {response.status_code}")
+    suffix = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(unquote(urlparse(path).path)))[1]
+    download = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False)
+    try:
+        with download as file:
+            for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
+                file.write(chunk)
+        yield download.name
+    finally:
+        os.remove(download.name)
+
+
+def _import_av():
+    r"""PyAV, the soft dependency a reference decodes a media file with."""
+    if not is_av_available():
+        raise ImportError(
+            "Decoding a MiniMax-H3 reference from a file needs PyAV. You can install it with `pip install av`, or "
+            "pass the decoded media itself: frames and the `fps` they carry for a video, a `(channels, num_samples)` "
+            "waveform and its `sample_rate` for audio."
+        )
+
+    import av
+
+    return av
+
+
+def _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, stream) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
+    r"""
+    An audio stream's samples as a `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform, at the rate the container carries them.
+
+    Args:
+        av (`module`): PyAV.
+        container (`av.container.InputContainer`): The open container.
+        stream (`av.audio.stream.AudioStream`): The stream to decode.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[torch.Tensor, int]`: the waveform and its sample rate.
+    """
+    sample_rate = int(stream.codec_context.sample_rate)
+    # Planar float is a format conversion only: the sample rate and the channel layout stay the container's own, and a
+    # mono soundtrack is upmixed later, by `prepare_reference_waveform`.
+    resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout=stream.layout, rate=sample_rate)
+    chunks = []
+    for frame in container.decode(stream):
+        chunks += [torch.from_numpy(resampled.to_ndarray()) for resampled in resampler.resample(frame)]
+    # Whatever the resampler is still holding.
+    chunks += [torch.from_numpy(resampled.to_ndarray()) for resampled in resampler.resample(None)]
+    return torch.cat(chunks, dim=-1).to(torch.float32), sample_rate
+
+
+def decode_reference_video(media) -> tuple[np.ndarray, float, tuple[torch.Tensor, int] | None]:
+    r"""
+    Decode a reference video file into `uint8` RGB frames, at the resolution and the frame rate it carries.
+
+    Args:
+        media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the video.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[np.ndarray, float, tuple[torch.Tensor, int]]`: the `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` frames, the frame
+        rate the container reports, and its soundtrack with that soundtrack's own sample rate, `None` when the
+        container carries no audio stream.
+    """
+    av = _import_av()
+    with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
+        stream = container.streams.video[0]
+        frames, rotation = [], 0.0
+        for frame in container.decode(stream):
+            # The display matrix rotation belongs to the stream, and PyAV surfaces it on every frame of it.
+            rotation = frame.rotation
+            frames.append(frame.to_ndarray(format="rgb24"))
+        frame_rate = float(stream.average_rate or stream.guessed_rate)
+        soundtrack = None
+        if container.streams.audio:
+            # Decoding the frames drained the container, so the soundtrack is read in a second pass over it.
+            container.seek(0)
+            soundtrack = _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, container.streams.audio[0])
+
+    if not frames:
+        raise ValueError(f"No video frames to decode in {media}.")
+    frames = np.stack(frames)
+    # `ffmpeg` displays a frame upright by undoing the counterclockwise rotation the display matrix carries, which is
+    # what this reproduces, snapped to the nearest quarter turn. A non-square pixel aspect ratio is left alone: the
+    # reference implementation resolved a reference's canvas from its *display* geometry, so a stream that carries a
+    # sample aspect ratio is conditioned on at the wrong shape, and correcting it is untested guesswork here.
+    turns = round(rotation / 90.0) % 4
+    if turns:
+        frames = np.ascontiguousarray(np.rot90(frames, k=-turns, axes=(1, 2)))
+    return frames, frame_rate, soundtrack
+
+
+def decode_reference_audio(media) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
+    r"""
+    Decode a reference audio file into a waveform, at the sample rate it carries.
+
+    Args:
+        media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the audio, or of a video whose soundtrack is taken.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[torch.Tensor, int]`: the `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform and its sample rate.
+    """
+    av = _import_av()
+    with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
+        if not container.streams.audio:
+            raise ValueError(f"No audio stream to decode in {media}.")
+        return _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, container.streams.audio[0])
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3Reference:
+    r"""
+    One omni-reference of a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] request: an image, a video, or an audio clip.
+
+    A reference carries exactly one medium — plus, for a video, the `audio` of its own soundtrack, which is then
+    conditioned on as that reference's own. References are passed to the pipeline as a list, **in the order the model
+    should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock,
+    so a different order is a different request.
+
+    Every medium may be a path or a URL as well as in-memory media. A path is decoded here, when the reference is
+    built, and with it the rates that come with it: no MiniMax-H3 pipeline opens a media file. Decoding a video or an
+    audio file needs [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV).
+
+    ```py
+    >>> from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
+
+    >>> # A file or a URL is decoded on the spot, at the rate the container reports.
+    >>> references = [
+    ...     MiniMaxH3Reference(video="motion_ref.mp4"),
+    ...     MiniMaxH3Reference(image="subject.png"),
+    ...     MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
+    ... ]
+
+    >>> # In-memory media instead carries the rates it was produced at, MiniMax-H3's own by default.
+    >>> import numpy as np
+
+    >>> frames = np.zeros((30, 480, 854, 3), dtype="uint8")
+    >>> reference = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames, fps=30.0)
+    ```
+
+    Attributes:
+        image (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+            A subject, style or scene reference: at most 9 per request. A path or a URL, which is read with
+            [`~utils.load_image`], a `(height, width, 3)` array or a `(3, height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or floating
+            point over `[0, 1]`. Mutually exclusive with `video`.
+        video (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+            A motion and camera reference: at most 3 per request. A path or a URL, which PyAV decodes into frames, a
+            list of images, a `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` array or a `(num_frames, 3, height, width)` tensor.
+            Mutually exclusive with `image`. A decoded file brings its soundtrack along, as this reference's own, so
+            conditioning on a file's motion alone means decoding its frames first, with [`~utils.load_video`].
+        fps (`float`, *optional*):
+            The frame rate `video` carries its frames at, which is what places its vision blocks on the conditioner's
+            2 fps grid. Left out, it is the rate the container reports for a decoded file and MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps
+            for in-memory frames, and `fps` holds that resolved rate once the reference is built. Passing it wins over
+            both, which is only needed when a container's metadata is wrong. MiniMax-H3's clock is 24 fps, so any other
+            rate is resampled onto it by dropping and duplicating whole frames.
+        audio (`str`, `os.PathLike` or `torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`, *optional*):
+            A voice or music reference, mono or stereo: at most 3 per request, and never on its own — an audio
+            reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference. A path or a URL, which PyAV decodes
+            into a waveform, or the waveform itself. Passed next to `video`, it is that video's soundtrack instead of a
+            reference of its own. An audio reference never reaches the conditioner and is encoded by the audio VAE
+            alone.
+        sample_rate (`int`, *optional*):
+            The rate `audio` carries its samples at. Left out, it is the rate the container reports for a decoded file,
+            and for an in-memory waveform the audio VAE's own, which leaves the samples untouched. Passing it wins over
+            both, which is only needed when a container's metadata is wrong. Any other rate is resampled onto the audio
+            VAE's own.
+    """
+
+    image: str | os.PathLike | Image.Image | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None
+    video: str | os.PathLike | list[Image.Image] | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None
+    fps: float | None = None
+    audio: str | os.PathLike | torch.Tensor | None = None
+    sample_rate: int | None = None
+
+    def __post_init__(self):
+        # A video reference conditions on its soundtrack too, so `audio` is a second medium of a video reference.
+        media = [name for name in ("image", "video", "audio") if getattr(self, name) is not None]
+        if media not in (["image"], ["video"], ["audio"], ["video", "audio"]):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "A `MiniMaxH3Reference` must carry exactly one of `image`, `video` or `audio` — plus, for a video, "
+                f"the `audio` of its soundtrack — got {media if media else 'none of them'}."
+            )
+
+        # A path is decoded on the spot, so that the pipeline only ever sees in-memory media. A rate the request
+        # passed explicitly wins over the one the container reports, for a container whose metadata is wrong.
+        if isinstance(self.image, (str, os.PathLike)):
+            self.image = load_image(str(self.image))
+        if isinstance(self.video, (str, os.PathLike)):
+            frames, frame_rate, soundtrack = decode_reference_video(self.video)
+            self.video = frames
+            self.fps = frame_rate if self.fps is None else self.fps
+            if soundtrack is not None and self.audio is None:
+                self.audio, soundtrack_sample_rate = soundtrack
+                self.sample_rate = soundtrack_sample_rate if self.sample_rate is None else self.sample_rate
+        if isinstance(self.audio, (str, os.PathLike)):
+            self.audio, sample_rate = decode_reference_audio(self.audio)
+            self.sample_rate = sample_rate if self.sample_rate is None else self.sample_rate
+        if self.fps is None:
+            self.fps = float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
+
+    @property
+    def kind(self) -> str:
+        r"""The modality this reference is packed as: `"image"`, `"video"` or `"audio"`."""
+        if self.image is not None:
+            return "image"
+        return "video" if self.video is not None else "audio"
+
+    @property
+    def has_audio(self) -> bool:
+        r"""Whether this reference contributes audio rows, i.e. whether it carries a waveform."""
+        return self.audio is not None
+
+
+def reference_kind(index: int, entry: Any) -> str:
+    r"""
+    The modality of one `references` entry, which the [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] validated at construction.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(entry, MiniMaxH3Reference):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"`references[{index}]` must be a [`MiniMaxH3Reference`], got {type(entry)}. A request is built from "
+            "the dataclass: `MiniMaxH3Reference(image=...)`, `MiniMaxH3Reference(video=...)` or "
+            "`MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=...)`."
+        )
+    # A reference decodes a path when it is built, so a pipeline only ever sees in-memory media.
+    for name in ("image", "video", "audio"):
+        if isinstance(getattr(entry, name), (str, os.PathLike)):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`references[{index}].{name}` is a path. MiniMax-H3 pipelines never open media files: rebuild "
+                "the reference, which decodes a path as it is built."
+            )
+    return entry.kind
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3PreparedReference:
+    r"""
+    One `ref2va` reference prepared for packing, in packed order.
+
+    A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] is resolved in three passes: the pipeline reads the modality off the request (`kind`,
+    `has_audio`), prepares the pixels or samples (`image`, `frames`, `waveform`), and finally encodes them, which is
+    what fixes the latent geometry (`num_latent_frames`, `latent_height`, `latent_width`, `num_audio_latents`) the
+    packed layout is built from.
+
+    Attributes:
+        kind (`str`):
+            `"image"`, `"video"` or `"audio"`.
+        has_audio (`bool`):
+            Whether this reference contributes audio rows. Always `True` for `"audio"`, and `True` for a `"video"` the
+            request passed a soundtrack with.
+        image (`PIL.Image.Image`):
+            The prepared reference image.
+        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`):
+            The prepared reference video, `uint8` RGB at 24 fps.
+        waveform (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, num_samples)`):
+            The prepared soundtrack, stereo at the audio VAE's sample rate.
+        block_timestamps (`list[float]`):
+            The timestamp of every vision block the conditioner sees for a video reference.
+        num_latent_frames (`int`), latent_height (`int`), latent_width (`int`):
+            Latent geometry of the visual rows.
+        num_audio_latents (`int`):
+            Number of audio latents per channel.
+    """
+
+    kind: str
+    has_audio: bool = False
+    image: Any = None
+    frames: Any = None
+    waveform: torch.Tensor | None = None
+    block_timestamps: list[float] = field(default_factory=list)
+    num_latent_frames: int = 1
+    latent_height: int = 0
+    latent_width: int = 0
+    num_audio_latents: int = 0
+
+    @property
+    def num_video_rows(self) -> int:
+        r"""The number of packed video rows, for the `(1, 2, 2)` patch MiniMax-H3 packs video latents with."""
+        return self.num_latent_frames * (self.latent_height // 2) * (self.latent_width // 2)
+
+    @property
+    def num_audio_rows(self) -> int:
+        r"""The number of packed audio rows: one per latent and per stereo channel."""
+        return self.num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+
+
+def _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
+    r"""
+    The rotary time a video reference advances the clock by.
+
+    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing._temporal_position_span`] sums
+    the same series: that one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16
+    latent frames onwards. The reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
+    """
+    return sum(
+        _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
+        for index in range(num_latent_frames)
+    )
+
+
+def _frame_position_grid(
+    latent_height: int, latent_width: int, patch_h: int, patch_w: int
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    r"""The `(h, w)` rotary coordinates of one latent frame, and the width axis they were built from."""
+    sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
+    height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
+    width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
+    grids = torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")
+    return torch.stack([grid.reshape(-1) for grid in grids], dim=-1), width_grid
+
+
+def _fill_audio_positions(
+    position_ids: torch.Tensor,
+    rows: slice,
+    num_audio_latents: int,
+    rotary_time: float,
+    width_grid: torch.Tensor,
+) -> None:
+    r"""
+    Place one channel-major audio block.
+
+    Audio rows carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid of *their own* block —
+    the target grid for a standalone audio reference, the video's grid for a soundtrack.
+    """
+    time = rotary_time + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
+    position_ids[rows, 0] = time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
+    position_ids[rows, 2] = torch.cat(
+        [
+            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
+            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[-1]), dtype=torch.float64),
+        ]
+    )
+
+
+def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
+    text_token_tags: torch.Tensor,
+    references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+    num_latent_frames: int,
+    latent_height: int,
+    latent_width: int,
+    num_audio_latents: int,
+    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+) -> MiniMaxH3PackedSequence:
+    r"""
+    Build the `[text | reference blocks | target audio | target video]` layout of the `ref2va` task.
+
+    Args:
+        text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
+            The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a reference's vision block,
+            which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
+        references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
+            The references, in packed order, with their latent geometry already resolved.
+        num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
+        latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
+        latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
+        num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+
+    Returns:
+        [`MiniMaxH3PackedSequence`]
+    """
+    _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+    num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
+    num_target_video_rows = num_latent_frames * (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
+    num_target_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+    num_reference_video_rows = sum(reference.num_video_rows for reference in references if reference.kind != "audio")
+    num_reference_audio_rows = sum(reference.num_audio_rows for reference in references)
+    sequence_length = (
+        num_text_tokens
+        + num_reference_video_rows
+        + num_reference_audio_rows
+        + num_target_audio_rows
+        + num_target_video_rows
+    )
+
+    position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
+    position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
+    target_frame_grid, target_width_grid = _frame_position_grid(latent_height, latent_width, patch_h, patch_w)
+
+    # Reference blocks, in request order. `rotary_time` is the shared audio/video clock: it starts where the text
+    # rows end and every block pushes it forward by the time that block occupies.
+    video_indices, audio_indices = [], []
+    cursor = num_text_tokens
+    rotary_time = float(num_text_tokens)
+    for reference in references:
+        if reference.kind == "image":
+            rows = slice(cursor, cursor + reference.num_video_rows)
+            cursor = rows.stop
+            video_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
+            frame_grid, _ = _frame_position_grid(reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width, patch_h, patch_w)
+            position_ids[rows, 0] = rotary_time
+            position_ids[rows, 1:] = frame_grid
+            # An image is a single frame and takes a single integer rotary slot, not a latent frame's 5/3 units.
+            rotary_time += 1.0
+        elif reference.kind == "audio":
+            rows = slice(cursor, cursor + reference.num_audio_rows)
+            cursor = rows.stop
+            audio_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
+            _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, rows, reference.num_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid)
+            rotary_time += float(reference.num_audio_latents)
+        elif reference.kind == "video":
+            # A video reference's soundtrack rows are packed immediately before its video rows and share their
+            # origin, so the two are rotary-aligned exactly as the generated audio and video are.
+            audio_rows = slice(cursor, cursor + reference.num_audio_rows)
+            video_rows = slice(audio_rows.stop, audio_rows.stop + reference.num_video_rows)
+            cursor = video_rows.stop
+            audio_indices.append(torch.arange(audio_rows.start, audio_rows.stop))
+            video_indices.append(torch.arange(video_rows.start, video_rows.stop))
+
+            frame_grid, width_grid = _frame_position_grid(
+                reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width, patch_h, patch_w
+            )
+            _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, audio_rows, reference.num_audio_latents, rotary_time, width_grid)
+            frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(reference.num_latent_frames, rotary_time)
+            position_ids[video_rows, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(frame_grid.shape[0])
+            position_ids[video_rows, 1:] = frame_grid.repeat(reference.num_latent_frames, 1)
+            rotary_time += max(
+                float(reference.num_audio_latents), _temporal_position_span(reference.num_latent_frames)
+            )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"A reference must be an 'image', a 'video' or an 'audio', got {reference.kind!r}.")
+
+    # The generated rows. Target audio and target video share the origin the reference blocks left behind.
+    audio_start = cursor
+    video_start = audio_start + num_target_audio_rows
+    _fill_audio_positions(
+        position_ids, slice(audio_start, video_start), num_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid
+    )
+    frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, rotary_time)
+    position_ids[video_start:, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(target_frame_grid.shape[0])
+    position_ids[video_start:, 1:] = target_frame_grid.repeat(num_latent_frames, 1)
+
+    video_indices = torch.cat(video_indices + [torch.arange(video_start, sequence_length)])
+    audio_indices = torch.cat(audio_indices + [torch.arange(audio_start, video_start)])
+    text_indices = torch.arange(num_text_tokens)
+
+    token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
+    token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
+    token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
+    token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+
+    return MiniMaxH3PackedSequence(
+        sequence_length=sequence_length,
+        position_ids=position_ids,
+        token_tags=token_tags,
+        video_indices=video_indices,
+        audio_indices=audio_indices,
+        text_indices=text_indices,
+        num_condition_video_rows=num_reference_video_rows,
+        num_condition_audio_rows=num_reference_audio_rows,
+    )
+
+
+def resolve_reference_image_size(width: int, height: int) -> tuple[int, int]:
+    r"""
+    Resolve the resolution a reference image is encoded at: a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple
+    of 32. Upscaling is intended, and unlike the target canvas there is no area cap.
+
+    Args:
+        width (`int`): Width of the source image.
+        height (`int`): Height of the source image.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[int, int]`: the `(height, width)` the reference is resized to.
+    """
+    if width <= 0 or height <= 0:
+        raise ValueError(f"A reference image must have a positive size, got {width}x{height}.")
+    if width > 4 * height or height > 4 * width:
+        raise ValueError(f"A reference image must be within 1:4 and 4:1, got {width}x{height}.")
+
+    scale = MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE / min(width, height)
+    multiple = MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
+    return (
+        max(multiple, round(height * scale / multiple) * multiple),
+        max(multiple, round(width * scale / multiple) * multiple),
+    )
+
+
+def reference_media_to_uint8(media) -> np.ndarray:
+    r"""
+    An in-memory reference image or video as channels-last `uint8` RGB.
+
+    Args:
+        media (`PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray`, `torch.Tensor` or `list`):
+            One image, one video, or a list of either. A `torch.Tensor` is channels-first, as everywhere else in
+            diffusers, and a `np.ndarray` channels-last; floating point values are read over `[0, 1]`.
+
+    Returns:
+        `np.ndarray`: the `uint8` RGB pixels, `(height, width, 3)` for a single image and `(num_frames, height, width,
+        3)` for a video or a list.
+    """
+    if isinstance(media, list):
+        return np.stack([reference_media_to_uint8(item) for item in media])
+    if isinstance(media, Image.Image):
+        return np.asarray(media.convert("RGB"))
+    if isinstance(media, torch.Tensor):
+        media = media.movedim(-3, -1).cpu().numpy()
+    media = np.asarray(media)
+    if media.dtype != np.uint8:
+        media = (media * 255.0).round().clip(0, 255).astype(np.uint8)
+    return media
+
+
+def prepare_reference_image(image, height: int, width: int):
+    r"""
+    Resize a reference image onto its own resolution with LANCZOS. An image that already is that size is returned
+    untouched, without a resampling pass.
+
+    Args:
+        image (`PIL.Image.Image`): The reference, in RGB and already EXIF-transposed.
+        height (`int`): Target height, as resolved by [`resolve_reference_image_size`].
+        width (`int`): Target width.
+
+    Returns:
+        `PIL.Image.Image`: The prepared reference.
+    """
+    if image.size == (width, height):
+        return image
+    return image.resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
+
+
+def resample_reference_frames(frames: np.ndarray, fps: float) -> np.ndarray:
+    r"""
+    Resample a reference video onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps, dropping and duplicating whole frames.
+
+    The reference implementation decoded every video reference through `ffmpeg`'s `fps` filter, a constant frame rate
+    resampler: every source frame lands on the output slot its timestamp rounds to, `round(index * 24 / fps)`, and a
+    slot holds the last frame that landed on it, so a frame whose successor lands on the same slot is dropped and a
+    frame whose successor skips slots is repeated. The end of the stream is rounded onto the grid the very same way,
+    which is what fixes the length at `round(num_frames * 24 / fps)` slots and decides whether the last frame is
+    repeated to reach it or dropped for overshooting it.
+
+    Reproducing that selection is what makes a constant frame rate reference give the very frames the reference's
+    decode gave, and it is an exact identity — the same array, no copy — for frames already at 24 fps.
+
+    Args:
+        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`): The reference video, `uint8` RGB.
+        fps (`float`): The frame rate `frames` was decoded at.
+
+    Returns:
+        `np.ndarray`: the frames on MiniMax-H3's 24 fps grid, `frames` itself when they already are.
+    """
+    if fps <= 0:
+        raise ValueError(f"A reference video must have a positive frame rate, got {fps}.")
+    if fps == MINIMAX_H3_FPS:
+        return frames
+
+    scale = MINIMAX_H3_FPS / fps
+    slots = np.floor(np.arange(frames.shape[0]) * scale + 0.5).astype(np.int64)
+    # Every frame is held until the slot of the next one, and the last one until the slot the stream's end rounds to.
+    return np.repeat(frames, np.diff(slots, append=math.floor(frames.shape[0] * scale + 0.5)), axis=0)
+
+
+def prepare_reference_frames(frames: np.ndarray, num_frames: int) -> np.ndarray:
+    r"""
+    Put a reference video onto the canvas its own aspect ratio resolves to, and cap it at the generated frame count.
+
+    Frames that already are that canvas flow through untouched, with no resampling pass and no copy, and that is the
+    parity-exact route: the reference implementation rescaled the frames with `ffmpeg`'s own LANCZOS scaler while
+    decoding them, so only frames decoded at the canvas reproduce its pixels bit for bit. Any other size is resized
+    frame by frame with PIL, the very path [`prepare_reference_image`] takes.
+
+    Args:
+        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`):
+            The reference video, `uint8` RGB at 24 fps, as returned by [`resample_reference_frames`].
+        num_frames (`int`): The frame count the reference is truncated to, i.e. the target's own frame count.
+
+    Returns:
+        `np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`: The prepared reference.
+    """
+    if frames.ndim != 4 or frames.shape[3] != 3:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"A reference video must be `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` RGB frames, got {tuple(frames.shape)}."
+        )
+    frames = frames[:num_frames]
+    height, width = resolve_canvas_size(frames.shape[2], frames.shape[1])
+    if frames.shape[1:3] == (height, width):
+        return frames
+    return np.stack(
+        [np.asarray(Image.fromarray(frame).resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)) for frame in frames]
+    )
+
+
+def sample_reference_video_frames(frames: np.ndarray) -> tuple[list[np.ndarray], list[float]]:
+    r"""
+    Sample the frames the conditioner sees from a prepared reference video, and label their vision blocks.
+
+    The conditioner reads a reference at 2 fps: every 12th of the 24 fps frames, deduplicated. Qwen3-VL then merges
+    the sampled frames in pairs — repeating the last one when there is an odd number of them — and a merged pair is
+    labelled with the mean of its two timestamps, which `"<{timestamp:.1f} seconds>"` renders with Python's
+    round-half-to-even, so the first block of a 2 fps pair is `"<0.2 seconds>"` rather than `"<0.3 seconds>"`.
+
+    Args:
+        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`): The prepared reference video, at 24 fps.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[list[np.ndarray], list[float]]`: the sampled frames and one timestamp per vision block.
+    """
+    stride = MINIMAX_H3_FPS / MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_VIDEO_SAMPLE_FPS
+    indices, cursor = [], 0.0
+    while round(cursor) < frames.shape[0]:
+        if not indices or round(cursor) > indices[-1]:
+            indices.append(round(cursor))
+        cursor += stride
+
+    timestamps = [index / MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_VIDEO_SAMPLE_FPS for index in range(len(indices))]
+    timestamps += [timestamps[-1]] * (-len(timestamps) % MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH)
+    block_timestamps = [
+        (timestamps[index] + timestamps[index + MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH - 1]) / 2
+        for index in range(0, len(timestamps), MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH)
+    ]
+    return [frames[index] for index in indices], block_timestamps
+
+
+def prepare_reference_waveform(
+    waveform: torch.Tensor, sample_rate: int, target_sample_rate: int, max_duration: float
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Put a reference soundtrack on the audio VAE's sample rate, as a stereo waveform.
+
+    The reference implementation extracts a soundtrack at a native rate, truncates it there and resamples it once, in
+    torch, which this mirrors: the truncation is applied at `sample_rate` and the resampling is a single `torchaudio`
+    pass. A mono waveform is upmixed by repeating its channel.
+
+    Args:
+        waveform (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`): The soundtrack, mono or stereo.
+        sample_rate (`int`): The sample rate `waveform` carries its samples at.
+        target_sample_rate (`int`): The audio VAE's sample rate, i.e. what the waveform is resampled to.
+        max_duration (`float`): Truncate the reference to this many seconds.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, num_samples)`: the float32 waveform.
+    """
+    waveform = torch.as_tensor(waveform)
+    if waveform.ndim != 2 or waveform.shape[0] not in (1, MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS):
+        raise ValueError(
+            "A reference soundtrack must be a `(channels, num_samples)` mono or stereo waveform, got "
+            f"{tuple(waveform.shape)}."
+        )
+    waveform = waveform.to(torch.float32)[:, : int(max_duration * sample_rate)]
+    if waveform.shape[0] != MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS:
+        waveform = waveform.expand(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, -1).contiguous()
+    if sample_rate == target_sample_rate:
+        return waveform
+
+    try:
+        import torchaudio
+    except ImportError as error:
+        raise ImportError(
+            f"Resampling a MiniMax-H3 reference soundtrack from {sample_rate} Hz to {target_sample_rate} Hz needs "
+            "`torchaudio`. Pass a waveform already at the audio VAE's sample rate to do without it."
+        ) from error
+    return torchaudio.transforms.Resample(sample_rate, target_sample_rate)(waveform)
+
+
+def build_ref2va_presentation(
+    tokenizer,
+    prompt: str,
+    references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+    image_token_counts: list[int],
+    video_block_token_counts: list[int],
+) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
+    r"""
+    Tokenize MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request.
+
+    Every reference prepends a label, in packed order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision block
+    for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio — a waveform never reaches the conditioner — and `"<Video k>: "`
+    plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries sound is labelled
+    `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The prompt follows verbatim,
+    with no chat template and no special tokens.
+
+    Args:
+        tokenizer (`Qwen2TokenizerFast`): Tokenizer of the conditioner.
+        prompt (`str`): The prompt, appended verbatim.
+        references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`): The prepared references, in packed order.
+        image_token_counts (`list[int]`): Number of vision tokens of every image reference's block.
+        video_block_token_counts (`list[int]`): Number of vision tokens per block of every video reference.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[list[int], list[int]]`: the token ids and their modality tags. A vision block is tagged `0` (video) and
+        everything else `1` (text).
+    """
+
+    def text(value: str) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
+        token_ids = tokenizer(value, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+        return token_ids, [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(token_ids)
+
+    def vision(pad_token: str, num_tokens: int) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
+        token_ids = (
+            [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
+            + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(pad_token)] * num_tokens
+            + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
+        )
+        return token_ids, [MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG] * len(token_ids)
+
+    token_ids, token_tags = [], []
+
+    def emit(segment: tuple[list[int], list[int]]) -> None:
+        token_ids.extend(segment[0])
+        token_tags.extend(segment[1])
+
+    counts = {"image": 0, "video": 0, "audio": 0}
+    for reference in references:
+        if reference.has_audio:
+            counts["audio"] += 1
+            emit(text(f"<Audio {counts['audio']}>: "))
+        if reference.kind == "image":
+            counts["image"] += 1
+            emit(text(f"<Picture {counts['image']}>: "))
+            emit(vision("<|image_pad|>", image_token_counts[counts["image"] - 1]))
+        elif reference.kind == "video":
+            counts["video"] += 1
+            emit(text(f"<Video {counts['video']}>: "))
+            for timestamp in reference.block_timestamps:
+                # `"{:.1f}"` rounds half to even, so the mean of a 2 fps pair renders as "<0.2 seconds>".
+                emit(text(f"<{timestamp:.1f} seconds>"))
+                emit(vision("<|video_pad|>", video_block_token_counts[counts["video"] - 1]))
+    emit(text(prompt))
+    return token_ids, token_tags
+
+
+def trim_reference_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    Snap a reference video's frame count *down* to a `17 * n + 5` the video VAE encodes without padding.
+
+    A reference is truncated to the target's own frame count, which already is of that form, so this only bites when
+    the reference is shorter than the video being generated.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): The number of frames the reference carries.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The number of frames to encode.
+    """
+    if num_frames < 1:
+        raise ValueError(f"A reference video must have at least one frame, got {num_frames}.")
+    return (
+        max(1, (num_frames - MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK) // MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK)
+        * MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK
+        + MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK
+    )
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py
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+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from typing import Any, Callable
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from PIL import ImageOps
+from transformers import Qwen2TokenizerFast, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
+
+from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio, MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging, replace_example_docstring
+from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+from ...video_processor import VideoProcessor
+from ..pipeline_utils import DiffusionPipeline
+from .packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
+    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
+    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER,
+    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
+    align_num_frames,
+    audio_latent_num_frames,
+    build_packed_sequence,
+    build_row_timesteps,
+    keyframe_condition_noise,
+    patchify_video_latents,
+    prepare_keyframe_image,
+    resolve_canvas_size,
+    unpack_audio_tokens,
+    unpatchify_video_tokens,
+    video_latent_num_frames,
+)
+from .pipeline_output import MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING = """
+    Examples:
+        ```py
+        >>> import torch
+        >>> from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+        >>> from diffusers.utils import export_to_video, load_image
+        >>> from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
+
+        >>> # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: this pipeline loads `transformer/`, while
+        >>> # `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.from_pretrained` on the same repository loads `transformer_ref/`.
+        >>> pipe = MiniMaxH3Pipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+        >>> pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+
+        >>> prompt = "A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot"
+
+        >>> # Text to video + audio.
+        >>> output = pipe(prompt=prompt, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+
+        >>> # First frame (and optionally last frame) to video + audio. The canvas follows the first keyframe.
+        >>> image = load_image(
+        ...     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
+        ... )
+        >>> output = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+
+        >>> # Video and audio are generated jointly, but muxing them into one file is up to the caller.
+        >>> export_to_video(output.frames[0], "output.mp4", fps=24)
+        >>> encode_video(
+        ...     output.frames[0], fps=24, output_path="output_with_audio.mp4",
+        ...     audio=output.audio[0], audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
+        ... )
+        ```
+"""
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Pipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
+    r"""
+    Pipeline for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first
+    and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint.
+
+    MiniMax-H3 denoises **one packed sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the keyframe conditioning latents,
+    the audio latents and the video latents at once, with a full self-attention stack over all of it. Video and audio
+    step down two different schedules (`shift = 12.0` and `shift = 3.0`) inside a single transformer call per step,
+    which is why the pipeline registers two schedulers.
+
+    The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: `guidance_scale` is fixed at 1.0, there is no negative prompt, and every
+    step runs exactly one forward pass.
+
+    This model inherits from [`DiffusionPipeline`]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods
+    implemented for all pipelines (downloading, saving, running on a particular device, etc.).
+
+    Args:
+        transformer ([`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`]):
+            The packed-sequence transformer that denoises the video and audio latents jointly.
+        vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`]):
+            Video VAE, 16x spatially and 4x temporally. Also encodes the `fl2va` keyframes.
+        audio_vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`]):
+            Audio VAE, a waveform autoencoder at 32 kHz with 40 latents per second.
+        text_encoder ([`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`]):
+            The conditioner. MiniMax-H3 reads the hidden state after its 50th decoder layer, so the released 64-layer
+            checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused; a checkpoint truncated below 51 layers is
+            rejected, since the last hidden state of a truncated stack is post-norm and roughly an order of magnitude
+            off in scale.
+        tokenizer ([`Qwen2TokenizerFast`]):
+            Tokenizer of the conditioner.
+        processor ([`Qwen3VLProcessor`]):
+            Processor of the conditioner, used to turn the `fl2va` keyframes into vision patches.
+        scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
+            The video-latent schedule (`shift = 12.0` in the released checkpoint).
+        audio_scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
+            The audio-latent schedule (`shift = 3.0` in the released checkpoint).
+    """
+
+    model_cpu_offload_seq = "text_encoder->transformer->vae->audio_vae"
+    _callback_tensor_inputs = ["latents", "audio_latents", "prompt_embeds"]
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        transformer: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
+        vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
+        audio_vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
+        text_encoder: Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
+        tokenizer: Qwen2TokenizerFast,
+        processor: Qwen3VLProcessor,
+        scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
+        audio_scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.register_modules(
+            transformer=transformer,
+            vae=vae,
+            audio_vae=audio_vae,
+            text_encoder=text_encoder,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            processor=processor,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            audio_scheduler=audio_scheduler,
+        )
+
+        self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio = (
+            self.vae.spatial_compression_ratio if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 16
+        )
+        self.vae_latent_channels = self.vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 24
+        self.audio_sampling_rate = (
+            self.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32000
+        )
+        self.audio_latent_channels = (
+            self.audio_vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32
+        )
+        self.patch_size = (
+            tuple(self.transformer.config.patch_size) if getattr(self, "transformer", None) is not None else (1, 2, 2)
+        )
+        # The video VAE decodes into ImageNet-normalized RGB over a [0, 1] base range, which the pipeline reverts
+        # itself, so the processor must not denormalize a second time.
+        self.video_processor = VideoProcessor(vae_scale_factor=self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio, do_normalize=False)
+
+    def check_inputs(self, prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, height, width, num_frames):
+        if prompt is not None and prompt_embeds is not None:
+            raise ValueError("Pass either `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`, not both.")
+        if prompt is None and prompt_embeds is None:
+            raise ValueError("Pass one of `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`.")
+        if prompt is not None and not isinstance(prompt, str):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
+                f"{type(prompt)}."
+            )
+        if (prompt_embeds is None) != (text_token_tags is None):
+            raise ValueError("`prompt_embeds` and `text_token_tags` have to be passed together.")
+        if prompt_embeds is not None and prompt_embeds.shape[1] != text_token_tags.shape[0]:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`text_token_tags` must hold one tag per row of `prompt_embeds`, got {text_token_tags.shape[0]} tags "
+                f"for {prompt_embeds.shape[1]} rows."
+            )
+        if (height is None) != (width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
+        if height is not None and (height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got {height}x{width}."
+            )
+        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
+        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
+        duration = aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
+        if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
+                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
+                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {num_frames} (rounded up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
+            )
+
+    def encode_prompt(
+        self,
+        prompt: str,
+        images: list | None = None,
+        device: torch.device | None = None,
+        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a request and encode it.
+
+        The presentation is the verbatim prompt for `t2va`. Every keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a
+        vision block (`<|vision_start|>`, one `<|image_pad|>` per vision patch, `<|vision_end|>`) — no chat template
+        and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the
+        transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
+            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, *optional*):
+                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
+            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
+            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
+        """
+        device = device or self._execution_device
+        dtype = dtype or self.transformer.dtype
+
+        num_layers = self.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
+                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
+                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
+            )
+
+        pixel_values, image_grid_thw = None, None
+        token_ids, token_tags = [], []
+        if images:
+            vision = self.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
+            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
+            merge_size = self.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
+            for index in range(len(images)):
+                num_image_tokens = int(image_grid_thw[index].prod()) // merge_size
+                label_ids = self.tokenizer(f"<Picture {index + 1}>: ", add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+                vision_ids = (
+                    [self.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
+                    + [self.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|image_pad|>")] * num_image_tokens
+                    + [self.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
+                )
+                token_ids += label_ids + vision_ids
+                token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(label_ids) + [MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG] * len(vision_ids)
+        prompt_ids = self.tokenizer(prompt, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+        token_ids += prompt_ids
+        token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(prompt_ids)
+
+        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
+        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
+        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
+            self.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+        outputs = self.text_encoder.model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
+            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
+            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, self.text_encoder.dtype),
+            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
+            use_cache=False,
+            output_hidden_states=True,
+        )
+        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
+
+    def encode_keyframes(self, images: list, device: torch.device | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""
+        Encode the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows.
+
+        The keyframes go through the video VAE's spatial encoder only — they are single frames, so none of its
+        17-frame temporal chunking applies — and the posterior is *sampled*, under a generator seeded with 42
+        independently of the request seed. The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized, as in the
+        reference implementation; both are part of reproducing the released model's conditioning.
+
+        Args:
+            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`):
+                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAE on.
+
+        Returns:
+            `torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_condition_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`: the float32
+            conditioning rows.
+        """
+        device = device or self._execution_device
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+
+        rows = []
+        for image in images:
+            pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
+            pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
+            # `vae.encode` chunks along time for videos; a keyframe is one frame and is encoded by the (tiled)
+            # spatial encoder alone, which is what the released model conditions on.
+            moments = self.vae._encode_clip(pixels)
+            posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
+            latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
+            # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
+            # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
+            latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
+            rows.append(patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, self.patch_size))
+        return torch.cat(rows)
+
+    def prepare_latents(
+        self,
+        num_latent_frames: int,
+        latent_height: int,
+        latent_width: int,
+        num_audio_latents: int,
+        device: torch.device,
+        generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
+        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Draw the initial noise of both modalities and pack it into transformer rows.
+
+        A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
+        reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
+        [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
+        that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
+        `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
+
+        Args:
+            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of video latent frames.
+            latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
+            latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
+            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
+            device (`torch.device`): The device the rows are drawn on.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
+            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+                latent_width)`, used instead of the draw.
+            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the video rows and the channel-major audio rows.
+        """
+        if latents is None:
+            latents = randn_tensor(
+                (1, self.vae_latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+            )
+        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(torch.float32), self.patch_size)
+
+        if audio_latents is None:
+            audio_rows = randn_tensor(
+                (num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, self.audio_latent_channels),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+            )
+        else:
+            audio_rows = audio_latents.to(torch.float32).permute(0, 2, 1).reshape(-1, self.audio_latent_channels)
+        return video_rows.to(device), audio_rows.to(device)
+
+    @property
+    def num_timesteps(self):
+        return self._num_timesteps
+
+    @property
+    def attention_kwargs(self):
+        return self._attention_kwargs
+
+    @property
+    def interrupt(self):
+        return self._interrupt
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    @replace_example_docstring(EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING)
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        prompt: str | None = None,
+        image=None,
+        last_image=None,
+        height: int | None = None,
+        width: int | None = None,
+        num_frames: int = 124,
+        num_inference_steps: int = 50,
+        generator: torch.Generator | None = None,
+        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        prompt_embeds: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        text_token_tags: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        output_type: str = "pil",
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+        attention_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+        callback_on_step_end: Callable[[int, int, dict], None] | None = None,
+        callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs: list[str] = ["latents", "audio_latents"],
+    ):
+        r"""
+        The call function to the pipeline for generation.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt (`str`, *optional*):
+                The prompt to guide generation. MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so only a single
+                prompt is accepted.
+            image (`PIL.Image.Image`, *optional*):
+                Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived
+                from its own aspect ratio.
+            last_image (`PIL.Image.Image`, *optional*):
+                Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with
+                `image` it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
+            height (`int`, *optional*):
+                Height of the generated video, a multiple of 32. Defaults, together with `width`, to MiniMax-H3's own
+                768-short-edge canvas for the aspect ratio of `image` (or 16:9 without keyframes).
+            width (`int`, *optional*):
+                Width of the generated video, a multiple of 32.
+            num_frames (`int`, defaults to `124`):
+                Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the VAE can
+                decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+            num_inference_steps (`int`, defaults to `50`):
+                Number of denoising steps.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*):
+                A generator to make generation deterministic. Every noise draw of a request — the keyframe
+                conditioning noise, the video noise and the audio noise, in that order — comes off this one
+                generator, so the same generator state reproduces a sample.
+            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated video noise, of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, height // 16, width // 16)`.
+            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated audio noise, of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+            prompt_embeds (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-computed conditioning of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, as returned by
+                [`~MiniMaxH3Pipeline.encode_prompt`], which skips the conditioner. Must be passed together with
+                `text_token_tags`, and for `fl2va` must have been encoded with the very keyframes passed as `image` /
+                `last_image` — those are still needed here, for their conditioning latents.
+            text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                The per-row modality tags that go with `prompt_embeds`.
+            output_type (`str`, defaults to `"pil"`):
+                The output format of the generated video: `"pil"`, `"np"`, `"pt"` or `"latent"`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+            attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+                Passed to the attention processors, and may carry a `scale` entry for the LoRA layers.
+            callback_on_step_end (`Callable`, *optional*):
+                Called at the end of every denoising step with `(self, step, timestep, callback_kwargs)`. The tensors
+                it receives are named by `callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs`; note that `latents` and `audio_latents`
+                are the packed rows of the whole sequence during the loop.
+            callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs (`list[str]`, defaults to `["latents", "audio_latents"]`):
+                Which local tensors to pass to `callback_on_step_end`.
+
+        Examples:
+
+        Returns:
+            [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The generated video and its soundtrack.
+        """
+        for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
+            if name not in self._callback_tensor_inputs:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs` has to be in {self._callback_tensor_inputs}, got {name}."
+                )
+
+        # 1. Resolve the geometry. MiniMax-H3 was released at a 768 pixel short edge with a 768x1344 area cap, and
+        # the video VAE only encodes 17 * n + 5 frames.
+        self.check_inputs(prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, height, width, num_frames)
+        keyframes = [
+            ImageOps.exif_transpose(keyframe).convert("RGB")
+            for keyframe in (image, last_image)
+            if keyframe is not None
+        ]
+        keyframe_anchors = tuple(
+            anchor for anchor, keyframe in (("first", image), ("last", last_image)) if keyframe is not None
+        )
+        if height is None:
+            height, width = resolve_canvas_size(*(keyframes[0].size if keyframes else (16, 9)))
+        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
+        if aligned_num_frames != num_frames:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {num_frames} up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames}."
+            )
+            num_frames = aligned_num_frames
+
+        latent_height = height // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+        latent_width = width // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+        num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
+        num_audio_latents = audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
+
+        self._attention_kwargs = attention_kwargs
+        self._interrupt = False
+        device = self._execution_device
+
+        # 2. Encode the prompt, including a vision block per keyframe.
+        keyframes = [
+            prepare_keyframe_image(keyframe, height, width, stretch=index == 0)
+            for index, keyframe in enumerate(keyframes)
+        ]
+        if prompt_embeds is None:
+            prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(prompt, keyframes, device=device)
+
+        # 3. Build the packed layout: [text | keyframe conditions | target audio | target video].
+        layout = build_packed_sequence(
+            text_token_tags,
+            num_latent_frames,
+            latent_height,
+            latent_width,
+            num_audio_latents,
+            self.patch_size,
+            keyframe_anchors,
+        )
+        position_ids = layout.position_ids.to(device)
+        token_tags = layout.token_tags.to(device)
+        video_indices = layout.video_indices.to(device)
+        audio_indices = layout.audio_indices.to(device)
+        text_indices = layout.text_indices.to(device)
+
+        # 4. Encode the keyframes and noise them to their conditioning level. The anchors are fixed for the whole
+        # loop: they are re-imposed by construction, since the loop only ever writes the target rows.
+        condition_rows = None
+        if keyframes:
+            condition_rows = self.encode_keyframes(keyframes, device=device)
+            noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
+                ((1, latent_height, latent_width),) * len(keyframes),
+                self.patch_size,
+                self.vae_latent_channels,
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+            )
+            condition_rows = self.scheduler.scale_noise(
+                condition_rows.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
+            )
+
+        # 5. The two schedules, and the noise.
+        self.scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
+        self.audio_scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
+        timesteps, audio_timesteps = self.scheduler.timesteps, self.audio_scheduler.timesteps
+        self._num_timesteps = len(timesteps)
+
+        latents, audio_latents = self.prepare_latents(
+            num_latent_frames,
+            latent_height,
+            latent_width,
+            num_audio_latents,
+            device,
+            generator,
+            latents,
+            audio_latents,
+        )
+        if condition_rows is not None:
+            latents = torch.cat([condition_rows, latents])
+        num_condition_rows = layout.num_condition_video_rows
+
+        # 6. Denoise. One forward per step serves every modality and every noise level at once: the conditioning rows
+        # ride along at their own timestep and are never updated. The row-to-timestep assignment is static per step,
+        # so the whole plan is staged before the loop rather than rebuilt on every one of them.
+        timestep_plan = [
+            tuple(
+                tensor.to(device)
+                for tensor in build_row_timesteps(
+                    layout, float(t), float(audio_t), max(float(t), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG), 1.0
+                )
+            )
+            for t, audio_t in zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)
+        ]
+
+        with self.progress_bar(total=self._num_timesteps) as progress_bar:
+            for i, (t, audio_t) in enumerate(zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)):
+                if self.interrupt:
+                    continue
+
+                unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = timestep_plan[i]
+                noise_pred, audio_noise_pred = self.transformer(
+                    hidden_states=latents[None],
+                    audio_hidden_states=audio_latents[None],
+                    encoder_hidden_states=prompt_embeds,
+                    timestep=unique_timesteps,
+                    timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
+                    token_tags=token_tags,
+                    position_ids=position_ids,
+                    video_indices=video_indices,
+                    audio_indices=audio_indices,
+                    text_indices=text_indices,
+                    attention_kwargs=attention_kwargs,
+                    return_dict=False,
+                )
+
+                latents[num_condition_rows:] = self.scheduler.step(
+                    noise_pred[0, num_condition_rows:].float(),
+                    t,
+                    latents[num_condition_rows:],
+                    return_dict=False,
+                )[0]
+                audio_latents = self.audio_scheduler.step(
+                    audio_noise_pred[0].float(), audio_t, audio_latents, return_dict=False
+                )[0]
+
+                if callback_on_step_end is not None:
+                    callback_kwargs = {}
+                    for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
+                        callback_kwargs[name] = locals()[name]
+                    callback_outputs = callback_on_step_end(self, i, t, callback_kwargs)
+                    latents = callback_outputs.pop("latents", latents)
+                    audio_latents = callback_outputs.pop("audio_latents", audio_latents)
+                    prompt_embeds = callback_outputs.pop("prompt_embeds", prompt_embeds)
+
+                progress_bar.update()
+
+        # 7. Unpack the generated rows. The spatial tiling of the VAE covers the canvas exactly (tiles and overlaps
+        # are both latent-aligned), so the decoded frames need no crop back to `latent_height * 16`.
+        latents = unpatchify_video_tokens(
+            latents[num_condition_rows:],
+            num_latent_frames,
+            latent_height,
+            latent_width,
+            self.vae_latent_channels,
+            self.patch_size,
+        )
+        audio_latents = unpack_audio_tokens(audio_latents, num_audio_latents)
+
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
+        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
+        latents = latents * latents_std + latents_mean
+        audio_latents = audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
+
+        if output_type == "latent":
+            video, audio = latents, audio_latents
+        else:
+            # MiniMax-H3 decodes video under float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32.
+            with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
+                video = self.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+            pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+            video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
+            video = self.video_processor.postprocess_video(video, output_type=output_type)
+
+            # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items.
+            audio = self.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
+
+        self.maybe_free_model_hooks()
+
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (video, audio)
+        return MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput(frames=video, audio=audio)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
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+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
@@ -0,0 +1,903 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+from typing import Any, Callable
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from PIL import Image, ImageOps
+from transformers import Qwen2TokenizerFast, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
+
+from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio, MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging, replace_example_docstring
+from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+from ...video_processor import VideoProcessor
+from ..pipeline_utils import DiffusionPipeline
+from .packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
+    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
+    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
+    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER,
+    align_num_frames,
+    audio_latent_num_frames,
+    build_row_timesteps,
+    keyframe_condition_noise,
+    patchify_video_latents,
+    resolve_canvas_size,
+    unpack_audio_tokens,
+    unpatchify_video_tokens,
+    video_latent_num_frames,
+)
+from .packing_ref2va import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS,
+    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES,
+    MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
+    MiniMaxH3Reference,
+    build_ref2va_packed_sequence,
+    build_ref2va_presentation,
+    prepare_reference_frames,
+    prepare_reference_image,
+    prepare_reference_waveform,
+    reference_kind,
+    reference_media_to_uint8,
+    resample_reference_frames,
+    resolve_reference_image_size,
+    sample_reference_video_frames,
+    trim_reference_num_frames,
+)
+from .pipeline_output import MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
+
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING = """
+    Examples:
+        ```py
+        >>> import torch
+        >>> from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+        >>> from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
+        >>> from diffusers.utils import load_image, load_video
+        >>> from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
+
+        >>> # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: this pipeline loads `transformer_ref/`, while
+        >>> # `MiniMaxH3Pipeline.from_pretrained` on the same repository loads `transformer/`.
+        >>> pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.from_pretrained(
+        ...     "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
+        ... )
+        >>> pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+
+        >>> subject_image = load_image(
+        ...     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
+        ... )
+
+        >>> # A single reference may name its medium directly.
+        >>> output = pipe(
+        ...     prompt="The subject walks toward camera, turning slightly, natural arm swing",
+        ...     image=subject_image,
+        ...     generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
+        ... )
+
+        >>> # Any ordered mix of image, video and audio references goes through `references`, and the order is the
+        >>> # order the model reads them in. A reference takes a path or a URL and decodes it as it is built, rates
+        >>> # included: a video brings its own frame rate and its soundtrack along, and an audio clip its sample rate.
+        >>> output = pipe(
+        ...     prompt="The character speaks in time with the reference recording, natural lip movement",
+        ...     references=[
+        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject_image),
+        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(
+        ...             video="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/hiker.mp4"
+        ...         ),
+        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
+        ...     ],
+        ... )
+
+        >>> # In-memory media instead says which rates it carries, MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps and the audio VAE's own
+        >>> # sample rate by default.
+        >>> motion = load_video("motion_ref.mp4")  # decoded frames, no soundtrack, at the file's own rate
+        >>> output = pipe(
+        ...     prompt="The subject walks toward camera, matching the reference video's shot rhythm",
+        ...     references=[
+        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject_image),
+        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(video=motion, fps=30.0),
+        ...     ],
+        ... )
+
+        >>> encode_video(
+        ...     output.frames[0], fps=24, output_path="output.mp4",
+        ...     audio=output.audio[0], audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
+        ... )
+        ```
+"""
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
+    r"""
+    Pipeline for joint video + audio generation from omni-references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the Ref2VA
+    checkpoint.
+
+    A request carries an ordered list of references — up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total — and
+    MiniMax-H3 packs one block per reference in front of the generated rows, all inside the single sequence its
+    transformer runs full self-attention over. The order is semantic: it labels the references in the prompt
+    presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock,
+    so reordering the same references is a different request.
+
+    Unlike the keyframes of [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`], references do not bind the generated geometry: they are encoded at
+    their own resolution and the target canvas defaults to MiniMax-H3's 16:9. The duration may be left to a reference
+    soundtrack, but only when exactly one reference carries audio.
+
+    The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: `guidance_scale` is fixed at 1.0, there is no negative prompt, and every
+    step runs exactly one forward pass.
+
+    This model inherits from [`DiffusionPipeline`]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods
+    implemented for all pipelines (downloading, saving, running on a particular device, etc.).
+
+    Args:
+        transformer_ref ([`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`]):
+            The packed-sequence transformer of the Ref2VA checkpoint partition. It is named `transformer_ref` so that
+            one repository can hold both partitions, `transformer/` for [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] and `transformer_ref/`
+            for this one, and either pipeline picks its own weights up with no extra argument.
+        vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`]):
+            Video VAE, 16x spatially and 4x temporally. Also encodes the image and video references.
+        audio_vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`]):
+            Audio VAE, a waveform autoencoder at 32 kHz with 40 latents per second. Also encodes the reference
+            soundtracks.
+        text_encoder ([`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`]):
+            The conditioner. MiniMax-H3 reads the hidden state after its 50th decoder layer, so the released 64-layer
+            checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused; a checkpoint truncated below 51 layers is
+            rejected, since the last hidden state of a truncated stack is post-norm and roughly an order of magnitude
+            off in scale.
+        tokenizer ([`Qwen2TokenizerFast`]):
+            Tokenizer of the conditioner.
+        processor ([`Qwen3VLProcessor`]):
+            Processor of the conditioner, used to turn the image and video references into vision patches.
+        scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
+            The video-latent schedule (`shift = 12.0` in the released checkpoint).
+        audio_scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
+            The audio-latent schedule (`shift = 3.0` in the released checkpoint).
+    """
+
+    model_cpu_offload_seq = "text_encoder->transformer_ref->vae->audio_vae"
+    _callback_tensor_inputs = ["latents", "audio_latents", "prompt_embeds"]
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        transformer_ref: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
+        vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
+        audio_vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
+        text_encoder: Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
+        tokenizer: Qwen2TokenizerFast,
+        processor: Qwen3VLProcessor,
+        scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
+        audio_scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.register_modules(
+            transformer_ref=transformer_ref,
+            vae=vae,
+            audio_vae=audio_vae,
+            text_encoder=text_encoder,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            processor=processor,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            audio_scheduler=audio_scheduler,
+        )
+
+        self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio = (
+            self.vae.spatial_compression_ratio if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 16
+        )
+        self.vae_latent_channels = self.vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 24
+        self.audio_sampling_rate = (
+            self.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32000
+        )
+        self.audio_latent_channels = (
+            self.audio_vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32
+        )
+        self.patch_size = (
+            tuple(self.transformer_ref.config.patch_size)
+            if getattr(self, "transformer_ref", None) is not None
+            else (1, 2, 2)
+        )
+        # The video VAE decodes into ImageNet-normalized RGB over a [0, 1] base range, which the pipeline reverts
+        # itself, so the processor must not denormalize a second time.
+        self.video_processor = VideoProcessor(vae_scale_factor=self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio, do_normalize=False)
+
+    def check_inputs(self, prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, references, height, width, num_frames):
+        if prompt is not None and prompt_embeds is not None:
+            raise ValueError("Pass either `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`, not both.")
+        if prompt is None and prompt_embeds is None:
+            raise ValueError("Pass one of `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`.")
+        if prompt is not None and not isinstance(prompt, str):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
+                f"{type(prompt)}."
+            )
+        if (prompt_embeds is None) != (text_token_tags is None):
+            raise ValueError("`prompt_embeds` and `text_token_tags` have to be passed together.")
+        if prompt_embeds is not None and prompt_embeds.shape[1] != text_token_tags.shape[0]:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`text_token_tags` must hold one tag per row of `prompt_embeds`, got {text_token_tags.shape[0]} tags "
+                f"for {prompt_embeds.shape[1]} rows."
+            )
+        if (height is None) != (width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
+        if height is not None and (height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got {height}x{width}."
+            )
+        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
+        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        aligned_num_frames = None if num_frames is None else align_num_frames(num_frames)
+        duration = None if aligned_num_frames is None else aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
+        if duration is not None and not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
+                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
+                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {num_frames} (rounded up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
+            )
+
+        if not references:
+            raise ValueError("`ref2va` needs at least one reference; use `MiniMaxH3Pipeline` for text-only requests.")
+        kinds = [reference_kind(index, entry) for index, entry in enumerate(references)]
+        for kind, limit in (
+            ("image", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES),
+            ("video", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS),
+            ("audio", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS),
+        ):
+            if kinds.count(kind) > limit:
+                raise ValueError(f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {limit} {kind} references, got {kinds.count(kind)}.")
+        if len(kinds) > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES} references in total, got {len(kinds)}."
+            )
+        if set(kinds) == {"audio"}:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "An audio reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference and cannot be used "
+                "on its own."
+            )
+
+    def prepare_references(
+        self, references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference], num_frames: int | None
+    ) -> tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]:
+        r"""
+        Resolve the references and, if it was left open, the duration they imply.
+
+        Every reference is prepared at its own resolution: an image is resized to a 2048 pixel short edge, a video is
+        resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps, rescaled onto the 768 pixel canvas of *its own* aspect ratio and
+        truncated to the generated frame count, and a soundtrack is put on the audio VAE's sample rate and truncated to
+        the generated duration. None of this touches the target canvas.
+
+        A reference that left its `fps` or its `sample_rate` out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own rate, and
+        its frames or its samples then flow through untouched.
+
+        A video reference goes through the two passes the reference implementation's `ffmpeg` decode applied, in the
+        same order: the constant frame rate resample of `resample_reference_frames` and the LANCZOS rescale of
+        `prepare_reference_frames`. Frames handed over at 24 fps and already at the canvas their own aspect ratio
+        resolves to therefore reach the VAE untouched, which is the parity-exact route.
+
+        Args:
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
+                The `references` argument of [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.__call__`].
+            num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
+                The requested frame count, or `None` to derive it from the single audio-bearing reference.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]`: the prepared references, in packed order, and the frame
+            count.
+        """
+        resolved = [
+            MiniMaxH3PreparedReference(kind=reference_kind(index, entry), has_audio=entry.has_audio)
+            for index, entry in enumerate(references)
+        ]
+
+        # The duration may be left open, but then exactly one reference may carry audio, or the request is ambiguous.
+        if num_frames is None:
+            audio_bearing = [index for index, reference in enumerate(resolved) if reference.has_audio]
+            if len(audio_bearing) != 1:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "`num_frames` may only be left to the references when exactly one of them carries audio, got "
+                    f"{len(audio_bearing)}."
+                )
+            index = audio_bearing[0]
+            sample_rate = references[index].sample_rate or self.audio_sampling_rate
+            duration = references[index].audio.shape[-1] / sample_rate
+            if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, outside the "
+                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} to {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates."
+                )
+            num_frames = align_num_frames(round(duration * MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
+            # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the
+            # ceiling has to hold for: a 14.99 second soundtrack rounds up to 362 frames, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+            if num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, which rounds up to {num_frames} frames "
+                    f"(`17 * n + 5`), i.e. {num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS:g} seconds — past the "
+                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates. Pass `num_frames` to generate a "
+                    "shorter video from this soundtrack."
+                )
+        num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
+
+        for reference, entry in zip(resolved, references):
+            if reference.kind == "image":
+                image = entry.image
+                if not isinstance(image, Image.Image):
+                    image = Image.fromarray(reference_media_to_uint8(image))
+                image = ImageOps.exif_transpose(image).convert("RGB")
+                height, width = resolve_reference_image_size(*image.size)
+                reference.image = prepare_reference_image(image, height, width)
+            elif reference.kind == "video":
+                frames = resample_reference_frames(reference_media_to_uint8(entry.video), float(entry.fps))
+                reference.frames = prepare_reference_frames(frames, num_frames)
+            if reference.has_audio:
+                reference.waveform = prepare_reference_waveform(
+                    entry.audio,
+                    entry.sample_rate or self.audio_sampling_rate,
+                    self.audio_sampling_rate,
+                    max_duration=num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
+                )
+        return resolved, num_frames
+
+    def encode_prompt(
+        self,
+        prompt: str,
+        references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+        device: torch.device | None = None,
+        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request and encode it.
+
+        Every reference prepends a label, in request order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision
+        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio (a waveform never reaches the conditioner), and
+        `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries
+        sound is labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The
+        prompt then follows, verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are
+        tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
+                The prepared references, in packed order, as returned by
+                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.prepare_references`].
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
+            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
+            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
+        """
+        device = device or self._execution_device
+        dtype = dtype or self.transformer_ref.dtype
+
+        num_layers = self.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
+                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
+                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
+                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
+            )
+
+        merge_size = self.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
+        pixel_values, image_grid_thw, image_token_counts = None, None, []
+        images = [reference.image for reference in references if reference.kind == "image"]
+        if images:
+            vision = self.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
+            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
+            image_token_counts = [int(grid.prod()) // merge_size for grid in image_grid_thw]
+
+        pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw, video_block_token_counts = None, None, []
+        videos = [reference for reference in references if reference.kind == "video"]
+        if videos:
+            sampled = [sample_reference_video_frames(reference.frames) for reference in videos]
+            for reference, (_, block_timestamps) in zip(videos, sampled):
+                reference.block_timestamps = block_timestamps
+            vision = self.processor.video_processor(
+                videos=[np.stack(frames) for frames, _ in sampled], do_sample_frames=False, return_tensors="pt"
+            )
+            pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values_videos"], vision["video_grid_thw"]
+            video_block_token_counts = [int(grid[1]) * int(grid[2]) // merge_size for grid in video_grid_thw]
+            for reference, grid in zip(videos, video_grid_thw):
+                if int(grid[0]) != len(reference.block_timestamps):
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"The processor merged a reference video into {int(grid[0])} vision blocks, but MiniMax-H3 "
+                        f"labels {len(reference.block_timestamps)} of them."
+                    )
+
+        token_ids, token_tags = build_ref2va_presentation(
+            self.tokenizer, prompt, references, image_token_counts, video_block_token_counts
+        )
+        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
+        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
+        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
+            self.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+        outputs = self.text_encoder.model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
+            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
+            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, self.text_encoder.dtype),
+            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
+            pixel_values_videos=(
+                None if pixel_values_videos is None else pixel_values_videos.to(device, self.text_encoder.dtype)
+            ),
+            video_grid_thw=None if video_grid_thw is None else video_grid_thw.to(device),
+            use_cache=False,
+            output_hidden_states=True,
+        )
+        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
+
+    def encode_references(
+        self, references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], device: torch.device | None = None
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor | None, torch.Tensor | None]:
+        r"""
+        Encode the references into packed conditioning rows, and resolve their latent geometry.
+
+        Image and video references go through the video VAE with the same recipe the `fl2va` keyframes use: the
+        posterior is *sampled* under a generator seeded with 42 independently of the request seed, and the sampled
+        latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized. An image is a single frame and is encoded by the spatial
+        encoder alone, while a video reference goes through the 17-frames-per-5-latents temporal chunking. Reference
+        soundtracks instead take the posterior *mean*, and are never sampled.
+
+        Args:
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
+                The prepared references, in packed order. Their latent geometry is filled in here.
+            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAEs on.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(num_condition_video_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`
+            video rows and the `(num_condition_audio_rows, audio_latent_channels)` audio rows, both float32 on CPU and
+            both `None` when the references carry no such rows.
+        """
+        device = device or self._execution_device
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, 1, -1)
+        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_std).view(1, 1, -1)
+
+        video_rows, audio_rows = [], []
+        for reference in references:
+            if reference.kind != "audio":
+                if reference.kind == "image":
+                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(reference.image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
+                else:
+                    frames = reference.frames[: trim_reference_num_frames(reference.frames.shape[0])]
+                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(frames.copy()).to(device).permute(3, 0, 1, 2)[None]
+                pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
+                # A single frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a video goes through the temporal
+                # chunking, which is what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+                moments = self.vae._encode_clip(pixels) if reference.kind == "image" else self.vae._encode(pixels)
+                posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
+                latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
+                # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
+                # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
+                latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
+                reference.num_latent_frames = latents.shape[2]
+                reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width = latents.shape[3], latents.shape[4]
+                video_rows.append(patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, self.patch_size))
+
+            if reference.has_audio:
+                posterior = self.audio_vae.encode(reference.waveform.to(device)[:, None], return_dict=False)[0]
+                # Channel-major rows: the two stereo channels are two batch items of the mono audio VAE.
+                latents = posterior.mode().float().cpu().transpose(1, 2)
+                reference.num_audio_latents = latents.shape[1]
+                normalized = (latents - audio_latents_mean) / audio_latents_std
+                audio_rows.append(normalized.reshape(-1, self.audio_latent_channels))
+
+        return (
+            torch.cat(video_rows) if video_rows else None,
+            torch.cat(audio_rows) if audio_rows else None,
+        )
+
+    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.prepare_latents
+    def prepare_latents(
+        self,
+        num_latent_frames: int,
+        latent_height: int,
+        latent_width: int,
+        num_audio_latents: int,
+        device: torch.device,
+        generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
+        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Draw the initial noise of both modalities and pack it into transformer rows.
+
+        A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
+        reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
+        [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
+        that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
+        `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
+
+        Args:
+            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of video latent frames.
+            latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
+            latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
+            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
+            device (`torch.device`): The device the rows are drawn on.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
+            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+                latent_width)`, used instead of the draw.
+            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the video rows and the channel-major audio rows.
+        """
+        if latents is None:
+            latents = randn_tensor(
+                (1, self.vae_latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+            )
+        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(torch.float32), self.patch_size)
+
+        if audio_latents is None:
+            audio_rows = randn_tensor(
+                (num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, self.audio_latent_channels),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+            )
+        else:
+            audio_rows = audio_latents.to(torch.float32).permute(0, 2, 1).reshape(-1, self.audio_latent_channels)
+        return video_rows.to(device), audio_rows.to(device)
+
+    @property
+    def num_timesteps(self):
+        return self._num_timesteps
+
+    @property
+    def attention_kwargs(self):
+        return self._attention_kwargs
+
+    @property
+    def interrupt(self):
+        return self._interrupt
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    @replace_example_docstring(EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING)
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        prompt: str | None = None,
+        references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference] | None = None,
+        image: str | os.PathLike | Image.Image | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        video: str | os.PathLike | list[Image.Image] | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        fps: float | None = None,
+        audio: str | os.PathLike | torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        sample_rate: int | None = None,
+        height: int | None = None,
+        width: int | None = None,
+        num_frames: int | None = None,
+        num_inference_steps: int = 50,
+        generator: torch.Generator | None = None,
+        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        prompt_embeds: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        text_token_tags: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+        output_type: str = "pil",
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+        attention_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+        callback_on_step_end: Callable[[int, int, dict], None] | None = None,
+        callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs: list[str] = ["latents", "audio_latents"],
+    ):
+        r"""
+        The call function to the pipeline for generation.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt (`str`, *optional*):
+                The prompt to guide generation. MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so only a single
+                prompt is accepted.
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
+                The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: it labels them in the
+                prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
+                request. Every [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] carries exactly one medium, which names its modality, and it is
+                in-memory media by the time it reaches this pipeline: a path or a URL was decoded when the reference
+                was built, so no pipeline of this model opens a media file.
+
+                - `MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image)` — a subject, style or scene reference, at most 9 of them,
+                - `MiniMaxH3Reference(video=video)` — a motion and camera reference, at most 3. Its `fps` is the rate
+                  the frames carry, a decoded file's own or 24.0 for in-memory frames, which is MiniMax-H3's own clock:
+                  anything else is resampled onto it by dropping and duplicating whole frames, exactly as the reference
+                  implementation's decode did. The soundtrack may be passed alongside, as `audio`, and is then
+                  conditioned on as this reference's own, packed immediately before its frames,
+                - `MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=audio)` — a voice or music reference, at most 3, which never reaches the
+                  conditioner and is encoded by the audio VAE alone. Its waveform is a `(channels, num_samples)` mono
+                  or stereo tensor, at the `sample_rate` it says it carries or the audio VAE's own, and is resampled
+                  onto the audio VAE's rate.
+
+                At most 12 references in total, and audio references cannot be the only ones.
+            image (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                A single image reference, the same request as `references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image)]`. Mutually
+                exclusive with `references`.
+            video (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                A single video reference, the same request as `references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(video=video)]`. Mutually
+                exclusive with `references`.
+            fps (`float`, *optional*):
+                The frame rate `video` carries its frames at, only read for a single `video` reference: a `references`
+                list carries the rate of every video on the reference itself. Left out, it is the rate a decoded file
+                reports and MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps for in-memory frames.
+            audio (`str`, `os.PathLike` or `torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`, *optional*):
+                A single audio reference, the same request as `references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=audio)]`, or the
+                soundtrack of a `video` passed with it. Mutually exclusive with `references`, and rejected on its own,
+                as an audio reference has to be paired with an image or a video.
+            sample_rate (`int`, *optional*):
+                The rate `audio` carries its samples at. Left out, it is the rate a decoded file reports and, for an
+                in-memory waveform, the audio VAE's own.
+            height (`int`, *optional*):
+                Height of the generated video, a multiple of 32. Defaults, together with `width`, to MiniMax-H3's own
+                768-short-edge 16:9 canvas — references never bind the generated geometry.
+            width (`int`, *optional*):
+                Width of the generated video, a multiple of 32.
+            num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
+                Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the VAE can
+                decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. May be left out, but only when
+                exactly one reference carries audio, in which case the duration is that soundtrack's.
+            num_inference_steps (`int`, defaults to `50`):
+                Number of denoising steps.
+            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*):
+                A generator to make generation deterministic. Every noise draw of a request — the reference
+                conditioning noise, the video noise and the audio noise, in that order — comes off this one
+                generator, so the same generator state reproduces a sample.
+            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated video noise, of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, height // 16, width // 16)`.
+            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-generated audio noise, of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+            prompt_embeds (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                Pre-computed conditioning of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, as returned by
+                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.encode_prompt`], which skips the conditioner. Must be passed together with
+                `text_token_tags`, and must have been encoded from the very references passed as `references` — those
+                are still needed here, for their conditioning latents.
+            text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                The per-row modality tags that go with `prompt_embeds`.
+            output_type (`str`, defaults to `"pil"`):
+                The output format of the generated video: `"pil"`, `"np"`, `"pt"` or `"latent"`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+            attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+                Passed to the attention processors, and may carry a `scale` entry for the LoRA layers.
+            callback_on_step_end (`Callable`, *optional*):
+                Called at the end of every denoising step with `(self, step, timestep, callback_kwargs)`. The tensors
+                it receives are named by `callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs`; note that `latents` and `audio_latents`
+                are the packed rows of the whole sequence during the loop, references included.
+            callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs (`list[str]`, defaults to `["latents", "audio_latents"]`):
+                Which local tensors to pass to `callback_on_step_end`.
+
+        Examples:
+
+        Returns:
+            [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] or `tuple`:
+                The generated video and its soundtrack.
+        """
+        for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
+            if name not in self._callback_tensor_inputs:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs` has to be in {self._callback_tensor_inputs}, got {name}."
+                )
+
+        # 0. A single-reference request may name its medium directly, which is the very same request as a one-item
+        # `references` list: build that list here, so there is one code path from now on.
+        if image is not None or video is not None or audio is not None:
+            if references is not None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Pass either `references` or a single reference as `image` / `video` / `audio`, not both."
+                )
+            references = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image, video=video, fps=fps, audio=audio, sample_rate=sample_rate)]
+
+        # 1. Resolve the geometry and prepare the references. The canvas is MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 unless asked
+        # otherwise, and the duration may come from a reference soundtrack.
+        self.check_inputs(prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, references, height, width, num_frames)
+        if height is None:
+            height, width = resolve_canvas_size(16, 9)
+        requested_num_frames = num_frames
+        references, num_frames = self.prepare_references(references, num_frames)
+        if requested_num_frames is not None and requested_num_frames != num_frames:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {requested_num_frames} up "
+                f"to {num_frames}."
+            )
+
+        latent_height = height // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+        latent_width = width // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+        num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
+        num_audio_latents = audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
+
+        self._attention_kwargs = attention_kwargs
+        self._interrupt = False
+        device = self._execution_device
+
+        # 2. Encode the prompt, including a labelled vision block per image and video reference.
+        if prompt_embeds is None:
+            prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(prompt, references, device=device)
+
+        # 3. Encode the references, then noise the visual ones to their conditioning level. Audio references are the
+        # exception: they ride along clean, at `t = 1.0`. The anchors are fixed for the whole loop, since the loop
+        # only ever writes the target rows.
+        condition_rows, audio_condition_rows = self.encode_references(references, device=device)
+        if condition_rows is not None:
+            noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
+                tuple(
+                    (reference.num_latent_frames, reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width)
+                    for reference in references
+                    if reference.kind != "audio"
+                ),
+                self.patch_size,
+                self.vae_latent_channels,
+                generator=generator,
+                device=device,
+            )
+            condition_rows = self.scheduler.scale_noise(
+                condition_rows.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
+            )
+        if audio_condition_rows is not None:
+            audio_condition_rows = audio_condition_rows.to(device)
+
+        # 4. Build the packed layout: [text | reference blocks | target audio | target video].
+        layout = build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
+            text_token_tags,
+            references,
+            num_latent_frames,
+            latent_height,
+            latent_width,
+            num_audio_latents,
+            self.patch_size,
+        )
+        position_ids = layout.position_ids.to(device)
+        token_tags = layout.token_tags.to(device)
+        video_indices = layout.video_indices.to(device)
+        audio_indices = layout.audio_indices.to(device)
+        text_indices = layout.text_indices.to(device)
+
+        # 5. The two schedules, and the noise.
+        self.scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
+        self.audio_scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
+        timesteps, audio_timesteps = self.scheduler.timesteps, self.audio_scheduler.timesteps
+        self._num_timesteps = len(timesteps)
+
+        latents, audio_latents = self.prepare_latents(
+            num_latent_frames,
+            latent_height,
+            latent_width,
+            num_audio_latents,
+            device,
+            generator,
+            latents,
+            audio_latents,
+        )
+        if condition_rows is not None:
+            latents = torch.cat([condition_rows, latents])
+        if audio_condition_rows is not None:
+            audio_latents = torch.cat([audio_condition_rows, audio_latents])
+        num_condition_rows = layout.num_condition_video_rows
+        num_condition_audio_rows = layout.num_condition_audio_rows
+
+        # 6. Denoise. One forward per step serves every modality and every noise level at once: the reference rows
+        # ride along at their own timestep and are never updated. The row-to-timestep assignment is static per step,
+        # so the whole plan is staged before the loop rather than rebuilt on every one of them.
+        timestep_plan = [
+            tuple(
+                tensor.to(device)
+                for tensor in build_row_timesteps(
+                    layout, float(t), float(audio_t), max(float(t), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG), 1.0
+                )
+            )
+            for t, audio_t in zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)
+        ]
+
+        with self.progress_bar(total=self._num_timesteps) as progress_bar:
+            for i, (t, audio_t) in enumerate(zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)):
+                if self.interrupt:
+                    continue
+
+                unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = timestep_plan[i]
+                noise_pred, audio_noise_pred = self.transformer_ref(
+                    hidden_states=latents[None],
+                    audio_hidden_states=audio_latents[None],
+                    encoder_hidden_states=prompt_embeds,
+                    timestep=unique_timesteps,
+                    timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
+                    token_tags=token_tags,
+                    position_ids=position_ids,
+                    video_indices=video_indices,
+                    audio_indices=audio_indices,
+                    text_indices=text_indices,
+                    attention_kwargs=attention_kwargs,
+                    return_dict=False,
+                )
+
+                latents[num_condition_rows:] = self.scheduler.step(
+                    noise_pred[0, num_condition_rows:].float(),
+                    t,
+                    latents[num_condition_rows:],
+                    return_dict=False,
+                )[0]
+                audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:] = self.audio_scheduler.step(
+                    audio_noise_pred[0, num_condition_audio_rows:].float(),
+                    audio_t,
+                    audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:],
+                    return_dict=False,
+                )[0]
+
+                if callback_on_step_end is not None:
+                    callback_kwargs = {}
+                    for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
+                        callback_kwargs[name] = locals()[name]
+                    callback_outputs = callback_on_step_end(self, i, t, callback_kwargs)
+                    latents = callback_outputs.pop("latents", latents)
+                    audio_latents = callback_outputs.pop("audio_latents", audio_latents)
+                    prompt_embeds = callback_outputs.pop("prompt_embeds", prompt_embeds)
+
+                progress_bar.update()
+
+        # 7. Unpack the generated rows. The spatial tiling of the VAE covers the canvas exactly (tiles and overlaps
+        # are both latent-aligned), so the decoded frames need no crop back to `latent_height * 16`.
+        latents = unpatchify_video_tokens(
+            latents[num_condition_rows:],
+            num_latent_frames,
+            latent_height,
+            latent_width,
+            self.vae_latent_channels,
+            self.patch_size,
+        )
+        audio_latents = unpack_audio_tokens(audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:], num_audio_latents)
+
+        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
+        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
+        latents = latents * latents_std + latents_mean
+        audio_latents = audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
+
+        if output_type == "latent":
+            video, audio = latents, audio_latents
+        else:
+            # MiniMax-H3 decodes video under float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32.
+            with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
+                video = self.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+            pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+            video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
+            video = self.video_processor.postprocess_video(video, output_type=output_type)
+
+            # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items.
+            audio = self.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+            audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
+
+        self.maybe_free_model_hooks()
+
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (video, audio)
+        return MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput(frames=video, audio=audio)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b58eee5ff98c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import numpy as np
+import PIL.Image
+import torch
+
+from ...utils import BaseOutput
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput(BaseOutput):
+    r"""
+    Output class for MiniMax-H3 pipelines, which always generate video and audio jointly.
+
+    Args:
+        frames (`torch.Tensor`, `np.ndarray`, or `list[list[PIL.Image.Image]]`):
+            The generated video. A nested list of length `batch_size` holding `num_frames` PIL images each, or a NumPy
+            array / torch tensor of shape `(batch_size, num_frames, channels, height, width)`.
+        audio (`torch.Tensor`):
+            The generated soundtrack, of shape `(batch_size, 2, num_samples)` at the audio VAE's sampling rate
+            (32 kHz). Muxing it onto the frames is left to the caller, e.g. with
+            [`~utils.export_utils.encode_video`].
+    """
+
+    frames: torch.Tensor | np.ndarray | list[list[PIL.Image.Image]]
+    audio: torch.Tensor
diff --git a/src/diffusers/schedulers/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/schedulers/__init__.py
index 9b54c669293c..c0e46ef445df 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/schedulers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/schedulers/__init__.py
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
     _import_structure["scheduling_k_dpm_2_discrete"] = ["KDPM2DiscreteScheduler"]
     _import_structure["scheduling_lcm"] = ["LCMScheduler"]
     _import_structure["scheduling_ltx_euler_ancestral_rf"] = ["LTXEulerAncestralRFScheduler"]
+    _import_structure["scheduling_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Scheduler"]
     _import_structure["scheduling_pndm"] = ["PNDMScheduler"]
     _import_structure["scheduling_repaint"] = ["RePaintScheduler"]
     _import_structure["scheduling_sasolver"] = ["SASolverScheduler"]
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@
         from .scheduling_k_dpm_2_discrete import KDPM2DiscreteScheduler
         from .scheduling_lcm import LCMScheduler
         from .scheduling_ltx_euler_ancestral_rf import LTXEulerAncestralRFScheduler
+        from .scheduling_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
         from .scheduling_pndm import PNDMScheduler
         from .scheduling_repaint import RePaintScheduler
         from .scheduling_sasolver import SASolverScheduler
diff --git a/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..db3217060c15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,288 @@
+# Copyright 2025 The MiniMax authors and The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Rectified-flow Euler scheduler for MiniMax-H3.
+
+Three things make this incompatible with a [`FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler`] config, which is why
+it is a separate class:
+
+1. **The velocity sign is reversed.** MiniMax-H3's transformer predicts a *data-ward* velocity, so
+   `x0 = x_t + sigma * v` instead of diffusers' `x0 = x_t - sigma * v`.
+2. **Timesteps are `t = 1 - sigma` in `[0, 1]`**, with `t = 1` meaning *clean*. Flow-match
+   schedulers expose `timesteps = sigma * num_train_timesteps`, i.e. the opposite direction on a
+   1000x scale. The transformer's AdaLN consumes the H3 convention directly.
+3. **The sigma grid starts from `linspace(1, 0, num_inference_steps)`** — the terminal zero is part
+   of the requested step count, and duplicates created by the shift are collapsed with
+   `unique_consecutive`. `FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler` instead builds
+   `linspace(1, 1/num_train_timesteps, ...)` and appends a terminal sigma afterwards, so
+   `len(sigmas)` and every interior value differ.
+
+Everything else is ordinary rectified flow: the exponential shift `sigma' = s*sigma / (1 + (s-1)*sigma)`,
+and an Euler update written as the `x_t` / `x0` blend `x_next = r*x_t + (1 - r)*x0` with
+`r = sigma_next / sigma`, evaluated in float32. Despite the reference class being named
+"euler ancestral", `eta` is 0 — no noise is ever re-injected.
+
+MiniMax-H3 runs **two schedules per request**, one per modality (`shift=12.0` for video,
+`shift=3.0` for audio). The modality is not a property of the scheduler: a pipeline holds two
+instances, e.g. `scheduler` and `audio_scheduler`.
+"""
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import torch
+
+from ..configuration_utils import ConfigMixin, register_to_config
+from ..utils import BaseOutput
+from .scheduling_utils import SchedulerMixin
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput(BaseOutput):
+    """
+    Output class for the scheduler's `step` function output.
+
+    Args:
+        prev_sample (`torch.FloatTensor`):
+            Computed sample `x_{t+1}` for the next step of the denoising loop.
+    """
+
+    prev_sample: torch.FloatTensor
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Scheduler(SchedulerMixin, ConfigMixin):
+    r"""
+    Rectified-flow Euler scheduler (`eta = 0`) with an exponential sigma shift, as used by MiniMax-H3.
+
+    Args:
+        shift (`float`, defaults to `12.0`):
+            Exponential shift applied to the sigma grid, `sigma' = s*sigma / (1 + (s-1)*sigma)`. The
+            released checkpoints use `12.0` for video latents and `3.0` for audio latents.
+    """
+
+    _compatibles = []
+    order = 1
+
+    @register_to_config
+    def __init__(self, shift: float = 12.0):
+        if shift <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"`shift` must be positive, got {shift}.")
+
+        self.num_inference_steps: int | None = None
+        self.sigmas: torch.Tensor | None = None
+        self.timesteps: torch.Tensor | None = None
+        self._shift = float(shift)
+        self._step_index: int | None = None
+        self._begin_index: int | None = None
+
+    @property
+    def shift(self) -> float:
+        """The exponential shift currently applied to the sigma grid."""
+        return self._shift
+
+    @property
+    def step_index(self) -> int | None:
+        """Index of the step the scheduler is about to take. Increases by one after each `step`."""
+        return self._step_index
+
+    @property
+    def begin_index(self) -> int | None:
+        """Index of the first step, set from a pipeline through [`~MiniMaxH3Scheduler.set_begin_index`]."""
+        return self._begin_index
+
+    def set_begin_index(self, begin_index: int = 0) -> None:
+        """
+        Sets the begin index for the scheduler.
+
+        Args:
+            begin_index (`int`, defaults to `0`):
+                The begin index for the scheduler.
+        """
+        self._begin_index = begin_index
+
+    def set_shift(self, shift: float) -> None:
+        """
+        Overrides the configured sigma shift; call before [`~MiniMaxH3Scheduler.set_timesteps`].
+
+        MiniMax-H3 exposes this per request as `flow_shift` (video) / `audio_flow_shift` (audio).
+
+        Args:
+            shift (`float`):
+                The exponential shift to use for the next schedule.
+        """
+        if shift <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"`shift` must be positive, got {shift}.")
+        self._shift = float(shift)
+
+    def set_timesteps(
+        self,
+        num_inference_steps: int | None = None,
+        device: str | torch.device | None = None,
+        sigmas: list[float] | torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        r"""
+        Build the sigma / timestep schedule.
+
+        The grid is `linspace(1, 0, num_inference_steps)` pushed through the exponential shift, with
+        consecutive duplicates collapsed. The terminal `0` is already part of that grid — the shift maps
+        `0` to exactly `0` — so the schedule holds `num_inference_steps` sigmas and drives
+        `num_inference_steps - 1` model evaluations, exposed as `self.timesteps = 1 - sigmas[:-1]`.
+
+        Args:
+            num_inference_steps (`int`, *optional*):
+                Number of sigma grid points, terminal `0` included. Ignored when `sigmas` is given.
+            device (`str` or `torch.device`, *optional*):
+                Device the schedule tensors are moved to. The grid itself is always built on CPU in
+                float32 so the schedule does not depend on the accelerator.
+            sigmas (`list[float]` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+                A fully-formed sigma schedule, used verbatim (no shifting, no deduplication). It must be
+                strictly decreasing and terminate at `0.0`.
+        """
+        if sigmas is None:
+            if num_inference_steps is None or num_inference_steps < 2:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "`set_timesteps` requires either an explicit `sigmas` schedule or "
+                    f"`num_inference_steps` >= 2, got {num_inference_steps}."
+                )
+
+            # The rectified-flow sigma range is fixed at [1.0, 0.0].
+            base = torch.linspace(1.0, 0.0, int(num_inference_steps), dtype=torch.float32)
+            sigmas = self._shift * base / (1 + (self._shift - 1) * base)
+            # The shift compresses the grid near sigma = 1; collapse any float32 collisions it creates.
+            sigmas = torch.unique_consecutive(sigmas)
+        else:
+            sigmas = torch.as_tensor(sigmas, dtype=torch.float32).flatten().cpu()
+            if sigmas.numel() < 2 or not bool((sigmas[1:] < sigmas[:-1]).all()) or sigmas[-1].item() != 0.0:
+                raise ValueError("`sigmas` must hold at least two strictly decreasing values ending at 0.0.")
+
+        self.sigmas = sigmas.to(device=device)
+        # t = 1 - sigma, and t = 1 is clean. The terminal sigma has no model evaluation.
+        self.timesteps = (1.0 - sigmas[:-1]).to(device=device)
+        self.num_inference_steps = int(self.timesteps.numel())
+        self._step_index = None
+        self._begin_index = None
+
+    def index_for_timestep(self, timestep: float | torch.Tensor) -> int:
+        """
+        Map a timestep value to its index in the schedule.
+
+        Args:
+            timestep (`float` or `torch.Tensor`):
+                A value taken from `self.timesteps`. The schedule is strictly increasing in `t`, so the
+                match is unique.
+
+        Returns:
+            `int`: The index of `timestep`.
+        """
+        if isinstance(timestep, torch.Tensor):
+            timestep = timestep.to(self.timesteps.device)
+        indices = (self.timesteps == timestep).nonzero()
+        if len(indices) == 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Passed `timestep` is not in `self.timesteps`. Make sure to use values from `scheduler.timesteps`."
+            )
+        return indices[0].item()
+
+    def scale_noise(
+        self,
+        sample: torch.FloatTensor,
+        timestep: float | torch.FloatTensor,
+        noise: torch.FloatTensor,
+    ) -> torch.FloatTensor:
+        r"""
+        Rectified-flow forward process, in MiniMax-H3's `t` convention: `x_t = t*x_0 + (1 - t)*noise`.
+
+        MiniMax-H3 uses this to noise its conditioning anchors, where `t` is the `noise_aug` level
+        rather than a schedule entry, so `timestep` is taken at face value and is *not* looked up in
+        `self.timesteps`.
+
+        Args:
+            sample (`torch.FloatTensor`):
+                The clean sample `x_0`.
+            timestep (`float` or `torch.FloatTensor`):
+                The target time in `[0, 1]`; `1` returns `sample` unchanged.
+            noise (`torch.FloatTensor`):
+                The noise to mix in.
+
+        Returns:
+            `torch.FloatTensor`: The noised sample.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(timestep, torch.Tensor):
+            timestep = torch.tensor(timestep, dtype=sample.dtype, device=sample.device)
+        timestep = timestep.to(device=sample.device, dtype=sample.dtype)
+        while timestep.ndim < sample.ndim:
+            timestep = timestep.unsqueeze(-1)
+        return timestep * sample + (1.0 - timestep) * noise
+
+    def step(
+        self,
+        model_output: torch.FloatTensor,
+        timestep: float | torch.FloatTensor,
+        sample: torch.FloatTensor,
+        return_dict: bool = True,
+    ) -> MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput | tuple:
+        r"""
+        Take one Euler (`eta = 0`) step.
+
+        The model output is a data-ward velocity, so the denoised estimate is
+        `x0 = x_t + (1 - t) * v` — note the `+`, the opposite of the usual flow-match convention.
+        The update is then the blend `x_next = r*x_t + (1 - r)*x0` with `r = sigma_next / sigma`,
+        evaluated in float32 for half-precision samples.
+
+        Args:
+            model_output (`torch.FloatTensor`):
+                The transformer's velocity prediction at `timestep`.
+            timestep (`float` or `torch.FloatTensor`):
+                The current timestep, one of `self.timesteps` (so `timestep == 1 - sigma`).
+            sample (`torch.FloatTensor`):
+                The current sample `x_t`.
+            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to return a [`MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput`] or `tuple`: the sample for the next step.
+        """
+        if isinstance(timestep, int) or (isinstance(timestep, torch.Tensor) and not timestep.is_floating_point()):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Passing integer indices (e.g. from `enumerate(timesteps)`) as timesteps to"
+                " `MiniMaxH3Scheduler.step()` is not supported. Make sure to pass one of the"
+                " `scheduler.timesteps` values."
+            )
+
+        if self._step_index is None:
+            self._step_index = self.index_for_timestep(timestep) if self._begin_index is None else self._begin_index
+
+        # x0 from the data-ward velocity. The sigma used here is recovered from the *timestep* the
+        # transformer was conditioned on, whereas the Euler ratio below uses the sigma grid: for
+        # sigma < 0.5 the float32 round trip `1 - (1 - sigma)` is not exact, and the reference keeps
+        # the two sources apart.
+        if not isinstance(timestep, torch.Tensor):
+            timestep = torch.tensor(timestep, dtype=sample.dtype)
+        sigma_from_timestep = 1 - timestep.to(device=sample.device, dtype=sample.dtype)
+        while sigma_from_timestep.ndim < sample.ndim:
+            sigma_from_timestep = sigma_from_timestep.unsqueeze(-1)
+        denoised = sample + sigma_from_timestep * model_output
+
+        # Euler with eta = 0, written as an x_t / x0 blend and evaluated in float32.
+        compute_dtype = torch.float32 if sample.dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16) else sample.dtype
+        sigma = self.sigmas[self._step_index].to(device=sample.device, dtype=compute_dtype)
+        sigma_next = self.sigmas[self._step_index + 1].to(device=sample.device, dtype=compute_dtype)
+        ratio = sigma_next / sigma
+        prev_sample = ratio * sample.to(dtype=compute_dtype) + (1.0 - ratio) * denoised.to(dtype=compute_dtype)
+        prev_sample = prev_sample.to(dtype=sample.dtype)
+
+        self._step_index += 1
+
+        if not return_dict:
+            return (prev_sample,)
+        return MiniMaxH3SchedulerOutput(prev_sample=prev_sample)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_pt_objects.py b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_pt_objects.py
index 9035efb3e6e2..f7a8b6ec9de7 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_pt_objects.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_pt_objects.py
@@ -765,6 +765,36 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
 
 
+class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+
+class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+
 class AutoencoderKLMochi(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch"]
 
@@ -1680,6 +1710,21 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
 
 
+class MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+
 class MochiTransformer3DModel(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch"]
 
@@ -3422,6 +3467,21 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
 
 
+class MiniMaxH3Scheduler(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch"])
+
+
 class PNDMScheduler(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch"]
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
index 417aa9ad18ff..8dc7085f99f6 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
@@ -512,6 +512,66 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
 
 
+class MiniMaxH3Blocks(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+
 class QwenImageAutoBlocks(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
 
@@ -3212,6 +3272,36 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
 
 
+class MiniMaxH3Pipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
+    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
+
+
 class MochiPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
 
diff --git a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..67e168cfe4d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright 2026 HuggingFace Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import torch
+
+from diffusers import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+from diffusers.utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+
+from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
+from ..testing_utils import (
+    AttentionTesterMixin,
+    BaseModelTesterConfig,
+    MemoryTesterMixin,
+    ModelTesterMixin,
+    TorchCompileTesterMixin,
+    TrainingTesterMixin,
+)
+from .testing_utils import NewAutoencoderTesterMixin
+
+
+enable_full_determinism()
+
+
+# The temporal geometry is fixed by the released `clip_length` / `token_drop` pair: `17 * n + 5` pixel frames map to
+# `5 * n + 2` latent frames, so 22 frames is the shortest video this autoencoder can round-trip.
+NUM_FRAMES = 22
+HEIGHT = WIDTH = 8
+
+
+class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig(BaseModelTesterConfig):
+    @property
+    def model_class(self):
+        return AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
+
+    @property
+    def main_input_name(self) -> str:
+        return "sample"
+
+    @property
+    def input_shape(self) -> tuple[int, ...]:
+        return (3, NUM_FRAMES, HEIGHT, WIDTH)
+
+    @property
+    def output_shape(self) -> tuple[int, ...]:
+        return (3, NUM_FRAMES, HEIGHT, WIDTH)
+
+    @property
+    def generator(self):
+        return torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(0)
+
+    def get_init_dict(self) -> dict:
+        # `clip_length` and `token_drop` are left at their released values, so the temporal chunking the decoder
+        # re-derives from them (`frame_pre_padding`, `token_overlap`, `frame_overlap`) is the real one; so is
+        # `decoder_rope_dim_ratio`, which keeps the partial-rotary path of the ViT decoder in play.
+        return {
+            "in_channels": 3,
+            "out_channels": 3,
+            "latent_channels": 4,
+            "block_out_channels": (8, 16),
+            "layers_per_block": 1,
+            "spatial_downsample_factors": (2, 2),
+            "temporal_downsample_factors": (2, 2),
+            "norm_num_groups": 8,
+            "decoder_num_layers": 2,
+            "decoder_num_attention_heads": 2,
+            "decoder_attention_head_dim": 8,
+            "decoder_num_register_tokens": 2,
+            "decoder_ffn_mult": 2,
+            "clip_length": 17,
+            "token_drop": 3,
+            "latents_mean": (0.0,) * 4,
+            "latents_std": (1.0,) * 4,
+        }
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "sample": randn_tensor((2, 3, NUM_FRAMES, HEIGHT, WIDTH), generator=self.generator, device=torch_device),
+        }
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
+    """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
+
+    def test_encode_decode_temporal_geometry(self):
+        r"""
+        `17 * n + 5` pixel frames encode to `5 * n + 2` latent frames and decode back to the original length.
+
+        The encoder pads up to a whole number of `clip_length` chunks and drops `token_drop` latent frames per
+        encode, and the decoder cross-fades the resulting overlap back together, so the round trip only recovers the
+        requested frame count if both halves agree on that geometry.
+        """
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict()).to(torch_device).eval()
+        sample = self.get_dummy_inputs()["sample"]
+
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            latents = model.encode(sample, return_dict=False)[0].mode()
+            decoded = model.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+
+        assert latents.shape == (2, 4, 7, HEIGHT // 4, WIDTH // 4)
+        assert decoded.shape == sample.shape
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Memory(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
+    """Memory optimization tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Training(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, TrainingTesterMixin):
+    """Training tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
+
+    def test_gradient_checkpointing_is_applied(self):
+        super().test_gradient_checkpointing_is_applied(
+            expected_set={"MiniMaxH3VideoDownBlock3d", "MiniMaxH3VideoViTDecoder3d"}
+        )
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Attention(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, AttentionTesterMixin):
+    """Attention processor tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TorchCompile(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, TorchCompileTesterMixin):
+    """Torch compile tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3SlicingTiling(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, NewAutoencoderTesterMixin):
+    """Slicing and tiling tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
diff --git a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5af26b905f4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright 2026 HuggingFace Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from diffusers import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+from diffusers.utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+
+from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
+from ..testing_utils import (
+    AttentionTesterMixin,
+    BaseModelTesterConfig,
+    MemoryTesterMixin,
+    ModelTesterMixin,
+    TorchCompileTesterMixin,
+    TrainingTesterMixin,
+)
+
+
+enable_full_determinism()
+
+
+# `prod(encoder_rates)` is the hop length, so a waveform of `HOP_LENGTH * NUM_LATENTS` samples encodes to
+# `NUM_LATENTS` latents. MiniMax-H3 carries stereo as two batch items of this mono autoencoder.
+HOP_LENGTH = 4
+NUM_LATENTS = 8
+BATCH_SIZE = 2
+
+
+class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig(BaseModelTesterConfig):
+    @property
+    def model_class(self):
+        return AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
+
+    @property
+    def main_input_name(self) -> str:
+        return "sample"
+
+    @property
+    def input_shape(self) -> tuple[int, ...]:
+        return (1, HOP_LENGTH * NUM_LATENTS)
+
+    @property
+    def output_shape(self) -> tuple[int, ...]:
+        return (1, HOP_LENGTH * NUM_LATENTS)
+
+    @property
+    def generator(self):
+        return torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(0)
+
+    def get_init_dict(self) -> dict:
+        # `latent_dim // num_attention_heads` (16) is kept different from `latent_channels` (8), as it is at full
+        # scale, so the adaptive-average-pool branch of the causal-attention projection is exercised.
+        return {
+            "encoder_dim": 4,
+            "encoder_rates": (2, 2),
+            "latent_dim": 32,
+            "latent_channels": 8,
+            "num_attention_heads": 2,
+            "decoder_dim": 16,
+            "decoder_rates": (2, 2),
+            "decoder_kernel_sizes": (4, 4),
+            "resblock_kernel_sizes": (3, 7),
+            "resblock_dilation_sizes": ((1, 3), (1, 3)),
+            "sampling_rate": 32000,
+            "latents_mean": [0.0] * 8,
+            "latents_std": [1.0] * 8,
+        }
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "sample": randn_tensor(
+                (BATCH_SIZE, 1, HOP_LENGTH * NUM_LATENTS), generator=self.generator, device=torch_device
+            ),
+        }
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
+    """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
+
+    def test_encode_pads_to_the_hop_length(self):
+        r"""
+        A waveform that is not a whole number of hops is right-padded rather than rejected, and decoding always
+        returns `num_frames * hop_length` samples.
+        """
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict()).to(torch_device).eval()
+        unaligned = randn_tensor(
+            (BATCH_SIZE, 1, HOP_LENGTH * NUM_LATENTS + 1), generator=self.generator, device=torch_device
+        )
+
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            latents = model.encode(unaligned, return_dict=False)[0].mode()
+            decoded = model.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+
+        assert latents.shape == (BATCH_SIZE, 8, NUM_LATENTS + 1)
+        assert decoded.shape == (BATCH_SIZE, 1, (NUM_LATENTS + 1) * HOP_LENGTH)
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioMemory(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
+    """Memory optimization tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTraining(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, TrainingTesterMixin):
+    """Training tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioAttention(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, AttentionTesterMixin):
+    """Attention processor tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "The audio autoencoder holds exactly one attention module (the `pre_block` latent projection), so a dict of "
+        "processors can never have a length that mismatches the number of attention layers."
+    )
+    def test_attention_processor_count_mismatch_raises_error(self):
+        pass
+
+
+class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTorchCompile(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, TorchCompileTesterMixin):
+    """Torch compile tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
diff --git a/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py b/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2c8105611c17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+# coding=utf-8
+# Copyright 2026 HuggingFace Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+from diffusers.models.transformers.transformer_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput
+from diffusers.utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+
+from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
+from ..testing_utils import (
+    AttentionTesterMixin,
+    BaseModelTesterConfig,
+    MemoryTesterMixin,
+    ModelTesterMixin,
+    TorchCompileTesterMixin,
+    TrainingTesterMixin,
+)
+
+
+enable_full_determinism()
+
+
+# The packed layout the dummy inputs describe: a text block, then the audio rows, then the target video rows. It is
+# the layout `MiniMaxH3Pipeline` builds, minus the padding tail the pipeline never emits.
+NUM_TEXT_TOKENS = 4
+NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS = 6
+NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS = 8
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig(BaseModelTesterConfig):
+    @property
+    def model_class(self):
+        return MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
+
+    @property
+    def main_input_name(self) -> str:
+        return "hidden_states"
+
+    @property
+    def input_shape(self) -> tuple[int, int]:
+        return (NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS, 16)
+
+    @property
+    def output_shape(self) -> tuple[int, int]:
+        return (NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS, 16)
+
+    @property
+    def generator(self):
+        return torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(0)
+
+    def get_init_dict(self) -> dict:
+        # `num_attention_heads * attention_head_dim` (32) is deliberately different from `hidden_size` (24), as it is
+        # in the released checkpoint, and `2 * 3 * rope_freq_dim` (12) is smaller than `attention_head_dim` so the
+        # partial-rotary path is exercised rather than aliased away.
+        return {
+            "num_attention_heads": 2,
+            "attention_head_dim": 16,
+            "hidden_size": 24,
+            "num_layers": 2,
+            "num_refiner_layers": 2,
+            "ffn_dim": 32,
+            "in_channels": 4,
+            "audio_in_channels": 6,
+            "patch_size": (1, 2, 2),
+            "text_dim": 8,
+            "freq_dim": 8,
+            "time_embed_hidden_dim": 24,
+            "time_embed_dim": 16,
+            "rope_freq_dim": 2,
+        }
+
+    def get_packed_layout(self, num_video_tokens: int = NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS) -> dict:
+        r"""
+        Build the structural arguments of one packed sequence.
+
+        The transformer does not build the layout itself: the caller orders the rows, tags every row with its
+        modality and its noise level, and hands over the `(t, h, w)` grid plus the three index tensors. The layout
+        here mirrors what the pipelines pack, with two distinct timesteps so the `(timestep, modality)` AdaLN table
+        is addressed on more than one row, and without a padding tail so attention needs no mask.
+        """
+        sequence_length = NUM_TEXT_TOKENS + NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS + num_video_tokens
+        text_indices = torch.arange(NUM_TEXT_TOKENS, device=torch_device)
+        audio_indices = torch.arange(NUM_TEXT_TOKENS, NUM_TEXT_TOKENS + NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS, device=torch_device)
+        video_indices = torch.arange(NUM_TEXT_TOKENS + NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS, sequence_length, device=torch_device)
+
+        # 0 = video, 1 = text, 2 = audio.
+        token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long, device=torch_device)
+        token_tags[text_indices] = 1
+        token_tags[audio_indices] = 2
+        token_tags[video_indices] = 0
+
+        # The conditioning-free rows share the video timestep; the audio rows step down their own schedule.
+        timestep_indices = torch.zeros(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long, device=torch_device)
+        timestep_indices[audio_indices] = 1
+
+        position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float32, device=torch_device)
+        position_ids[:, 0] = torch.arange(sequence_length, dtype=torch.float32, device=torch_device)
+        position_ids[video_indices, 1] = torch.arange(num_video_tokens, dtype=torch.float32, device=torch_device) % 4
+        position_ids[video_indices, 2] = torch.arange(num_video_tokens, dtype=torch.float32, device=torch_device) % 2
+
+        return {
+            "timestep": torch.tensor([0.7, 0.3], device=torch_device),
+            "timestep_indices": timestep_indices,
+            "token_tags": token_tags,
+            "position_ids": position_ids,
+            "video_indices": video_indices,
+            "audio_indices": audio_indices,
+            "text_indices": text_indices,
+        }
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self, num_video_tokens: int = NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS) -> dict:
+        generator = self.generator
+        init_dict = self.get_init_dict()
+        patch_size = init_dict["patch_size"]
+        video_patch_dim = init_dict["in_channels"] * patch_size[0] * patch_size[1] * patch_size[2]
+        batch_size = 2
+
+        return {
+            "hidden_states": randn_tensor(
+                (batch_size, num_video_tokens, video_patch_dim), generator=generator, device=torch_device
+            ),
+            "audio_hidden_states": randn_tensor(
+                (batch_size, NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS, init_dict["audio_in_channels"]),
+                generator=generator,
+                device=torch_device,
+            ),
+            "encoder_hidden_states": randn_tensor(
+                (batch_size, NUM_TEXT_TOKENS, init_dict["text_dim"]), generator=generator, device=torch_device
+            ),
+            **self.get_packed_layout(num_video_tokens),
+        }
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3Transformer(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
+    """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer."""
+
+    def test_output_format(self):
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict()).to(torch_device).eval()
+
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            output = model(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
+            output_tuple = model(**self.get_dummy_inputs(), return_dict=False)
+
+        assert isinstance(output, MiniMaxH3TransformerOutput)
+        assert output.sample.shape == (2, NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS, self.output_shape[-1])
+        assert output.audio_sample.shape == (2, NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS, self.get_init_dict()["audio_in_channels"])
+        torch.testing.assert_close(output.sample, output_tuple[0])
+        torch.testing.assert_close(output.audio_sample, output_tuple[1])
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def test_padding_rows_form_their_own_attention_document(self):
+        r"""
+        A padding tail (tag `-1`) must not change the live rows.
+
+        The reference pads the packed sequence to a multiple of 64 for FlashAttention and splits it with
+        `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`; the port reproduces that split with a boolean mask. Appending padding rows to a
+        layout therefore has to leave the video and audio predictions of the live rows untouched.
+        """
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict()).to(torch_device).eval()
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        padless_output = model(**inputs, return_dict=False)
+
+        num_padding_rows = 3
+        sequence_length = inputs["position_ids"].shape[0]
+        padded = dict(inputs)
+        padded["token_tags"] = torch.cat(
+            [inputs["token_tags"], torch.full((num_padding_rows,), -1, dtype=torch.long, device=torch_device)]
+        )
+        padded["timestep_indices"] = torch.cat(
+            [inputs["timestep_indices"], torch.zeros(num_padding_rows, dtype=torch.long, device=torch_device)]
+        )
+        padded["position_ids"] = torch.cat(
+            [
+                inputs["position_ids"],
+                torch.arange(
+                    sequence_length, sequence_length + num_padding_rows, dtype=torch.float32, device=torch_device
+                )[:, None].repeat(1, 3),
+            ]
+        )
+        padded_output = model(**padded, return_dict=False)
+
+        for padless, padded_ in zip(padless_output, padded_output):
+            torch.testing.assert_close(padless, padded_, atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-5)
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerMemory(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
+    """Memory optimization tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer."""
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerTraining(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, TrainingTesterMixin):
+    """Training tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer."""
+
+    def test_gradient_checkpointing_is_applied(self):
+        super().test_gradient_checkpointing_is_applied(
+            expected_set={"MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel", "MiniMaxH3TokenRefiner"}
+        )
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerAttention(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, AttentionTesterMixin):
+    """Attention processor tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer."""
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerTorchCompile(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, TorchCompileTesterMixin):
+    """Torch compile tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer.
+
+    Regional compilation (`compile_repeated_blocks`) and full-model compilation with graph breaks allowed both work.
+    Whole-model `fullgraph=True` and `torch.export` do not: `forward` decides whether the packed sequence needs an
+    attention mask with `if bool(is_pad.any())`, reading the padding tag out of `token_tags`, and a data-dependent
+    branch has no fullgraph representation. Dropping the branch is not an option, because a padless sequence has to
+    keep `attention_mask=None` so the unmasked flash and sage backends stay available.
+    """
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "`forward` branches on `bool(is_pad.any())` to decide whether the packed sequence needs an attention mask, "
+        "which `fullgraph=True` cannot trace. Regional compilation is covered by "
+        "`test_torch_compile_repeated_blocks`."
+    )
+    def test_torch_compile_recompilation_and_graph_break(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "`torch.export` hits the same data-dependent `bool(is_pad.any())` branch as `fullgraph=True` compilation."
+    )
+    def test_compile_works_with_aot(self, tmp_path):
+        pass
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fd503d75881a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,272 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines import (
+    MiniMaxH3Blocks,
+    MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
+)
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.encoders import MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep
+from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference, packing, packing_ref2va
+
+from ..test_modular_pipelines_common import ModularPipelineTesterMixin, _get_specified_components
+
+
+# MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so the shortest admissible request is 124 frames
+# (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length the video VAE can decode). It is affordable on CPU because the canvas is tiny: 32
+# pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
+NUM_FRAMES = 124
+RESOLUTION = 32
+NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
+# `prod(encoder_rates)` of the tiny audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
+AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
+
+# The released short edge of an image reference is 2048 pixels, which packs thousands of conditioning rows.
+TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 64
+
+# Both blocksets read the same repository, as the released one does: `transformer/` serves the `t2va` / `fl2va` half
+# and `transformer_ref/` the `ref2va` one, every other component is shared.
+TINY_MODULAR_REPO_ID = "diffusers-internal-dev/tiny-minimax-h3-modular-pipe"
+
+
+T2VA_WORKFLOW = [
+    ("setup", "MiniMaxH3SetupStep"),
+    ("text_encoder", "MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep"),
+    ("prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep"),
+    ("prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
+    ("set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
+    ("denoise", "MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep"),
+    ("decode.video", "MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep"),
+    ("decode.audio", "MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep"),
+]
+# A keyframe adds the one block that encodes it; whether it anchors the first or the last frame is a matter of the
+# packed layout, not of which blocks run.
+FL2VA_WORKFLOW = [
+    *T2VA_WORKFLOW[:2],
+    ("vae_encoder", "MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep"),
+    *T2VA_WORKFLOW[2:],
+]
+MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOWS = {
+    "t2va": T2VA_WORKFLOW,
+    "fl2va": FL2VA_WORKFLOW,
+    "fl2va_last_frame": FL2VA_WORKFLOW,
+}
+MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOWS = {
+    "ref2va": [
+        ("setup", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep"),
+        ("text_encoder", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep"),
+        ("reference_encoder", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep"),
+        ("prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep"),
+        ("prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
+        ("set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
+        ("denoise", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep"),
+        ("decode.video", "MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep"),
+        ("decode.audio", "MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep"),
+    ]
+}
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="module")
+def small_references():
+    """
+    Encode references at `TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE` instead of the released 2048 pixels.
+
+    A 2048 pixel short edge packs thousands of conditioning rows, which is minutes per pipeline call on CPU. Every
+    request of this module passes `height` and `width`, so the canvas of a generated video is never derived from
+    these.
+    """
+    with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patch:
+        patch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE**2 * 2)
+        yield
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
+    """What the two blocksets share: the repository, the output surface and the tests that do not apply."""
+
+    pretrained_model_name_or_path = TINY_MODULAR_REPO_ID
+    # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
+    batch_params = frozenset()
+    # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
+    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
+    optional_params = frozenset(["num_inference_steps", "latents", "output_type"])
+    output_name = "videos"
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing.")
+    def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing.")
+    def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="One request generates one video, so there is no `num_images_per_prompt`.")
+    def test_num_images_per_prompt(self):
+        pass
+
+    def test_load_expected_components_from_pretrained(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""
+        Every component the repository holds *for this half* is loaded from it.
+
+        The repository holds both checkpoint partitions, as the released one does, so its index also names the
+        transformer of the other half — which these blocks never declare and must therefore never load.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        specified = _get_specified_components(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, cache_dir=tmp_path)
+
+        expected = {name for name in specified if name in pipe.components}
+        actual = {
+            name
+            for name in pipe.components
+            if getattr(pipe, name, None) is not None
+            and getattr(getattr(pipe, name), "_diffusers_load_id", None) not in (None, "null")
+        }
+
+        assert expected == actual, f"Component mismatch: missing={expected - actual}, unexpected={actual - expected}"
+        assert "transformer_ref" in specified and "transformer" in specified
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3ModularPipelineFast(MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase):
+    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+    pipeline_blocks_class = MiniMaxH3Blocks
+
+    params = frozenset(["prompt", "image", "last_image", "height", "width", "num_frames"])
+    expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOWS
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self, seed=0):
+        return {
+            "prompt": "a robot dancing",
+            "generator": self.get_generator(seed),
+            "num_inference_steps": 2,
+            "height": RESOLUTION,
+            "width": RESOLUTION,
+            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
+            "output_type": "pt",
+        }
+
+    def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
+        r"""One call denoises both modalities out of the one packed sequence, and returns both."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        state = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
+        video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the decoder block stacks
+        # back into `(batch, 2, samples)`.
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
+        assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
+        assert state.get("sampling_rate") == pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
+
+    def test_fl2va_keyframe(self):
+        r"""A keyframe goes through the `fl2va` workflow, which encodes it into conditioning rows."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["image"] = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
+        video = pipe(**inputs, output="videos")
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+
+    def test_generator_reproducibility(self):
+        r"""
+        Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
+
+        The blocks draw from the one generator the request carries, in the order they run — the keyframe conditioning
+        noise in the VAE encoder step, then the video and the audio noise in the prepare-latents step — which is what
+        keeps a modular run reproducible, and equal to the standard pipeline's.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        def run(seed):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            inputs["image"] = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
+            state = pipe(**inputs)
+            return state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+
+        video, audio = run(7)
+        same_video, same_audio = run(7)
+        other_video, other_audio = run(8)
+
+        assert torch.equal(video, same_video)
+        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
+        assert not torch.equal(video, other_video)
+        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
+
+    def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self):
+        r"""
+        The text encoder block runs on its own, without the denoiser or the VAEs.
+
+        Encoding a presentation once and reusing it across requests is the modular way of passing `prompt_embeds`,
+        so the block may only touch the components it declares.
+        """
+        pipe = MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep().init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        outputs = pipe(prompt="a robot dancing", output=["prompt_embeds", "text_token_tags"])
+
+        assert set(pipe.components) == {"text_encoder", "tokenizer", "processor"}
+        assert outputs["prompt_embeds"].shape[0] == 1
+        assert outputs["prompt_embeds"].shape[1] == outputs["text_token_tags"].shape[0]
+        # `1` tags a text row, and a text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt.
+        assert set(outputs["text_token_tags"].tolist()) == {1}
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipelineFast(MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase):
+    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+    pipeline_blocks_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+
+    params = frozenset(["prompt", "references", "height", "width", "num_frames"])
+    expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOWS
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self, seed=0):
+        return {
+            "prompt": "a robot dancing",
+            "references": [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))],
+            "generator": self.get_generator(seed),
+            "num_inference_steps": 2,
+            "height": RESOLUTION,
+            "width": RESOLUTION,
+            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
+            "output_type": "pt",
+        }
+
+    def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
+        r"""A reference conditions the request without binding the generated geometry."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        state = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
+        video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
+        assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
+
+    def test_audio_reference_alone_is_rejected(self):
+        r"""An audio reference is conditioning for a subject, so it cannot be the only reference of a request."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        sample_rate = pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
+        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=torch.zeros(2, 6 * sample_rate), sample_rate=sample_rate)]
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="has to be paired with at least one image or video reference"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ee43e0e09c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,397 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, Qwen3VLConfig, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
+from transformers.models.qwen2_vl.image_processing_qwen2_vl_fast import Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast
+from transformers.models.qwen3_vl.video_processing_qwen3_vl import Qwen3VLVideoProcessor
+
+from diffusers import (
+    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
+    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
+    MiniMaxH3Pipeline,
+    MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
+    MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
+)
+
+from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
+from ..testing_utils import BasePipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin
+
+
+enable_full_determinism()
+
+
+# MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so the shortest admissible request is 124 frames
+# (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length the video VAE can decode). It is affordable on CPU because the canvas is tiny: 32
+# pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
+NUM_FRAMES = 124
+RESOLUTION = 32
+NUM_LATENT_FRAMES = 37
+NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
+# `prod(encoder_rates)` of the dummy audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
+AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
+
+# The tokenizer of the released conditioner, for its `<|vision_start|>` / `<|image_pad|>` / `<|vision_end|>` ids.
+TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration"
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3PipelineTesterConfig(BasePipelineTesterConfig):
+    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+    required_input_params_in_call_signature = frozenset(
+        ["prompt", "image", "last_image", "height", "width", "num_frames", "prompt_embeds"]
+    )
+    # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
+    batch_input_params = frozenset()
+    # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
+    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
+    optional_input_params = frozenset(
+        ["num_inference_steps", "generator", "latents", "audio_latents", "output_type", "return_dict"]
+    )
+
+    def get_dummy_components(self):
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(
+            latent_channels=4,
+            block_out_channels=(8, 16),
+            layers_per_block=1,
+            spatial_downsample_factors=(4, 4),
+            temporal_downsample_factors=(2, 2),
+            norm_num_groups=8,
+            decoder_num_layers=2,
+            decoder_num_attention_heads=2,
+            decoder_attention_head_dim=8,
+            decoder_num_register_tokens=2,
+            decoder_ffn_mult=2,
+            latents_mean=(0.0,) * 4,
+            latents_std=(1.0,) * 4,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        audio_vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(
+            encoder_dim=4,
+            encoder_rates=(2, 2),
+            latent_dim=32,
+            latent_channels=8,
+            num_attention_heads=2,
+            decoder_dim=16,
+            decoder_rates=(2, 2),
+            decoder_kernel_sizes=(4, 4),
+            resblock_kernel_sizes=(3, 7),
+            resblock_dilation_sizes=((1, 3), (1, 3)),
+            sampling_rate=40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH,
+            latents_mean=[0.0] * 8,
+            latents_std=[1.0] * 8,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        transformer = MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(
+            num_attention_heads=2,
+            attention_head_dim=16,
+            hidden_size=24,
+            num_layers=2,
+            num_refiner_layers=2,
+            ffn_dim=32,
+            in_channels=4,
+            audio_in_channels=8,
+            patch_size=(1, 2, 2),
+            text_dim=16,
+            freq_dim=8,
+            time_embed_hidden_dim=24,
+            time_embed_dim=16,
+            rope_freq_dim=2,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        # MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` of its Qwen3-VL conditioner, so the dummy conditioner needs more than
+        # 50 decoder layers even though every layer is tiny.
+        text_encoder = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration(
+            Qwen3VLConfig(
+                text_config={
+                    "hidden_size": 16,
+                    "intermediate_size": 16,
+                    "num_hidden_layers": 51,
+                    "num_attention_heads": 2,
+                    "num_key_value_heads": 2,
+                    "head_dim": 8,
+                    "rope_scaling": {"mrope_section": [1, 1, 2], "rope_type": "default", "type": "default"},
+                },
+                vision_config={
+                    "depth": 2,
+                    "hidden_size": 16,
+                    "intermediate_size": 16,
+                    "num_heads": 2,
+                    "out_hidden_size": 16,
+                    "patch_size": 4,
+                    "spatial_merge_size": 2,
+                    "temporal_patch_size": 2,
+                    "num_position_embeddings": 64,
+                    "deepstack_visual_indexes": [0],
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID)
+        processor = Qwen3VLProcessor(
+            image_processor=Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast(
+                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
+            ),
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            video_processor=Qwen3VLVideoProcessor(
+                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
+            ),
+        )
+
+        return {
+            "transformer": transformer,
+            "vae": vae,
+            "audio_vae": audio_vae,
+            "text_encoder": text_encoder,
+            "tokenizer": tokenizer,
+            "processor": processor,
+            "scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=12.0),
+            "audio_scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=3.0),
+        }
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self):
+        return {
+            "prompt": "a robot dancing",
+            "generator": self.get_generator(0),
+            "num_inference_steps": 2,
+            "height": RESOLUTION,
+            "width": RESOLUTION,
+            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
+            # Request torch outputs so tests compare torch tensors directly (see `BasePipelineTesterConfig`).
+            "output_type": "pt",
+        }
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3Pipeline(MiniMaxH3PipelineTesterConfig, PipelineTesterMixin):
+    def test_inference(self):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        output = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
+        video, audio = output.frames, output.audio
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the pipeline stacks back
+        # into `(batch, 2, samples)`.
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
+        assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
+        assert torch.isfinite(audio).all()
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("num_keyframes", [0, 1, 2], ids=["text_only", "one_keyframe", "two_keyframes"])
+    def test_encode_prompt(self, num_keyframes):
+        r"""
+        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever it carries.
+
+        A keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block, whose rows are tagged as *video*; a
+        text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt and is tagged as text throughout. Every vision block also makes
+        Qwen3-VL lay its rotary positions out per modality, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor
+        derives from the vision pad ids.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
+
+        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = pipe.encode_prompt(
+            "a robot dancing", [keyframe] * num_keyframes, device=torch_device
+        )
+
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer.config.text_dim
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
+        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
+        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, so a text-only presentation carries text rows alone.
+        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == ({0, 1} if num_keyframes else {1})
+
+    def test_prompt_embeds(self):
+        r"""An encoded presentation can be passed back in, which is how a caller reuses one across requests."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = pipe.encode_prompt(inputs.pop("prompt"), device=torch_device)
+        inputs["prompt_embeds"] = prompt_embeds
+        inputs["text_token_tags"] = text_token_tags
+        video = pipe(**inputs).frames
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "keyframes,num_condition_rows",
+        [(("image",), 1), (("last_image",), 1), (("image", "last_image"), 2)],
+        ids=["first", "last", "first_and_last"],
+    )
+    def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
+        r"""
+        A keyframe contributes one conditioning row per latent patch, and those rows are pinned for the whole loop.
+
+        They are packed in front of the generated video rows and ride along at their own `t = 0.999`, so the loop
+        never writes them. On a `RESOLUTION` canvas a keyframe is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((48, 80, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["num_inference_steps"] = 3
+        inputs.update(dict.fromkeys(keyframes, keyframe))
+
+        seen = []
+        inputs["callback_on_step_end"] = lambda pipeline, i, t, kwargs: seen.append(kwargs["latents"].clone()) or {}
+        video = pipe(**inputs).frames
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        # `num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model
+        # evaluation less.
+        assert len(seen) == inputs["num_inference_steps"] - 1
+        for latents in seen:
+            assert torch.equal(latents[:num_condition_rows], seen[0][:num_condition_rows])
+        assert not torch.equal(seen[-1][num_condition_rows:], seen[0][num_condition_rows:])
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("with_keyframe", [False, True], ids=["t2va", "fl2va"])
+    def test_generator_reproducibility(self, with_keyframe):
+        r"""
+        Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
+
+        Every noise draw of a request — the keyframe conditioning noise, then the video noise, then the audio noise —
+        comes off the one generator the request carries, so this is the whole reproducibility contract.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((48, 80, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
+
+        def run(seed):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            if with_keyframe:
+                inputs["image"] = keyframe
+            output = pipe(**inputs)
+            return output.frames, output.audio
+
+        frames, audio = run(7)
+        same_frames, same_audio = run(7)
+        other_frames, other_audio = run(8)
+
+        assert torch.equal(frames, same_frames)
+        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
+        assert not torch.equal(frames, other_frames)
+        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
+
+    def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
+        r"""
+        `latents` and `audio_latents` stand in for their draw, which is how a sample is reproduced from outside.
+
+        With both passed in, a `t2va` request draws nothing at all, so two runs with different generators return the
+        very same video and soundtrack.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        latents = torch.randn(
+            1,
+            pipe.vae_latent_channels,
+            NUM_LATENT_FRAMES,
+            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
+            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
+            generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(3),
+        )
+        audio_latents = torch.randn(
+            2, pipe.audio_latent_channels, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(4)
+        )
+
+        outputs = []
+        for seed in (7, 8):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            inputs["latents"] = latents
+            inputs["audio_latents"] = audio_latents
+            output = pipe(**inputs)
+            outputs.append((output.frames, output.audio))
+
+        assert torch.equal(outputs[0][0], outputs[1][0])
+        assert torch.equal(outputs[0][1], outputs[1][1])
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
+    def test_output_type(self, output_type):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["output_type"] = output_type
+        output = pipe(**inputs)
+
+        if output_type == "np":
+            assert output.frames.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION, 3)
+        elif output_type == "pil":
+            assert len(output.frames[0]) == NUM_FRAMES
+            assert output.frames[0][0].size == (RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        else:
+            # `"latent"` keeps the denormalized latents: the video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
+            assert output.frames.shape == (1, 4, NUM_LATENT_FRAMES, RESOLUTION // 16, RESOLUTION // 16)
+            assert output.audio.shape == (2, 8, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "overrides,message",
+        [
+            ({"prompt_embeds": torch.zeros(1, 4, 16)}, "not both"),
+            ({"prompt": None}, "Pass one of"),
+            ({"prompt": ["a robot", "a fox"]}, "must be a single string"),
+            ({"height": 30, "width": 30}, "multiples of 32"),
+            ({"width": None}, "have to be passed together"),
+            ({"num_frames": 96}, "must be between"),
+            ({"num_frames": 400}, "must be between"),
+            # 346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds
+            # for the aligned count, so this is rejected rather than silently generating too long a video.
+            ({"num_frames": 346}, "rounded up to 362"),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "prompt_and_prompt_embeds",
+            "neither_prompt_nor_embeds",
+            "prompt_list",
+            "canvas_not_a_multiple_of_32",
+            "height_without_width",
+            "shorter_than_five_seconds",
+            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds",
+            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds_once_aligned",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs.update(overrides)
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
+        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
+    )
+    def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
+        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
+    )
+    def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "`encode_prompt` returns the per-row modality tags next to the embeddings, and both depend on the keyframes "
+        "of the request, so the harness cannot reconstruct its call from the pipeline arguments alone."
+    )
+    def test_encode_prompt_works_in_isolation(self):
+        pass
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3PipelineMemory(MiniMaxH3PipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
+    pass
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6565533acf7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
@@ -0,0 +1,760 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, Qwen3VLConfig, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
+from transformers.models.qwen2_vl.image_processing_qwen2_vl_fast import Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast
+from transformers.models.qwen3_vl.video_processing_qwen3_vl import Qwen3VLVideoProcessor
+
+from diffusers import (
+    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
+    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline,
+    MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
+    MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
+)
+from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference, packing, packing_ref2va
+
+from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
+from ..testing_utils import BasePipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin
+
+
+enable_full_determinism()
+
+
+# MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so the shortest admissible request is 124 frames
+# (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length the video VAE can decode). It is affordable on CPU because the canvas is tiny: 32
+# pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
+NUM_FRAMES = 124
+RESOLUTION = 32
+NUM_LATENT_FRAMES = 37
+NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
+# `prod(encoder_rates)` of the dummy audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
+AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
+# The dummy audio VAE's own sample rate, so a reference soundtrack is never resampled.
+AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE = 40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH
+
+# A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, which packs thousands of conditioning rows. Tests shrink
+# it to keep the CPU runs fast; `test_reference_image_geometry` pins the released value.
+TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 64
+
+# The tokenizer of the released conditioner, for its `<|vision_start|>` / `<|image_pad|>` / `<|vision_end|>` ids.
+TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration"
+
+
+def _video_frames(num_frames: int, size: int) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Synthesized video reference frames: `uint8` RGB at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps.
+
+    References are in-memory media, so nothing here is written to a file: the pipeline takes the frames a caller
+    decoded, plus the frame rate they carry.
+    """
+    return (np.random.default_rng(0).random((num_frames, size, size, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+
+
+def _waveform(duration: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """A synthesized soundtrack: a stereo waveform at the dummy audio VAE's own sample rate, so nothing is resampled."""
+    return torch.rand(2, round(duration * AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE), generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
+
+
+# The synthesized media fixtures the file-decoding tests are built from: a tiny 8 fps clip with a stereo soundtrack.
+FIXTURE_FPS = 8.0
+FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES = 8
+FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE = 8000
+
+
+def _write_video(path, with_audio: bool) -> None:
+    """Encode a tiny 64x32 clip, with a stereo soundtrack when asked, with PyAV."""
+    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
+
+    with av.open(str(path), "w") as container:
+        # Both streams are declared before anything is muxed, which is what the muxer needs to lay out the file.
+        video_stream = container.add_stream("libx264", rate=int(FIXTURE_FPS))
+        video_stream.width, video_stream.height, video_stream.pix_fmt = 64, 32, "yuv420p"
+        audio_stream = None
+        if with_audio:
+            audio_stream = container.add_stream("aac", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+            audio_stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
+
+        for index in range(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES):
+            pixels = np.full((32, 64, 3), index * 16, dtype="uint8")
+            frame = av.VideoFrame.from_ndarray(pixels, format="rgb24")
+            frame.pts = index
+            container.mux(video_stream.encode(frame))
+        container.mux(video_stream.encode())
+
+        if audio_stream is None:
+            return
+        num_samples = int(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES / FIXTURE_FPS * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+        samples = np.zeros((1, 2 * num_samples), dtype="int16")
+        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(samples, format="s16", layout="stereo")
+        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout="stereo", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+        pts = 0
+        for resampled in resampler.resample(frame):
+            resampled.pts = pts
+            pts += resampled.samples
+            container.mux(audio_stream.encode(resampled))
+        container.mux(audio_stream.encode())
+
+
+def _media_fixtures(directory) -> tuple:
+    """A video with a soundtrack, a still image and an audio clip, as files a reference can be built from."""
+    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
+
+    video_path, image_path, audio_path = (
+        directory / "reference.mp4",
+        directory / "reference.png",
+        directory / "reference.wav",
+    )
+    _write_video(video_path, with_audio=True)
+    Image.new("RGB", (64, 32), color=(10, 20, 30)).save(image_path)
+    with av.open(str(audio_path), "w") as container:
+        stream = container.add_stream("pcm_s16le", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+        stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
+        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(
+            np.zeros((1, 2 * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE), dtype="int16"), format="s16", layout="stereo"
+        )
+        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        frame.pts = 0
+        container.mux(stream.encode(frame))
+        container.mux(stream.encode())
+    return video_path, image_path, audio_path
+
+
+def _reference_video(num_frames: int, size: int) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
+    """A silent video reference at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps."""
+    return MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(num_frames, size), fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
+
+
+def _reference_audio(duration: float) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
+    """A standalone audio reference at the dummy audio VAE's own sample rate."""
+    return MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=_waveform(duration), sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="module")
+def small_references():
+    """
+    Encode references at `TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE` instead of the released 2048 pixels.
+
+    A 2048 pixel short edge packs thousands of conditioning rows, which is minutes per pipeline call on CPU. The
+    fixture is module-scoped because the cached `base_pipe_output` is built once per class, before any
+    function-scoped fixture runs. `test_reference_image_geometry` restores the released value.
+    """
+    with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patch:
+        patch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE**2 * 2)
+        yield
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineTesterConfig(BasePipelineTesterConfig):
+    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+    required_input_params_in_call_signature = frozenset(
+        ["prompt", "references", "height", "width", "num_frames", "prompt_embeds"]
+    )
+    # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
+    batch_input_params = frozenset()
+    # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
+    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
+    optional_input_params = frozenset(
+        ["num_inference_steps", "generator", "latents", "audio_latents", "output_type", "return_dict"]
+    )
+
+    def get_dummy_components(self):
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(
+            latent_channels=4,
+            block_out_channels=(8, 16),
+            layers_per_block=1,
+            spatial_downsample_factors=(4, 4),
+            temporal_downsample_factors=(2, 2),
+            norm_num_groups=8,
+            decoder_num_layers=2,
+            decoder_num_attention_heads=2,
+            decoder_attention_head_dim=8,
+            decoder_num_register_tokens=2,
+            decoder_ffn_mult=2,
+            latents_mean=(0.0,) * 4,
+            latents_std=(1.0,) * 4,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        audio_vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(
+            encoder_dim=4,
+            encoder_rates=(2, 2),
+            latent_dim=32,
+            latent_channels=8,
+            num_attention_heads=2,
+            decoder_dim=16,
+            decoder_rates=(2, 2),
+            decoder_kernel_sizes=(4, 4),
+            resblock_kernel_sizes=(3, 7),
+            resblock_dilation_sizes=((1, 3), (1, 3)),
+            sampling_rate=40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH,
+            latents_mean=[0.0] * 8,
+            latents_std=[1.0] * 8,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        transformer_ref = MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(
+            num_attention_heads=2,
+            attention_head_dim=16,
+            hidden_size=24,
+            num_layers=2,
+            num_refiner_layers=2,
+            ffn_dim=32,
+            in_channels=4,
+            audio_in_channels=8,
+            patch_size=(1, 2, 2),
+            text_dim=16,
+            freq_dim=8,
+            time_embed_hidden_dim=24,
+            time_embed_dim=16,
+            rope_freq_dim=2,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        # MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` of its Qwen3-VL conditioner, so the dummy conditioner needs more than
+        # 50 decoder layers even though every layer is tiny.
+        text_encoder = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration(
+            Qwen3VLConfig(
+                text_config={
+                    "hidden_size": 16,
+                    "intermediate_size": 16,
+                    "num_hidden_layers": 51,
+                    "num_attention_heads": 2,
+                    "num_key_value_heads": 2,
+                    "head_dim": 8,
+                    "rope_scaling": {"mrope_section": [1, 1, 2], "rope_type": "default", "type": "default"},
+                },
+                vision_config={
+                    "depth": 2,
+                    "hidden_size": 16,
+                    "intermediate_size": 16,
+                    "num_heads": 2,
+                    "out_hidden_size": 16,
+                    "patch_size": 4,
+                    "spatial_merge_size": 2,
+                    "temporal_patch_size": 2,
+                    "num_position_embeddings": 64,
+                    "deepstack_visual_indexes": [0],
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID)
+        processor = Qwen3VLProcessor(
+            image_processor=Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast(
+                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
+            ),
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            video_processor=Qwen3VLVideoProcessor(
+                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
+            ),
+        )
+
+        return {
+            "transformer_ref": transformer_ref,
+            "vae": vae,
+            "audio_vae": audio_vae,
+            "text_encoder": text_encoder,
+            "tokenizer": tokenizer,
+            "processor": processor,
+            "scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=12.0),
+            "audio_scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=3.0),
+        }
+
+    def get_dummy_inputs(self):
+        # A `ref2va` presentation labels every reference in the prompt, so the conditioner has to see the very
+        # references the request carries. The tests pass the encoded presentation directly, which is also how a
+        # caller reuses one across requests.
+        return {
+            "prompt_embeds": torch.randn(1, 7, 16, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(0)),
+            "text_token_tags": torch.ones(7, dtype=torch.long),
+            "references": [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))],
+            "generator": self.get_generator(0),
+            "num_inference_steps": 2,
+            "height": RESOLUTION,
+            "width": RESOLUTION,
+            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
+            # Request torch outputs so tests compare torch tensors directly (see `BasePipelineTesterConfig`).
+            "output_type": "pt",
+        }
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline(MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineTesterConfig, PipelineTesterMixin):
+    def test_inference(self):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        output = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
+        video, audio = output.frames, output.audio
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the pipeline stacks back
+        # into `(batch, 2, samples)`.
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
+        assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
+        assert torch.isfinite(audio).all()
+
+    def test_reference_image_geometry(self, monkeypatch):
+        r"""
+        A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple of 32, with no area
+        cap. The `small_references` fixture shrinks that short edge for every other test, so restore it here.
+        """
+        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", 2048)
+
+        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(80, 48) == (2048, 3424)
+        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(48, 80) == (3424, 2048)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("media_type", ["pil", "np", "pt"], ids=["pil", "numpy", "torch"])
+    def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
+        r"""
+        Image and video references are in-memory media, in any of the layouts diffusers accepts: images, a
+        channels-last `np.ndarray` or a channels-first `torch.Tensor`, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`. All
+        three carry the same pixels, and media that already is at the resolution the reference resolves to reaches the
+        VAE untouched.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        pixels = _video_frames(4, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        if media_type == "pil":
+            image, frames = Image.fromarray(pixels[0]), [Image.fromarray(frame) for frame in pixels]
+        elif media_type == "np":
+            image, frames = pixels[0] / 255.0, pixels
+        else:
+            image, frames = torch.from_numpy(pixels[0]).permute(2, 0, 1), torch.from_numpy(pixels).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
+
+        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image),
+                MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames, fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)),
+            ],
+            NUM_FRAMES,
+        )
+
+        assert np.array_equal(np.asarray(references[0].image), pixels[0])
+        assert np.array_equal(references[1].frames, pixels)
+
+    def test_video_reference_resampled_to_the_model_frame_rate(self):
+        r"""
+        A video reference is resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, which is
+        what `ffmpeg`'s `fps` filter did in the reference implementation: a frame whose successor rounds onto the same
+        output slot is dropped, so a 30 fps reference loses one frame in five, the later of the two that tie for a
+        slot. Frames already at 24 fps are returned as they are, without a copy.
+        """
+        # Every frame carries its own index as its pixel value, so the resampled frames name the ones that survived.
+        frames = np.arange(30, dtype="uint8").reshape(-1, 1, 1, 1) * np.ones((1, 2, 2, 3), dtype="uint8")
+
+        resampled = packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, 30.0)
+
+        assert [int(frame[0, 0, 0]) for frame in resampled] == [
+            index for index in range(30) if index not in (2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27)
+        ]
+        assert packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)) is frames
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kinds", [("image",), ("video",), ("video", "image")], ids=["image", "video", "video_image"]
+    )
+    def test_encode_prompt(self, kinds):
+        r"""
+        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever references it labels.
+
+        The rows of a reference's vision block are tagged as *video*, and those blocks are what makes Qwen3-VL lay its
+        rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor derives from
+        the vision pad ids. A video reference contributes one timestamped block per merged frame pair.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        media = {"image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), "video": _reference_video(25, 32)}
+        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references([media[kind] for kind in kinds], NUM_FRAMES)
+
+        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = pipe.encode_prompt("a robot dancing", references, device=torch_device)
+
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer_ref.config.text_dim
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
+        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
+        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, and every reference here carries a vision block.
+        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == {0, 1}
+        # A 25 frame reference decoded at 24 fps is read at 2 fps, so it is three frames merged into two blocks.
+        for reference in references:
+            if reference.kind == "video":
+                assert reference.block_timestamps == [0.25, 1.0]
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kinds,num_frames",
+        [(("video",), NUM_FRAMES), (("image", "audio"), None), (("video", "image"), NUM_FRAMES)],
+        ids=["video", "image_audio", "video_image"],
+    )
+    def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
+        r"""
+        Any ordered mix of image, video and audio references is packed, in request order.
+
+        A video reference conditions on its motion *and*, when the request passes one with it, on its soundtrack, so it
+        contributes both visual and audio rows; an audio reference contributes audio rows alone and never reaches the
+        conditioner. The `image_audio` case also leaves `num_frames` to the references, which is admissible because
+        exactly one of them carries audio: the duration is that soundtrack's, snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the
+        video VAE can decode.
+
+        The reference rows are pinned for the whole loop, which is what the callback checks: the visual anchors keep
+        their noise-augmented values and the audio anchors stay exactly as the encoder produced them.
+        """
+        media = {
+            "image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+            # A one-second video reference, soundtrack included, and a six-second standalone soundtrack.
+            "video": MiniMaxH3Reference(
+                video=_video_frames(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS, 64),
+                fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
+                audio=_waveform(1.0),
+                sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE,
+            ),
+            "audio": _reference_audio(6.0),
+        }
+
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["references"] = [media[kind] for kind in kinds]
+        inputs["num_frames"] = num_frames
+        inputs["num_inference_steps"] = 3
+
+        references, resolved_num_frames = pipe.prepare_references(inputs["references"], num_frames)
+        condition_rows, audio_condition_rows = pipe.encode_references(references)
+        num_condition_rows = 0 if condition_rows is None else condition_rows.shape[0]
+        num_audio_condition_rows = 0 if audio_condition_rows is None else audio_condition_rows.shape[0]
+        assert num_condition_rows > 0
+        assert (num_audio_condition_rows > 0) == any(kind in ("video", "audio") for kind in kinds)
+
+        seen = []
+        inputs["callback_on_step_end"] = (
+            lambda pipeline, i, t, kwargs: seen.append((kwargs["latents"].clone(), kwargs["audio_latents"].clone()))
+            or {}
+        )
+        video = pipe(**inputs).frames
+
+        assert video.shape == (1, resolved_num_frames, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        # `num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model
+        # evaluation less.
+        assert len(seen) == inputs["num_inference_steps"] - 1
+        for latents, audio_latents in seen:
+            assert torch.equal(latents[:num_condition_rows], seen[0][0][:num_condition_rows])
+            if num_audio_condition_rows:
+                assert torch.equal(audio_latents[:num_audio_condition_rows], audio_condition_rows)
+
+    def test_num_frames_left_open_needs_exactly_one_audio_reference(self):
+        r"""Leaving `num_frames` out is ambiguous unless exactly one reference carries audio."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["num_frames"] = None
+        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))]
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="may only be left to the references"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    def test_num_frames_left_open_holds_the_ceiling_for_the_aligned_count(self):
+        r"""
+        A soundtrack just under 15 seconds is rejected rather than silently stretched past the ceiling.
+
+        14.99 seconds round to 360 frames, which the video VAE's `17 * n + 5` grid rounds up to 362, i.e. 15.083
+        seconds. The duration the request generates is the aligned one, so that is what the bound holds for.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["num_frames"] = None
+        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), _reference_audio(14.99)]
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounds up to 362 frames"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    def test_generator_reproducibility(self):
+        r"""
+        Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
+
+        A `ref2va` request draws the reference conditioning noise before the video and the audio noise, all three off
+        the one generator it carries, so this covers the whole stream.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        def run(seed):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            output = pipe(**inputs)
+            return output.frames, output.audio
+
+        frames, audio = run(7)
+        same_frames, same_audio = run(7)
+        other_frames, other_audio = run(8)
+
+        assert torch.equal(frames, same_frames)
+        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
+        assert not torch.equal(frames, other_frames)
+        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "references,message",
+        [
+            ([], "at least one reference"),
+            ([_reference_audio(6.0)], "cannot be used"),
+            ([MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] * 10, "at most 9 image references"),
+            (
+                [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] + [_reference_video(2, 32)] * 4,
+                "at most 3 video references",
+            ),
+            ([{"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))}], "must be a \\[`MiniMaxH3Reference`\\]"),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "no_references",
+            "audio_alone",
+            "too_many_images",
+            "too_many_videos",
+            "dict_entry",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["references"] = references
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kwargs,message",
+        [
+            ({}, "exactly one of"),
+            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "video": _video_frames(2, 32)}, "exactly one of"),
+            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "audio": _waveform(1.0)}, "exactly one of"),
+            ({"image": "astronaut.png"}, "not a valid path"),
+            ({"video": "motion.mp4"}, "not a valid path"),
+            ({"audio": "voice.wav"}, "not a valid path"),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "no_medium",
+            "image_and_video",
+            "image_and_audio",
+            "missing_image_file",
+            "missing_video_file",
+            "missing_audio_file",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_reference_construction(self, kwargs, message):
+        r"""
+        A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] resolves itself at construction: exactly one medium, bar a video's own soundtrack, and
+        a path that names a file it can actually open.
+        """
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            MiniMaxH3Reference(**kwargs)
+
+    def test_reference_decodes_files(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""
+        A reference takes a path as well as in-memory media, and decodes it as it is built: the frames and the samples
+        themselves, plus the rates the container reports, which is what the model conditions on.
+        """
+        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
+
+        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
+        image = MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path))
+        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
+
+        assert video.kind == "video"
+        assert video.video.shape == (FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES, 32, 64, 3) and video.video.dtype == np.uint8
+        assert video.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
+        # The container carries a soundtrack, which a video reference conditions on as its own.
+        assert video.has_audio and video.audio.shape[0] == 2 and video.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        assert image.kind == "image" and image.image.size == (64, 32)
+        assert audio.kind == "audio" and audio.audio.shape[0] == 2 and audio.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        assert audio.audio.dtype == torch.float32
+
+    def test_reference_silent_file_carries_no_soundtrack(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""There is nothing to adopt from a container without an audio stream."""
+        silent_path = tmp_path / "silent.mp4"
+        _write_video(silent_path, with_audio=False)
+
+        reference = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(silent_path))
+
+        assert not reference.has_audio and reference.sample_rate is None
+        assert reference.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
+
+    def test_reference_rates_override_the_container(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""A rate the request passes wins over the one the container reports, whose metadata may be wrong."""
+        video_path, _, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
+
+        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path), fps=12.0, sample_rate=16000)
+        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path), sample_rate=16000)
+
+        # The container reports `FIXTURE_FPS` and `FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE`, and the request overrides both.
+        assert video.fps == 12.0 and video.sample_rate == 16000
+        assert audio.sample_rate == 16000
+
+    def test_reference_file_needs_pyav(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        r"""Decoding a video or an audio file is a PyAV job, and says so when PyAV is not installed."""
+        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "is_av_available", lambda: False)
+
+        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
+            MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
+        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
+            MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
+        # An image never needs it.
+        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path)).image.size == (64, 32)
+
+    def test_reference_defaults(self):
+        r"""A reference knows its own modality, and defaults to MiniMax-H3's own frame rate for its frames."""
+        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(2, 32)).fps == float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
+        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).kind == "image"
+        assert not MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).has_audio
+        assert _reference_video(2, 32).kind == "video"
+        assert _reference_audio(6.0).kind == "audio"
+        assert _reference_audio(6.0).has_audio
+
+    def test_reference_rates_default_to_the_model_rates(self):
+        r"""
+        A reference that leaves its rates out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own: the frames flow through
+        untouched, without a resampling pass and without a copy, and so do the samples of a waveform.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        frames = _video_frames(NUM_FRAMES, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
+
+        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references(
+            [MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames), MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform)], NUM_FRAMES
+        )
+
+        assert np.shares_memory(references[0].frames, frames)
+        assert torch.equal(references[1].waveform, waveform)
+
+    def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
+        r"""A waveform that says it carries another rate is resampled onto the audio VAE's own."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
+
+        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references(
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+                MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE // 2),
+            ],
+            NUM_FRAMES,
+        )
+
+        # Half the audio VAE's rate, so the same samples span twice as many of the VAE's own.
+        assert references[1].waveform.shape == (2, 2 * waveform.shape[-1])
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kwargs",
+        [
+            {"image": Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))},
+            {"video": _video_frames(24, 64), "fps": float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)},
+            {"video": _video_frames(24, 64), "audio": _waveform(1.0), "sample_rate": AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE},
+        ],
+        ids=["image", "video", "video_with_soundtrack"],
+    )
+    def test_single_reference_arguments(self, kwargs):
+        r"""
+        A single-reference request may name its medium on the call itself, which is the very same request as the
+        one-item `references` list it is turned into.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        del inputs["references"]
+        output = pipe(**inputs, **kwargs).frames
+
+        reference_inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        reference_inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(**kwargs)]
+        assert torch.equal(output, pipe(**reference_inputs).frames)
+
+    def test_single_reference_arguments_exclude_references(self):
+        r"""The two ways of passing one reference are mutually exclusive."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["image"] = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="not both"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "overrides,message",
+        [
+            ({"prompt": "a robot dancing"}, "not both"),
+            ({"prompt_embeds": None, "text_token_tags": None}, "Pass one of"),
+            ({"text_token_tags": None}, "have to be passed together"),
+            ({"text_token_tags": torch.ones(3, dtype=torch.long)}, "one tag per row"),
+            ({"height": 30, "width": 30}, "multiples of 32"),
+            ({"num_frames": 96}, "must be between"),
+            # 346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds
+            # for the aligned count, so this is rejected rather than silently generating too long a video.
+            ({"num_frames": 346}, "rounded up to 362"),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "prompt_and_prompt_embeds",
+            "neither_prompt_nor_embeds",
+            "embeds_without_tags",
+            "tag_count_mismatch",
+            "canvas_not_a_multiple_of_32",
+            "shorter_than_five_seconds",
+            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds_once_aligned",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs.update(overrides)
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
+    def test_output_type(self, output_type):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["output_type"] = output_type
+        output = pipe(**inputs)
+
+        if output_type == "np":
+            assert output.frames.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION, 3)
+        elif output_type == "pil":
+            assert len(output.frames[0]) == NUM_FRAMES
+            assert output.frames[0][0].size == (RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        else:
+            # `"latent"` keeps the denormalized latents: the video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
+            assert output.frames.shape == (1, 4, NUM_LATENT_FRAMES, RESOLUTION // 16, RESOLUTION // 16)
+            assert output.audio.shape == (2, 8, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS)
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
+        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
+    )
+    def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
+        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
+    )
+    def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        "`encode_prompt` returns the per-row modality tags next to the embeddings, and both depend on the prepared "
+        "references, so the harness cannot reconstruct its call from the pipeline arguments alone."
+    )
+    def test_encode_prompt_works_in_isolation(self):
+        pass
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineMemory(MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
+    pass

From 4630604467c1a9930661a960829d879e408d0bff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 00:15:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 02/21] Keep the MiniMax-H3 VAEs in float32 under torch_dtype
 casts

---
 .../models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py          | 4 ++++
 .../models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py    | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
index edb44891e320..da116671659a 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -526,6 +526,10 @@ class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin, Autoencode
     _no_split_modules = ["MiniMaxH3VideoResnetBlock3d", "MiniMaxH3VideoTransformerBlock"]
     _repeated_blocks = ["MiniMaxH3VideoTransformerBlock"]
     _skip_layerwise_casting_patterns = ["norm"]
+    # The released checkpoint is float32 and the verified decode recipe is float16 *autocast over float32 weights*
+    # (see `decode`). A pipeline-level `torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16` must therefore not downcast the weights, so every
+    # top-level module is pinned, mirroring the transformer's mixed-precision contract.
+    _keep_in_fp32_modules = ["encoder", "decoder", "quant_conv", "post_quant_conv"]
 
     @register_to_config
     def __init__(
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
index e6144f83b8a8..c35c62e28ec3 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -527,6 +527,10 @@ class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin):
     """
 
     _supports_gradient_checkpointing = False
+    # The released checkpoint is float32 and the DAC/BigVGAN stack (weight-normalized convolutions, Snake
+    # activations) degrades audibly under bfloat16 (roughly 20 dB quieter decodes), so a pipeline-level
+    # `torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16` must not downcast the weights.
+    _keep_in_fp32_modules = ["encoder", "decoder", "pre_block", "dec_in_proj", "mean_proj", "logs_proj"]
 
     @register_to_config
     def __init__(

From 81a60626b681560a6e2df27e42dc90c0407d19b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 01:41:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 03/21] Make MiniMax-H3 modular only

---
 .../en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md |   2 +-
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md    | 135 ++-
 scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py    | 101 +-
 src/diffusers/__init__.py                     |   4 -
 .../autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py |  17 +-
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py  |   2 +
 .../minimax_h3/before_denoise.py              |  19 +-
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              |  15 +-
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py  |  12 +-
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py  |  44 +-
 .../minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py   |   6 +
 .../minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py            |  19 +-
 .../minimax_h3/packing.py                     |   8 +-
 .../minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py              |  22 +-
 src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py           |   2 -
 .../pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py          |  54 --
 .../minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py         | 663 -------------
 .../minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py  | 903 ------------------
 .../pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py   |  26 -
 .../dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py   |  30 -
 .../test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py  |  15 +
 ..._models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py |  14 +
 .../test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py     |   2 +-
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       | 630 +++++++++++-
 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py        |   0
 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py | 397 --------
 .../minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py      | 760 ---------------
 27 files changed, 877 insertions(+), 3025 deletions(-)
 rename src/diffusers/{pipelines => modular_pipelines}/minimax_h3/packing.py (98%)
 rename src/diffusers/{pipelines => modular_pipelines}/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py (97%)
 delete mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
 delete mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py
 delete mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
 delete mode 100644 src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py
 delete mode 100644 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
 delete mode 100644 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py
 delete mode 100644 tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md b/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
index 6f867f1fb6c9..b027a6ed0f0c 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ A Diffusion Transformer model for joint video and audio generation, introduced i
 
 MiniMax-H3 runs a single stack of blocks over **one packed 1-D sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the conditioning image and video rows, the audio rows and the target video rows at once. Attention is full self-attention over that sequence, so there is no cross-attention and no per-modality block weights. Modality-specific behaviour comes only from the two input patch projections, the per-row modality tag that selects the AdaLN modulation parameters, and the two output heads.
 
-Building the packed layout is the caller's job, which is why the forward signature takes the layout apart from the latents: the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags, the per-row timestep indices and the three index tensors that address the video, audio and text rows. [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] and [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] build all of it.
+Building the packed layout is the caller's job, which is why the forward signature takes the layout apart from the latents: the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags, the per-row timestep indices and the three index tensors that address the video, audio and text rows. [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`] and [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] build all of it.
 
 A layout that carries padding rows (tag `-1`) needs a masked attention backend, since those rows are kept in their own attention document by a boolean mask; a padless sequence needs no mask and keeps every backend available.
 
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index 5de61e3c428d..145f24118603 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -15,24 +15,46 @@ MiniMax-H3 generates video and its soundtrack **jointly**. One transformer denoi
 
 You can find the original MiniMax-H3 checkpoints under the [MiniMaxAI](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) organization.
 
+MiniMax-H3 is integrated as [Modular Diffusers](../../modular_diffusers/overview) blocks only, the way [Anima](./anima) is: the blocks and their [`MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline`] are the whole integration, and there is no `DiffusionPipeline` half.
+
 ## Checkpoint layout
 
 MiniMax-H3 was released as two checkpoint partitions that share every component except the transformer, so the diffusers conversion puts both in **one repository**:
 
-| Subfolder | Pipeline | Tasks |
+| Subfolder | Blocks | Tasks |
 |---|---|---|
-| `transformer/` | [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] | `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) |
-| `transformer_ref/` | [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] | `ref2va` (an ordered mix of image, video and audio references) |
+| `transformer/` | [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`] | `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) |
+| `transformer_ref/` | [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] | `ref2va` (an ordered mix of image, video and audio references) |
+
+Everything but the transformer, i.e. the video VAE, the audio VAE, the Qwen3-VL conditioner, its tokenizer and processor, and the two schedulers, is shared and stored once.
+
+The repository carries one `modular_model_index.json`, which names every component of both halves with its own loading spec. Each blockset declares only the components it runs, and `load_components` fetches exactly those subfolders: loading the `t2va` / `fl2va` half never touches `transformer_ref/`, and loading the `ref2va` half never touches `transformer/`. Nothing else in the repository is fetched either, which is what lets one repository carry the two partitions, and the original checkpoint folders next to the converted ones.
+
+`modular_model_index.json` names the `t2va` / `fl2va` half as its own class, so [`~ModularPipeline.from_pretrained`] resolves that half. The `ref2va` half reads the very same file through its own blocks:
+
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import ModularPipeline
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines import MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
 
-Each pipeline declares only its own transformer, so `from_pretrained` on the same repository id downloads and loads only the partition that pipeline needs. Everything else, the video VAE, the audio VAE, the Qwen3-VL conditioner, its tokenizer and processor, and the two schedulers, is shared.
+# `t2va` / `fl2va`: loads `transformer/`, and never `transformer_ref/`.
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+
+# `ref2va`: loads `transformer_ref/`, and never `transformer/`, out of the same repository.
+pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+```
+
+Each blockset also carries the workflows it serves — `t2va`, `fl2va` and `fl2va_last_frame` for [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`], `ref2va` for [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] — which name the inputs each task requires.
 
 The conditioner is a `Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`, and MiniMax-H3 reads the *unnormalized* hidden state after its 50th decoder layer rather than the last one, so the full released checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused.
 
 ## Two schedulers
 
-Video and audio latents step down two different schedules inside a single transformer call per step, which is why both pipelines register two [`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`] instances: `scheduler` for the video latents (`shift=12.0` in the released checkpoints) and `audio_scheduler` for the audio latents (`shift=3.0`).
+Video and audio latents step down two different schedules inside a single transformer call per step, which is why both blocksets expect two [`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`] instances: `scheduler` for the video latents (`shift=12.0` in the released checkpoints) and `audio_scheduler` for the audio latents (`shift=3.0`).
 
-The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: there is no `guidance_scale` and no negative prompt, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
+The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so there is no guider, no `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
 
 ## Generation constraints
 
@@ -41,75 +63,86 @@ The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: there is no `guidance_scale` and no negati
 - **One generator, three draws.** A request draws the keyframe or reference conditioning noise first, then the video noise, then the audio noise, all from the `generator` it is passed, so two runs from the same generator state return the same video and soundtrack. Passing `latents` or `audio_latents` replaces the corresponding draw.
 - **`num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points**, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model evaluation less.
 
+## Memory
+
+The transformer alone is 61.7 GB in bfloat16. Register the components in a [`ComponentsManager`] and let it move them on and off the accelerator around each block:
+
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
+
+manager = ComponentsManager()
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda")
+```
+
+`pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3_hub")` gives roughly 3x faster denoising on Hopper, with the kernels fetched from the Hub.
+
 ## Text and keyframes
 
-[`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] covers text-to-video-and-audio and keyframe conditioning. A keyframe can be the frame the video starts from (`image`), the frame it ends on (`last_image`), or both.
+[`MiniMaxH3Blocks`] covers text-to-video-and-audio and keyframe conditioning. A keyframe can be the frame the video starts from (`image`), the frame it ends on (`last_image`), or both.
 
 ```py
 import torch
-from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+from diffusers import ModularPipeline
 from diffusers.utils import load_image
 from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
 
-pipe = MiniMaxH3Pipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.to("cuda")
 
 prompt = "A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot"
 
 # Text to video + audio.
-output = pipe(prompt=prompt, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+state = pipe(prompt=prompt, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
 
 # First frame (and optionally last frame) to video + audio. The canvas follows the first keyframe.
 image = load_image(
     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
 )
-output = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+state = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
 
 encode_video(
-    output.frames[0],
+    state.get("videos")[0],
     fps=24,
     output_path="minimax_h3_fl2va.mp4",
-    audio=output.audio[0],
-    audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
+    audio=state.get("audio")[0],
+    audio_sample_rate=state.get("sampling_rate"),
 )
 ```
 
+Video and audio are generated jointly and come out of the call as separate outputs, `videos` and `audio`, next to the `sampling_rate` the soundtrack carries; muxing them into one file is left to the caller, e.g. with [`~utils.export_utils.encode_video`].
+
 ## Omni-references
 
-[`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] conditions on an ordered list of references: up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total. The order is semantic. It labels the references in the prompt presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same references is a different request.
+[`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] conditions on an ordered list of references: up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total. The order is semantic. It labels the references in the prompt presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same references is a different request.
 
-Unlike the keyframes above, references do not bind the generated geometry: they are encoded at their own resolution and the target canvas defaults to MiniMax-H3's 16:9. The duration may be left to a reference soundtrack, but only when exactly one reference carries audio.
+Unlike the keyframes above, references do not bind the generated geometry: they are encoded at their own resolution and the target canvas defaults to MiniMax-H3's 16:9.
 
-Every reference is a [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference`], and it takes a path or a URL as well as in-memory media: a path is decoded when the reference is built, with [`~utils.load_image`] for an image and [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV) for a video or an audio file, so the pipeline itself never opens a media file. Decoding brings the rates along, which is what the model needs: a video reference reads its frame rate off the container and adopts the container's soundtrack when it has one, and an audio reference its sample rate.
+Every reference is a [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference`], and it takes a path or a URL as well as in-memory media: a path is decoded when the reference is built, with [`~utils.load_image`] for an image and [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV) for a video or an audio file, so the blocks themselves never open a media file. Decoding brings the rates along, which is what the model needs: a video reference reads its frame rate off the container and adopts the container's soundtrack when it has one, and an audio reference its sample rate.
 
 In-memory media declares the rates it carries instead, defaulting to MiniMax-H3's own: `fps=24.0` and the audio VAE's sample rate, so only self-generated data at another rate has to say so. An explicit `fps` or `sample_rate` also wins over a container whose metadata is wrong. Frames are resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, and a waveform onto the audio VAE's sample rate. A video reference conditions on its motion **and**, when it carries an `audio` waveform, on that soundtrack, which is then packed as this reference's own.
 
-A request that carries a single reference may name its medium on the call itself, as `image=`, `video=` or `audio=`, which is the same request as a one-item `references` list. The two ways are mutually exclusive.
-
 ```py
 import torch
-from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
-from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines import MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
 from diffusers.utils import load_image, load_video
 from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
 
-pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
+pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.to("cuda")
 
 subject = load_image(
     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
 )
 
-# A single reference may name its medium on the call itself.
-output = pipe(
-    prompt="The subject walks toward camera, turning slightly, natural arm swing",
-    image=subject,
-    generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
-)
-
 # A reference decodes a path or a URL as it is built, rates included: the video brings its own frame rate and its
-# soundtrack, the audio clip its sample rate. An audio reference sets the duration on its own.
-output = pipe(
+# soundtrack, the audio clip its sample rate.
+state = pipe(
     prompt="The character speaks in time with the reference recording, natural lip movement",
     references=[
         MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject),
@@ -118,40 +151,44 @@ output = pipe(
         ),
         MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
     ],
+    num_frames=124,
 )
 
 # In-memory media says which rates it carries, MiniMax-H3's own by default.
 motion = load_video("motion_ref.mp4")
-output = pipe(
+state = pipe(
     prompt="The subject walks toward camera, matching the reference video's shot rhythm",
     references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject), MiniMaxH3Reference(video=motion, fps=30.0)],
+    num_frames=124,
 )
 
 encode_video(
-    output.frames[0],
+    state.get("videos")[0],
     fps=24,
     output_path="minimax_h3_ref2va.mp4",
-    audio=output.audio[0],
-    audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
+    audio=state.get("audio")[0],
+    audio_sample_rate=state.get("sampling_rate"),
 )
 ```
 
-## MiniMaxH3Pipeline
+`num_frames` may be left out, but only when exactly one reference carries audio: the duration is then that soundtrack's, snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode. A soundtrack whose *aligned* duration falls outside the 5 to 15 seconds MiniMax-H3 generates is rejected rather than silently stretched, so a clip just under 15 seconds — which rounds up to 362 frames, i.e. 15.083 seconds — has to name a shorter `num_frames` explicitly.
 
-[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Pipeline
-  - all
-  - __call__
+## MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
 
-## MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
 
-[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
-  - all
-  - __call__
+## MiniMaxH3Blocks
 
-## MiniMaxH3Reference
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Blocks
+
+## MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
 
-[[autodoc]] pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
 
-## MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
+## MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+
+[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+
+## MiniMaxH3Reference
 
-[[autodoc]] pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_output.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
+[[autodoc]] modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference
diff --git a/scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py b/scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py
index f2358432f969..337d6c0e6816 100644
--- a/scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py
+++ b/scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 There are no transposes anywhere.
 
 The FL2VA and Ref2VA variants differ only in the transformer weights, so the variant is selected by pointing
-`--checkpoint_path` at the corresponding folder.
+`--checkpoint_path` at the corresponding folder. Both land in one repository, which carries a single
+`modular_model_index.json`: MiniMax-H3 is integrated as Modular Diffusers blocks only, so no `model_index.json` is
+written.
 
 Usage:
 
@@ -27,9 +29,10 @@
 python scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py \
     --checkpoint_path /path/to/MiniMax-H3/FL2VA --output_path /tmp/h3-diffusers --dry_run
 
-# Convert.
+# Convert, and point the component loading specs at the Hub id the result is published under.
 python scripts/convert_minimax_h3_to_diffusers.py \
-    --checkpoint_path /path/to/MiniMax-H3/FL2VA --output_path /tmp/h3-diffusers
+    --checkpoint_path /path/to/MiniMax-H3/FL2VA --output_path /tmp/h3-diffusers \
+    --modular_repo_id MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
 ```
 """
 
@@ -815,61 +818,49 @@ def write_transformer_config(output_path: str, config: dict[str, Any], diffusers
         )
 
 
-def write_model_index(checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, repo_id: str, diffusers_version: str) -> None:
-    """Emit `model_index.json` for the standard pipelines and `modular_model_index.json` for the modular ones.
+# The components a MiniMax-H3 repository holds, and the class each one loads as. `video_processor` is absent: the
+# blocks create it from config rather than loading it.
+MINIMAX_H3_COMPONENTS = {
+    # The source names a checkpoint-local wrapper class (`MiniMaxH3Qwen3VLHFEncoder`); the conditioner is the
+    # released Qwen3-VL, read at its 50th decoder layer with its language-model head unused.
+    "text_encoder": ["transformers", "Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration"],
+    "tokenizer": ["transformers", "Qwen2TokenizerFast"],
+    "processor": ["transformers", "Qwen3VLProcessor"],
+    # Renamed to the diffusers audio/video VAE convention (see `LTX2Pipeline`).
+    "vae": ["diffusers", "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3"],
+    "audio_vae": ["diffusers", "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio"],
+    "transformer": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"],
+    # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: `transformer/` serves `MiniMaxH3Blocks` (`t2va` / `fl2va`) and
+    # `transformer_ref/` serves `MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`, while every other component is shared and converted once.
+    "transformer_ref": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"],
+    # The source leaves `scheduler` null. MiniMax-H3 samples with Euler at eta=0 over shifted flow-matching sigmas, at
+    # a different shift per modality, so it needs two scheduler entries (see `write_scheduler_configs`).
+    "scheduler": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Scheduler"],
+    "audio_scheduler": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Scheduler"],
+}
 
-    A modular repository declares one entry per component with its full loading spec rather than just its class, so
-    the two files carry the same component map in two shapes; `video_processor` is absent from both, since the modular
-    blocks create it from config.
-    """
-    with open(os.path.join(checkpoint_path, "model_index.json")) as f:
-        source_index = json.load(f)
 
-    if source_index.get("scheduler") is not None:
-        raise ValueError("The source `model_index.json` is expected to carry `scheduler: null`.")
+def write_model_index(output_path: str, repo_id: str, diffusers_version: str) -> None:
+    """Emit `modular_model_index.json`, the only index a MiniMax-H3 repository carries.
 
-    index = {
-        "_class_name": "MiniMaxH3Pipeline",
-        "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version,
-        # The source names a checkpoint-local wrapper class (`MiniMaxH3Qwen3VLHFEncoder`); the conditioner is a
-        # Qwen3-VL truncated to its first 50 decoder layers, which the pipeline does at load time.
-        "text_encoder": ["transformers", "Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration"],
-        "tokenizer": source_index["tokenizer"],
-        "processor": source_index["processor"],
-        # Renamed to the diffusers audio/video VAE convention (see `LTX2Pipeline`).
-        "vae": ["diffusers", "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3"],
-        "audio_vae": ["diffusers", "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio"],
-        "transformer": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"],
-        # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: `transformer/` serves `MiniMaxH3Pipeline` (`t2va` /
-        # `fl2va`) and `transformer_ref/` serves `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`, while every other component is shared and
-        # converted once. Each pipeline declares only its own transformer, so `from_pretrained` loads only that one.
-        "transformer_ref": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"],
-        # The source leaves `scheduler` null. MiniMax-H3 samples with Euler at eta=0 over shifted flow-matching
-        # sigmas, at a different shift per modality, so it needs two scheduler entries (see
-        # `write_scheduler_configs`).
-        "scheduler": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Scheduler"],
-        "audio_scheduler": ["diffusers", "MiniMaxH3Scheduler"],
-    }
-    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
-    with open(os.path.join(output_path, "model_index.json"), "w") as f:
-        json.dump(index, f, indent=2)
-    source_meta = source_index["_minimax_h3"]
-    print(f"model_index.json: source partition={source_meta['partition']}, tasks={source_meta['tasks']}.")
-
-    # `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` reads this one first and falls back to `model_index.json`. `_class_name` and
-    # `_blocks_class_name` name the `t2va` / `fl2va` half, which is what `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` resolves to.
-    # The `ref2va` half reads the very same file through `MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline(repo_id)`: a component
-    # entry is only picked up when the blocks expect it, so each half loads its own transformer partition and shares
-    # everything else.
+    MiniMax-H3 is integrated as Modular Diffusers blocks only, so there is no `model_index.json`: a modular repository
+    declares one entry per component with its full loading spec rather than just its class, and a blockset then fetches
+    exactly the subfolders it declares. That is what lets one repository hold both transformer partitions, and the
+    original checkpoint folders next to the converted ones, without either half pulling the rest down.
+
+    `_class_name` and `_blocks_class_name` name the `t2va` / `fl2va` half, which is what
+    `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` resolves to. The `ref2va` half reads the very same file through
+    `MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline(repo_id)`.
+
+    The component map is the static one above, so this needs no source checkpoint: an index can be regenerated for a
+    repository that is already published.
+    """
     modular_index = {
         "_class_name": "MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline",
         "_diffusers_version": diffusers_version,
         "_blocks_class_name": "MiniMaxH3Blocks",
     }
-    for name, entry in index.items():
-        if name.startswith("_"):
-            continue
-        library, class_name = entry
+    for name, (library, class_name) in MINIMAX_H3_COMPONENTS.items():
         modular_index[name] = [
             library,
             class_name,
@@ -881,9 +872,10 @@ def write_model_index(checkpoint_path: str, output_path: str, repo_id: str, diff
                 "revision": None,
             },
         ]
+    os.makedirs(output_path, exist_ok=True)
     with open(os.path.join(output_path, "modular_model_index.json"), "w") as f:
         json.dump(modular_index, f, indent=2)
-    print(f"modular_model_index.json: components load from {repo_id}.")
+    print(f"modular_model_index.json: {len(MINIMAX_H3_COMPONENTS)} components load from {repo_id}.")
 
 
 def get_args():
@@ -901,7 +893,8 @@ def get_args():
         default=None,
         help=(
             "Repository the component entries of `modular_model_index.json` point at. Defaults to `--output_path`, so "
-            "pass the Hub id the checkpoint is published under."
+            "pass the Hub id the checkpoint is published under. Every entry carries its own loading spec, so a "
+            "blockset fetches exactly the subfolders it declares out of that repository."
         ),
     )
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -947,9 +940,7 @@ def main(args):
     )
     convert_audio_vae(args.checkpoint_path, os.path.join(args.output_path, "audio_vae"), diffusers_version)
     write_scheduler_configs(args.checkpoint_path, args.output_path, diffusers_version)
-    write_model_index(
-        args.checkpoint_path, args.output_path, args.modular_repo_id or args.output_path, diffusers_version
-    )
+    write_model_index(args.output_path, args.modular_repo_id or args.output_path, diffusers_version)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/src/diffusers/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/__init__.py
index 0cb9aa37835c..3c8a46426d2a 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/__init__.py
@@ -725,8 +725,6 @@
             "MarigoldDepthPipeline",
             "MarigoldIntrinsicsPipeline",
             "MarigoldNormalsPipeline",
-            "MiniMaxH3Pipeline",
-            "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline",
             "MochiPipeline",
             "MotifVideoImage2VideoPipeline",
             "MotifVideoPipeline",
@@ -1551,8 +1549,6 @@
             MarigoldDepthPipeline,
             MarigoldIntrinsicsPipeline,
             MarigoldNormalsPipeline,
-            MiniMaxH3Pipeline,
-            MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline,
             MochiPipeline,
             MotifVideoImage2VideoPipeline,
             MotifVideoPipeline,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
index da116671659a..586138fc884e 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -707,8 +707,14 @@ def _stitch_tiles(
             result_rows.append(torch.cat(result_row, dim=-1))
         return torch.cat(result_rows, dim=-2)
 
+    @apply_forward_hook
     def _encode_clip(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
-        r"""Encode one temporal clip, spatially tiled when tiling is enabled."""
+        r"""
+        Encode one temporal clip, spatially tiled when tiling is enabled.
+
+        MiniMax-H3 encodes a keyframe or an image reference through this method rather than through [`~encode`],
+        because a single frame must not go through the temporal chunking, so it carries the offload hook too.
+        """
         if not self.use_tiling:
             return self.quant_conv(self.encoder(x))
 
@@ -762,8 +768,15 @@ def _decode_clip(self, z: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 
         return self._stitch_tiles(rows, y_overlaps, x_overlaps)
 
+    @apply_forward_hook
     def _encode(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
-        r"""Encode a video in `clip_length`-frame chunks and drop the `token_drop` trailing latent frames."""
+        r"""
+        Encode a video in `clip_length`-frame chunks and drop the `token_drop` trailing latent frames.
+
+        MiniMax-H3 encodes a video reference through this method rather than through [`~encode`], because the
+        posterior is sampled under a fixed generator rather than through the distribution object, so it carries the
+        offload hook too.
+        """
         clip_length = self.config.clip_length
         num_frames = x.shape[2]
         if num_frames % clip_length != 0:
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
index 7c7826b77a2d..6f492f17eff1 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 else:
     _import_structure["modular_blocks_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Blocks", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks"]
     _import_structure["modular_pipeline"] = ["MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline"]
+    _import_structure["packing_ref2va"] = ["MiniMaxH3Reference"]
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING or DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT:
     try:
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
     else:
         from .modular_blocks_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Blocks, MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
         from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+        from .packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3Reference
 else:
     import sys
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
index 6aa1a7c2bcb2..ef874b1e0100 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
@@ -14,7 +14,13 @@
 
 import torch
 
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging
+from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+from .packing import (
     MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
     MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
     MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
@@ -22,13 +28,7 @@
     build_row_timesteps,
     patchify_video_latents,
 )
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3PreparedReference, build_ref2va_packed_sequence
-from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
-from ...utils import logging
-from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
-from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
-from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+from .packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3PreparedReference, build_ref2va_packed_sequence
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
@@ -270,7 +270,6 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.prepare_latents with self->components
     def prepare_latents(
         components,
         num_latent_frames: int,
@@ -287,7 +286,7 @@ def prepare_latents(
 
         A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
         reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
-        [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
+        [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
         that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
         `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index b4e6f997e148..88978bb6ff77 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@
 import torch
 from PIL import Image, ImageOps
 
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+from ...utils import logging
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+from .packing import (
     MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
     MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
     MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@
     resolve_canvas_size,
     video_latent_num_frames,
 )
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing_ref2va import (
+from .packing_ref2va import (
     MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS,
     MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES,
     MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS,
@@ -42,10 +46,6 @@
     resample_reference_frames,
     resolve_reference_image_size,
 )
-from ...utils import logging
-from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
-from ..modular_pipeline_utils import InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.prepare_references with self->components
     def prepare_references(
         components, references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference], num_frames: int | None
     ) -> tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]:
@@ -319,7 +318,7 @@ def prepare_references(
 
         Args:
             references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
-                The `references` argument of [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.__call__`].
+                The `references` input of a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request.
             num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
                 The requested frame count, or `None` to derive it from the single audio-bearing reference.
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
index 9323c3e51de7..fc4ee359267b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
@@ -16,17 +16,17 @@
 
 from ...configuration_utils import FrozenDict
 from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
-    unpack_audio_tokens,
-    unpatchify_video_tokens,
-)
 from ...utils import logging
 from ...video_processor import VideoProcessor
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
 from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+from .packing import (
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
+    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
+    unpack_audio_tokens,
+    unpatchify_video_tokens,
+)
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
index e7cb3faee82c..da2d611eaba0 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@
 
 from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
 from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing import (
+from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
+from ...utils import logging
+from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+from .packing import (
     MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
     MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
     MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
@@ -29,17 +34,12 @@
     keyframe_condition_noise,
     patchify_video_latents,
 )
-from ...pipelines.minimax_h3.packing_ref2va import (
+from .packing_ref2va import (
     MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
     build_ref2va_presentation,
     sample_reference_video_frames,
     trim_reference_num_frames,
 )
-from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
-from ...utils import logging
-from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
-from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         return _conditioner_outputs()
 
     @staticmethod
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.encode_prompt with self->components
     def encode_prompt(
         components,
         prompt: str,
@@ -175,6 +174,14 @@ def encode_prompt(
         mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
             components.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
         )
+        # `text_encoder.model` is a submodule, and a CPU-offload hook — accelerate's or the one the
+        # `ComponentsManager` attaches — wraps the *top-level* module's `forward` alone, so calling the submodule
+        # directly would leave the conditioner on the CPU. Fire the hook by hand instead of routing through
+        # `text_encoder(...)`: MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses the language-model head, whose
+        # vocabulary-wide projection over every token is all the top-level forward would add.
+        hook = getattr(components.text_encoder, "_hf_hook", None)
+        if hook is not None and hasattr(hook, "pre_forward"):
+            hook.pre_forward(components.text_encoder)
         outputs = components.text_encoder.model(
             input_ids=input_ids,
             attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
@@ -192,8 +199,8 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         _check_prompt(block_state.prompt)
 
-        # The standard pipeline defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser
-        # of its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
+        # `encode_prompt` defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser of
+        # its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
         block_state.prompt_embeds, block_state.text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(
             components,
             block_state.prompt,
@@ -255,7 +262,6 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.encode_keyframes with self->components
     def encode_keyframes(components, images: list, device: torch.device | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
         r"""
         Encode the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows.
@@ -349,7 +355,6 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         return _conditioner_outputs()
 
     @staticmethod
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.encode_prompt with self->components
     def encode_prompt(
         components,
         prompt: str,
@@ -371,7 +376,7 @@ def encode_prompt(
             prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
             references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
                 The prepared references, in packed order, as returned by
-                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.prepare_references`].
+                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references`].
             device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
             dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
 
@@ -426,6 +431,14 @@ def encode_prompt(
         mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
             components.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
         )
+        # `text_encoder.model` is a submodule, and a CPU-offload hook — accelerate's or the one the
+        # `ComponentsManager` attaches — wraps the *top-level* module's `forward` alone, so calling the submodule
+        # directly would leave the conditioner on the CPU. Fire the hook by hand instead of routing through
+        # `text_encoder(...)`: MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses the language-model head, whose
+        # vocabulary-wide projection over every token is all the top-level forward would add.
+        hook = getattr(components.text_encoder, "_hf_hook", None)
+        if hook is not None and hasattr(hook, "pre_forward"):
+            hook.pre_forward(components.text_encoder)
         outputs = components.text_encoder.model(
             input_ids=input_ids,
             attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
@@ -447,8 +460,8 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineSt
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         _check_prompt(block_state.prompt)
 
-        # The standard pipeline defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser
-        # of its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
+        # `encode_prompt` defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser of
+        # its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
         block_state.prompt_embeds, block_state.text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(
             components,
             block_state.prompt,
@@ -522,7 +535,6 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.encode_references with self->components
     def encode_references(
         components, references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], device: torch.device | None = None
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor | None, torch.Tensor | None]:
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
index 4bfdff2c5a8c..b1a7b4f69724 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
@@ -224,6 +224,10 @@ class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
         "denoise",
         "decode",
     ]
+    # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions, so the two blocksets are two workflows over one shared
+    # `modular_model_index.json`, and each declares only the components its own half loads. The keys below are the
+    # task names a `workflow=` argument to `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` would take, so that the component subset
+    # of a task can be resolved from the index without instantiating the blocks first.
     _workflow_map = {
         "t2va": {"prompt": True},
         "fl2va": {"prompt": True, "image": True},
@@ -323,6 +327,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
         "denoise",
         "decode",
     ]
+    # The `ref2va` task name, i.e. the value a `workflow=` argument to `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` would take
+    # to resolve this half — and its `transformer_ref` partition — out of the shared `modular_model_index.json`.
     _workflow_map = {
         "ref2va": {"prompt": True, "references": True},
     }
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
index 1b9aedbbaeae..97ab2314beaa 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -32,10 +32,18 @@ class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(ModularPipeline):
     The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so there is no guider, no
     `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
 
-    This class carries only the config-derived values [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] resolves in its `__init__`. The
-    packed-sequence geometry lives in `pipelines.minimax_h3.packing`, which both pipeline systems import, and the
-    conditioning, encoding and noise contracts live in the blocks, as `# Copied from` of the standard pipeline's
-    methods.
+    MiniMax-H3 is modular only: this pipeline and its blocks are the whole integration, there is no
+    `DiffusionPipeline` half. This class carries the config-derived geometry the blocks read off the components, the
+    packed-sequence geometry lives in `modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.packing`, and the conditioning, encoding and noise
+    contracts live on the blocks themselves.
+
+    ```py
+    import torch
+    from diffusers import ModularPipeline
+
+    pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+    pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+    ```
 
     > [!WARNING] > This is an experimental feature and is likely to change in the future.
     """
@@ -93,8 +101,7 @@ class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline(MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline):
     pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
     ```
 
-    The blocks carry the `ref2va` conditioning, encoding and noise contracts as `# Copied from` of
-    [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`]'s methods.
+    The blocks carry the `ref2va` conditioning, encoding and noise contracts themselves.
 
     > [!WARNING] > This is an experimental feature and is likely to change in the future.
     """
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
similarity index 98%
rename from src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
rename to src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
index 238348b83f83..c84f7e7f9aa8 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 r"""
-Packed-sequence and conditioning machinery shared by the MiniMax-H3 pipelines.
+Packed-sequence and conditioning machinery of the MiniMax-H3 blocks.
 
-This module holds no pipeline of its own: it is the checkpoint's geometry and its constants, imported both by the
-standard pipelines here and by the blocks of `modular_pipelines.minimax_h3`, so that neither reimplements it.
+This module holds no block of its own: it is the checkpoint's geometry and its constants, imported by every block
+of `modular_pipelines.minimax_h3` that has to place a row, so that none of them reimplements it.
 
 MiniMax-H3 runs its transformer over a single packed 1-D sequence that holds every modality at once. For the
 text/keyframe tasks the row order is
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ def keyframe_condition_noise(
 
     One draw per condition, in packed order, off the request's generator. The conditioning rows are prepared before
     the target rows, so these are the *first* draws of a request, ahead of the video and audio noise of
-    [`~MiniMaxH3Pipeline.prepare_latents`] — the order is part of what a generator reproduces.
+    [`~MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep.prepare_latents`] — the order is part of what a generator reproduces.
 
     Args:
         condition_latent_shapes (`tuple[tuple[int, int, int], ...]`):
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
similarity index 97%
rename from src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
rename to src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
index a6a835ab591a..3518c9558a0c 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 resolution (2048 pixel short edge for images, MiniMax-H3's 768 pixel canvas for videos) and carries its own
 aspect-normalized spatial grid.
 
-References reach the pipeline as in-memory media: a video is decoded frames plus the `fps` they carry, and a soundtrack
+References reach the blocks as in-memory media: a video is decoded frames plus the `fps` they carry, and a soundtrack
 a waveform plus its sample rate. A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] takes a path or a URL too, but it decodes it when it is
-built, so that no pipeline of this model ever opens a media file.
+built, so that no block of this model ever opens a media file.
 """
 
 import contextlib
@@ -210,19 +210,19 @@ def decode_reference_audio(media) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
 @dataclass
 class MiniMaxH3Reference:
     r"""
-    One omni-reference of a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline`] request: an image, a video, or an audio clip.
+    One omni-reference of a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request: an image, a video, or an audio clip.
 
     A reference carries exactly one medium — plus, for a video, the `audio` of its own soundtrack, which is then
-    conditioned on as that reference's own. References are passed to the pipeline as a list, **in the order the model
+    conditioned on as that reference's own. References are passed to the blocks as a list, **in the order the model
     should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock,
     so a different order is a different request.
 
     Every medium may be a path or a URL as well as in-memory media. A path is decoded here, when the reference is
-    built, and with it the rates that come with it: no MiniMax-H3 pipeline opens a media file. Decoding a video or an
+    built, and with it the rates that come with it: no MiniMax-H3 block opens a media file. Decoding a video or an
     audio file needs [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV).
 
     ```py
-    >>> from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
+    >>> from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
 
     >>> # A file or a URL is decoded on the spot, at the rate the container reports.
     >>> references = [
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ def __post_init__(self):
                 f"the `audio` of its soundtrack — got {media if media else 'none of them'}."
             )
 
-        # A path is decoded on the spot, so that the pipeline only ever sees in-memory media. A rate the request
+        # A path is decoded on the spot, so that the blocks only ever see in-memory media. A rate the request
         # passed explicitly wins over the one the container reports, for a container whose metadata is wrong.
         if isinstance(self.image, (str, os.PathLike)):
             self.image = load_image(str(self.image))
@@ -322,11 +322,11 @@ def reference_kind(index: int, entry: Any) -> str:
             "the dataclass: `MiniMaxH3Reference(image=...)`, `MiniMaxH3Reference(video=...)` or "
             "`MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=...)`."
         )
-    # A reference decodes a path when it is built, so a pipeline only ever sees in-memory media.
+    # A reference decodes a path when it is built, so the blocks only ever see in-memory media.
     for name in ("image", "video", "audio"):
         if isinstance(getattr(entry, name), (str, os.PathLike)):
             raise ValueError(
-                f"`references[{index}].{name}` is a path. MiniMax-H3 pipelines never open media files: rebuild "
+                f"`references[{index}].{name}` is a path. MiniMax-H3 blocks never open media files: rebuild "
                 "the reference, which decodes a path as it is built."
             )
     return entry.kind
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ class MiniMaxH3PreparedReference:
     r"""
     One `ref2va` reference prepared for packing, in packed order.
 
-    A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] is resolved in three passes: the pipeline reads the modality off the request (`kind`,
+    A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] is resolved in three passes: the blocks read the modality off the request (`kind`,
     `has_audio`), prepares the pixels or samples (`image`, `frames`, `waveform`), and finally encodes them, which is
     what fixes the latent geometry (`num_latent_frames`, `latent_height`, `latent_width`, `num_audio_latents`) the
     packed layout is built from.
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ def _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
     r"""
     The rotary time a video reference advances the clock by.
 
-    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing._temporal_position_span`] sums
+    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.packing._temporal_position_span`] sums
     the same series: that one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16
     latent frames onwards. The reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
     """
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py
index 452cd1de9251..6c0c8667aab5 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -363,7 +363,6 @@
             "MarigoldNormalsPipeline",
         ]
     )
-    _import_structure["minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Pipeline", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline"]
     _import_structure["mochi"] = ["MochiPipeline"]
     _import_structure["motif_video"] = [
         "MotifVideoPipeline",
@@ -810,7 +809,6 @@
             MarigoldIntrinsicsPipeline,
             MarigoldNormalsPipeline,
         )
-        from .minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Pipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
         from .mochi import MochiPipeline
         from .motif_video import (
             MotifVideoImage2VideoPipeline,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3717b93219d2..000000000000
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
-
-from ...utils import (
-    DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT,
-    OptionalDependencyNotAvailable,
-    _LazyModule,
-    get_objects_from_module,
-    is_torch_available,
-    is_transformers_available,
-)
-
-
-_dummy_objects = {}
-_import_structure = {}
-
-
-try:
-    if not (is_transformers_available() and is_torch_available()):
-        raise OptionalDependencyNotAvailable()
-except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
-    from ...utils import dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects  # noqa F403
-
-    _dummy_objects.update(get_objects_from_module(dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects))
-else:
-    _import_structure["packing_ref2va"] = ["MiniMaxH3Reference"]
-    _import_structure["pipeline_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Pipeline"]
-    _import_structure["pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va"] = ["MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline"]
-    _import_structure["pipeline_output"] = ["MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput"]
-
-if TYPE_CHECKING or DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT:
-    try:
-        if not (is_transformers_available() and is_torch_available()):
-            raise OptionalDependencyNotAvailable()
-
-    except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
-        from ...utils.dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects import *
-    else:
-        from .packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3Reference
-        from .pipeline_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Pipeline
-        from .pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va import MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
-        from .pipeline_output import MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
-
-else:
-    import sys
-
-    sys.modules[__name__] = _LazyModule(
-        __name__,
-        globals()["__file__"],
-        _import_structure,
-        module_spec=__spec__,
-    )
-
-    for name, value in _dummy_objects.items():
-        setattr(sys.modules[__name__], name, value)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d4804574733..000000000000
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,663 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-from typing import Any, Callable
-
-import numpy as np
-import torch
-from PIL import ImageOps
-from transformers import Qwen2TokenizerFast, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
-
-from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio, MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
-from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
-from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
-from ...utils import logging, replace_example_docstring
-from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
-from ...video_processor import VideoProcessor
-from ..pipeline_utils import DiffusionPipeline
-from .packing import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
-    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
-    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER,
-    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
-    align_num_frames,
-    audio_latent_num_frames,
-    build_packed_sequence,
-    build_row_timesteps,
-    keyframe_condition_noise,
-    patchify_video_latents,
-    prepare_keyframe_image,
-    resolve_canvas_size,
-    unpack_audio_tokens,
-    unpatchify_video_tokens,
-    video_latent_num_frames,
-)
-from .pipeline_output import MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
-
-
-logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-
-
-EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING = """
-    Examples:
-        ```py
-        >>> import torch
-        >>> from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Pipeline
-        >>> from diffusers.utils import export_to_video, load_image
-        >>> from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
-
-        >>> # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: this pipeline loads `transformer/`, while
-        >>> # `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.from_pretrained` on the same repository loads `transformer_ref/`.
-        >>> pipe = MiniMaxH3Pipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-        >>> pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
-
-        >>> prompt = "A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot"
-
-        >>> # Text to video + audio.
-        >>> output = pipe(prompt=prompt, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
-
-        >>> # First frame (and optionally last frame) to video + audio. The canvas follows the first keyframe.
-        >>> image = load_image(
-        ...     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
-        ... )
-        >>> output = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
-
-        >>> # Video and audio are generated jointly, but muxing them into one file is up to the caller.
-        >>> export_to_video(output.frames[0], "output.mp4", fps=24)
-        >>> encode_video(
-        ...     output.frames[0], fps=24, output_path="output_with_audio.mp4",
-        ...     audio=output.audio[0], audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
-        ... )
-        ```
-"""
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3Pipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
-    r"""
-    Pipeline for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first
-    and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint.
-
-    MiniMax-H3 denoises **one packed sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the keyframe conditioning latents,
-    the audio latents and the video latents at once, with a full self-attention stack over all of it. Video and audio
-    step down two different schedules (`shift = 12.0` and `shift = 3.0`) inside a single transformer call per step,
-    which is why the pipeline registers two schedulers.
-
-    The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: `guidance_scale` is fixed at 1.0, there is no negative prompt, and every
-    step runs exactly one forward pass.
-
-    This model inherits from [`DiffusionPipeline`]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods
-    implemented for all pipelines (downloading, saving, running on a particular device, etc.).
-
-    Args:
-        transformer ([`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`]):
-            The packed-sequence transformer that denoises the video and audio latents jointly.
-        vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`]):
-            Video VAE, 16x spatially and 4x temporally. Also encodes the `fl2va` keyframes.
-        audio_vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`]):
-            Audio VAE, a waveform autoencoder at 32 kHz with 40 latents per second.
-        text_encoder ([`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`]):
-            The conditioner. MiniMax-H3 reads the hidden state after its 50th decoder layer, so the released 64-layer
-            checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused; a checkpoint truncated below 51 layers is
-            rejected, since the last hidden state of a truncated stack is post-norm and roughly an order of magnitude
-            off in scale.
-        tokenizer ([`Qwen2TokenizerFast`]):
-            Tokenizer of the conditioner.
-        processor ([`Qwen3VLProcessor`]):
-            Processor of the conditioner, used to turn the `fl2va` keyframes into vision patches.
-        scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
-            The video-latent schedule (`shift = 12.0` in the released checkpoint).
-        audio_scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
-            The audio-latent schedule (`shift = 3.0` in the released checkpoint).
-    """
-
-    model_cpu_offload_seq = "text_encoder->transformer->vae->audio_vae"
-    _callback_tensor_inputs = ["latents", "audio_latents", "prompt_embeds"]
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        transformer: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
-        vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
-        audio_vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
-        text_encoder: Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
-        tokenizer: Qwen2TokenizerFast,
-        processor: Qwen3VLProcessor,
-        scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
-        audio_scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
-    ):
-        super().__init__()
-
-        self.register_modules(
-            transformer=transformer,
-            vae=vae,
-            audio_vae=audio_vae,
-            text_encoder=text_encoder,
-            tokenizer=tokenizer,
-            processor=processor,
-            scheduler=scheduler,
-            audio_scheduler=audio_scheduler,
-        )
-
-        self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio = (
-            self.vae.spatial_compression_ratio if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 16
-        )
-        self.vae_latent_channels = self.vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 24
-        self.audio_sampling_rate = (
-            self.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32000
-        )
-        self.audio_latent_channels = (
-            self.audio_vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32
-        )
-        self.patch_size = (
-            tuple(self.transformer.config.patch_size) if getattr(self, "transformer", None) is not None else (1, 2, 2)
-        )
-        # The video VAE decodes into ImageNet-normalized RGB over a [0, 1] base range, which the pipeline reverts
-        # itself, so the processor must not denormalize a second time.
-        self.video_processor = VideoProcessor(vae_scale_factor=self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio, do_normalize=False)
-
-    def check_inputs(self, prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, height, width, num_frames):
-        if prompt is not None and prompt_embeds is not None:
-            raise ValueError("Pass either `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`, not both.")
-        if prompt is None and prompt_embeds is None:
-            raise ValueError("Pass one of `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`.")
-        if prompt is not None and not isinstance(prompt, str):
-            raise ValueError(
-                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
-                f"{type(prompt)}."
-            )
-        if (prompt_embeds is None) != (text_token_tags is None):
-            raise ValueError("`prompt_embeds` and `text_token_tags` have to be passed together.")
-        if prompt_embeds is not None and prompt_embeds.shape[1] != text_token_tags.shape[0]:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`text_token_tags` must hold one tag per row of `prompt_embeds`, got {text_token_tags.shape[0]} tags "
-                f"for {prompt_embeds.shape[1]} rows."
-            )
-        if (height is None) != (width is None):
-            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
-        if height is not None and (height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got {height}x{width}."
-            )
-        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
-        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
-        duration = aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
-        if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
-                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
-                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {num_frames} (rounded up to "
-                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
-            )
-
-    def encode_prompt(
-        self,
-        prompt: str,
-        images: list | None = None,
-        device: torch.device | None = None,
-        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-        r"""
-        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a request and encode it.
-
-        The presentation is the verbatim prompt for `t2va`. Every keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a
-        vision block (`<|vision_start|>`, one `<|image_pad|>` per vision patch, `<|vision_end|>`) — no chat template
-        and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the
-        transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
-
-        Args:
-            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
-            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, *optional*):
-                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
-            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
-            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
-        """
-        device = device or self._execution_device
-        dtype = dtype or self.transformer.dtype
-
-        num_layers = self.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
-        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
-                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
-                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
-            )
-
-        pixel_values, image_grid_thw = None, None
-        token_ids, token_tags = [], []
-        if images:
-            vision = self.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
-            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
-            merge_size = self.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
-            for index in range(len(images)):
-                num_image_tokens = int(image_grid_thw[index].prod()) // merge_size
-                label_ids = self.tokenizer(f"<Picture {index + 1}>: ", add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
-                vision_ids = (
-                    [self.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
-                    + [self.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|image_pad|>")] * num_image_tokens
-                    + [self.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
-                )
-                token_ids += label_ids + vision_ids
-                token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(label_ids) + [MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG] * len(vision_ids)
-        prompt_ids = self.tokenizer(prompt, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
-        token_ids += prompt_ids
-        token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(prompt_ids)
-
-        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
-        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
-        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
-        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
-            self.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
-        )
-        outputs = self.text_encoder.model(
-            input_ids=input_ids,
-            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
-            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
-            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, self.text_encoder.dtype),
-            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
-            use_cache=False,
-            output_hidden_states=True,
-        )
-        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
-        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
-
-    def encode_keyframes(self, images: list, device: torch.device | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
-        r"""
-        Encode the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows.
-
-        The keyframes go through the video VAE's spatial encoder only — they are single frames, so none of its
-        17-frame temporal chunking applies — and the posterior is *sampled*, under a generator seeded with 42
-        independently of the request seed. The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized, as in the
-        reference implementation; both are part of reproducing the released model's conditioning.
-
-        Args:
-            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`):
-                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAE on.
-
-        Returns:
-            `torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_condition_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`: the float32
-            conditioning rows.
-        """
-        device = device or self._execution_device
-        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-
-        rows = []
-        for image in images:
-            pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
-            pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
-            # `vae.encode` chunks along time for videos; a keyframe is one frame and is encoded by the (tiled)
-            # spatial encoder alone, which is what the released model conditions on.
-            moments = self.vae._encode_clip(pixels)
-            posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
-            latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
-            # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
-            # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
-            latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
-            rows.append(patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, self.patch_size))
-        return torch.cat(rows)
-
-    def prepare_latents(
-        self,
-        num_latent_frames: int,
-        latent_height: int,
-        latent_width: int,
-        num_audio_latents: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
-        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-        r"""
-        Draw the initial noise of both modalities and pack it into transformer rows.
-
-        A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
-        reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
-        [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
-        that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
-        `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
-
-        Args:
-            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of video latent frames.
-            latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
-            latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
-            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
-            device (`torch.device`): The device the rows are drawn on.
-            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
-            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
-                latent_width)`, used instead of the draw.
-            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the video rows and the channel-major audio rows.
-        """
-        if latents is None:
-            latents = randn_tensor(
-                (1, self.vae_latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
-                generator=generator,
-                device=device,
-                dtype=torch.float32,
-            )
-        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(torch.float32), self.patch_size)
-
-        if audio_latents is None:
-            audio_rows = randn_tensor(
-                (num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, self.audio_latent_channels),
-                generator=generator,
-                device=device,
-                dtype=torch.float32,
-            )
-        else:
-            audio_rows = audio_latents.to(torch.float32).permute(0, 2, 1).reshape(-1, self.audio_latent_channels)
-        return video_rows.to(device), audio_rows.to(device)
-
-    @property
-    def num_timesteps(self):
-        return self._num_timesteps
-
-    @property
-    def attention_kwargs(self):
-        return self._attention_kwargs
-
-    @property
-    def interrupt(self):
-        return self._interrupt
-
-    @torch.no_grad()
-    @replace_example_docstring(EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING)
-    def __call__(
-        self,
-        prompt: str | None = None,
-        image=None,
-        last_image=None,
-        height: int | None = None,
-        width: int | None = None,
-        num_frames: int = 124,
-        num_inference_steps: int = 50,
-        generator: torch.Generator | None = None,
-        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        prompt_embeds: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        text_token_tags: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        output_type: str = "pil",
-        return_dict: bool = True,
-        attention_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
-        callback_on_step_end: Callable[[int, int, dict], None] | None = None,
-        callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs: list[str] = ["latents", "audio_latents"],
-    ):
-        r"""
-        The call function to the pipeline for generation.
-
-        Args:
-            prompt (`str`, *optional*):
-                The prompt to guide generation. MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so only a single
-                prompt is accepted.
-            image (`PIL.Image.Image`, *optional*):
-                Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived
-                from its own aspect ratio.
-            last_image (`PIL.Image.Image`, *optional*):
-                Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with
-                `image` it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
-            height (`int`, *optional*):
-                Height of the generated video, a multiple of 32. Defaults, together with `width`, to MiniMax-H3's own
-                768-short-edge canvas for the aspect ratio of `image` (or 16:9 without keyframes).
-            width (`int`, *optional*):
-                Width of the generated video, a multiple of 32.
-            num_frames (`int`, defaults to `124`):
-                Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the VAE can
-                decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
-            num_inference_steps (`int`, defaults to `50`):
-                Number of denoising steps.
-            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*):
-                A generator to make generation deterministic. Every noise draw of a request — the keyframe
-                conditioning noise, the video noise and the audio noise, in that order — comes off this one
-                generator, so the same generator state reproduces a sample.
-            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated video noise, of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, height // 16, width // 16)`.
-            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated audio noise, of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
-            prompt_embeds (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-computed conditioning of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, as returned by
-                [`~MiniMaxH3Pipeline.encode_prompt`], which skips the conditioner. Must be passed together with
-                `text_token_tags`, and for `fl2va` must have been encoded with the very keyframes passed as `image` /
-                `last_image` — those are still needed here, for their conditioning latents.
-            text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                The per-row modality tags that go with `prompt_embeds`.
-            output_type (`str`, defaults to `"pil"`):
-                The output format of the generated video: `"pil"`, `"np"`, `"pt"` or `"latent"`.
-            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
-                Whether to return a [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
-            attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
-                Passed to the attention processors, and may carry a `scale` entry for the LoRA layers.
-            callback_on_step_end (`Callable`, *optional*):
-                Called at the end of every denoising step with `(self, step, timestep, callback_kwargs)`. The tensors
-                it receives are named by `callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs`; note that `latents` and `audio_latents`
-                are the packed rows of the whole sequence during the loop.
-            callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs (`list[str]`, defaults to `["latents", "audio_latents"]`):
-                Which local tensors to pass to `callback_on_step_end`.
-
-        Examples:
-
-        Returns:
-            [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] or `tuple`:
-                The generated video and its soundtrack.
-        """
-        for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
-            if name not in self._callback_tensor_inputs:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"`callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs` has to be in {self._callback_tensor_inputs}, got {name}."
-                )
-
-        # 1. Resolve the geometry. MiniMax-H3 was released at a 768 pixel short edge with a 768x1344 area cap, and
-        # the video VAE only encodes 17 * n + 5 frames.
-        self.check_inputs(prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, height, width, num_frames)
-        keyframes = [
-            ImageOps.exif_transpose(keyframe).convert("RGB")
-            for keyframe in (image, last_image)
-            if keyframe is not None
-        ]
-        keyframe_anchors = tuple(
-            anchor for anchor, keyframe in (("first", image), ("last", last_image)) if keyframe is not None
-        )
-        if height is None:
-            height, width = resolve_canvas_size(*(keyframes[0].size if keyframes else (16, 9)))
-        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
-        if aligned_num_frames != num_frames:
-            logger.warning(
-                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {num_frames} up to "
-                f"{aligned_num_frames}."
-            )
-            num_frames = aligned_num_frames
-
-        latent_height = height // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
-        latent_width = width // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
-        num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
-        num_audio_latents = audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
-
-        self._attention_kwargs = attention_kwargs
-        self._interrupt = False
-        device = self._execution_device
-
-        # 2. Encode the prompt, including a vision block per keyframe.
-        keyframes = [
-            prepare_keyframe_image(keyframe, height, width, stretch=index == 0)
-            for index, keyframe in enumerate(keyframes)
-        ]
-        if prompt_embeds is None:
-            prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(prompt, keyframes, device=device)
-
-        # 3. Build the packed layout: [text | keyframe conditions | target audio | target video].
-        layout = build_packed_sequence(
-            text_token_tags,
-            num_latent_frames,
-            latent_height,
-            latent_width,
-            num_audio_latents,
-            self.patch_size,
-            keyframe_anchors,
-        )
-        position_ids = layout.position_ids.to(device)
-        token_tags = layout.token_tags.to(device)
-        video_indices = layout.video_indices.to(device)
-        audio_indices = layout.audio_indices.to(device)
-        text_indices = layout.text_indices.to(device)
-
-        # 4. Encode the keyframes and noise them to their conditioning level. The anchors are fixed for the whole
-        # loop: they are re-imposed by construction, since the loop only ever writes the target rows.
-        condition_rows = None
-        if keyframes:
-            condition_rows = self.encode_keyframes(keyframes, device=device)
-            noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
-                ((1, latent_height, latent_width),) * len(keyframes),
-                self.patch_size,
-                self.vae_latent_channels,
-                generator=generator,
-                device=device,
-            )
-            condition_rows = self.scheduler.scale_noise(
-                condition_rows.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
-            )
-
-        # 5. The two schedules, and the noise.
-        self.scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
-        self.audio_scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
-        timesteps, audio_timesteps = self.scheduler.timesteps, self.audio_scheduler.timesteps
-        self._num_timesteps = len(timesteps)
-
-        latents, audio_latents = self.prepare_latents(
-            num_latent_frames,
-            latent_height,
-            latent_width,
-            num_audio_latents,
-            device,
-            generator,
-            latents,
-            audio_latents,
-        )
-        if condition_rows is not None:
-            latents = torch.cat([condition_rows, latents])
-        num_condition_rows = layout.num_condition_video_rows
-
-        # 6. Denoise. One forward per step serves every modality and every noise level at once: the conditioning rows
-        # ride along at their own timestep and are never updated. The row-to-timestep assignment is static per step,
-        # so the whole plan is staged before the loop rather than rebuilt on every one of them.
-        timestep_plan = [
-            tuple(
-                tensor.to(device)
-                for tensor in build_row_timesteps(
-                    layout, float(t), float(audio_t), max(float(t), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG), 1.0
-                )
-            )
-            for t, audio_t in zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)
-        ]
-
-        with self.progress_bar(total=self._num_timesteps) as progress_bar:
-            for i, (t, audio_t) in enumerate(zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)):
-                if self.interrupt:
-                    continue
-
-                unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = timestep_plan[i]
-                noise_pred, audio_noise_pred = self.transformer(
-                    hidden_states=latents[None],
-                    audio_hidden_states=audio_latents[None],
-                    encoder_hidden_states=prompt_embeds,
-                    timestep=unique_timesteps,
-                    timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
-                    token_tags=token_tags,
-                    position_ids=position_ids,
-                    video_indices=video_indices,
-                    audio_indices=audio_indices,
-                    text_indices=text_indices,
-                    attention_kwargs=attention_kwargs,
-                    return_dict=False,
-                )
-
-                latents[num_condition_rows:] = self.scheduler.step(
-                    noise_pred[0, num_condition_rows:].float(),
-                    t,
-                    latents[num_condition_rows:],
-                    return_dict=False,
-                )[0]
-                audio_latents = self.audio_scheduler.step(
-                    audio_noise_pred[0].float(), audio_t, audio_latents, return_dict=False
-                )[0]
-
-                if callback_on_step_end is not None:
-                    callback_kwargs = {}
-                    for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
-                        callback_kwargs[name] = locals()[name]
-                    callback_outputs = callback_on_step_end(self, i, t, callback_kwargs)
-                    latents = callback_outputs.pop("latents", latents)
-                    audio_latents = callback_outputs.pop("audio_latents", audio_latents)
-                    prompt_embeds = callback_outputs.pop("prompt_embeds", prompt_embeds)
-
-                progress_bar.update()
-
-        # 7. Unpack the generated rows. The spatial tiling of the VAE covers the canvas exactly (tiles and overlaps
-        # are both latent-aligned), so the decoded frames need no crop back to `latent_height * 16`.
-        latents = unpatchify_video_tokens(
-            latents[num_condition_rows:],
-            num_latent_frames,
-            latent_height,
-            latent_width,
-            self.vae_latent_channels,
-            self.patch_size,
-        )
-        audio_latents = unpack_audio_tokens(audio_latents, num_audio_latents)
-
-        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
-        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
-        latents = latents * latents_std + latents_mean
-        audio_latents = audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
-
-        if output_type == "latent":
-            video, audio = latents, audio_latents
-        else:
-            # MiniMax-H3 decodes video under float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32.
-            with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
-                video = self.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
-            pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-            pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-            video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
-            video = self.video_processor.postprocess_video(video, output_type=output_type)
-
-            # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items.
-            audio = self.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
-            audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
-
-        self.maybe_free_model_hooks()
-
-        if not return_dict:
-            return (video, audio)
-        return MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput(frames=video, audio=audio)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
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--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
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@@ -1,903 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-import os
-from typing import Any, Callable
-
-import numpy as np
-import torch
-from PIL import Image, ImageOps
-from transformers import Qwen2TokenizerFast, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
-
-from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio, MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
-from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
-from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
-from ...utils import logging, replace_example_docstring
-from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
-from ...video_processor import VideoProcessor
-from ..pipeline_utils import DiffusionPipeline
-from .packing import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
-    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
-    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER,
-    align_num_frames,
-    audio_latent_num_frames,
-    build_row_timesteps,
-    keyframe_condition_noise,
-    patchify_video_latents,
-    resolve_canvas_size,
-    unpack_audio_tokens,
-    unpatchify_video_tokens,
-    video_latent_num_frames,
-)
-from .packing_ref2va import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES,
-    MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
-    MiniMaxH3Reference,
-    build_ref2va_packed_sequence,
-    build_ref2va_presentation,
-    prepare_reference_frames,
-    prepare_reference_image,
-    prepare_reference_waveform,
-    reference_kind,
-    reference_media_to_uint8,
-    resample_reference_frames,
-    resolve_reference_image_size,
-    sample_reference_video_frames,
-    trim_reference_num_frames,
-)
-from .pipeline_output import MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput
-
-
-logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-
-
-EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING = """
-    Examples:
-        ```py
-        >>> import torch
-        >>> from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
-        >>> from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
-        >>> from diffusers.utils import load_image, load_video
-        >>> from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
-
-        >>> # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions: this pipeline loads `transformer_ref/`, while
-        >>> # `MiniMaxH3Pipeline.from_pretrained` on the same repository loads `transformer/`.
-        >>> pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.from_pretrained(
-        ...     "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
-        ... )
-        >>> pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()
-
-        >>> subject_image = load_image(
-        ...     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
-        ... )
-
-        >>> # A single reference may name its medium directly.
-        >>> output = pipe(
-        ...     prompt="The subject walks toward camera, turning slightly, natural arm swing",
-        ...     image=subject_image,
-        ...     generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
-        ... )
-
-        >>> # Any ordered mix of image, video and audio references goes through `references`, and the order is the
-        >>> # order the model reads them in. A reference takes a path or a URL and decodes it as it is built, rates
-        >>> # included: a video brings its own frame rate and its soundtrack along, and an audio clip its sample rate.
-        >>> output = pipe(
-        ...     prompt="The character speaks in time with the reference recording, natural lip movement",
-        ...     references=[
-        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject_image),
-        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(
-        ...             video="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/hiker.mp4"
-        ...         ),
-        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
-        ...     ],
-        ... )
-
-        >>> # In-memory media instead says which rates it carries, MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps and the audio VAE's own
-        >>> # sample rate by default.
-        >>> motion = load_video("motion_ref.mp4")  # decoded frames, no soundtrack, at the file's own rate
-        >>> output = pipe(
-        ...     prompt="The subject walks toward camera, matching the reference video's shot rhythm",
-        ...     references=[
-        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject_image),
-        ...         MiniMaxH3Reference(video=motion, fps=30.0),
-        ...     ],
-        ... )
-
-        >>> encode_video(
-        ...     output.frames[0], fps=24, output_path="output.mp4",
-        ...     audio=output.audio[0], audio_sample_rate=pipe.audio_sampling_rate,
-        ... )
-        ```
-"""
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline(DiffusionPipeline):
-    r"""
-    Pipeline for joint video + audio generation from omni-references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the Ref2VA
-    checkpoint.
-
-    A request carries an ordered list of references — up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total — and
-    MiniMax-H3 packs one block per reference in front of the generated rows, all inside the single sequence its
-    transformer runs full self-attention over. The order is semantic: it labels the references in the prompt
-    presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock,
-    so reordering the same references is a different request.
-
-    Unlike the keyframes of [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`], references do not bind the generated geometry: they are encoded at
-    their own resolution and the target canvas defaults to MiniMax-H3's 16:9. The duration may be left to a reference
-    soundtrack, but only when exactly one reference carries audio.
-
-    The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: `guidance_scale` is fixed at 1.0, there is no negative prompt, and every
-    step runs exactly one forward pass.
-
-    This model inherits from [`DiffusionPipeline`]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods
-    implemented for all pipelines (downloading, saving, running on a particular device, etc.).
-
-    Args:
-        transformer_ref ([`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`]):
-            The packed-sequence transformer of the Ref2VA checkpoint partition. It is named `transformer_ref` so that
-            one repository can hold both partitions, `transformer/` for [`MiniMaxH3Pipeline`] and `transformer_ref/`
-            for this one, and either pipeline picks its own weights up with no extra argument.
-        vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`]):
-            Video VAE, 16x spatially and 4x temporally. Also encodes the image and video references.
-        audio_vae ([`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`]):
-            Audio VAE, a waveform autoencoder at 32 kHz with 40 latents per second. Also encodes the reference
-            soundtracks.
-        text_encoder ([`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`]):
-            The conditioner. MiniMax-H3 reads the hidden state after its 50th decoder layer, so the released 64-layer
-            checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused; a checkpoint truncated below 51 layers is
-            rejected, since the last hidden state of a truncated stack is post-norm and roughly an order of magnitude
-            off in scale.
-        tokenizer ([`Qwen2TokenizerFast`]):
-            Tokenizer of the conditioner.
-        processor ([`Qwen3VLProcessor`]):
-            Processor of the conditioner, used to turn the image and video references into vision patches.
-        scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
-            The video-latent schedule (`shift = 12.0` in the released checkpoint).
-        audio_scheduler ([`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`]):
-            The audio-latent schedule (`shift = 3.0` in the released checkpoint).
-    """
-
-    model_cpu_offload_seq = "text_encoder->transformer_ref->vae->audio_vae"
-    _callback_tensor_inputs = ["latents", "audio_latents", "prompt_embeds"]
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        transformer_ref: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
-        vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
-        audio_vae: AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
-        text_encoder: Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration,
-        tokenizer: Qwen2TokenizerFast,
-        processor: Qwen3VLProcessor,
-        scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
-        audio_scheduler: MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
-    ):
-        super().__init__()
-
-        self.register_modules(
-            transformer_ref=transformer_ref,
-            vae=vae,
-            audio_vae=audio_vae,
-            text_encoder=text_encoder,
-            tokenizer=tokenizer,
-            processor=processor,
-            scheduler=scheduler,
-            audio_scheduler=audio_scheduler,
-        )
-
-        self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio = (
-            self.vae.spatial_compression_ratio if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 16
-        )
-        self.vae_latent_channels = self.vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None else 24
-        self.audio_sampling_rate = (
-            self.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32000
-        )
-        self.audio_latent_channels = (
-            self.audio_vae.config.latent_channels if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None else 32
-        )
-        self.patch_size = (
-            tuple(self.transformer_ref.config.patch_size)
-            if getattr(self, "transformer_ref", None) is not None
-            else (1, 2, 2)
-        )
-        # The video VAE decodes into ImageNet-normalized RGB over a [0, 1] base range, which the pipeline reverts
-        # itself, so the processor must not denormalize a second time.
-        self.video_processor = VideoProcessor(vae_scale_factor=self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio, do_normalize=False)
-
-    def check_inputs(self, prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, references, height, width, num_frames):
-        if prompt is not None and prompt_embeds is not None:
-            raise ValueError("Pass either `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`, not both.")
-        if prompt is None and prompt_embeds is None:
-            raise ValueError("Pass one of `prompt` or `prompt_embeds`.")
-        if prompt is not None and not isinstance(prompt, str):
-            raise ValueError(
-                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
-                f"{type(prompt)}."
-            )
-        if (prompt_embeds is None) != (text_token_tags is None):
-            raise ValueError("`prompt_embeds` and `text_token_tags` have to be passed together.")
-        if prompt_embeds is not None and prompt_embeds.shape[1] != text_token_tags.shape[0]:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`text_token_tags` must hold one tag per row of `prompt_embeds`, got {text_token_tags.shape[0]} tags "
-                f"for {prompt_embeds.shape[1]} rows."
-            )
-        if (height is None) != (width is None):
-            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
-        if height is not None and (height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got {height}x{width}."
-            )
-        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
-        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-        aligned_num_frames = None if num_frames is None else align_num_frames(num_frames)
-        duration = None if aligned_num_frames is None else aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
-        if duration is not None and not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
-                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
-                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {num_frames} (rounded up to "
-                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
-            )
-
-        if not references:
-            raise ValueError("`ref2va` needs at least one reference; use `MiniMaxH3Pipeline` for text-only requests.")
-        kinds = [reference_kind(index, entry) for index, entry in enumerate(references)]
-        for kind, limit in (
-            ("image", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES),
-            ("video", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS),
-            ("audio", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS),
-        ):
-            if kinds.count(kind) > limit:
-                raise ValueError(f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {limit} {kind} references, got {kinds.count(kind)}.")
-        if len(kinds) > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES} references in total, got {len(kinds)}."
-            )
-        if set(kinds) == {"audio"}:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "An audio reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference and cannot be used "
-                "on its own."
-            )
-
-    def prepare_references(
-        self, references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference], num_frames: int | None
-    ) -> tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]:
-        r"""
-        Resolve the references and, if it was left open, the duration they imply.
-
-        Every reference is prepared at its own resolution: an image is resized to a 2048 pixel short edge, a video is
-        resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps, rescaled onto the 768 pixel canvas of *its own* aspect ratio and
-        truncated to the generated frame count, and a soundtrack is put on the audio VAE's sample rate and truncated to
-        the generated duration. None of this touches the target canvas.
-
-        A reference that left its `fps` or its `sample_rate` out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own rate, and
-        its frames or its samples then flow through untouched.
-
-        A video reference goes through the two passes the reference implementation's `ffmpeg` decode applied, in the
-        same order: the constant frame rate resample of `resample_reference_frames` and the LANCZOS rescale of
-        `prepare_reference_frames`. Frames handed over at 24 fps and already at the canvas their own aspect ratio
-        resolves to therefore reach the VAE untouched, which is the parity-exact route.
-
-        Args:
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
-                The `references` argument of [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.__call__`].
-            num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
-                The requested frame count, or `None` to derive it from the single audio-bearing reference.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]`: the prepared references, in packed order, and the frame
-            count.
-        """
-        resolved = [
-            MiniMaxH3PreparedReference(kind=reference_kind(index, entry), has_audio=entry.has_audio)
-            for index, entry in enumerate(references)
-        ]
-
-        # The duration may be left open, but then exactly one reference may carry audio, or the request is ambiguous.
-        if num_frames is None:
-            audio_bearing = [index for index, reference in enumerate(resolved) if reference.has_audio]
-            if len(audio_bearing) != 1:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "`num_frames` may only be left to the references when exactly one of them carries audio, got "
-                    f"{len(audio_bearing)}."
-                )
-            index = audio_bearing[0]
-            sample_rate = references[index].sample_rate or self.audio_sampling_rate
-            duration = references[index].audio.shape[-1] / sample_rate
-            if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, outside the "
-                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} to {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates."
-                )
-            num_frames = align_num_frames(round(duration * MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
-            # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the
-            # ceiling has to hold for: a 14.99 second soundtrack rounds up to 362 frames, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-            if num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, which rounds up to {num_frames} frames "
-                    f"(`17 * n + 5`), i.e. {num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS:g} seconds — past the "
-                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates. Pass `num_frames` to generate a "
-                    "shorter video from this soundtrack."
-                )
-        num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
-
-        for reference, entry in zip(resolved, references):
-            if reference.kind == "image":
-                image = entry.image
-                if not isinstance(image, Image.Image):
-                    image = Image.fromarray(reference_media_to_uint8(image))
-                image = ImageOps.exif_transpose(image).convert("RGB")
-                height, width = resolve_reference_image_size(*image.size)
-                reference.image = prepare_reference_image(image, height, width)
-            elif reference.kind == "video":
-                frames = resample_reference_frames(reference_media_to_uint8(entry.video), float(entry.fps))
-                reference.frames = prepare_reference_frames(frames, num_frames)
-            if reference.has_audio:
-                reference.waveform = prepare_reference_waveform(
-                    entry.audio,
-                    entry.sample_rate or self.audio_sampling_rate,
-                    self.audio_sampling_rate,
-                    max_duration=num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
-                )
-        return resolved, num_frames
-
-    def encode_prompt(
-        self,
-        prompt: str,
-        references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
-        device: torch.device | None = None,
-        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-        r"""
-        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request and encode it.
-
-        Every reference prepends a label, in request order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision
-        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio (a waveform never reaches the conditioner), and
-        `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries
-        sound is labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The
-        prompt then follows, verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are
-        tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
-
-        Args:
-            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
-                The prepared references, in packed order, as returned by
-                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.prepare_references`].
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
-            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
-            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
-        """
-        device = device or self._execution_device
-        dtype = dtype or self.transformer_ref.dtype
-
-        num_layers = self.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
-        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
-                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
-                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
-            )
-
-        merge_size = self.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
-        pixel_values, image_grid_thw, image_token_counts = None, None, []
-        images = [reference.image for reference in references if reference.kind == "image"]
-        if images:
-            vision = self.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
-            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
-            image_token_counts = [int(grid.prod()) // merge_size for grid in image_grid_thw]
-
-        pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw, video_block_token_counts = None, None, []
-        videos = [reference for reference in references if reference.kind == "video"]
-        if videos:
-            sampled = [sample_reference_video_frames(reference.frames) for reference in videos]
-            for reference, (_, block_timestamps) in zip(videos, sampled):
-                reference.block_timestamps = block_timestamps
-            vision = self.processor.video_processor(
-                videos=[np.stack(frames) for frames, _ in sampled], do_sample_frames=False, return_tensors="pt"
-            )
-            pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values_videos"], vision["video_grid_thw"]
-            video_block_token_counts = [int(grid[1]) * int(grid[2]) // merge_size for grid in video_grid_thw]
-            for reference, grid in zip(videos, video_grid_thw):
-                if int(grid[0]) != len(reference.block_timestamps):
-                    raise ValueError(
-                        f"The processor merged a reference video into {int(grid[0])} vision blocks, but MiniMax-H3 "
-                        f"labels {len(reference.block_timestamps)} of them."
-                    )
-
-        token_ids, token_tags = build_ref2va_presentation(
-            self.tokenizer, prompt, references, image_token_counts, video_block_token_counts
-        )
-        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
-        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
-        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
-        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
-            self.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
-        )
-        outputs = self.text_encoder.model(
-            input_ids=input_ids,
-            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
-            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
-            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, self.text_encoder.dtype),
-            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
-            pixel_values_videos=(
-                None if pixel_values_videos is None else pixel_values_videos.to(device, self.text_encoder.dtype)
-            ),
-            video_grid_thw=None if video_grid_thw is None else video_grid_thw.to(device),
-            use_cache=False,
-            output_hidden_states=True,
-        )
-        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
-        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
-
-    def encode_references(
-        self, references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], device: torch.device | None = None
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor | None, torch.Tensor | None]:
-        r"""
-        Encode the references into packed conditioning rows, and resolve their latent geometry.
-
-        Image and video references go through the video VAE with the same recipe the `fl2va` keyframes use: the
-        posterior is *sampled* under a generator seeded with 42 independently of the request seed, and the sampled
-        latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized. An image is a single frame and is encoded by the spatial
-        encoder alone, while a video reference goes through the 17-frames-per-5-latents temporal chunking. Reference
-        soundtracks instead take the posterior *mean*, and are never sampled.
-
-        Args:
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
-                The prepared references, in packed order. Their latent geometry is filled in here.
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAEs on.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(num_condition_video_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`
-            video rows and the `(num_condition_audio_rows, audio_latent_channels)` audio rows, both float32 on CPU and
-            both `None` when the references carry no such rows.
-        """
-        device = device or self._execution_device
-        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, 1, -1)
-        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_std).view(1, 1, -1)
-
-        video_rows, audio_rows = [], []
-        for reference in references:
-            if reference.kind != "audio":
-                if reference.kind == "image":
-                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(reference.image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
-                else:
-                    frames = reference.frames[: trim_reference_num_frames(reference.frames.shape[0])]
-                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(frames.copy()).to(device).permute(3, 0, 1, 2)[None]
-                pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
-                # A single frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a video goes through the temporal
-                # chunking, which is what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
-                moments = self.vae._encode_clip(pixels) if reference.kind == "image" else self.vae._encode(pixels)
-                posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
-                latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
-                # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
-                # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
-                latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
-                reference.num_latent_frames = latents.shape[2]
-                reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width = latents.shape[3], latents.shape[4]
-                video_rows.append(patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, self.patch_size))
-
-            if reference.has_audio:
-                posterior = self.audio_vae.encode(reference.waveform.to(device)[:, None], return_dict=False)[0]
-                # Channel-major rows: the two stereo channels are two batch items of the mono audio VAE.
-                latents = posterior.mode().float().cpu().transpose(1, 2)
-                reference.num_audio_latents = latents.shape[1]
-                normalized = (latents - audio_latents_mean) / audio_latents_std
-                audio_rows.append(normalized.reshape(-1, self.audio_latent_channels))
-
-        return (
-            torch.cat(video_rows) if video_rows else None,
-            torch.cat(audio_rows) if audio_rows else None,
-        )
-
-    # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3.pipeline_minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Pipeline.prepare_latents
-    def prepare_latents(
-        self,
-        num_latent_frames: int,
-        latent_height: int,
-        latent_width: int,
-        num_audio_latents: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
-        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-        r"""
-        Draw the initial noise of both modalities and pack it into transformer rows.
-
-        A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
-        reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
-        [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
-        that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
-        `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
-
-        Args:
-            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of video latent frames.
-            latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
-            latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
-            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
-            device (`torch.device`): The device the rows are drawn on.
-            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
-            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
-                latent_width)`, used instead of the draw.
-            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the video rows and the channel-major audio rows.
-        """
-        if latents is None:
-            latents = randn_tensor(
-                (1, self.vae_latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
-                generator=generator,
-                device=device,
-                dtype=torch.float32,
-            )
-        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(torch.float32), self.patch_size)
-
-        if audio_latents is None:
-            audio_rows = randn_tensor(
-                (num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, self.audio_latent_channels),
-                generator=generator,
-                device=device,
-                dtype=torch.float32,
-            )
-        else:
-            audio_rows = audio_latents.to(torch.float32).permute(0, 2, 1).reshape(-1, self.audio_latent_channels)
-        return video_rows.to(device), audio_rows.to(device)
-
-    @property
-    def num_timesteps(self):
-        return self._num_timesteps
-
-    @property
-    def attention_kwargs(self):
-        return self._attention_kwargs
-
-    @property
-    def interrupt(self):
-        return self._interrupt
-
-    @torch.no_grad()
-    @replace_example_docstring(EXAMPLE_DOC_STRING)
-    def __call__(
-        self,
-        prompt: str | None = None,
-        references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference] | None = None,
-        image: str | os.PathLike | Image.Image | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        video: str | os.PathLike | list[Image.Image] | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        fps: float | None = None,
-        audio: str | os.PathLike | torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        sample_rate: int | None = None,
-        height: int | None = None,
-        width: int | None = None,
-        num_frames: int | None = None,
-        num_inference_steps: int = 50,
-        generator: torch.Generator | None = None,
-        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        prompt_embeds: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        text_token_tags: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        output_type: str = "pil",
-        return_dict: bool = True,
-        attention_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
-        callback_on_step_end: Callable[[int, int, dict], None] | None = None,
-        callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs: list[str] = ["latents", "audio_latents"],
-    ):
-        r"""
-        The call function to the pipeline for generation.
-
-        Args:
-            prompt (`str`, *optional*):
-                The prompt to guide generation. MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so only a single
-                prompt is accepted.
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
-                The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: it labels them in the
-                prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
-                request. Every [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] carries exactly one medium, which names its modality, and it is
-                in-memory media by the time it reaches this pipeline: a path or a URL was decoded when the reference
-                was built, so no pipeline of this model opens a media file.
-
-                - `MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image)` — a subject, style or scene reference, at most 9 of them,
-                - `MiniMaxH3Reference(video=video)` — a motion and camera reference, at most 3. Its `fps` is the rate
-                  the frames carry, a decoded file's own or 24.0 for in-memory frames, which is MiniMax-H3's own clock:
-                  anything else is resampled onto it by dropping and duplicating whole frames, exactly as the reference
-                  implementation's decode did. The soundtrack may be passed alongside, as `audio`, and is then
-                  conditioned on as this reference's own, packed immediately before its frames,
-                - `MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=audio)` — a voice or music reference, at most 3, which never reaches the
-                  conditioner and is encoded by the audio VAE alone. Its waveform is a `(channels, num_samples)` mono
-                  or stereo tensor, at the `sample_rate` it says it carries or the audio VAE's own, and is resampled
-                  onto the audio VAE's rate.
-
-                At most 12 references in total, and audio references cannot be the only ones.
-            image (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                A single image reference, the same request as `references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image)]`. Mutually
-                exclusive with `references`.
-            video (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                A single video reference, the same request as `references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(video=video)]`. Mutually
-                exclusive with `references`.
-            fps (`float`, *optional*):
-                The frame rate `video` carries its frames at, only read for a single `video` reference: a `references`
-                list carries the rate of every video on the reference itself. Left out, it is the rate a decoded file
-                reports and MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps for in-memory frames.
-            audio (`str`, `os.PathLike` or `torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`, *optional*):
-                A single audio reference, the same request as `references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=audio)]`, or the
-                soundtrack of a `video` passed with it. Mutually exclusive with `references`, and rejected on its own,
-                as an audio reference has to be paired with an image or a video.
-            sample_rate (`int`, *optional*):
-                The rate `audio` carries its samples at. Left out, it is the rate a decoded file reports and, for an
-                in-memory waveform, the audio VAE's own.
-            height (`int`, *optional*):
-                Height of the generated video, a multiple of 32. Defaults, together with `width`, to MiniMax-H3's own
-                768-short-edge 16:9 canvas — references never bind the generated geometry.
-            width (`int`, *optional*):
-                Width of the generated video, a multiple of 32.
-            num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
-                Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the VAE can
-                decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. May be left out, but only when
-                exactly one reference carries audio, in which case the duration is that soundtrack's.
-            num_inference_steps (`int`, defaults to `50`):
-                Number of denoising steps.
-            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*):
-                A generator to make generation deterministic. Every noise draw of a request — the reference
-                conditioning noise, the video noise and the audio noise, in that order — comes off this one
-                generator, so the same generator state reproduces a sample.
-            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated video noise, of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, height // 16, width // 16)`.
-            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated audio noise, of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
-            prompt_embeds (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-computed conditioning of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, as returned by
-                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline.encode_prompt`], which skips the conditioner. Must be passed together with
-                `text_token_tags`, and must have been encoded from the very references passed as `references` — those
-                are still needed here, for their conditioning latents.
-            text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                The per-row modality tags that go with `prompt_embeds`.
-            output_type (`str`, defaults to `"pil"`):
-                The output format of the generated video: `"pil"`, `"np"`, `"pt"` or `"latent"`.
-            return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
-                Whether to return a [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
-            attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
-                Passed to the attention processors, and may carry a `scale` entry for the LoRA layers.
-            callback_on_step_end (`Callable`, *optional*):
-                Called at the end of every denoising step with `(self, step, timestep, callback_kwargs)`. The tensors
-                it receives are named by `callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs`; note that `latents` and `audio_latents`
-                are the packed rows of the whole sequence during the loop, references included.
-            callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs (`list[str]`, defaults to `["latents", "audio_latents"]`):
-                Which local tensors to pass to `callback_on_step_end`.
-
-        Examples:
-
-        Returns:
-            [`~pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput`] or `tuple`:
-                The generated video and its soundtrack.
-        """
-        for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
-            if name not in self._callback_tensor_inputs:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"`callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs` has to be in {self._callback_tensor_inputs}, got {name}."
-                )
-
-        # 0. A single-reference request may name its medium directly, which is the very same request as a one-item
-        # `references` list: build that list here, so there is one code path from now on.
-        if image is not None or video is not None or audio is not None:
-            if references is not None:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "Pass either `references` or a single reference as `image` / `video` / `audio`, not both."
-                )
-            references = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image, video=video, fps=fps, audio=audio, sample_rate=sample_rate)]
-
-        # 1. Resolve the geometry and prepare the references. The canvas is MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 unless asked
-        # otherwise, and the duration may come from a reference soundtrack.
-        self.check_inputs(prompt, prompt_embeds, text_token_tags, references, height, width, num_frames)
-        if height is None:
-            height, width = resolve_canvas_size(16, 9)
-        requested_num_frames = num_frames
-        references, num_frames = self.prepare_references(references, num_frames)
-        if requested_num_frames is not None and requested_num_frames != num_frames:
-            logger.warning(
-                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {requested_num_frames} up "
-                f"to {num_frames}."
-            )
-
-        latent_height = height // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
-        latent_width = width // self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
-        num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
-        num_audio_latents = audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
-
-        self._attention_kwargs = attention_kwargs
-        self._interrupt = False
-        device = self._execution_device
-
-        # 2. Encode the prompt, including a labelled vision block per image and video reference.
-        if prompt_embeds is None:
-            prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(prompt, references, device=device)
-
-        # 3. Encode the references, then noise the visual ones to their conditioning level. Audio references are the
-        # exception: they ride along clean, at `t = 1.0`. The anchors are fixed for the whole loop, since the loop
-        # only ever writes the target rows.
-        condition_rows, audio_condition_rows = self.encode_references(references, device=device)
-        if condition_rows is not None:
-            noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
-                tuple(
-                    (reference.num_latent_frames, reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width)
-                    for reference in references
-                    if reference.kind != "audio"
-                ),
-                self.patch_size,
-                self.vae_latent_channels,
-                generator=generator,
-                device=device,
-            )
-            condition_rows = self.scheduler.scale_noise(
-                condition_rows.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
-            )
-        if audio_condition_rows is not None:
-            audio_condition_rows = audio_condition_rows.to(device)
-
-        # 4. Build the packed layout: [text | reference blocks | target audio | target video].
-        layout = build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
-            text_token_tags,
-            references,
-            num_latent_frames,
-            latent_height,
-            latent_width,
-            num_audio_latents,
-            self.patch_size,
-        )
-        position_ids = layout.position_ids.to(device)
-        token_tags = layout.token_tags.to(device)
-        video_indices = layout.video_indices.to(device)
-        audio_indices = layout.audio_indices.to(device)
-        text_indices = layout.text_indices.to(device)
-
-        # 5. The two schedules, and the noise.
-        self.scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
-        self.audio_scheduler.set_timesteps(num_inference_steps, device=device)
-        timesteps, audio_timesteps = self.scheduler.timesteps, self.audio_scheduler.timesteps
-        self._num_timesteps = len(timesteps)
-
-        latents, audio_latents = self.prepare_latents(
-            num_latent_frames,
-            latent_height,
-            latent_width,
-            num_audio_latents,
-            device,
-            generator,
-            latents,
-            audio_latents,
-        )
-        if condition_rows is not None:
-            latents = torch.cat([condition_rows, latents])
-        if audio_condition_rows is not None:
-            audio_latents = torch.cat([audio_condition_rows, audio_latents])
-        num_condition_rows = layout.num_condition_video_rows
-        num_condition_audio_rows = layout.num_condition_audio_rows
-
-        # 6. Denoise. One forward per step serves every modality and every noise level at once: the reference rows
-        # ride along at their own timestep and are never updated. The row-to-timestep assignment is static per step,
-        # so the whole plan is staged before the loop rather than rebuilt on every one of them.
-        timestep_plan = [
-            tuple(
-                tensor.to(device)
-                for tensor in build_row_timesteps(
-                    layout, float(t), float(audio_t), max(float(t), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG), 1.0
-                )
-            )
-            for t, audio_t in zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)
-        ]
-
-        with self.progress_bar(total=self._num_timesteps) as progress_bar:
-            for i, (t, audio_t) in enumerate(zip(timesteps, audio_timesteps)):
-                if self.interrupt:
-                    continue
-
-                unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = timestep_plan[i]
-                noise_pred, audio_noise_pred = self.transformer_ref(
-                    hidden_states=latents[None],
-                    audio_hidden_states=audio_latents[None],
-                    encoder_hidden_states=prompt_embeds,
-                    timestep=unique_timesteps,
-                    timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
-                    token_tags=token_tags,
-                    position_ids=position_ids,
-                    video_indices=video_indices,
-                    audio_indices=audio_indices,
-                    text_indices=text_indices,
-                    attention_kwargs=attention_kwargs,
-                    return_dict=False,
-                )
-
-                latents[num_condition_rows:] = self.scheduler.step(
-                    noise_pred[0, num_condition_rows:].float(),
-                    t,
-                    latents[num_condition_rows:],
-                    return_dict=False,
-                )[0]
-                audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:] = self.audio_scheduler.step(
-                    audio_noise_pred[0, num_condition_audio_rows:].float(),
-                    audio_t,
-                    audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:],
-                    return_dict=False,
-                )[0]
-
-                if callback_on_step_end is not None:
-                    callback_kwargs = {}
-                    for name in callback_on_step_end_tensor_inputs:
-                        callback_kwargs[name] = locals()[name]
-                    callback_outputs = callback_on_step_end(self, i, t, callback_kwargs)
-                    latents = callback_outputs.pop("latents", latents)
-                    audio_latents = callback_outputs.pop("audio_latents", audio_latents)
-                    prompt_embeds = callback_outputs.pop("prompt_embeds", prompt_embeds)
-
-                progress_bar.update()
-
-        # 7. Unpack the generated rows. The spatial tiling of the VAE covers the canvas exactly (tiles and overlaps
-        # are both latent-aligned), so the decoded frames need no crop back to `latent_height * 16`.
-        latents = unpatchify_video_tokens(
-            latents[num_condition_rows:],
-            num_latent_frames,
-            latent_height,
-            latent_width,
-            self.vae_latent_channels,
-            self.patch_size,
-        )
-        audio_latents = unpack_audio_tokens(audio_latents[num_condition_audio_rows:], num_audio_latents)
-
-        latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents_std = torch.tensor(self.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
-        audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(self.audio_vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
-        latents = latents * latents_std + latents_mean
-        audio_latents = audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
-
-        if output_type == "latent":
-            video, audio = latents, audio_latents
-        else:
-            # MiniMax-H3 decodes video under float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32.
-            with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
-                video = self.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
-            pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-            pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-            video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
-            video = self.video_processor.postprocess_video(video, output_type=output_type)
-
-            # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items.
-            audio = self.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
-            audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
-
-        self.maybe_free_model_hooks()
-
-        if not return_dict:
-            return (video, audio)
-        return MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput(frames=video, audio=audio)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b58eee5ff98c..000000000000
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/minimax_h3/pipeline_output.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-
-import numpy as np
-import PIL.Image
-import torch
-
-from ...utils import BaseOutput
-
-
-@dataclass
-class MiniMaxH3PipelineOutput(BaseOutput):
-    r"""
-    Output class for MiniMax-H3 pipelines, which always generate video and audio jointly.
-
-    Args:
-        frames (`torch.Tensor`, `np.ndarray`, or `list[list[PIL.Image.Image]]`):
-            The generated video. A nested list of length `batch_size` holding `num_frames` PIL images each, or a NumPy
-            array / torch tensor of shape `(batch_size, num_frames, channels, height, width)`.
-        audio (`torch.Tensor`):
-            The generated soundtrack, of shape `(batch_size, 2, num_samples)` at the audio VAE's sampling rate
-            (32 kHz). Muxing it onto the frames is left to the caller, e.g. with
-            [`~utils.export_utils.encode_video`].
-    """
-
-    frames: torch.Tensor | np.ndarray | list[list[PIL.Image.Image]]
-    audio: torch.Tensor
diff --git a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
index 8dc7085f99f6..d5abf9efa891 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
@@ -3272,36 +3272,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
 
 
-class MiniMaxH3Pipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
-    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
-    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-
 class MochiPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
 
diff --git a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
index 67e168cfe4d7..c89c1a16acc0 100644
--- a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import pytest
 import torch
 
 from diffusers import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
@@ -93,6 +94,20 @@ def get_dummy_inputs(self) -> dict:
 class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
     """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
+        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
+    )
+    def test_from_save_pretrained_dtype(self, tmp_path, dtype):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
+        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
+    )
+    def test_from_pretrained_dtype_alias(self, tmp_path, dtype):
+        pass
+
     def test_encode_decode_temporal_geometry(self):
         r"""
         `17 * n + 5` pixel frames encode to `5 * n + 2` latent frames and decode back to the original length.
diff --git a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
index 5af26b905f4e..b091cae38cdb 100644
--- a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
+++ b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -91,6 +91,20 @@ def get_dummy_inputs(self) -> dict:
 class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
     """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
+        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
+    )
+    def test_from_save_pretrained_dtype(self, tmp_path, dtype):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(
+        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
+        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
+    )
+    def test_from_pretrained_dtype_alias(self, tmp_path, dtype):
+        pass
+
     def test_encode_pads_to_the_hop_length(self):
         r"""
         A waveform that is not a whole number of hops is right-padded rather than rejected, and decoding always
diff --git a/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py b/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
index 2c8105611c17..f7a5b1d6f65d 100644
--- a/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 
 # The packed layout the dummy inputs describe: a text block, then the audio rows, then the target video rows. It is
-# the layout `MiniMaxH3Pipeline` builds, minus the padding tail the pipeline never emits.
+# the layout `MiniMaxH3Blocks` builds, minus the padding tail the blocks never emit.
 NUM_TEXT_TOKENS = 4
 NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS = 6
 NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS = 8
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index fd503d75881a..9502f5a19649 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import numpy as np
 import pytest
 import torch
 from PIL import Image
@@ -22,9 +23,11 @@
     MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
     MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
 )
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.encoders import MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep
-from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference, packing, packing_ref2va
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference, packing, packing_ref2va
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.before_encoder import MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.encoders import MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep, MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep
 
+from ...testing_utils import torch_device
 from ..test_modular_pipelines_common import ModularPipelineTesterMixin, _get_specified_components
 
 
@@ -33,9 +36,12 @@
 # pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
 NUM_FRAMES = 124
 RESOLUTION = 32
+NUM_LATENT_FRAMES = 37
 NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
 # `prod(encoder_rates)` of the tiny audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
 AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
+# The tiny audio VAE's own sample rate, so a reference soundtrack is never resampled.
+AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE = 40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH
 
 # The released short edge of an image reference is 2048 pixels, which packs thousands of conditioning rows.
 TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 64
@@ -82,6 +88,91 @@
 }
 
 
+def _video_frames(num_frames: int, size: int) -> np.ndarray:
+    """Synthesized video reference frames: `uint8` RGB at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps."""
+    return (np.random.default_rng(0).random((num_frames, size, size, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+
+
+def _waveform(duration: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """A synthesized soundtrack: a stereo waveform at the tiny audio VAE's own sample rate, so nothing is resampled."""
+    return torch.rand(2, round(duration * AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE), generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
+
+
+def _reference_video(num_frames: int, size: int) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
+    """A silent video reference at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps."""
+    return MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(num_frames, size), fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
+
+
+def _reference_audio(duration: float) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
+    """A standalone audio reference at the tiny audio VAE's own sample rate."""
+    return MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=_waveform(duration), sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE)
+
+
+# The synthesized media fixtures the file-decoding tests are built from: a tiny 8 fps clip with a stereo soundtrack.
+FIXTURE_FPS = 8.0
+FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES = 8
+FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE = 8000
+
+
+def _write_video(path, with_audio: bool) -> None:
+    """Encode a tiny 64x32 clip, with a stereo soundtrack when asked, with PyAV."""
+    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
+
+    with av.open(str(path), "w") as container:
+        # Both streams are declared before anything is muxed, which is what the muxer needs to lay out the file.
+        video_stream = container.add_stream("libx264", rate=int(FIXTURE_FPS))
+        video_stream.width, video_stream.height, video_stream.pix_fmt = 64, 32, "yuv420p"
+        audio_stream = None
+        if with_audio:
+            audio_stream = container.add_stream("aac", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+            audio_stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
+
+        for index in range(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES):
+            pixels = np.full((32, 64, 3), index * 16, dtype="uint8")
+            frame = av.VideoFrame.from_ndarray(pixels, format="rgb24")
+            frame.pts = index
+            container.mux(video_stream.encode(frame))
+        container.mux(video_stream.encode())
+
+        if audio_stream is None:
+            return
+        num_samples = int(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES / FIXTURE_FPS * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+        samples = np.zeros((1, 2 * num_samples), dtype="int16")
+        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(samples, format="s16", layout="stereo")
+        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout="stereo", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+        pts = 0
+        for resampled in resampler.resample(frame):
+            resampled.pts = pts
+            pts += resampled.samples
+            container.mux(audio_stream.encode(resampled))
+        container.mux(audio_stream.encode())
+
+
+def _media_fixtures(directory) -> tuple:
+    """A video with a soundtrack, a still image and an audio clip, as files a reference can be built from."""
+    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
+
+    video_path, image_path, audio_path = (
+        directory / "reference.mp4",
+        directory / "reference.png",
+        directory / "reference.wav",
+    )
+    _write_video(video_path, with_audio=True)
+    Image.new("RGB", (64, 32), color=(10, 20, 30)).save(image_path)
+    with av.open(str(audio_path), "w") as container:
+        stream = container.add_stream("pcm_s16le", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
+        stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
+        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(
+            np.zeros((1, 2 * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE), dtype="int16"), format="s16", layout="stereo"
+        )
+        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        frame.pts = 0
+        container.mux(stream.encode(frame))
+        container.mux(stream.encode())
+    return video_path, image_path, audio_path
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="module")
 def small_references():
     """
@@ -89,7 +180,7 @@ def small_references():
 
     A 2048 pixel short edge packs thousands of conditioning rows, which is minutes per pipeline call on CPU. Every
     request of this module passes `height` and `width`, so the canvas of a generated video is never derived from
-    these.
+    these. `TestMiniMaxH3ReferenceGeometry` restores the released value where it pins it.
     """
     with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patch:
         patch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
@@ -142,6 +233,34 @@ def test_load_expected_components_from_pretrained(self, tmp_path):
         assert expected == actual, f"Component mismatch: missing={expected - actual}, unexpected={actual - expected}"
         assert "transformer_ref" in specified and "transformer" in specified
 
+    def injected_noise(self, pipe, seed=3):
+        r"""The video and audio noise a request would otherwise draw, in the shapes the blocks expect back."""
+        latents = torch.randn(
+            1,
+            pipe.vae_latent_channels,
+            NUM_LATENT_FRAMES,
+            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
+            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
+            generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed),
+        )
+        audio_latents = torch.randn(
+            2, pipe.audio_latent_channels, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed + 1)
+        )
+        return latents, audio_latents
+
+    def test_duration_ceiling_holds_for_the_aligned_count(self):
+        r"""
+        346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds for the
+        aligned count, so this is rejected rather than silently generating too long a video.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["num_frames"] = 346
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounded up to 362"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
 
 class TestMiniMaxH3ModularPipelineFast(MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase):
     pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
@@ -175,30 +294,50 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
         assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
         assert state.get("sampling_rate") == pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
 
-    def test_fl2va_keyframe(self):
-        r"""A keyframe goes through the `fl2va` workflow, which encodes it into conditioning rows."""
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "keyframes,num_condition_rows",
+        [(("image",), 1), (("last_image",), 1), (("image", "last_image"), 2)],
+        ids=["first", "last", "first_and_last"],
+    )
+    def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
+        r"""
+        A keyframe contributes one conditioning row per latent patch, and those rows are pinned for the whole loop.
+
+        They are packed in front of the generated video rows and ride along at their own `t = 0.999`. The loop only
+        ever writes the generated rows, so the conditioning rows the encoder block produced survive it untouched,
+        which is what the denoised sequence is checked against here. On a `RESOLUTION` canvas a keyframe is a single
+        `(1, 2, 2)` patch row.
+        """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((48, 80, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
 
         inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["image"] = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
-        video = pipe(**inputs, output="videos")
+        inputs.update(dict.fromkeys(keyframes, keyframe))
+        state = pipe(**inputs)
 
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        assert state.get("num_condition_video_rows") == num_condition_rows
+        condition_latents = state.get("condition_latents")
+        assert condition_latents.shape[0] == num_condition_rows
+        assert torch.equal(state.get("latents")[:num_condition_rows], condition_latents)
 
-    def test_generator_reproducibility(self):
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("with_keyframe", [False, True], ids=["t2va", "fl2va"])
+    def test_generator_reproducibility(self, with_keyframe):
         r"""
         Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
 
         The blocks draw from the one generator the request carries, in the order they run — the keyframe conditioning
-        noise in the VAE encoder step, then the video and the audio noise in the prepare-latents step — which is what
-        keeps a modular run reproducible, and equal to the standard pipeline's.
+        noise in the VAE encoder step, then the video and the audio noise in the prepare-latents step — which is the
+        whole reproducibility contract of a request.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        keyframe = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
 
         def run(seed):
             inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
             inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
-            inputs["image"] = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
+            if with_keyframe:
+                inputs["image"] = keyframe
             state = pipe(**inputs)
             return state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
 
@@ -211,6 +350,52 @@ def run(seed):
         assert not torch.equal(video, other_video)
         assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
 
+    def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
+        r"""
+        `latents` and `audio_latents` stand in for their draw, which is how a sample is reproduced from outside.
+
+        With both passed in, a `t2va` request draws nothing at all, so two runs with different generators return the
+        very same video and soundtrack.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        latents, audio_latents = self.injected_noise(pipe)
+
+        outputs = []
+        for seed in (7, 8):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            inputs["latents"] = latents
+            inputs["audio_latents"] = audio_latents
+            state = pipe(**inputs)
+            outputs.append((state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")))
+
+        assert torch.equal(outputs[0][0], outputs[1][0])
+        assert torch.equal(outputs[0][1], outputs[1][1])
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("num_keyframes", [0, 1, 2], ids=["text_only", "one_keyframe", "two_keyframes"])
+    def test_encode_prompt(self, num_keyframes):
+        r"""
+        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever it carries.
+
+        A keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block, whose rows are tagged as *video*; a
+        text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt and is tagged as text throughout. Every vision block also makes
+        Qwen3-VL lay its rotary positions out per modality, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor
+        derives from the vision pad ids.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
+
+        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep.encode_prompt(
+            pipe, "a robot dancing", [keyframe] * num_keyframes, device=torch_device
+        )
+
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer.config.text_dim
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
+        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
+        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, so a text-only presentation carries text rows alone.
+        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == ({0, 1} if num_keyframes else {1})
+
     def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self):
         r"""
         The text encoder block runs on its own, without the denoiser or the VAEs.
@@ -229,6 +414,52 @@ def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self):
         # `1` tags a text row, and a text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt.
         assert set(outputs["text_token_tags"].tolist()) == {1}
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
+    def test_output_type(self, output_type):
+        r"""`"latent"` stops before both VAEs and keeps the denormalized latents of either modality."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["output_type"] = output_type
+        state = pipe(**inputs)
+        video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+
+        if output_type == "np":
+            assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION, 3)
+        elif output_type == "pil":
+            assert len(video[0]) == NUM_FRAMES
+            assert video[0][0].size == (RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        else:
+            # The video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
+            assert video.shape == (1, 4, NUM_LATENT_FRAMES, RESOLUTION // 16, RESOLUTION // 16)
+            assert audio.shape == (2, 8, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "overrides,message",
+        [
+            ({"prompt": ["a robot", "a fox"]}, "must be a single string"),
+            ({"height": 30, "width": 30}, "multiples of 32"),
+            ({"width": None}, "have to be passed together"),
+            ({"num_frames": 96}, "must be between"),
+            ({"num_frames": 400}, "must be between"),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "prompt_list",
+            "canvas_not_a_multiple_of_32",
+            "height_without_width",
+            "shorter_than_five_seconds",
+            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs.update(overrides)
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
 
 class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipelineFast(MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase):
     pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
@@ -260,13 +491,378 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
         assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
         assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
 
-    def test_audio_reference_alone_is_rejected(self):
-        r"""An audio reference is conditioning for a subject, so it cannot be the only reference of a request."""
+    def test_generator_reproducibility(self):
+        r"""
+        Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
+
+        A `ref2va` request draws the reference conditioning noise before the video and the audio noise, all three off
+        the one generator it carries, so this covers the whole stream.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        def run(seed):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            state = pipe(**inputs)
+            return state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+
+        video, audio = run(7)
+        same_video, same_audio = run(7)
+        other_video, other_audio = run(8)
+
+        assert torch.equal(video, same_video)
+        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
+        assert not torch.equal(video, other_video)
+        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
+
+    def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
+        r"""
+        `latents` and `audio_latents` stand in for their draw, and only for theirs.
+
+        A `ref2va` request draws the reference conditioning noise *before* the two target draws, so injecting the
+        targets replaces those two alone: the same seed with other noise is another sample, and another seed with the
+        same noise is still another sample, through the conditioning noise the references are augmented with.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        latents, audio_latents = self.injected_noise(pipe)
+        other_latents, other_audio_latents = self.injected_noise(pipe, seed=11)
+
+        def run(seed, video_noise, audio_noise):
+            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
+            inputs["latents"] = video_noise
+            inputs["audio_latents"] = audio_noise
+            state = pipe(**inputs)
+            return state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+
+        video, audio = run(7, latents, audio_latents)
+        same_video, same_audio = run(7, latents, audio_latents)
+        other_noise_video, other_noise_audio = run(7, other_latents, other_audio_latents)
+        other_seed_video, _ = run(8, latents, audio_latents)
+
+        assert torch.equal(video, same_video)
+        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
+        assert not torch.equal(video, other_noise_video)
+        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_noise_audio)
+        assert not torch.equal(video, other_seed_video)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kinds,num_frames",
+        [(("video",), NUM_FRAMES), (("image", "audio"), None), (("video", "image"), NUM_FRAMES)],
+        ids=["video", "image_audio", "video_image"],
+    )
+    def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
+        r"""
+        Any ordered mix of image, video and audio references is packed, in request order.
+
+        A video reference conditions on its motion *and*, when the request passes one with it, on its soundtrack, so
+        it contributes both visual and audio rows; an audio reference contributes audio rows alone and never reaches
+        the conditioner. The `image_audio` case also leaves `num_frames` to the references, which is admissible
+        because exactly one of them carries audio: the duration is that soundtrack's, snapped up to the next
+        `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode.
+
+        The reference rows are pinned for the whole loop, which is what the denoised sequence is checked against: the
+        visual anchors keep their noise-augmented values and the audio anchors stay exactly as the encoder produced
+        them.
+        """
+        media = {
+            "image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+            # A one-second video reference, soundtrack included, and a six-second standalone soundtrack.
+            "video": MiniMaxH3Reference(
+                video=_video_frames(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS, 64),
+                fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
+                audio=_waveform(1.0),
+                sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE,
+            ),
+            "audio": _reference_audio(6.0),
+        }
+
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["references"] = [media[kind] for kind in kinds]
+        inputs["num_frames"] = num_frames
+
+        state = pipe(**inputs)
+
+        num_condition_rows = state.get("num_condition_video_rows")
+        num_audio_condition_rows = state.get("num_condition_audio_rows")
+        assert num_condition_rows > 0
+        assert (num_audio_condition_rows > 0) == any(kind in ("video", "audio") for kind in kinds)
+        assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, state.get("num_frames"), 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        # The loop only ever writes the generated rows, so the anchors the encoder block produced survive it.
+        assert torch.equal(state.get("latents")[:num_condition_rows], state.get("condition_latents"))
+        if num_audio_condition_rows:
+            assert torch.equal(
+                state.get("audio_latents")[:num_audio_condition_rows], state.get("audio_condition_latents")
+            )
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kinds", [("image",), ("video",), ("video", "image")], ids=["image", "video", "video_image"]
+    )
+    def test_encode_prompt(self, kinds):
+        r"""
+        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever references it labels.
+
+        The rows of a reference's vision block are tagged as *video*, and those blocks are what makes Qwen3-VL lay its
+        rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor derives from
+        the vision pad ids. A video reference contributes one timestamped block per merged frame pair.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        media = {"image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), "video": _reference_video(25, 32)}
+        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(pipe, [media[kind] for kind in kinds], NUM_FRAMES)
+
+        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep.encode_prompt(
+            pipe, "a robot dancing", references, device=torch_device
+        )
+
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer_ref.config.text_dim
+        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
+        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
+        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, and every reference here carries a vision block.
+        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == {0, 1}
+        # A 25 frame reference decoded at 24 fps is read at 2 fps, so it is three frames merged into two blocks.
+        for reference in references:
+            if reference.kind == "video":
+                assert reference.block_timestamps == [0.25, 1.0]
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("media_type", ["pil", "np", "pt"], ids=["pil", "numpy", "torch"])
+    def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
+        r"""
+        Image and video references are in-memory media, in any of the layouts diffusers accepts: images, a
+        channels-last `np.ndarray` or a channels-first `torch.Tensor`, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`. All
+        three carry the same pixels, and media that already is at the resolution the reference resolves to reaches the
+        VAE untouched.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        pixels = _video_frames(4, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        if media_type == "pil":
+            image, frames = Image.fromarray(pixels[0]), [Image.fromarray(frame) for frame in pixels]
+        elif media_type == "np":
+            image, frames = pixels[0] / 255.0, pixels
+        else:
+            image, frames = torch.from_numpy(pixels[0]).permute(2, 0, 1), torch.from_numpy(pixels).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
+
+        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(
+            pipe,
+            [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image), MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames, fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS))],
+            NUM_FRAMES,
+        )
+
+        assert np.array_equal(np.asarray(references[0].image), pixels[0])
+        assert np.array_equal(references[1].frames, pixels)
+
+    def test_reference_rates_default_to_the_model_rates(self):
+        r"""
+        A reference that leaves its rates out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own: the frames flow through
+        untouched, without a resampling pass and without a copy, and so do the samples of a waveform.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        frames = _video_frames(NUM_FRAMES, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
+
+        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(
+            pipe, [MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames), MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform)], NUM_FRAMES
+        )
+
+        assert np.shares_memory(references[0].frames, frames)
+        assert torch.equal(references[1].waveform, waveform)
+
+    def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
+        r"""A waveform that says it carries another rate is resampled onto the audio VAE's own."""
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
+
+        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(
+            pipe,
+            [
+                MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+                MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE // 2),
+            ],
+            NUM_FRAMES,
+        )
+
+        # Half the audio VAE's rate, so the same samples span twice as many of the VAE's own.
+        assert references[1].waveform.shape == (2, 2 * waveform.shape[-1])
+
+    def test_num_frames_left_open_needs_exactly_one_audio_reference(self):
+        r"""Leaving `num_frames` out is ambiguous unless exactly one reference carries audio."""
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
 
         inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        sample_rate = pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
-        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=torch.zeros(2, 6 * sample_rate), sample_rate=sample_rate)]
+        inputs["num_frames"] = None
 
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="has to be paired with at least one image or video reference"):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="may only be left to the references"):
             pipe(**inputs)
+
+    def test_num_frames_left_open_holds_the_ceiling_for_the_aligned_count(self):
+        r"""
+        A soundtrack just under 15 seconds is rejected rather than silently stretched past the ceiling.
+
+        14.99 seconds round to 360 frames, which the video VAE's `17 * n + 5` grid rounds up to 362, i.e. 15.083
+        seconds. The duration the request generates is the aligned one, so that is what the bound holds for.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["num_frames"] = None
+        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), _reference_audio(14.99)]
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounds up to 362 frames"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "references,message",
+        [
+            ([], "at least one reference"),
+            ([_reference_audio(6.0)], "cannot be used"),
+            ([MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] * 10, "at most 9 image references"),
+            (
+                [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] + [_reference_video(2, 32)] * 4,
+                "at most 3 video references",
+            ),
+            ([{"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))}], "must be a \\[`MiniMaxH3Reference`\\]"),
+        ],
+        ids=["no_references", "audio_alone", "too_many_images", "too_many_videos", "dict_entry"],
+    )
+    def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["references"] = references
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            pipe(**inputs)
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3Reference:
+    """
+    [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] resolves a request's media at construction, before any block sees it.
+
+    None of this needs a pipeline: a reference validates its own modality, decodes a path with PyAV and carries the
+    rates that come with it, which is exactly what makes the blocks able to assume in-memory media throughout.
+    """
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "kwargs,message",
+        [
+            ({}, "exactly one of"),
+            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "video": _video_frames(2, 32)}, "exactly one of"),
+            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "audio": _waveform(1.0)}, "exactly one of"),
+            ({"image": "astronaut.png"}, "not a valid path"),
+            ({"video": "motion.mp4"}, "not a valid path"),
+            ({"audio": "voice.wav"}, "not a valid path"),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "no_medium",
+            "image_and_video",
+            "image_and_audio",
+            "missing_image_file",
+            "missing_video_file",
+            "missing_audio_file",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_reference_construction(self, kwargs, message):
+        r"""
+        A reference resolves itself at construction: exactly one medium, bar a video's own soundtrack, and a path that
+        names a file it can actually open.
+        """
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
+            MiniMaxH3Reference(**kwargs)
+
+    def test_reference_decodes_files(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""
+        A reference takes a path as well as in-memory media, and decodes it as it is built: the frames and the samples
+        themselves, plus the rates the container reports, which is what the model conditions on.
+        """
+        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
+
+        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
+        image = MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path))
+        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
+
+        assert video.kind == "video"
+        assert video.video.shape == (FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES, 32, 64, 3) and video.video.dtype == np.uint8
+        assert video.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
+        # The container carries a soundtrack, which a video reference conditions on as its own.
+        assert video.has_audio and video.audio.shape[0] == 2 and video.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        assert image.kind == "image" and image.image.size == (64, 32)
+        assert audio.kind == "audio" and audio.audio.shape[0] == 2 and audio.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
+        assert audio.audio.dtype == torch.float32
+
+    def test_reference_silent_file_carries_no_soundtrack(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""There is nothing to adopt from a container without an audio stream."""
+        silent_path = tmp_path / "silent.mp4"
+        _write_video(silent_path, with_audio=False)
+
+        reference = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(silent_path))
+
+        assert not reference.has_audio and reference.sample_rate is None
+        assert reference.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
+
+    def test_reference_rates_override_the_container(self, tmp_path):
+        r"""A rate the request passes wins over the one the container reports, whose metadata may be wrong."""
+        video_path, _, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
+
+        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path), fps=12.0, sample_rate=16000)
+        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path), sample_rate=16000)
+
+        # The container reports `FIXTURE_FPS` and `FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE`, and the request overrides both.
+        assert video.fps == 12.0 and video.sample_rate == 16000
+        assert audio.sample_rate == 16000
+
+    def test_reference_file_needs_pyav(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        r"""Decoding a video or an audio file is a PyAV job, and says so when PyAV is not installed."""
+        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "is_av_available", lambda: False)
+
+        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
+            MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
+        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
+            MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
+        # An image never needs it.
+        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path)).image.size == (64, 32)
+
+    def test_reference_defaults(self):
+        r"""A reference knows its own modality, and defaults to MiniMax-H3's own frame rate for its frames."""
+        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(2, 32)).fps == float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
+        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).kind == "image"
+        assert not MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).has_audio
+        assert _reference_video(2, 32).kind == "video"
+        assert _reference_audio(6.0).kind == "audio"
+        assert _reference_audio(6.0).has_audio
+
+
+class TestMiniMaxH3ReferenceGeometry:
+    """
+    How a reference is prepared, which is pure geometry over the packing module and needs no components.
+
+    These are the passes `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` runs a reference through before any VAE sees it.
+    """
+
+    def test_reference_image_geometry(self, monkeypatch):
+        r"""
+        A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple of 32, with no area
+        cap. The `small_references` fixture shrinks that short edge for every other test, so restore it here.
+        """
+        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", 2048)
+
+        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(80, 48) == (2048, 3424)
+        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(48, 80) == (3424, 2048)
+
+    def test_video_reference_resampled_to_the_model_frame_rate(self):
+        r"""
+        A video reference is resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, which is
+        what `ffmpeg`'s `fps` filter did in the reference implementation: a frame whose successor rounds onto the same
+        output slot is dropped, so a 30 fps reference loses one frame in five, the later of the two that tie for a
+        slot. Frames already at 24 fps are returned as they are, without a copy.
+        """
+        # Every frame carries its own index as its pixel value, so the resampled frames name the ones that survived.
+        frames = np.arange(30, dtype="uint8").reshape(-1, 1, 1, 1) * np.ones((1, 2, 2, 3), dtype="uint8")
+
+        resampled = packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, 30.0)
+
+        assert [int(frame[0, 0, 0]) for frame in resampled] == [
+            index for index in range(30) if index not in (2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27)
+        ]
+        assert packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)) is frames
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1..000000000000
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ee43e0e09c7..000000000000
--- a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,397 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-import numpy as np
-import pytest
-import torch
-from PIL import Image
-from transformers import AutoTokenizer, Qwen3VLConfig, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
-from transformers.models.qwen2_vl.image_processing_qwen2_vl_fast import Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast
-from transformers.models.qwen3_vl.video_processing_qwen3_vl import Qwen3VLVideoProcessor
-
-from diffusers import (
-    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
-    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
-    MiniMaxH3Pipeline,
-    MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
-    MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
-)
-
-from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
-from ..testing_utils import BasePipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin
-
-
-enable_full_determinism()
-
-
-# MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so the shortest admissible request is 124 frames
-# (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length the video VAE can decode). It is affordable on CPU because the canvas is tiny: 32
-# pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
-NUM_FRAMES = 124
-RESOLUTION = 32
-NUM_LATENT_FRAMES = 37
-NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
-# `prod(encoder_rates)` of the dummy audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
-AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
-
-# The tokenizer of the released conditioner, for its `<|vision_start|>` / `<|image_pad|>` / `<|vision_end|>` ids.
-TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration"
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3PipelineTesterConfig(BasePipelineTesterConfig):
-    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Pipeline
-    required_input_params_in_call_signature = frozenset(
-        ["prompt", "image", "last_image", "height", "width", "num_frames", "prompt_embeds"]
-    )
-    # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
-    batch_input_params = frozenset()
-    # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
-    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
-    optional_input_params = frozenset(
-        ["num_inference_steps", "generator", "latents", "audio_latents", "output_type", "return_dict"]
-    )
-
-    def get_dummy_components(self):
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(
-            latent_channels=4,
-            block_out_channels=(8, 16),
-            layers_per_block=1,
-            spatial_downsample_factors=(4, 4),
-            temporal_downsample_factors=(2, 2),
-            norm_num_groups=8,
-            decoder_num_layers=2,
-            decoder_num_attention_heads=2,
-            decoder_attention_head_dim=8,
-            decoder_num_register_tokens=2,
-            decoder_ffn_mult=2,
-            latents_mean=(0.0,) * 4,
-            latents_std=(1.0,) * 4,
-        )
-
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        audio_vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(
-            encoder_dim=4,
-            encoder_rates=(2, 2),
-            latent_dim=32,
-            latent_channels=8,
-            num_attention_heads=2,
-            decoder_dim=16,
-            decoder_rates=(2, 2),
-            decoder_kernel_sizes=(4, 4),
-            resblock_kernel_sizes=(3, 7),
-            resblock_dilation_sizes=((1, 3), (1, 3)),
-            sampling_rate=40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH,
-            latents_mean=[0.0] * 8,
-            latents_std=[1.0] * 8,
-        )
-
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        transformer = MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(
-            num_attention_heads=2,
-            attention_head_dim=16,
-            hidden_size=24,
-            num_layers=2,
-            num_refiner_layers=2,
-            ffn_dim=32,
-            in_channels=4,
-            audio_in_channels=8,
-            patch_size=(1, 2, 2),
-            text_dim=16,
-            freq_dim=8,
-            time_embed_hidden_dim=24,
-            time_embed_dim=16,
-            rope_freq_dim=2,
-        )
-
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        # MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` of its Qwen3-VL conditioner, so the dummy conditioner needs more than
-        # 50 decoder layers even though every layer is tiny.
-        text_encoder = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration(
-            Qwen3VLConfig(
-                text_config={
-                    "hidden_size": 16,
-                    "intermediate_size": 16,
-                    "num_hidden_layers": 51,
-                    "num_attention_heads": 2,
-                    "num_key_value_heads": 2,
-                    "head_dim": 8,
-                    "rope_scaling": {"mrope_section": [1, 1, 2], "rope_type": "default", "type": "default"},
-                },
-                vision_config={
-                    "depth": 2,
-                    "hidden_size": 16,
-                    "intermediate_size": 16,
-                    "num_heads": 2,
-                    "out_hidden_size": 16,
-                    "patch_size": 4,
-                    "spatial_merge_size": 2,
-                    "temporal_patch_size": 2,
-                    "num_position_embeddings": 64,
-                    "deepstack_visual_indexes": [0],
-                },
-            )
-        )
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID)
-        processor = Qwen3VLProcessor(
-            image_processor=Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast(
-                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
-            ),
-            tokenizer=tokenizer,
-            video_processor=Qwen3VLVideoProcessor(
-                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
-            ),
-        )
-
-        return {
-            "transformer": transformer,
-            "vae": vae,
-            "audio_vae": audio_vae,
-            "text_encoder": text_encoder,
-            "tokenizer": tokenizer,
-            "processor": processor,
-            "scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=12.0),
-            "audio_scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=3.0),
-        }
-
-    def get_dummy_inputs(self):
-        return {
-            "prompt": "a robot dancing",
-            "generator": self.get_generator(0),
-            "num_inference_steps": 2,
-            "height": RESOLUTION,
-            "width": RESOLUTION,
-            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
-            # Request torch outputs so tests compare torch tensors directly (see `BasePipelineTesterConfig`).
-            "output_type": "pt",
-        }
-
-
-class TestMiniMaxH3Pipeline(MiniMaxH3PipelineTesterConfig, PipelineTesterMixin):
-    def test_inference(self):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        output = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
-        video, audio = output.frames, output.audio
-
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the pipeline stacks back
-        # into `(batch, 2, samples)`.
-        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
-        assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
-        assert torch.isfinite(audio).all()
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("num_keyframes", [0, 1, 2], ids=["text_only", "one_keyframe", "two_keyframes"])
-    def test_encode_prompt(self, num_keyframes):
-        r"""
-        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever it carries.
-
-        A keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block, whose rows are tagged as *video*; a
-        text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt and is tagged as text throughout. Every vision block also makes
-        Qwen3-VL lay its rotary positions out per modality, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor
-        derives from the vision pad ids.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
-
-        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = pipe.encode_prompt(
-            "a robot dancing", [keyframe] * num_keyframes, device=torch_device
-        )
-
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer.config.text_dim
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
-        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
-        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, so a text-only presentation carries text rows alone.
-        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == ({0, 1} if num_keyframes else {1})
-
-    def test_prompt_embeds(self):
-        r"""An encoded presentation can be passed back in, which is how a caller reuses one across requests."""
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = pipe.encode_prompt(inputs.pop("prompt"), device=torch_device)
-        inputs["prompt_embeds"] = prompt_embeds
-        inputs["text_token_tags"] = text_token_tags
-        video = pipe(**inputs).frames
-
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "keyframes,num_condition_rows",
-        [(("image",), 1), (("last_image",), 1), (("image", "last_image"), 2)],
-        ids=["first", "last", "first_and_last"],
-    )
-    def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
-        r"""
-        A keyframe contributes one conditioning row per latent patch, and those rows are pinned for the whole loop.
-
-        They are packed in front of the generated video rows and ride along at their own `t = 0.999`, so the loop
-        never writes them. On a `RESOLUTION` canvas a keyframe is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((48, 80, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["num_inference_steps"] = 3
-        inputs.update(dict.fromkeys(keyframes, keyframe))
-
-        seen = []
-        inputs["callback_on_step_end"] = lambda pipeline, i, t, kwargs: seen.append(kwargs["latents"].clone()) or {}
-        video = pipe(**inputs).frames
-
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        # `num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model
-        # evaluation less.
-        assert len(seen) == inputs["num_inference_steps"] - 1
-        for latents in seen:
-            assert torch.equal(latents[:num_condition_rows], seen[0][:num_condition_rows])
-        assert not torch.equal(seen[-1][num_condition_rows:], seen[0][num_condition_rows:])
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("with_keyframe", [False, True], ids=["t2va", "fl2va"])
-    def test_generator_reproducibility(self, with_keyframe):
-        r"""
-        Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
-
-        Every noise draw of a request — the keyframe conditioning noise, then the video noise, then the audio noise —
-        comes off the one generator the request carries, so this is the whole reproducibility contract.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((48, 80, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
-
-        def run(seed):
-            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
-            if with_keyframe:
-                inputs["image"] = keyframe
-            output = pipe(**inputs)
-            return output.frames, output.audio
-
-        frames, audio = run(7)
-        same_frames, same_audio = run(7)
-        other_frames, other_audio = run(8)
-
-        assert torch.equal(frames, same_frames)
-        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
-        assert not torch.equal(frames, other_frames)
-        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
-
-    def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
-        r"""
-        `latents` and `audio_latents` stand in for their draw, which is how a sample is reproduced from outside.
-
-        With both passed in, a `t2va` request draws nothing at all, so two runs with different generators return the
-        very same video and soundtrack.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        latents = torch.randn(
-            1,
-            pipe.vae_latent_channels,
-            NUM_LATENT_FRAMES,
-            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
-            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
-            generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(3),
-        )
-        audio_latents = torch.randn(
-            2, pipe.audio_latent_channels, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(4)
-        )
-
-        outputs = []
-        for seed in (7, 8):
-            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
-            inputs["latents"] = latents
-            inputs["audio_latents"] = audio_latents
-            output = pipe(**inputs)
-            outputs.append((output.frames, output.audio))
-
-        assert torch.equal(outputs[0][0], outputs[1][0])
-        assert torch.equal(outputs[0][1], outputs[1][1])
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
-    def test_output_type(self, output_type):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["output_type"] = output_type
-        output = pipe(**inputs)
-
-        if output_type == "np":
-            assert output.frames.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION, 3)
-        elif output_type == "pil":
-            assert len(output.frames[0]) == NUM_FRAMES
-            assert output.frames[0][0].size == (RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        else:
-            # `"latent"` keeps the denormalized latents: the video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
-            assert output.frames.shape == (1, 4, NUM_LATENT_FRAMES, RESOLUTION // 16, RESOLUTION // 16)
-            assert output.audio.shape == (2, 8, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "overrides,message",
-        [
-            ({"prompt_embeds": torch.zeros(1, 4, 16)}, "not both"),
-            ({"prompt": None}, "Pass one of"),
-            ({"prompt": ["a robot", "a fox"]}, "must be a single string"),
-            ({"height": 30, "width": 30}, "multiples of 32"),
-            ({"width": None}, "have to be passed together"),
-            ({"num_frames": 96}, "must be between"),
-            ({"num_frames": 400}, "must be between"),
-            # 346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds
-            # for the aligned count, so this is rejected rather than silently generating too long a video.
-            ({"num_frames": 346}, "rounded up to 362"),
-        ],
-        ids=[
-            "prompt_and_prompt_embeds",
-            "neither_prompt_nor_embeds",
-            "prompt_list",
-            "canvas_not_a_multiple_of_32",
-            "height_without_width",
-            "shorter_than_five_seconds",
-            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds",
-            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds_once_aligned",
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs.update(overrides)
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
-        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
-    )
-    def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
-        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
-    )
-    def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "`encode_prompt` returns the per-row modality tags next to the embeddings, and both depend on the keyframes "
-        "of the request, so the harness cannot reconstruct its call from the pipeline arguments alone."
-    )
-    def test_encode_prompt_works_in_isolation(self):
-        pass
-
-
-class TestMiniMaxH3PipelineMemory(MiniMaxH3PipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
-    pass
diff --git a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py b/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6565533acf7b..000000000000
--- a/tests/pipelines/minimax_h3/test_minimax_h3_ref2va.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,760 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 The HuggingFace Team.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-import numpy as np
-import pytest
-import torch
-from PIL import Image
-from transformers import AutoTokenizer, Qwen3VLConfig, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
-from transformers.models.qwen2_vl.image_processing_qwen2_vl_fast import Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast
-from transformers.models.qwen3_vl.video_processing_qwen3_vl import Qwen3VLVideoProcessor
-
-from diffusers import (
-    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3,
-    AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio,
-    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline,
-    MiniMaxH3Scheduler,
-    MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel,
-)
-from diffusers.pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference, packing, packing_ref2va
-
-from ...testing_utils import enable_full_determinism, torch_device
-from ..testing_utils import BasePipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin
-
-
-enable_full_determinism()
-
-
-# MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so the shortest admissible request is 124 frames
-# (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length the video VAE can decode). It is affordable on CPU because the canvas is tiny: 32
-# pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
-NUM_FRAMES = 124
-RESOLUTION = 32
-NUM_LATENT_FRAMES = 37
-NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
-# `prod(encoder_rates)` of the dummy audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
-AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
-# The dummy audio VAE's own sample rate, so a reference soundtrack is never resampled.
-AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE = 40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH
-
-# A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, which packs thousands of conditioning rows. Tests shrink
-# it to keep the CPU runs fast; `test_reference_image_geometry` pins the released value.
-TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 64
-
-# The tokenizer of the released conditioner, for its `<|vision_start|>` / `<|image_pad|>` / `<|vision_end|>` ids.
-TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration"
-
-
-def _video_frames(num_frames: int, size: int) -> np.ndarray:
-    """Synthesized video reference frames: `uint8` RGB at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps.
-
-    References are in-memory media, so nothing here is written to a file: the pipeline takes the frames a caller
-    decoded, plus the frame rate they carry.
-    """
-    return (np.random.default_rng(0).random((num_frames, size, size, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
-
-
-def _waveform(duration: float) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """A synthesized soundtrack: a stereo waveform at the dummy audio VAE's own sample rate, so nothing is resampled."""
-    return torch.rand(2, round(duration * AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE), generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
-
-
-# The synthesized media fixtures the file-decoding tests are built from: a tiny 8 fps clip with a stereo soundtrack.
-FIXTURE_FPS = 8.0
-FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES = 8
-FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE = 8000
-
-
-def _write_video(path, with_audio: bool) -> None:
-    """Encode a tiny 64x32 clip, with a stereo soundtrack when asked, with PyAV."""
-    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
-
-    with av.open(str(path), "w") as container:
-        # Both streams are declared before anything is muxed, which is what the muxer needs to lay out the file.
-        video_stream = container.add_stream("libx264", rate=int(FIXTURE_FPS))
-        video_stream.width, video_stream.height, video_stream.pix_fmt = 64, 32, "yuv420p"
-        audio_stream = None
-        if with_audio:
-            audio_stream = container.add_stream("aac", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-            audio_stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
-
-        for index in range(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES):
-            pixels = np.full((32, 64, 3), index * 16, dtype="uint8")
-            frame = av.VideoFrame.from_ndarray(pixels, format="rgb24")
-            frame.pts = index
-            container.mux(video_stream.encode(frame))
-        container.mux(video_stream.encode())
-
-        if audio_stream is None:
-            return
-        num_samples = int(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES / FIXTURE_FPS * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-        samples = np.zeros((1, 2 * num_samples), dtype="int16")
-        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(samples, format="s16", layout="stereo")
-        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout="stereo", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-        pts = 0
-        for resampled in resampler.resample(frame):
-            resampled.pts = pts
-            pts += resampled.samples
-            container.mux(audio_stream.encode(resampled))
-        container.mux(audio_stream.encode())
-
-
-def _media_fixtures(directory) -> tuple:
-    """A video with a soundtrack, a still image and an audio clip, as files a reference can be built from."""
-    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
-
-    video_path, image_path, audio_path = (
-        directory / "reference.mp4",
-        directory / "reference.png",
-        directory / "reference.wav",
-    )
-    _write_video(video_path, with_audio=True)
-    Image.new("RGB", (64, 32), color=(10, 20, 30)).save(image_path)
-    with av.open(str(audio_path), "w") as container:
-        stream = container.add_stream("pcm_s16le", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-        stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
-        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(
-            np.zeros((1, 2 * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE), dtype="int16"), format="s16", layout="stereo"
-        )
-        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        frame.pts = 0
-        container.mux(stream.encode(frame))
-        container.mux(stream.encode())
-    return video_path, image_path, audio_path
-
-
-def _reference_video(num_frames: int, size: int) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
-    """A silent video reference at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps."""
-    return MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(num_frames, size), fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
-
-
-def _reference_audio(duration: float) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
-    """A standalone audio reference at the dummy audio VAE's own sample rate."""
-    return MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=_waveform(duration), sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE)
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="module")
-def small_references():
-    """
-    Encode references at `TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE` instead of the released 2048 pixels.
-
-    A 2048 pixel short edge packs thousands of conditioning rows, which is minutes per pipeline call on CPU. The
-    fixture is module-scoped because the cached `base_pipe_output` is built once per class, before any
-    function-scoped fixture runs. `test_reference_image_geometry` restores the released value.
-    """
-    with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patch:
-        patch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE**2 * 2)
-        yield
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineTesterConfig(BasePipelineTesterConfig):
-    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline
-    required_input_params_in_call_signature = frozenset(
-        ["prompt", "references", "height", "width", "num_frames", "prompt_embeds"]
-    )
-    # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
-    batch_input_params = frozenset()
-    # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
-    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
-    optional_input_params = frozenset(
-        ["num_inference_steps", "generator", "latents", "audio_latents", "output_type", "return_dict"]
-    )
-
-    def get_dummy_components(self):
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(
-            latent_channels=4,
-            block_out_channels=(8, 16),
-            layers_per_block=1,
-            spatial_downsample_factors=(4, 4),
-            temporal_downsample_factors=(2, 2),
-            norm_num_groups=8,
-            decoder_num_layers=2,
-            decoder_num_attention_heads=2,
-            decoder_attention_head_dim=8,
-            decoder_num_register_tokens=2,
-            decoder_ffn_mult=2,
-            latents_mean=(0.0,) * 4,
-            latents_std=(1.0,) * 4,
-        )
-
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        audio_vae = AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(
-            encoder_dim=4,
-            encoder_rates=(2, 2),
-            latent_dim=32,
-            latent_channels=8,
-            num_attention_heads=2,
-            decoder_dim=16,
-            decoder_rates=(2, 2),
-            decoder_kernel_sizes=(4, 4),
-            resblock_kernel_sizes=(3, 7),
-            resblock_dilation_sizes=((1, 3), (1, 3)),
-            sampling_rate=40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH,
-            latents_mean=[0.0] * 8,
-            latents_std=[1.0] * 8,
-        )
-
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        transformer_ref = MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(
-            num_attention_heads=2,
-            attention_head_dim=16,
-            hidden_size=24,
-            num_layers=2,
-            num_refiner_layers=2,
-            ffn_dim=32,
-            in_channels=4,
-            audio_in_channels=8,
-            patch_size=(1, 2, 2),
-            text_dim=16,
-            freq_dim=8,
-            time_embed_hidden_dim=24,
-            time_embed_dim=16,
-            rope_freq_dim=2,
-        )
-
-        torch.manual_seed(0)
-        # MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` of its Qwen3-VL conditioner, so the dummy conditioner needs more than
-        # 50 decoder layers even though every layer is tiny.
-        text_encoder = Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration(
-            Qwen3VLConfig(
-                text_config={
-                    "hidden_size": 16,
-                    "intermediate_size": 16,
-                    "num_hidden_layers": 51,
-                    "num_attention_heads": 2,
-                    "num_key_value_heads": 2,
-                    "head_dim": 8,
-                    "rope_scaling": {"mrope_section": [1, 1, 2], "rope_type": "default", "type": "default"},
-                },
-                vision_config={
-                    "depth": 2,
-                    "hidden_size": 16,
-                    "intermediate_size": 16,
-                    "num_heads": 2,
-                    "out_hidden_size": 16,
-                    "patch_size": 4,
-                    "spatial_merge_size": 2,
-                    "temporal_patch_size": 2,
-                    "num_position_embeddings": 64,
-                    "deepstack_visual_indexes": [0],
-                },
-            )
-        )
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(TINY_QWEN_CKPT_ID)
-        processor = Qwen3VLProcessor(
-            image_processor=Qwen2VLImageProcessorFast(
-                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
-            ),
-            tokenizer=tokenizer,
-            video_processor=Qwen3VLVideoProcessor(
-                patch_size=4, merge_size=2, temporal_patch_size=2, min_pixels=64, max_pixels=256
-            ),
-        )
-
-        return {
-            "transformer_ref": transformer_ref,
-            "vae": vae,
-            "audio_vae": audio_vae,
-            "text_encoder": text_encoder,
-            "tokenizer": tokenizer,
-            "processor": processor,
-            "scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=12.0),
-            "audio_scheduler": MiniMaxH3Scheduler(shift=3.0),
-        }
-
-    def get_dummy_inputs(self):
-        # A `ref2va` presentation labels every reference in the prompt, so the conditioner has to see the very
-        # references the request carries. The tests pass the encoded presentation directly, which is also how a
-        # caller reuses one across requests.
-        return {
-            "prompt_embeds": torch.randn(1, 7, 16, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(0)),
-            "text_token_tags": torch.ones(7, dtype=torch.long),
-            "references": [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))],
-            "generator": self.get_generator(0),
-            "num_inference_steps": 2,
-            "height": RESOLUTION,
-            "width": RESOLUTION,
-            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
-            # Request torch outputs so tests compare torch tensors directly (see `BasePipelineTesterConfig`).
-            "output_type": "pt",
-        }
-
-
-class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipeline(MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineTesterConfig, PipelineTesterMixin):
-    def test_inference(self):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        output = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
-        video, audio = output.frames, output.audio
-
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the pipeline stacks back
-        # into `(batch, 2, samples)`.
-        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
-        assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
-        assert torch.isfinite(audio).all()
-
-    def test_reference_image_geometry(self, monkeypatch):
-        r"""
-        A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple of 32, with no area
-        cap. The `small_references` fixture shrinks that short edge for every other test, so restore it here.
-        """
-        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", 2048)
-
-        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(80, 48) == (2048, 3424)
-        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(48, 80) == (3424, 2048)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("media_type", ["pil", "np", "pt"], ids=["pil", "numpy", "torch"])
-    def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
-        r"""
-        Image and video references are in-memory media, in any of the layouts diffusers accepts: images, a
-        channels-last `np.ndarray` or a channels-first `torch.Tensor`, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`. All
-        three carry the same pixels, and media that already is at the resolution the reference resolves to reaches the
-        VAE untouched.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        pixels = _video_frames(4, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        if media_type == "pil":
-            image, frames = Image.fromarray(pixels[0]), [Image.fromarray(frame) for frame in pixels]
-        elif media_type == "np":
-            image, frames = pixels[0] / 255.0, pixels
-        else:
-            image, frames = torch.from_numpy(pixels[0]).permute(2, 0, 1), torch.from_numpy(pixels).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
-
-        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references(
-            [
-                MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image),
-                MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames, fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)),
-            ],
-            NUM_FRAMES,
-        )
-
-        assert np.array_equal(np.asarray(references[0].image), pixels[0])
-        assert np.array_equal(references[1].frames, pixels)
-
-    def test_video_reference_resampled_to_the_model_frame_rate(self):
-        r"""
-        A video reference is resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, which is
-        what `ffmpeg`'s `fps` filter did in the reference implementation: a frame whose successor rounds onto the same
-        output slot is dropped, so a 30 fps reference loses one frame in five, the later of the two that tie for a
-        slot. Frames already at 24 fps are returned as they are, without a copy.
-        """
-        # Every frame carries its own index as its pixel value, so the resampled frames name the ones that survived.
-        frames = np.arange(30, dtype="uint8").reshape(-1, 1, 1, 1) * np.ones((1, 2, 2, 3), dtype="uint8")
-
-        resampled = packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, 30.0)
-
-        assert [int(frame[0, 0, 0]) for frame in resampled] == [
-            index for index in range(30) if index not in (2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27)
-        ]
-        assert packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)) is frames
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "kinds", [("image",), ("video",), ("video", "image")], ids=["image", "video", "video_image"]
-    )
-    def test_encode_prompt(self, kinds):
-        r"""
-        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever references it labels.
-
-        The rows of a reference's vision block are tagged as *video*, and those blocks are what makes Qwen3-VL lay its
-        rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor derives from
-        the vision pad ids. A video reference contributes one timestamped block per merged frame pair.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        media = {"image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), "video": _reference_video(25, 32)}
-        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references([media[kind] for kind in kinds], NUM_FRAMES)
-
-        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = pipe.encode_prompt("a robot dancing", references, device=torch_device)
-
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer_ref.config.text_dim
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
-        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
-        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, and every reference here carries a vision block.
-        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == {0, 1}
-        # A 25 frame reference decoded at 24 fps is read at 2 fps, so it is three frames merged into two blocks.
-        for reference in references:
-            if reference.kind == "video":
-                assert reference.block_timestamps == [0.25, 1.0]
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "kinds,num_frames",
-        [(("video",), NUM_FRAMES), (("image", "audio"), None), (("video", "image"), NUM_FRAMES)],
-        ids=["video", "image_audio", "video_image"],
-    )
-    def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
-        r"""
-        Any ordered mix of image, video and audio references is packed, in request order.
-
-        A video reference conditions on its motion *and*, when the request passes one with it, on its soundtrack, so it
-        contributes both visual and audio rows; an audio reference contributes audio rows alone and never reaches the
-        conditioner. The `image_audio` case also leaves `num_frames` to the references, which is admissible because
-        exactly one of them carries audio: the duration is that soundtrack's, snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the
-        video VAE can decode.
-
-        The reference rows are pinned for the whole loop, which is what the callback checks: the visual anchors keep
-        their noise-augmented values and the audio anchors stay exactly as the encoder produced them.
-        """
-        media = {
-            "image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
-            # A one-second video reference, soundtrack included, and a six-second standalone soundtrack.
-            "video": MiniMaxH3Reference(
-                video=_video_frames(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS, 64),
-                fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
-                audio=_waveform(1.0),
-                sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE,
-            ),
-            "audio": _reference_audio(6.0),
-        }
-
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["references"] = [media[kind] for kind in kinds]
-        inputs["num_frames"] = num_frames
-        inputs["num_inference_steps"] = 3
-
-        references, resolved_num_frames = pipe.prepare_references(inputs["references"], num_frames)
-        condition_rows, audio_condition_rows = pipe.encode_references(references)
-        num_condition_rows = 0 if condition_rows is None else condition_rows.shape[0]
-        num_audio_condition_rows = 0 if audio_condition_rows is None else audio_condition_rows.shape[0]
-        assert num_condition_rows > 0
-        assert (num_audio_condition_rows > 0) == any(kind in ("video", "audio") for kind in kinds)
-
-        seen = []
-        inputs["callback_on_step_end"] = (
-            lambda pipeline, i, t, kwargs: seen.append((kwargs["latents"].clone(), kwargs["audio_latents"].clone()))
-            or {}
-        )
-        video = pipe(**inputs).frames
-
-        assert video.shape == (1, resolved_num_frames, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        # `num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model
-        # evaluation less.
-        assert len(seen) == inputs["num_inference_steps"] - 1
-        for latents, audio_latents in seen:
-            assert torch.equal(latents[:num_condition_rows], seen[0][0][:num_condition_rows])
-            if num_audio_condition_rows:
-                assert torch.equal(audio_latents[:num_audio_condition_rows], audio_condition_rows)
-
-    def test_num_frames_left_open_needs_exactly_one_audio_reference(self):
-        r"""Leaving `num_frames` out is ambiguous unless exactly one reference carries audio."""
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["num_frames"] = None
-        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))]
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="may only be left to the references"):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    def test_num_frames_left_open_holds_the_ceiling_for_the_aligned_count(self):
-        r"""
-        A soundtrack just under 15 seconds is rejected rather than silently stretched past the ceiling.
-
-        14.99 seconds round to 360 frames, which the video VAE's `17 * n + 5` grid rounds up to 362, i.e. 15.083
-        seconds. The duration the request generates is the aligned one, so that is what the bound holds for.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["num_frames"] = None
-        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), _reference_audio(14.99)]
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounds up to 362 frames"):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    def test_generator_reproducibility(self):
-        r"""
-        Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
-
-        A `ref2va` request draws the reference conditioning noise before the video and the audio noise, all three off
-        the one generator it carries, so this covers the whole stream.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        def run(seed):
-            inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-            inputs["generator"] = torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed)
-            output = pipe(**inputs)
-            return output.frames, output.audio
-
-        frames, audio = run(7)
-        same_frames, same_audio = run(7)
-        other_frames, other_audio = run(8)
-
-        assert torch.equal(frames, same_frames)
-        assert torch.equal(audio, same_audio)
-        assert not torch.equal(frames, other_frames)
-        assert not torch.equal(audio, other_audio)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "references,message",
-        [
-            ([], "at least one reference"),
-            ([_reference_audio(6.0)], "cannot be used"),
-            ([MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] * 10, "at most 9 image references"),
-            (
-                [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] + [_reference_video(2, 32)] * 4,
-                "at most 3 video references",
-            ),
-            ([{"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))}], "must be a \\[`MiniMaxH3Reference`\\]"),
-        ],
-        ids=[
-            "no_references",
-            "audio_alone",
-            "too_many_images",
-            "too_many_videos",
-            "dict_entry",
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["references"] = references
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "kwargs,message",
-        [
-            ({}, "exactly one of"),
-            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "video": _video_frames(2, 32)}, "exactly one of"),
-            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "audio": _waveform(1.0)}, "exactly one of"),
-            ({"image": "astronaut.png"}, "not a valid path"),
-            ({"video": "motion.mp4"}, "not a valid path"),
-            ({"audio": "voice.wav"}, "not a valid path"),
-        ],
-        ids=[
-            "no_medium",
-            "image_and_video",
-            "image_and_audio",
-            "missing_image_file",
-            "missing_video_file",
-            "missing_audio_file",
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_reference_construction(self, kwargs, message):
-        r"""
-        A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] resolves itself at construction: exactly one medium, bar a video's own soundtrack, and
-        a path that names a file it can actually open.
-        """
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
-            MiniMaxH3Reference(**kwargs)
-
-    def test_reference_decodes_files(self, tmp_path):
-        r"""
-        A reference takes a path as well as in-memory media, and decodes it as it is built: the frames and the samples
-        themselves, plus the rates the container reports, which is what the model conditions on.
-        """
-        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
-
-        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
-        image = MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path))
-        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
-
-        assert video.kind == "video"
-        assert video.video.shape == (FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES, 32, 64, 3) and video.video.dtype == np.uint8
-        assert video.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
-        # The container carries a soundtrack, which a video reference conditions on as its own.
-        assert video.has_audio and video.audio.shape[0] == 2 and video.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        assert image.kind == "image" and image.image.size == (64, 32)
-        assert audio.kind == "audio" and audio.audio.shape[0] == 2 and audio.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        assert audio.audio.dtype == torch.float32
-
-    def test_reference_silent_file_carries_no_soundtrack(self, tmp_path):
-        r"""There is nothing to adopt from a container without an audio stream."""
-        silent_path = tmp_path / "silent.mp4"
-        _write_video(silent_path, with_audio=False)
-
-        reference = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(silent_path))
-
-        assert not reference.has_audio and reference.sample_rate is None
-        assert reference.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
-
-    def test_reference_rates_override_the_container(self, tmp_path):
-        r"""A rate the request passes wins over the one the container reports, whose metadata may be wrong."""
-        video_path, _, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
-
-        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path), fps=12.0, sample_rate=16000)
-        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path), sample_rate=16000)
-
-        # The container reports `FIXTURE_FPS` and `FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE`, and the request overrides both.
-        assert video.fps == 12.0 and video.sample_rate == 16000
-        assert audio.sample_rate == 16000
-
-    def test_reference_file_needs_pyav(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
-        r"""Decoding a video or an audio file is a PyAV job, and says so when PyAV is not installed."""
-        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
-        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "is_av_available", lambda: False)
-
-        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
-            MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
-        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
-            MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
-        # An image never needs it.
-        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path)).image.size == (64, 32)
-
-    def test_reference_defaults(self):
-        r"""A reference knows its own modality, and defaults to MiniMax-H3's own frame rate for its frames."""
-        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(2, 32)).fps == float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
-        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).kind == "image"
-        assert not MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).has_audio
-        assert _reference_video(2, 32).kind == "video"
-        assert _reference_audio(6.0).kind == "audio"
-        assert _reference_audio(6.0).has_audio
-
-    def test_reference_rates_default_to_the_model_rates(self):
-        r"""
-        A reference that leaves its rates out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own: the frames flow through
-        untouched, without a resampling pass and without a copy, and so do the samples of a waveform.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        frames = _video_frames(NUM_FRAMES, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
-
-        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references(
-            [MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames), MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform)], NUM_FRAMES
-        )
-
-        assert np.shares_memory(references[0].frames, frames)
-        assert torch.equal(references[1].waveform, waveform)
-
-    def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
-        r"""A waveform that says it carries another rate is resampled onto the audio VAE's own."""
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
-
-        references, _ = pipe.prepare_references(
-            [
-                MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
-                MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE // 2),
-            ],
-            NUM_FRAMES,
-        )
-
-        # Half the audio VAE's rate, so the same samples span twice as many of the VAE's own.
-        assert references[1].waveform.shape == (2, 2 * waveform.shape[-1])
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "kwargs",
-        [
-            {"image": Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))},
-            {"video": _video_frames(24, 64), "fps": float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)},
-            {"video": _video_frames(24, 64), "audio": _waveform(1.0), "sample_rate": AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE},
-        ],
-        ids=["image", "video", "video_with_soundtrack"],
-    )
-    def test_single_reference_arguments(self, kwargs):
-        r"""
-        A single-reference request may name its medium on the call itself, which is the very same request as the
-        one-item `references` list it is turned into.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        del inputs["references"]
-        output = pipe(**inputs, **kwargs).frames
-
-        reference_inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        reference_inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(**kwargs)]
-        assert torch.equal(output, pipe(**reference_inputs).frames)
-
-    def test_single_reference_arguments_exclude_references(self):
-        r"""The two ways of passing one reference are mutually exclusive."""
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["image"] = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="not both"):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "overrides,message",
-        [
-            ({"prompt": "a robot dancing"}, "not both"),
-            ({"prompt_embeds": None, "text_token_tags": None}, "Pass one of"),
-            ({"text_token_tags": None}, "have to be passed together"),
-            ({"text_token_tags": torch.ones(3, dtype=torch.long)}, "one tag per row"),
-            ({"height": 30, "width": 30}, "multiples of 32"),
-            ({"num_frames": 96}, "must be between"),
-            # 346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds
-            # for the aligned count, so this is rejected rather than silently generating too long a video.
-            ({"num_frames": 346}, "rounded up to 362"),
-        ],
-        ids=[
-            "prompt_and_prompt_embeds",
-            "neither_prompt_nor_embeds",
-            "embeds_without_tags",
-            "tag_count_mismatch",
-            "canvas_not_a_multiple_of_32",
-            "shorter_than_five_seconds",
-            "longer_than_fifteen_seconds_once_aligned",
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs.update(overrides)
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
-    def test_output_type(self, output_type):
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["output_type"] = output_type
-        output = pipe(**inputs)
-
-        if output_type == "np":
-            assert output.frames.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION, 3)
-        elif output_type == "pil":
-            assert len(output.frames[0]) == NUM_FRAMES
-            assert output.frames[0][0].size == (RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        else:
-            # `"latent"` keeps the denormalized latents: the video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
-            assert output.frames.shape == (1, 4, NUM_LATENT_FRAMES, RESOLUTION // 16, RESOLUTION // 16)
-            assert output.audio.shape == (2, 8, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS)
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
-        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
-    )
-    def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence: `prompt` must be a single string and the transformer's batch "
-        "axis is a pure replication axis, so there is nothing to batch."
-    )
-    def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "`encode_prompt` returns the per-row modality tags next to the embeddings, and both depend on the prepared "
-        "references, so the harness cannot reconstruct its call from the pipeline arguments alone."
-    )
-    def test_encode_prompt_works_in_isolation(self):
-        pass
-
-
-class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineMemory(MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPipelineTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
-    pass

From 8418660d0c5b6c8697b2a98a5ba7db3e56855828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 01:43:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 04/21] Assert the VAE float32 pin as a positive contract

---
 .../test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py  | 26 +++++++++++--------
 ..._models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py | 26 +++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
index c89c1a16acc0..cb6c4ebb12df 100644
--- a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -94,19 +94,23 @@ def get_dummy_inputs(self) -> dict:
 class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3TesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
     """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 video autoencoder."""
 
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
-        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
-    )
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", [torch.float16, torch.bfloat16], ids=["fp16", "bf16"])
     def test_from_save_pretrained_dtype(self, tmp_path, dtype):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
-        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
-    )
+        # `_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module: the released checkpoint is float32 and decoding through
+        # downcast weights degrades (the bfloat16 audio VAE decodes roughly 20 dB too quiet), so a requested
+        # `torch_dtype` cast at load time must be refused and the weights must stay float32.
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict())
+        model.save_pretrained(tmp_path)
+        new_model = self.model_class.from_pretrained(tmp_path, torch_dtype=dtype)
+        assert new_model.dtype == torch.float32
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", [torch.float16, torch.bfloat16], ids=["fp16", "bf16"])
     def test_from_pretrained_dtype_alias(self, tmp_path, dtype):
-        pass
+        # Same contract through the `dtype` alias.
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict())
+        model.save_pretrained(tmp_path)
+        new_model = self.model_class.from_pretrained(tmp_path, dtype=dtype)
+        assert new_model.dtype == torch.float32
 
     def test_encode_decode_temporal_geometry(self):
         r"""
diff --git a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
index b091cae38cdb..676cae58d335 100644
--- a/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
+++ b/tests/models/autoencoders/test_models_autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -91,19 +91,23 @@ def get_dummy_inputs(self) -> dict:
 class TestAutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3AudioTesterConfig, ModelTesterMixin):
     """Core model tests for the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder."""
 
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
-        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
-    )
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", [torch.float16, torch.bfloat16], ids=["fp16", "bf16"])
     def test_from_save_pretrained_dtype(self, tmp_path, dtype):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        reason="`_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module, so a `torch_dtype` cast at load time is refused by design"
-        " and `model.dtype` stays float32."
-    )
+        # `_keep_in_fp32_modules` pins every module: the released checkpoint is float32 and decoding through
+        # downcast weights degrades (the bfloat16 audio VAE decodes roughly 20 dB too quiet), so a requested
+        # `torch_dtype` cast at load time must be refused and the weights must stay float32.
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict())
+        model.save_pretrained(tmp_path)
+        new_model = self.model_class.from_pretrained(tmp_path, torch_dtype=dtype)
+        assert new_model.dtype == torch.float32
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", [torch.float16, torch.bfloat16], ids=["fp16", "bf16"])
     def test_from_pretrained_dtype_alias(self, tmp_path, dtype):
-        pass
+        # Same contract through the `dtype` alias.
+        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict())
+        model.save_pretrained(tmp_path)
+        new_model = self.model_class.from_pretrained(tmp_path, dtype=dtype)
+        assert new_model.dtype == torch.float32
 
     def test_encode_pads_to_the_hop_length(self):
         r"""

From e1b518dfd5e390e7ba09a79a1d39fe1c6cb52dc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 01:47:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 05/21] Point the modular tests at the hf-internal-testing tiny
 repo

---
 .../minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py              | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 9502f5a19649..6e1bf9f4236a 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 # Both blocksets read the same repository, as the released one does: `transformer/` serves the `t2va` / `fl2va` half
 # and `transformer_ref/` the `ref2va` one, every other component is shared.
-TINY_MODULAR_REPO_ID = "diffusers-internal-dev/tiny-minimax-h3-modular-pipe"
+TINY_MODULAR_REPO_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-minimax-h3-modular-pipe"
 
 
 T2VA_WORKFLOW = [

From fc3adb3d89b231bb30e8827f1359ec9dc4c2b936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 15:25:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 06/21] Document performance recipes per hardware class

---
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md | 363 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 358 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index 145f24118603..050627dc8778 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -59,13 +59,194 @@ The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so the
 ## Generation constraints
 
 - **24 fps, 5 to 15 seconds.** `num_frames` is snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode, and the resulting duration has to stay in that window.
-- **A 768 pixel short edge.** `height` and `width` default to MiniMax-H3's own canvas for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe (or 16:9 without one) and must be multiples of 32.
+- **A 768 pixel short edge by default.** `height` and `width` default to MiniMax-H3's own canvas for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe (or 16:9 without one) and must be multiples of 32. 768 is what it was trained at rather than what the code allows, and smaller canvases are the main lever on a small card: see [the canvas ladder](#the-canvas-ladder).
 - **One generator, three draws.** A request draws the keyframe or reference conditioning noise first, then the video noise, then the audio noise, all from the `generator` it is passed, so two runs from the same generator state return the same video and soundtrack. Passing `latents` or `audio_latents` replaces the corresponding draw.
 - **`num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points**, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model evaluation less.
 
-## Memory
+## Performance and hardware recipes
 
-The transformer alone is 61.7 GB in bfloat16. Register the components in a [`ComponentsManager`] and let it move them on and off the accelerator around each block:
+MiniMax-H3 denoises one packed sequence that carries the video rows and the audio rows together, so a request is a large activation problem sitting on top of very large weights. Nothing here fits on one card by default: the transformer alone is 61.7 GB in bfloat16 and the Qwen3-VL conditioner is another 62.1 GB.
+
+Two resources decide what a machine can run, and they are not the same resource.
+
+**Video memory decides the canvas.** Under block level [group offloading](../../optimization/memory#group-offloading) the card never holds a whole component: it holds the block that is running, the block being prefetched, and the activations. Two transformer blocks are 1.3 GB at int8, so from 12 GB upward the weights are not what fills the card. The activations are, and they scale with the canvas.
+
+**System memory decides the width.** Every byte the card is not holding sits in host RAM, and there is no disk fallback: diffusers refuses to offload torchao tensors to disk, because safetensors cannot serialize the subclass. A `t2va` request keeps the transformer, the conditioner and both autoencoders resident at once, 75 GB of them at int8. That, not the GPU, is what rules out a 32 GB desktop, and it is what [splitting the conditioner from the denoiser](#splitting-the-conditioner-from-the-denoiser) is for.
+
+### Weight footprints
+
+Both transformer partitions are the same size, and the two autoencoders are pinned to float32. Every figure is the size of the published checkpoint on disk, which is also its residency in host RAM.
+
+| Component | bfloat16 | float8 | int8 | int4 | NVFP4 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `transformer` (and `transformer_ref`, each) | 61.73 GB | 30.93 GB | 31.69 GB | 19.46 GB | 17.42 GB |
+| `text_encoder` (Qwen3-VL) | 62.13 GB | not quantized | 33.10 GB | 19.40 GB | not quantized |
+| `vae` (video) | 9.70 GB, float32 | | | | |
+| `audio_vae` | 0.56 GB, float32 | | | | |
+
+int4 is not a clean quarter of bfloat16, and the reason matters before you budget for it. The tinygemm packing pads `in_features` up to a multiple of 1024, and MiniMax-H3's projections are 5376 and 2688 wide, so 5376 becomes 6144 and 2688 becomes 3072. With the group scales at one bfloat16 pair per 128 weights the transformer lands at 19.5 GB rather than 15.4 GB.
+
+Only `transformer_blocks` is quantized, 32.28 B of the transformer's 33.12 B parameters. The input and output projections, the timestep embedder, the two token refiner blocks and the output AdaLN stay bfloat16, 1.7 GB that buys back the numerically sensitive parts. The conditioner quantizes its 64 language model decoder layers and leaves the vision tower, the token embeddings and the unused `lm_head` alone.
+
+Both autoencoders carry `_keep_in_fp32_modules` over every module, so a `dtype` passed to `load_components` is refused for them and they stay float32. That is deliberate and automatic: a bfloat16 audio VAE decodes the soundtrack roughly 20 dB too quiet.
+
+Do not read residency off the model. A torchao serialized checkpoint keeps reporting the bfloat16 numbers through `model.dtype` and `get_memory_footprint()`, because the tensor subclasses report the dtype they present rather than the dtype they store. The figures above are file sizes, which are honest.
+
+### Which width your card can run
+
+| Architecture | Cards | bfloat16 | int8 | int4 tinygemm | float8 | NVFP4 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| sm86 Ampere | RTX 3060, 3090 | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
+| sm89 Ada | RTX 4070, 4080, 4090 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
+| sm90 Hopper | H100 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
+| sm120 Blackwell | RTX 5090, RTX PRO 6000 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
+
+int8 exists for the two rows that have no float8. Ampere has int8 tensor cores and no float8 unit at all, and NVFP4's dynamic activation transform asserts sm100 or newer. **int8 is the width to use on every consumer card.** It is the closest of all the quantized widths to bfloat16, it costs nothing in step time, and one checkpoint covers every architecture in the table.
+
+int4 is measured here and is not recommended. It saves 12 GB of host RAM over int8 and charges 8.4x the step time for it, because `aten._weight_int4pack_mm` is a batch-one decode kernel being asked to multiply a 37726 row sequence, and its soundtrack does not survive the width at all.
+
+### The canvas ladder
+
+The canvas is the largest lever on this model, larger than any quantization choice, because the packed sequence grows with it and attention grows with its square. MiniMax-H3 was trained with a 768 pixel short edge, which is a fact about the training data rather than a constraint in the code: `height` and `width` only have to be multiples of 32. Smaller canvases are out of distribution and they hold up, validated visually down to 960x544 including the prompt classes that break first, anatomy and dense detail.
+
+| Canvas | Video rows | Packed rows | Relative cost | |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1344x768 | 37296 | 37726 | 1.00 | the trained canvas, 16:9 |
+| 1280x704 | 32560 | 32990 | 0.87 | |
+| 1152x640 | 26640 | 27070 | 0.71 | |
+| 1024x576 | 21312 | 21742 | 0.58 | |
+| 960x544 | 18870 | 19300 | 0.51 | the recommended local default, 16:9 |
+| 544x960 | 18870 | 19300 | 0.51 | the same budget, portrait |
+| 544x544 | 10693 | 11123 | 0.29 | square |
+
+On local hardware start at 960x544, 544x960 or 544x544, and climb only if the card and the patience are there. 960x544 is 2.26x cheaper per step than 1344x768 on the same silicon, a larger factor than any width in this document buys.
+
+### Configuration by VRAM class
+
+| Class | Repository | Canvas | Video VAE | Peak reserved | s/it, H100 under cap | Host RAM, weights |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 12 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 960x544 | streamed | 9.78 GB | 5.18 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
+| 16 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 1152x640 | streamed | 11.71 GB | 7.01 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
+| 24 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 1152x640 | resident | 21.43 GB | 7.50 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
+| 32 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 1344x768 | resident | 24.00 GB | 11.81 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
+| 80 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, optionally float8 at load | 1344x768 | resident | 62.2 to 69.7 GB | 9.21 | 134 GB |
+| 96 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, split | 1344x768 | resident | 72 GB | 5.5 at 960x544 | 72 GB per process |
+
+Every consumer row is the same recipe with two lines changed. Read `s/it` as an H100 number under an allocator cap, comparable across rows and to nothing else; [what the consumer cards themselves will do](#what-actually-binds-on-a-consumer-card) is estimated separately.
+
+### The shape every consumer recipe has
+
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel, ModularPipeline
+from diffusers import TorchAoConfig as DiffusersTorchAoConfig
+from diffusers.hooks import apply_group_offloading
+from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
+from torchao.quantization import Int8WeightOnlyConfig, PerRow
+from transformers import Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
+from transformers import TorchAoConfig as TransformersTorchAoConfig
+
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+
+# Both large components are quantized at load, shard by shard, straight from the bfloat16 checkpoint: peak host
+# cost during loading is the quantized size plus one shard, not the bfloat16 size. Only `transformer_blocks` is
+# quantized; the projections, the timestep embedder, the token refiner and the output heads are the numerically
+# sensitive 1.7 GB and stay bfloat16. Registering both components before `load_components` makes it skip them.
+pipe.update_components(
+    transformer=MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel.from_pretrained(
+        "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="transformer", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+        quantization_config=DiffusersTorchAoConfig(
+            "int8wo",
+            modules_to_not_convert=[
+                "proj_in", "audio_proj_in", "context_embedder", "time_embedder", "time_proj",
+                "token_refiner", "norm_out", "proj_out", "audio_proj_out",
+            ],
+        ),
+    ),
+    text_encoder=Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+        "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3",
+        subfolder="text_encoder",
+        dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(
+            Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2, granularity=PerRow()),
+            modules_to_not_convert=[
+                "model.visual",
+                "model.language_model.embed_tokens",
+                "model.language_model.norm",
+                "lm_head",
+            ],
+        ),
+    ),
+)
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+# Inference only, and load bearing rather than hygiene: onloading a streamed group swaps parameters through
+# `torch.utils.swap_tensors`, whose use count check takes an autograd path an int8 tensor cannot serve while it
+# still requires gradients.
+for model in (pipe.transformer, pipe.text_encoder, pipe.vae):
+    model.requires_grad_(False)
+
+offload = dict(onload_device=torch.device("cuda"), offload_device=torch.device("cpu"), use_stream=True)
+
+# Block level for the transformer, whose `transformer_blocks` is a direct child ModuleList. One block per group is
+# not a tuning choice: diffusers resets anything else when `use_stream=True`.
+pipe.transformer.enable_group_offload(offload_type="block_level", num_blocks_per_group=1, **offload)
+
+# Leaf level for the conditioner, and on `text_encoder.model`. MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses
+# the language model head, so the block calls the submodule directly and a hook on `text_encoder` would never
+# fire. Block level would not work either: Qwen3-VL's direct children are `visual` and `language_model`, neither a
+# ModuleList, so the whole conditioner would become one group and onloading it would fill the card.
+apply_group_offloading(pipe.text_encoder.model, offload_type="leaf_level", **offload)
+
+# Leaf level for the video VAE too, unstreamed, up to 16 GB. `decode()` is not `forward()`, so block level never
+# onloads the group holding `post_quant_conv` and the tiled decode dies under the float16 autocast. From 24 GB up
+# replace this with `pipe.vae.to("cuda")`, which is worth 15 s of decode against 7 minutes.
+pipe.vae.enable_group_offload(
+    offload_type="leaf_level", onload_device=torch.device("cuda"), offload_device=torch.device("cpu")
+)
+pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda")  # 0.56 GB, float32
+
+# SDPA. The audio VAE is pinned first because `set_attention_backend` also sets the process wide default, and
+# float32 attention cannot run an int8 or float8 kernel.
+pipe.audio_vae.set_attention_backend("native")
+pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("native")
+
+state = pipe(
+    prompt="A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot",
+    height=544,
+    width=960,
+    num_frames=124,
+    num_inference_steps=30,
+    generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(42),
+)
+encode_video(
+    state.get("videos")[0],
+    fps=24,
+    output_path="fox.mp4",
+    audio=state.get("audio")[0],
+    audio_sample_rate=state.get("sampling_rate"),
+)
+```
+
+#### 12 GB, RTX 3060 and RTX 4070
+
+The recipe above unchanged. Measured under an 11.1 GB allocator budget: 6.67 GB peak allocated, 9.78 GB peak reserved, 2.2 GB spare. The card is not the problem at this tier.
+
+#### 16 GB, RTX 4080 and RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
+
+One canvas step up, `height=640, width=1152`. 7.98 GB allocated, 11.71 GB reserved, 4.3 GB spare. 1344x768 with the VAE streamed reserved 14.30 GB when it was measured under the 32 GB cap, so it should also fit here; the ceiling at 16 GB is not the canvas but how long the streamed decode takes.
+
+#### 24 GB, RTX 3090 and RTX 4090
+
+The first tier with room to keep the float32 video VAE resident, which is a 9.84 s decode instead of a 420 s one. Replace the VAE offload call with `pipe.vae.to("cuda")` and use `height=640, width=1152`: 17.69 GB allocated, 21.43 GB reserved, 2.6 GB spare. 1344x768 reserved 24.00 GB under the 32 GB cap, which is over the line on a 24 GB card, so at that canvas the VAE goes back to streaming.
+
+#### 32 GB, RTX 5090
+
+`pipe.vae.to("cuda")` and `height=768, width=1344`: 19.49 GB allocated, 24.00 GB reserved, 8 GB spare. On a 5090 also set `pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_native_cudnn")`, which beats SDPA on sm120 where flash-attention 4 does not.
+
+#### 80 GB datacenter, H100
+
+The only class that can hold a whole component, so use [`ComponentsManager`] instead of group offloading: moving entire models around block boundaries is cheaper than streaming when the model fits.
 
 ```py
 import torch
@@ -74,10 +255,182 @@ from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
 manager = ComponentsManager()
 pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
 pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda")
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda", memory_reserve_margin="12GB")
+
+pipe.audio_vae.set_attention_backend("native")
+pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3_hub")  # Hopper only, roughly 3x over SDPA
+```
+
+The reserve margin has to be wider than the 3 GB default. [`~ComponentsManager.enable_auto_cpu_offload`] decides what to evict from the weight sizes alone and has no idea how much room the activations will want. On the keyframe and reference tasks the float32 video VAE runs before the denoiser, and with the default margin the manager leaves it resident next to the 61.7 GB transformer: 72 GB of weights on a 79.2 GB card, which runs out of memory inside the first block. A 12 GB margin evicts the VAE before the transformer's forward and leaves about 17 GB for activations.
+
+Quantizing the transformer at load, float8 or int8 as in the recipe below, holds it resident at about 31 GB. It does not change the step time; it removes the offload traffic, and a cold `t2va` request finishes in 491 s float8 or 529 s int8 against 687 s bfloat16.
+
+#### 96 GB Blackwell, RTX PRO 6000
+
+Do not quantize. Split instead, and keep reference quality. See below.
+
+### Splitting the conditioner from the denoiser
+
+The largest structural win is not a quantization width. It is that the conditioner and the denoiser never run at the same time, so they do not have to be in the same process.
+
+The text encoder runs exactly once per request and produces two small tensors: `prompt_embeds` of shape `(1, N, 5120)` and `text_token_tags` of shape `(N,)`, N being a few dozen rows. Everything after that belongs to the denoiser. So the requirement stops being the sum of the components and becomes the largest of them.
+
+| Arrangement | Requirement | bfloat16 |
+|---|---|---|
+| one process | transformer + conditioner + autoencoders | 61.7 + 62.1 + 10.3 = 134.1 GB |
+| split | max(transformer + autoencoders, conditioner) | max(72.0, 62.1) = 72.0 GB |
+
+That is what makes full bfloat16, quantized nowhere and therefore at reference quality, fit a 95 GB budget. It is the deployed configuration on two ZeroGPU Spaces of an RTX PRO 6000 slice: one holds the conditioner and exposes `encode` over its Gradio API, the other holds the transformer and both autoencoders and runs 960x544 at 5.5 s/step eager, 4.4 s/step with AoTI compiled blocks. It also satisfies the 150 GB per Space storage quota, which one Space holding all of bfloat16 MiniMax-H3 does not.
+
+The modular blocks make it natural, because the text encoder is one block and its output is one state entry.
+
+```py
+# Conditioner process, or service. Loads `text_encoder`, `tokenizer` and `processor`, and nothing else.
+embeds = conditioner.encode(prompt)  # prompt_embeds (1, N, 5120), text_token_tags (N,)
+
+# Denoiser process. Pop the text encoder block and hand it the embeds instead.
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines import MiniMaxH3Blocks
+
+blocks = MiniMaxH3Blocks()
+blocks.sub_blocks.pop("text_encoder")
+pipe = blocks.init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)  # `text_encoder` is no longer a declared component
+
+state = pipe(
+    prompt_embeds=embeds["prompt_embeds"].to("cuda"),
+    text_token_tags=embeds["text_token_tags"].to("cuda"),
+    height=544,
+    width=960,
+    num_frames=124,
+    num_inference_steps=30,
+)
 ```
 
-`pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3_hub")` gives roughly 3x faster denoising on Hopper, with the kernels fetched from the Hub.
+Three places it pays, and one where it does not.
+
+**A 95 GB slice, or any single card between 80 and 96 GB.** Split bfloat16 beats anything quantized in one process, because its quality is the reference quality. Reach for this first.
+
+**Two cards.** The conditioner takes the second card, quantized to int8 if that card is small, and the transformer keeps the first to itself. Neither has to hold both.
+
+**One small card, run sequentially.** The halves become two invocations of the same script: encode, write the embeds, exit, denoise. Nothing changes on the GPU, but host RAM stops having to hold both halves at once, and on a consumer box host RAM binds long before VRAM does. At int8 that is 42 GB of resident weights instead of 75 GB.
+
+**One small card, one process.** Nothing is gained. The components were already streaming one block at a time, and splitting only adds the cost of moving the embeds.
+
+### Measured under an emulated cap
+
+Each consumer row was run on an H100 80GB PCIe with `torch.cuda.set_per_process_memory_fraction` set to the class size less 0.9 GB for the CUDA context, so an allocation past the budget raises the same out of memory error a smaller card would. That emulates the budget, not the silicon: **the timings are H100 timings and are comparable to each other and to nothing else.** What transfers is the fit. Every row generated 124 frames at 24 fps and decoded them; the step count is 8 rather than 30, which does not move the allocator high water mark, because that is set by the first forward and by the decode tail and both ran in full.
+
+| Row | Width | Canvas | Video VAE | Peak alloc | Peak reserved | Spare | s/it | Decode | Host RSS | Fits |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 12 GB | int8 | 960x544 | streamed | 6.67 GB | 9.78 GB | 2.22 GB | 5.18 | 453 s | 133.8 GB | yes |
+| 12 GB | int4 | 960x544 | streamed | 6.19 GB | 10.65 GB | 1.35 GB | 40.60 | 511 s | 91.2 GB | yes |
+| 12 GB, unstreamed | int4 | 960x544 | streamed | 5.82 GB | 7.59 GB | 4.41 GB | 49.48 | 425 s | 126.8 GB | yes |
+| 16 GB | int8 | 1152x640 | streamed | 7.98 GB | 11.71 GB | 4.29 GB | 7.01 | 420 s | 133.8 GB | yes |
+| 24 GB | int8 | 1152x640 | resident | 17.69 GB | 21.43 GB | 2.57 GB | 7.50 | 9.8 s | 135.8 GB | yes |
+| 32 GB | int8 | 1344x768 | resident | 19.49 GB | 24.00 GB | 8.00 GB | 11.81 | 15.2 s | 130.9 GB | yes |
+| 32 GB, VAE streamed | int8 | 1344x768 | streamed | 9.78 GB | 14.30 GB | 17.70 GB | 11.79 | 902 s | 134.4 GB | yes |
+| 32 GB, regional compile | int8 | 1344x768 | resident | | | | | | | no, see below |
+
+Host RSS is the peak resident set size of the whole process, which is what a machine has to have in system RAM: the
+weights plus the pinned host copies streamed offloading keeps. It is set by the widths, not by the card, which is
+why four of those rows agree on it and why [splitting the conditioner out](#splitting-the-conditioner-from-the-denoiser)
+matters more than any of them.
+
+Four things fall out of that table.
+
+
+
+The video VAE is the whole story below 24 GB. Streaming it holds the decode to under a gigabyte, which is what lets 1344x768 fit in 14.30 GB reserved, but it re-reads 9.7 GB of float32 weights for every tile and the decode goes from 15 s to 902 s. Resident, it costs 9.7 GB and decodes in seconds. There is no middle setting, and the crossover is at 24 GB.
+
+The transformer is not what fills the card. At 1344x768 with everything streaming, peak allocated is 9.78 GB against 31.69 GB of weights, because only two blocks are ever resident.
+
+int4 costs more video memory than int8, not less. 10.65 GB reserved against 9.78 GB, despite weights that are 12 GB smaller, because the tinygemm path pads every activation up to a multiple of 1024 before the matmul and that padded copy is 464 MB per projection at this canvas. What int4 buys is host RAM, 91.2 GB against 133.8 GB, and it charges 7.8x the step time for it.
+
+Streaming is worth about 18 percent. On the int4 pair, `use_stream=True` runs at 40.60 s/it against 49.48 s/it, for 3.06 GB more reserved and 58 s of setup. It does not reduce host RAM; the unstreamed row measured higher, because offloading without a stream allocates fresh host tensors instead of restoring pinned ones.
+
+Full precision reference rows, on the same card with no cap and [`ComponentsManager`] auto offload at a 12 GB margin, 1344x768, 124 frames, 30 steps, seed 42, flash-attention 3:
+
+| Recipe | Task | Load | Peak alloc | s/it | Decode | Wall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| bfloat16 | `t2va` | 181 s | 68.1 GB | 9.21 | 94.0 s | 687 s |
+| bfloat16 | `fl2va`, first and last frame | 220 s | 68.8 GB | 10.83 | 50.1 s | 622 s |
+| bfloat16 | `ref2va`, one video and one image reference | 167 s | 74.3 GB | 26.23 | 48.1 s | 1184 s |
+| bfloat16, regional compile | `t2va` | 232 s | 66.4 GB | 8.21 | 55.4 s | 680 s |
+| float8 transformer | `t2va` | 201 s | 62.2 GB | 9.25 | 15.3 s | 491 s |
+| int8 transformer | `t2va` | 235 s | 62.2 GB | 9.67 | 60.0 s | 529 s |
+| int4 transformer | `t2va` | 229 s | 62.2 GB | 77.04 | 48.0 s | 2333 s |
+
+`ref2va` is 2.8x the per step cost of `t2va` at the same output size, because the reference rows lengthen the sequence every layer attends over. int8 costs 5 percent over bfloat16 per step and int4 costs 8.4x, which is the single strongest argument for int8 in this document.
+
+Note the peak in those rows: 62.2 GB for every quantized one, and that is the *conditioner*, not the transformer. Quantizing the transformer alone moves the high water mark onto the bfloat16 conditioner and the ceiling stops falling. Quantizing or offloading both is what makes a tier real.
+
+### Quality per width
+
+One `t2va` request, seed 42, 1344x768, 124 frames, 30 steps, each width against the bfloat16 sample of the same request.
+
+| Width | Video cosine | Video PSNR | Latents cosine | Audio cosine | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| int8 | 0.984 | 19.36 dB | 0.953 | 0.927 | closest to bfloat16 of any width here |
+| float8 | 0.943 | 13.90 dB | 0.860 | 0.781 | a different sample of the same prompt |
+| NVFP4 | 0.916 | 12.07 dB | | | plus a visible brightness shift |
+| int4 | 0.891 | 11.03 dB | 0.688 | 0.217 | soundtrack does not survive |
+
+The ordering is not the one the bit widths suggest, and the reason is which tensors each width touches. int8 here is weight only, so the activations stay bfloat16; float8 and NVFP4 quantize the activations too, and that costs more than the extra bits buy. int4 is weight only as well, but at four bits with a 128 wide group the audio rows, which are 414 of 37726 and carry a much smaller dynamic range than the video rows, come out five times too loud at 0.217 cosine. Look at the audio column before choosing a width for a model that generates sound.
+
+Quantization ends bitwise reproducibility either way. Two runs at the same seed and the same width agree; two widths do not. Pin the width along with the seed.
+
+### Attention backend by architecture
+
+| Architecture | Backend | Why |
+|---|---|---|
+| sm86 Ampere | `"native"`, or `"sage"` with `sageattention` installed | no flash-attention 3 build exists; SageAttention dispatches sm86 to its triton int8 QK kernel |
+| sm89 Ada | `"native"`, or `"sage"` | SageAttention dispatches sm89 to `qk_int8_pv_fp8_cuda` |
+| sm90 Hopper | `"_flash_3_hub"` | prebuilt from the Hub, no local build, roughly 3x over SDPA |
+| sm120 Blackwell | `"_native_cudnn"` | beats SDPA; flash-attention 4 loses to it |
+
+`_flash_3_hub` kernels are compiled for Hopper only, so an Ada, Blackwell or consumer card has no matching image and the call fails at dispatch. `"sage"` is the name to use rather than one of the `_sage_qk_*` variants, because SageAttention picks the kernel from the compute capability itself and the variant that is right for one architecture will not run on another.
+
+Whatever the backend, pin the audio VAE to `"native"` first. [`~ModelMixin.set_attention_backend`] sets the process wide default as well as the model's own, the float32 audio VAE runs its own encoder attention whenever a reference carries audio, and none of the int8 or float8 attention kernels accept float32.
+
+### Regional compilation
+
+[`~ModelMixin.compile_repeated_blocks`] compiles the repeated block classes rather than the whole model, so compile time is one block instead of fifty. On the 80 GB bfloat16 `t2va` row it adds about 51 s to the first step and takes the steady step from 9.21 s to 8.21 s.
+
+It does not compose with streamed group offloading, and the attempt to measure that is the evidence. Onloading a block replaces its parameters, so dynamo's guards fail on the new tensors and the block recompiles; the 32 GB row hit the recompile cache limit and was still compiling twenty minutes later with the card pegged, against 101 s for the identical row eager. Use it where the weights are resident, which means the 80 GB and 96 GB classes, and leave it alone on a consumer card.
+
+Call it without `fullgraph=True`. The point is a small compiled region repeated fifty times, and the surrounding pipeline keeps its Python control flow, the offload hooks and the two schedulers. Regional compilation is also not bitwise identical to eager.
+
+### What actually binds on a consumer card
+
+Streaming weights over PCIe is not what makes MiniMax-H3 slow on a small card. Arithmetic is.
+
+One transformer forward over the packed sequence is `2 * rows * 32.28 B` parameters of matmul plus `4 * rows^2 * 7168 * 50` of attention. At 1344x768 and 124 frames that is 37726 rows and 4.48 PFLOP per step, and the measured 9.21 s/step on an H100 PCIe puts the achieved rate at 486 TFLOP/s, 64 percent of that card's 756 TFLOP/s dense bfloat16 peak. Scaling that efficiency onto other cards at their **float32 accumulate** tensor rate, which is what a torch matmul asks for and half the number NVIDIA puts on a GeForce box:
+
+| Canvas | 3060 | 4070 | 3090 | 4080 | 4090 | 5090 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 960x544 | 109 s | 48 s | 39 s | 28 s | 17 s | 13 s |
+| 1152x640 | 171 s | 75 s | 61 s | 45 s | 26 s | 21 s |
+| 1344x768 | 274 s | 120 s | 99 s | 72 s | 42 s | 33 s |
+
+Against that, the transfer term is nothing. Block level offloading walks the whole transformer onto the card once per step, 31.69 GB at int8, which over PCIe 4.0 x16 at a usable 25 GB/s is 1.36 s, and with `use_stream=True` it overlaps with the compute it feeds. On the slowest card in the table the compute term is eighty times the transfer term. PCIe does not bind at any tier, any width, any canvas.
+
+So, plainly: **an RTX 3060 cannot generate 124 frames at 960x544 in under ten minutes at 30 steps.** The bound is about 109 s/step of arithmetic, 54 minutes for 30 steps, and no amount of streaming, quantization width or offload tuning moves it, because none of them change the FLOP count. Ten minutes buys about five steps at that canvas, or a 544x544 canvas at nine.
+
+Three levers would move it, and only the first two exist today. Fewer steps. A smaller canvas. And a width that quantizes the *activations*: int8 weight only and int4 tinygemm both dequantize into bfloat16 and issue a bfloat16 matmul, so neither touches the compute term, while int8 dynamic activation quantization would run the matmul on Ampere's int8 tensor cores at twice the bfloat16 rate. That is worth about a third off the step time at 960x544, where the matmul is 71 percent of the work, and it is the obvious next thing to build.
+
+### Known gaps
+
+torchao 0.17.0 is the current release and is what these recipes are written against. Three things in the stack do not yet work, and the recipes above are written so that none of them is reached.
+
+| Gap | What triggers it | What the recipes do instead |
+|---|---|---|
+| `aten.view` unregistered on `Int8Tensor` | streamed group offloading, whose `swap_tensors` use count check calls `param.view_as(param)`, but only while the parameter requires gradients | `requires_grad_(False)` first, which is correct for inference anyway |
+| `aten.is_pinned` and `aten._pin_memory` unregistered on `Int4TilePackedTo4dTensor` | streamed group offloading of an int4 checkpoint | int4 is not a recommended width |
+| transformers reruns `_init_weights` after loading | `from_pretrained` on a pre-quantized `text_encoder/`, which calls `Tensor.normal_` on an `Int8Tensor` and dies before reading a weight | quantize the conditioner at load, a supported public API producing the same weights |
+
+The last one is a round trip bug rather than a missing feature: transformers writes a torchao conditioner as `...q_proj._weight_qdata` and on reload cannot match those names back to `q_proj.weight`, so the parameter is never marked as loaded and the initialization pass runs over it. The pre-quantized `text_encoder/` in each repository is correct and will load unchanged once that is fixed.
+
+One more, in diffusers rather than torchao: do not pass `low_cpu_mem_usage=True` to group offloading with a torchao model. The host copy it keeps is `tensor.cpu()`, which for a tensor already on the CPU returns the same object, so the entry in `cpu_param_dict` *is* the parameter; onloading swaps in place through `swap_tensors` and destroys the copy the group would later restore from. Nothing raises. The weights simply never go back to the CPU and allocated memory climbs until it hits whatever the cap is.
 
 ## Text and keyframes
 

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Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 15:29:56 +0000
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@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
 
 # MiniMax-H3
 
+<!-- Remove this note once the pull request is merged. -->
+> [!TIP]
+> MiniMax-H3 is not part of a diffusers release yet. Install diffusers from the pull request to use it:
+> `pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers.git@refs/pull/14355/head`
+
+
 MiniMax-H3 generates video and its soundtrack **jointly**. One transformer denoises a single packed sequence that holds the text conditioning, the conditioning image, video and audio rows, the target audio rows and the target video rows at once, with full self-attention over all of it. There is no separate vocoder and no audio post-hoc pass: video and audio come out of the same denoising loop.
 
 You can find the original MiniMax-H3 checkpoints under the [MiniMaxAI](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) organization.
@@ -59,378 +65,80 @@ The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so the
 ## Generation constraints
 
 - **24 fps, 5 to 15 seconds.** `num_frames` is snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode, and the resulting duration has to stay in that window.
-- **A 768 pixel short edge by default.** `height` and `width` default to MiniMax-H3's own canvas for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe (or 16:9 without one) and must be multiples of 32. 768 is what it was trained at rather than what the code allows, and smaller canvases are the main lever on a small card: see [the canvas ladder](#the-canvas-ladder).
+- **A 768 pixel short edge.** `height` and `width` default to MiniMax-H3's own canvas for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe (or 16:9 without one) and must be multiples of 32.
 - **One generator, three draws.** A request draws the keyframe or reference conditioning noise first, then the video noise, then the audio noise, all from the `generator` it is passed, so two runs from the same generator state return the same video and soundtrack. Passing `latents` or `audio_latents` replaces the corresponding draw.
 - **`num_inference_steps` counts sigma grid points**, the terminal `0` included, so it drives one model evaluation less.
 
-## Performance and hardware recipes
-
-MiniMax-H3 denoises one packed sequence that carries the video rows and the audio rows together, so a request is a large activation problem sitting on top of very large weights. Nothing here fits on one card by default: the transformer alone is 61.7 GB in bfloat16 and the Qwen3-VL conditioner is another 62.1 GB.
-
-Two resources decide what a machine can run, and they are not the same resource.
-
-**Video memory decides the canvas.** Under block level [group offloading](../../optimization/memory#group-offloading) the card never holds a whole component: it holds the block that is running, the block being prefetched, and the activations. Two transformer blocks are 1.3 GB at int8, so from 12 GB upward the weights are not what fills the card. The activations are, and they scale with the canvas.
-
-**System memory decides the width.** Every byte the card is not holding sits in host RAM, and there is no disk fallback: diffusers refuses to offload torchao tensors to disk, because safetensors cannot serialize the subclass. A `t2va` request keeps the transformer, the conditioner and both autoencoders resident at once, 75 GB of them at int8. That, not the GPU, is what rules out a 32 GB desktop, and it is what [splitting the conditioner from the denoiser](#splitting-the-conditioner-from-the-denoiser) is for.
-
-### Weight footprints
-
-Both transformer partitions are the same size, and the two autoencoders are pinned to float32. Every figure is the size of the published checkpoint on disk, which is also its residency in host RAM.
-
-| Component | bfloat16 | float8 | int8 | int4 | NVFP4 |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| `transformer` (and `transformer_ref`, each) | 61.73 GB | 30.93 GB | 31.69 GB | 19.46 GB | 17.42 GB |
-| `text_encoder` (Qwen3-VL) | 62.13 GB | not quantized | 33.10 GB | 19.40 GB | not quantized |
-| `vae` (video) | 9.70 GB, float32 | | | | |
-| `audio_vae` | 0.56 GB, float32 | | | | |
-
-int4 is not a clean quarter of bfloat16, and the reason matters before you budget for it. The tinygemm packing pads `in_features` up to a multiple of 1024, and MiniMax-H3's projections are 5376 and 2688 wide, so 5376 becomes 6144 and 2688 becomes 3072. With the group scales at one bfloat16 pair per 128 weights the transformer lands at 19.5 GB rather than 15.4 GB.
-
-Only `transformer_blocks` is quantized, 32.28 B of the transformer's 33.12 B parameters. The input and output projections, the timestep embedder, the two token refiner blocks and the output AdaLN stay bfloat16, 1.7 GB that buys back the numerically sensitive parts. The conditioner quantizes its 64 language model decoder layers and leaves the vision tower, the token embeddings and the unused `lm_head` alone.
-
-Both autoencoders carry `_keep_in_fp32_modules` over every module, so a `dtype` passed to `load_components` is refused for them and they stay float32. That is deliberate and automatic: a bfloat16 audio VAE decodes the soundtrack roughly 20 dB too quiet.
-
-Do not read residency off the model. A torchao serialized checkpoint keeps reporting the bfloat16 numbers through `model.dtype` and `get_memory_footprint()`, because the tensor subclasses report the dtype they present rather than the dtype they store. The figures above are file sizes, which are honest.
-
-### Which width your card can run
-
-| Architecture | Cards | bfloat16 | int8 | int4 tinygemm | float8 | NVFP4 |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| sm86 Ampere | RTX 3060, 3090 | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
-| sm89 Ada | RTX 4070, 4080, 4090 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
-| sm90 Hopper | H100 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
-| sm120 Blackwell | RTX 5090, RTX PRO 6000 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
-
-int8 exists for the two rows that have no float8. Ampere has int8 tensor cores and no float8 unit at all, and NVFP4's dynamic activation transform asserts sm100 or newer. **int8 is the width to use on every consumer card.** It is the closest of all the quantized widths to bfloat16, it costs nothing in step time, and one checkpoint covers every architecture in the table.
-
-int4 is measured here and is not recommended. It saves 12 GB of host RAM over int8 and charges 8.4x the step time for it, because `aten._weight_int4pack_mm` is a batch-one decode kernel being asked to multiply a 37726 row sequence, and its soundtrack does not survive the width at all.
+## Memory
 
-### The canvas ladder
+The transformer alone is 61.7 GB in bfloat16 and the Qwen3-VL conditioner is another 62.1 GB, so the loading recipe depends on the hardware. Smaller canvases are the biggest speed lever on every setup: `height` and `width` only have to be multiples of 32, and 960x544 runs about 2.3x faster per step than the trained 1344x768.
 
-The canvas is the largest lever on this model, larger than any quantization choice, because the packed sequence grows with it and attention grows with its square. MiniMax-H3 was trained with a 768 pixel short edge, which is a fact about the training data rather than a constraint in the code: `height` and `width` only have to be multiples of 32. Smaller canvases are out of distribution and they hold up, validated visually down to 960x544 including the prompt classes that break first, anatomy and dense detail.
+On one 80 GB card, register the components in a [`ComponentsManager`] and let it move them on and off the accelerator:
 
-| Canvas | Video rows | Packed rows | Relative cost | |
-|---|---|---|---|---|
-| 1344x768 | 37296 | 37726 | 1.00 | the trained canvas, 16:9 |
-| 1280x704 | 32560 | 32990 | 0.87 | |
-| 1152x640 | 26640 | 27070 | 0.71 | |
-| 1024x576 | 21312 | 21742 | 0.58 | |
-| 960x544 | 18870 | 19300 | 0.51 | the recommended local default, 16:9 |
-| 544x960 | 18870 | 19300 | 0.51 | the same budget, portrait |
-| 544x544 | 10693 | 11123 | 0.29 | square |
-
-On local hardware start at 960x544, 544x960 or 544x544, and climb only if the card and the patience are there. 960x544 is 2.26x cheaper per step than 1344x768 on the same silicon, a larger factor than any width in this document buys.
-
-### Configuration by VRAM class
-
-| Class | Repository | Canvas | Video VAE | Peak reserved | s/it, H100 under cap | Host RAM, weights |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| 12 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 960x544 | streamed | 9.78 GB | 5.18 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
-| 16 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 1152x640 | streamed | 11.71 GB | 7.01 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
-| 24 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 1152x640 | resident | 21.43 GB | 7.50 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
-| 32 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, int8 at load | 1344x768 | resident | 24.00 GB | 11.81 | 75 GB, or 42 GB split |
-| 80 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, optionally float8 at load | 1344x768 | resident | 62.2 to 69.7 GB | 9.21 | 134 GB |
-| 96 GB | `MiniMax-H3`, split | 1344x768 | resident | 72 GB | 5.5 at 960x544 | 72 GB per process |
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
 
-Every consumer row is the same recipe with two lines changed. Read `s/it` as an H100 number under an allocator cap, comparable across rows and to nothing else; [what the consumer cards themselves will do](#what-actually-binds-on-a-consumer-card) is estimated separately.
+manager = ComponentsManager()
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda", memory_reserve_margin="12GB")
+pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3_hub")  # Hopper, roughly 3x faster; kernels fetched from the Hub
+```
 
-### The shape every consumer recipe has
+On a consumer card (24 to 32 GB), quantize the two large components to int8 as they load and stream the transformer's blocks from CPU RAM. Everything below uses supported loaders only, no patches, and works straight from the bfloat16 checkpoint:
 
 ```py
 import torch
-from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel, ModularPipeline
-from diffusers import TorchAoConfig as DiffusersTorchAoConfig
+from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel, ModularPipeline, TorchAoConfig
 from diffusers.hooks import apply_group_offloading
-from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
-from torchao.quantization import Int8WeightOnlyConfig, PerRow
 from transformers import Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
 from transformers import TorchAoConfig as TransformersTorchAoConfig
+from torchao.quantization import Int8WeightOnlyConfig
 
 pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
-
-# Both large components are quantized at load, shard by shard, straight from the bfloat16 checkpoint: peak host
-# cost during loading is the quantized size plus one shard, not the bfloat16 size. Only `transformer_blocks` is
-# quantized; the projections, the timestep embedder, the token refiner and the output heads are the numerically
-# sensitive 1.7 GB and stay bfloat16. Registering both components before `load_components` makes it skip them.
 pipe.update_components(
     transformer=MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel.from_pretrained(
         "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="transformer", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-        quantization_config=DiffusersTorchAoConfig(
-            "int8wo",
-            modules_to_not_convert=[
-                "proj_in", "audio_proj_in", "context_embedder", "time_embedder", "time_proj",
-                "token_refiner", "norm_out", "proj_out", "audio_proj_out",
-            ],
-        ),
+        quantization_config=TorchAoConfig("int8wo"),
     ),
     text_encoder=Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
-        "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3",
-        subfolder="text_encoder",
-        dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(
-            Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2, granularity=PerRow()),
-            modules_to_not_convert=[
-                "model.visual",
-                "model.language_model.embed_tokens",
-                "model.language_model.norm",
-                "lm_head",
-            ],
-        ),
+        "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="text_encoder", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(Int8WeightOnlyConfig()),
     ),
 )
 pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 
-# Inference only, and load bearing rather than hygiene: onloading a streamed group swaps parameters through
-# `torch.utils.swap_tensors`, whose use count check takes an autograd path an int8 tensor cannot serve while it
-# still requires gradients.
-for model in (pipe.transformer, pipe.text_encoder, pipe.vae):
-    model.requires_grad_(False)
-
 offload = dict(onload_device=torch.device("cuda"), offload_device=torch.device("cpu"), use_stream=True)
-
-# Block level for the transformer, whose `transformer_blocks` is a direct child ModuleList. One block per group is
-# not a tuning choice: diffusers resets anything else when `use_stream=True`.
 pipe.transformer.enable_group_offload(offload_type="block_level", num_blocks_per_group=1, **offload)
-
-# Leaf level for the conditioner, and on `text_encoder.model`. MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses
-# the language model head, so the block calls the submodule directly and a hook on `text_encoder` would never
-# fire. Block level would not work either: Qwen3-VL's direct children are `visual` and `language_model`, neither a
-# ModuleList, so the whole conditioner would become one group and onloading it would fill the card.
 apply_group_offloading(pipe.text_encoder.model, offload_type="leaf_level", **offload)
-
-# Leaf level for the video VAE too, unstreamed, up to 16 GB. `decode()` is not `forward()`, so block level never
-# onloads the group holding `post_quant_conv` and the tiled decode dies under the float16 autocast. From 24 GB up
-# replace this with `pipe.vae.to("cuda")`, which is worth 15 s of decode against 7 minutes.
-pipe.vae.enable_group_offload(
-    offload_type="leaf_level", onload_device=torch.device("cuda"), offload_device=torch.device("cpu")
-)
-pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda")  # 0.56 GB, float32
-
-# SDPA. The audio VAE is pinned first because `set_attention_backend` also sets the process wide default, and
-# float32 attention cannot run an int8 or float8 kernel.
-pipe.audio_vae.set_attention_backend("native")
-pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("native")
-
-state = pipe(
-    prompt="A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot",
-    height=544,
-    width=960,
-    num_frames=124,
-    num_inference_steps=30,
-    generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(42),
-)
-encode_video(
-    state.get("videos")[0],
-    fps=24,
-    output_path="fox.mp4",
-    audio=state.get("audio")[0],
-    audio_sample_rate=state.get("sampling_rate"),
-)
+pipe.vae.to("cuda")
+pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda")
 ```
 
-#### 12 GB, RTX 3060 and RTX 4070
-
-The recipe above unchanged. Measured under an 11.1 GB allocator budget: 6.67 GB peak allocated, 9.78 GB peak reserved, 2.2 GB spare. The card is not the problem at this tier.
+On 12 to 16 GB the same recipe works with the video VAE group offloaded too (`offload_type="leaf_level"`, no stream) and a small canvas such as 960x544. Expect the weights to live in host RAM: around 75 GB of it at int8.
 
-#### 16 GB, RTX 4080 and RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
-
-One canvas step up, `height=640, width=1152`. 7.98 GB allocated, 11.71 GB reserved, 4.3 GB spare. 1344x768 with the VAE streamed reserved 14.30 GB when it was measured under the 32 GB cap, so it should also fit here; the ceiling at 16 GB is not the canvas but how long the streamed decode takes.
-
-#### 24 GB, RTX 3090 and RTX 4090
-
-The first tier with room to keep the float32 video VAE resident, which is a 9.84 s decode instead of a 420 s one. Replace the VAE offload call with `pipe.vae.to("cuda")` and use `height=640, width=1152`: 17.69 GB allocated, 21.43 GB reserved, 2.6 GB spare. 1344x768 reserved 24.00 GB under the 32 GB cap, which is over the line on a 24 GB card, so at that canvas the VAE goes back to streaming.
-
-#### 32 GB, RTX 5090
-
-`pipe.vae.to("cuda")` and `height=768, width=1344`: 19.49 GB allocated, 24.00 GB reserved, 8 GB spare. On a 5090 also set `pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_native_cudnn")`, which beats SDPA on sm120 where flash-attention 4 does not.
-
-#### 80 GB datacenter, H100
-
-The only class that can hold a whole component, so use [`ComponentsManager`] instead of group offloading: moving entire models around block boundaries is cheaper than streaming when the model fits.
+With two cards nothing has to be offloaded: the conditioner takes the second card through a `device_map` and the denoiser keeps the first.
 
 ```py
 import torch
 from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
+from transformers import Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
 
 manager = ComponentsManager()
 pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda", memory_reserve_margin="12GB")
-
-pipe.audio_vae.set_attention_backend("native")
-pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3_hub")  # Hopper only, roughly 3x over SDPA
-```
-
-The reserve margin has to be wider than the 3 GB default. [`~ComponentsManager.enable_auto_cpu_offload`] decides what to evict from the weight sizes alone and has no idea how much room the activations will want. On the keyframe and reference tasks the float32 video VAE runs before the denoiser, and with the default margin the manager leaves it resident next to the 61.7 GB transformer: 72 GB of weights on a 79.2 GB card, which runs out of memory inside the first block. A 12 GB margin evicts the VAE before the transformer's forward and leaves about 17 GB for activations.
-
-Quantizing the transformer at load, float8 or int8 as in the recipe below, holds it resident at about 31 GB. It does not change the step time; it removes the offload traffic, and a cold `t2va` request finishes in 491 s float8 or 529 s int8 against 687 s bfloat16.
-
-#### 96 GB Blackwell, RTX PRO 6000
-
-Do not quantize. Split instead, and keep reference quality. See below.
-
-### Splitting the conditioner from the denoiser
-
-The largest structural win is not a quantization width. It is that the conditioner and the denoiser never run at the same time, so they do not have to be in the same process.
-
-The text encoder runs exactly once per request and produces two small tensors: `prompt_embeds` of shape `(1, N, 5120)` and `text_token_tags` of shape `(N,)`, N being a few dozen rows. Everything after that belongs to the denoiser. So the requirement stops being the sum of the components and becomes the largest of them.
-
-| Arrangement | Requirement | bfloat16 |
-|---|---|---|
-| one process | transformer + conditioner + autoencoders | 61.7 + 62.1 + 10.3 = 134.1 GB |
-| split | max(transformer + autoencoders, conditioner) | max(72.0, 62.1) = 72.0 GB |
-
-That is what makes full bfloat16, quantized nowhere and therefore at reference quality, fit a 95 GB budget. It is the deployed configuration on two ZeroGPU Spaces of an RTX PRO 6000 slice: one holds the conditioner and exposes `encode` over its Gradio API, the other holds the transformer and both autoencoders and runs 960x544 at 5.5 s/step eager, 4.4 s/step with AoTI compiled blocks. It also satisfies the 150 GB per Space storage quota, which one Space holding all of bfloat16 MiniMax-H3 does not.
-
-The modular blocks make it natural, because the text encoder is one block and its output is one state entry.
-
-```py
-# Conditioner process, or service. Loads `text_encoder`, `tokenizer` and `processor`, and nothing else.
-embeds = conditioner.encode(prompt)  # prompt_embeds (1, N, 5120), text_token_tags (N,)
-
-# Denoiser process. Pop the text encoder block and hand it the embeds instead.
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines import MiniMaxH3Blocks
-
-blocks = MiniMaxH3Blocks()
-blocks.sub_blocks.pop("text_encoder")
-pipe = blocks.init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)  # `text_encoder` is no longer a declared component
-
-state = pipe(
-    prompt_embeds=embeds["prompt_embeds"].to("cuda"),
-    text_token_tags=embeds["text_token_tags"].to("cuda"),
-    height=544,
-    width=960,
-    num_frames=124,
-    num_inference_steps=30,
+pipe.update_components(
+    text_encoder=Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+        "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="text_encoder", dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={"": "cuda:1"}
+    ),
 )
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.transformer.to("cuda:0")
+pipe.vae.to("cuda:0")
+pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda:0")
 ```
 
-Three places it pays, and one where it does not.
-
-**A 95 GB slice, or any single card between 80 and 96 GB.** Split bfloat16 beats anything quantized in one process, because its quality is the reference quality. Reach for this first.
-
-**Two cards.** The conditioner takes the second card, quantized to int8 if that card is small, and the transformer keeps the first to itself. Neither has to hold both.
-
-**One small card, run sequentially.** The halves become two invocations of the same script: encode, write the embeds, exit, denoise. Nothing changes on the GPU, but host RAM stops having to hold both halves at once, and on a consumer box host RAM binds long before VRAM does. At int8 that is 42 GB of resident weights instead of 75 GB.
-
-**One small card, one process.** Nothing is gained. The components were already streaming one block at a time, and splitting only adds the cost of moving the embeds.
-
-### Measured under an emulated cap
-
-Each consumer row was run on an H100 80GB PCIe with `torch.cuda.set_per_process_memory_fraction` set to the class size less 0.9 GB for the CUDA context, so an allocation past the budget raises the same out of memory error a smaller card would. That emulates the budget, not the silicon: **the timings are H100 timings and are comparable to each other and to nothing else.** What transfers is the fit. Every row generated 124 frames at 24 fps and decoded them; the step count is 8 rather than 30, which does not move the allocator high water mark, because that is set by the first forward and by the decode tail and both ran in full.
-
-| Row | Width | Canvas | Video VAE | Peak alloc | Peak reserved | Spare | s/it | Decode | Host RSS | Fits |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| 12 GB | int8 | 960x544 | streamed | 6.67 GB | 9.78 GB | 2.22 GB | 5.18 | 453 s | 133.8 GB | yes |
-| 12 GB | int4 | 960x544 | streamed | 6.19 GB | 10.65 GB | 1.35 GB | 40.60 | 511 s | 91.2 GB | yes |
-| 12 GB, unstreamed | int4 | 960x544 | streamed | 5.82 GB | 7.59 GB | 4.41 GB | 49.48 | 425 s | 126.8 GB | yes |
-| 16 GB | int8 | 1152x640 | streamed | 7.98 GB | 11.71 GB | 4.29 GB | 7.01 | 420 s | 133.8 GB | yes |
-| 24 GB | int8 | 1152x640 | resident | 17.69 GB | 21.43 GB | 2.57 GB | 7.50 | 9.8 s | 135.8 GB | yes |
-| 32 GB | int8 | 1344x768 | resident | 19.49 GB | 24.00 GB | 8.00 GB | 11.81 | 15.2 s | 130.9 GB | yes |
-| 32 GB, VAE streamed | int8 | 1344x768 | streamed | 9.78 GB | 14.30 GB | 17.70 GB | 11.79 | 902 s | 134.4 GB | yes |
-| 32 GB, regional compile | int8 | 1344x768 | resident | | | | | | | no, see below |
-
-Host RSS is the peak resident set size of the whole process, which is what a machine has to have in system RAM: the
-weights plus the pinned host copies streamed offloading keeps. It is set by the widths, not by the card, which is
-why four of those rows agree on it and why [splitting the conditioner out](#splitting-the-conditioner-from-the-denoiser)
-matters more than any of them.
-
-Four things fall out of that table.
-
-
-
-The video VAE is the whole story below 24 GB. Streaming it holds the decode to under a gigabyte, which is what lets 1344x768 fit in 14.30 GB reserved, but it re-reads 9.7 GB of float32 weights for every tile and the decode goes from 15 s to 902 s. Resident, it costs 9.7 GB and decodes in seconds. There is no middle setting, and the crossover is at 24 GB.
-
-The transformer is not what fills the card. At 1344x768 with everything streaming, peak allocated is 9.78 GB against 31.69 GB of weights, because only two blocks are ever resident.
-
-int4 costs more video memory than int8, not less. 10.65 GB reserved against 9.78 GB, despite weights that are 12 GB smaller, because the tinygemm path pads every activation up to a multiple of 1024 before the matmul and that padded copy is 464 MB per projection at this canvas. What int4 buys is host RAM, 91.2 GB against 133.8 GB, and it charges 7.8x the step time for it.
-
-Streaming is worth about 18 percent. On the int4 pair, `use_stream=True` runs at 40.60 s/it against 49.48 s/it, for 3.06 GB more reserved and 58 s of setup. It does not reduce host RAM; the unstreamed row measured higher, because offloading without a stream allocates fresh host tensors instead of restoring pinned ones.
-
-Full precision reference rows, on the same card with no cap and [`ComponentsManager`] auto offload at a 12 GB margin, 1344x768, 124 frames, 30 steps, seed 42, flash-attention 3:
-
-| Recipe | Task | Load | Peak alloc | s/it | Decode | Wall |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| bfloat16 | `t2va` | 181 s | 68.1 GB | 9.21 | 94.0 s | 687 s |
-| bfloat16 | `fl2va`, first and last frame | 220 s | 68.8 GB | 10.83 | 50.1 s | 622 s |
-| bfloat16 | `ref2va`, one video and one image reference | 167 s | 74.3 GB | 26.23 | 48.1 s | 1184 s |
-| bfloat16, regional compile | `t2va` | 232 s | 66.4 GB | 8.21 | 55.4 s | 680 s |
-| float8 transformer | `t2va` | 201 s | 62.2 GB | 9.25 | 15.3 s | 491 s |
-| int8 transformer | `t2va` | 235 s | 62.2 GB | 9.67 | 60.0 s | 529 s |
-| int4 transformer | `t2va` | 229 s | 62.2 GB | 77.04 | 48.0 s | 2333 s |
-
-`ref2va` is 2.8x the per step cost of `t2va` at the same output size, because the reference rows lengthen the sequence every layer attends over. int8 costs 5 percent over bfloat16 per step and int4 costs 8.4x, which is the single strongest argument for int8 in this document.
-
-Note the peak in those rows: 62.2 GB for every quantized one, and that is the *conditioner*, not the transformer. Quantizing the transformer alone moves the high water mark onto the bfloat16 conditioner and the ceiling stops falling. Quantizing or offloading both is what makes a tier real.
-
-### Quality per width
-
-One `t2va` request, seed 42, 1344x768, 124 frames, 30 steps, each width against the bfloat16 sample of the same request.
-
-| Width | Video cosine | Video PSNR | Latents cosine | Audio cosine | Verdict |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| int8 | 0.984 | 19.36 dB | 0.953 | 0.927 | closest to bfloat16 of any width here |
-| float8 | 0.943 | 13.90 dB | 0.860 | 0.781 | a different sample of the same prompt |
-| NVFP4 | 0.916 | 12.07 dB | | | plus a visible brightness shift |
-| int4 | 0.891 | 11.03 dB | 0.688 | 0.217 | soundtrack does not survive |
-
-The ordering is not the one the bit widths suggest, and the reason is which tensors each width touches. int8 here is weight only, so the activations stay bfloat16; float8 and NVFP4 quantize the activations too, and that costs more than the extra bits buy. int4 is weight only as well, but at four bits with a 128 wide group the audio rows, which are 414 of 37726 and carry a much smaller dynamic range than the video rows, come out five times too loud at 0.217 cosine. Look at the audio column before choosing a width for a model that generates sound.
-
-Quantization ends bitwise reproducibility either way. Two runs at the same seed and the same width agree; two widths do not. Pin the width along with the seed.
-
-### Attention backend by architecture
-
-| Architecture | Backend | Why |
-|---|---|---|
-| sm86 Ampere | `"native"`, or `"sage"` with `sageattention` installed | no flash-attention 3 build exists; SageAttention dispatches sm86 to its triton int8 QK kernel |
-| sm89 Ada | `"native"`, or `"sage"` | SageAttention dispatches sm89 to `qk_int8_pv_fp8_cuda` |
-| sm90 Hopper | `"_flash_3_hub"` | prebuilt from the Hub, no local build, roughly 3x over SDPA |
-| sm120 Blackwell | `"_native_cudnn"` | beats SDPA; flash-attention 4 loses to it |
-
-`_flash_3_hub` kernels are compiled for Hopper only, so an Ada, Blackwell or consumer card has no matching image and the call fails at dispatch. `"sage"` is the name to use rather than one of the `_sage_qk_*` variants, because SageAttention picks the kernel from the compute capability itself and the variant that is right for one architecture will not run on another.
-
-Whatever the backend, pin the audio VAE to `"native"` first. [`~ModelMixin.set_attention_backend`] sets the process wide default as well as the model's own, the float32 audio VAE runs its own encoder attention whenever a reference carries audio, and none of the int8 or float8 attention kernels accept float32.
-
-### Regional compilation
-
-[`~ModelMixin.compile_repeated_blocks`] compiles the repeated block classes rather than the whole model, so compile time is one block instead of fifty. On the 80 GB bfloat16 `t2va` row it adds about 51 s to the first step and takes the steady step from 9.21 s to 8.21 s.
-
-It does not compose with streamed group offloading, and the attempt to measure that is the evidence. Onloading a block replaces its parameters, so dynamo's guards fail on the new tensors and the block recompiles; the 32 GB row hit the recompile cache limit and was still compiling twenty minutes later with the card pegged, against 101 s for the identical row eager. Use it where the weights are resident, which means the 80 GB and 96 GB classes, and leave it alone on a consumer card.
-
-Call it without `fullgraph=True`. The point is a small compiled region repeated fifty times, and the surrounding pipeline keeps its Python control flow, the offload hooks and the two schedulers. Regional compilation is also not bitwise identical to eager.
-
-### What actually binds on a consumer card
-
-Streaming weights over PCIe is not what makes MiniMax-H3 slow on a small card. Arithmetic is.
-
-One transformer forward over the packed sequence is `2 * rows * 32.28 B` parameters of matmul plus `4 * rows^2 * 7168 * 50` of attention. At 1344x768 and 124 frames that is 37726 rows and 4.48 PFLOP per step, and the measured 9.21 s/step on an H100 PCIe puts the achieved rate at 486 TFLOP/s, 64 percent of that card's 756 TFLOP/s dense bfloat16 peak. Scaling that efficiency onto other cards at their **float32 accumulate** tensor rate, which is what a torch matmul asks for and half the number NVIDIA puts on a GeForce box:
-
-| Canvas | 3060 | 4070 | 3090 | 4080 | 4090 | 5090 |
-|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| 960x544 | 109 s | 48 s | 39 s | 28 s | 17 s | 13 s |
-| 1152x640 | 171 s | 75 s | 61 s | 45 s | 26 s | 21 s |
-| 1344x768 | 274 s | 120 s | 99 s | 72 s | 42 s | 33 s |
-
-Against that, the transfer term is nothing. Block level offloading walks the whole transformer onto the card once per step, 31.69 GB at int8, which over PCIe 4.0 x16 at a usable 25 GB/s is 1.36 s, and with `use_stream=True` it overlaps with the compute it feeds. On the slowest card in the table the compute term is eighty times the transfer term. PCIe does not bind at any tier, any width, any canvas.
-
-So, plainly: **an RTX 3060 cannot generate 124 frames at 960x544 in under ten minutes at 30 steps.** The bound is about 109 s/step of arithmetic, 54 minutes for 30 steps, and no amount of streaming, quantization width or offload tuning moves it, because none of them change the FLOP count. Ten minutes buys about five steps at that canvas, or a 544x544 canvas at nine.
-
-Three levers would move it, and only the first two exist today. Fewer steps. A smaller canvas. And a width that quantizes the *activations*: int8 weight only and int4 tinygemm both dequantize into bfloat16 and issue a bfloat16 matmul, so neither touches the compute term, while int8 dynamic activation quantization would run the matmul on Ampere's int8 tensor cores at twice the bfloat16 rate. That is worth about a third off the step time at 960x544, where the matmul is 71 percent of the work, and it is the obvious next thing to build.
-
-### Known gaps
-
-torchao 0.17.0 is the current release and is what these recipes are written against. Three things in the stack do not yet work, and the recipes above are written so that none of them is reached.
-
-| Gap | What triggers it | What the recipes do instead |
-|---|---|---|
-| `aten.view` unregistered on `Int8Tensor` | streamed group offloading, whose `swap_tensors` use count check calls `param.view_as(param)`, but only while the parameter requires gradients | `requires_grad_(False)` first, which is correct for inference anyway |
-| `aten.is_pinned` and `aten._pin_memory` unregistered on `Int4TilePackedTo4dTensor` | streamed group offloading of an int4 checkpoint | int4 is not a recommended width |
-| transformers reruns `_init_weights` after loading | `from_pretrained` on a pre-quantized `text_encoder/`, which calls `Tensor.normal_` on an `Int8Tensor` and dies before reading a weight | quantize the conditioner at load, a supported public API producing the same weights |
-
-The last one is a round trip bug rather than a missing feature: transformers writes a torchao conditioner as `...q_proj._weight_qdata` and on reload cannot match those names back to `q_proj.weight`, so the parameter is never marked as loaded and the initialization pass runs over it. The pre-quantized `text_encoder/` in each repository is correct and will load unchanged once that is fixed.
-
-One more, in diffusers rather than torchao: do not pass `low_cpu_mem_usage=True` to group offloading with a torchao model. The host copy it keeps is `tensor.cpu()`, which for a tensor already on the CPU returns the same object, so the entry in `cpu_param_dict` *is* the parameter; onloading swaps in place through `swap_tensors` and destroys the copy the group would later restore from. Nothing raises. The weights simply never go back to the CPU and allocated memory climbs until it hits whatever the cap is.
+Two 80 GB cards run full bfloat16 this way with nothing streaming; two 48 GB cards do the same with the int8 loading above on both components.
 
 ## Text and keyframes
 

From 80453959c6d00f23d5f2db23b7aab2fc0c232f9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 15:55:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 08/21] Use pinnable int8 config and freeze quantized
 components

---
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index f717a9cb48c2..fe0105647075 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -100,15 +100,20 @@ pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
 pipe.update_components(
     transformer=MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel.from_pretrained(
         "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="transformer", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-        quantization_config=TorchAoConfig("int8wo"),
+        quantization_config=TorchAoConfig(Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2)),
     ),
     text_encoder=Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
         "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="text_encoder", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(Int8WeightOnlyConfig()),
+        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2)),
     ),
 )
 pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 
+# version=2 int8 tensors are pinnable, which streamed offload needs, and freezing removes the one autograd
+# path the quantized tensors cannot serve.
+pipe.transformer.requires_grad_(False)
+pipe.text_encoder.requires_grad_(False)
+
 offload = dict(onload_device=torch.device("cuda"), offload_device=torch.device("cpu"), use_stream=True)
 pipe.transformer.enable_group_offload(offload_type="block_level", num_blocks_per_group=1, **offload)
 apply_group_offloading(pipe.text_encoder.model, offload_type="leaf_level", **offload)

From abc5e9bf71fd38f53cd471bc3acaa84bc5ecbfdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: apolinario <apolinario@huggingface.co>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 16:08:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 09/21] Scope load time quantization and disable low cpu mem
 usage under streamed offload

---
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index fe0105647075..cccf2d712b64 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -100,11 +100,21 @@ pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
 pipe.update_components(
     transformer=MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel.from_pretrained(
         "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="transformer", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-        quantization_config=TorchAoConfig(Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2)),
+        quantization_config=TorchAoConfig(
+            Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2),
+            modules_to_not_convert=[
+                "proj_in", "audio_proj_in", "context_embedder", "time_embedder", "time_proj",
+                "token_refiner", "norm_out", "proj_out", "audio_proj_out",
+            ],
+        ),
+        low_cpu_mem_usage=False,
     ),
     text_encoder=Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
         "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="text_encoder", dtype=torch.bfloat16,
-        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2)),
+        quantization_config=TransformersTorchAoConfig(
+            Int8WeightOnlyConfig(version=2),
+            modules_to_not_convert=["model.visual", "model.language_model.embed_tokens", "model.language_model.norm", "lm_head"],
+        ),
     ),
 )
 pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)

From 8ab366230662ace818f7344b0d4c621bcfafbc17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YiYi Xu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 14:54:00 -1000
Subject: [PATCH 10/21] Minimax h3 follow up (review & refactor) (#14371)

review & refactor
---
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md    |  186 ++-
 .../en/modular_diffusers/modular_pipeline.md  |   12 +
 src/diffusers/__init__.py                     |    4 -
 .../autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py |   18 +-
 .../autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py        |   37 +-
 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py   |    4 -
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py  |   22 +-
 .../minimax_h3/before_denoise.py              | 1168 ++++++++++++++---
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              |  586 +++++----
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py  |  194 +--
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py   |  200 ++-
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py  |  930 +++++++------
 .../minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py   |  780 ++++++++---
 .../minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py            |  237 +++-
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py   |  538 --------
 .../minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py              |  841 ------------
 .../minimax_h3/references.py                  |  317 +++++
 .../modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py     |   76 +-
 .../modular_pipeline_utils.py                 |   14 +-
 .../dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py   |   30 -
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       |  841 ++++++------
 .../test_modular_pipelines_common.py          |  137 ++
 22 files changed, 3972 insertions(+), 3200 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
 delete mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
 create mode 100644 src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index cccf2d712b64..4d815156b2a5 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -27,40 +27,47 @@ MiniMax-H3 is integrated as [Modular Diffusers](../../modular_diffusers/overview
 
 MiniMax-H3 was released as two checkpoint partitions that share every component except the transformer, so the diffusers conversion puts both in **one repository**:
 
-| Subfolder | Blocks | Tasks |
-|---|---|---|
-| `transformer/` | [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`] | `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) |
-| `transformer_ref/` | [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] | `ref2va` (an ordered mix of image, video and audio references) |
+| Subfolder | Workflows |
+|---|---|
+| `transformer/` | `t2va` (text only), `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) |
+| `transformer_ref/` | `ref2va` (an ordered mix of image, video and audio references) |
 
 Everything but the transformer, i.e. the video VAE, the audio VAE, the Qwen3-VL conditioner, its tokenizer and processor, and the two schedulers, is shared and stored once.
 
-The repository carries one `modular_model_index.json`, which names every component of both halves with its own loading spec. Each blockset declares only the components it runs, and `load_components` fetches exactly those subfolders: loading the `t2va` / `fl2va` half never touches `transformer_ref/`, and loading the `ref2va` half never touches `transformer/`. Nothing else in the repository is fetched either, which is what lets one repository carry the two partitions, and the original checkpoint folders next to the converted ones.
+The conditioner is a `Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`, and MiniMax-H3 reads the *unnormalized* hidden state after its 50th decoder layer rather than the last one, so the full released checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused.
 
-`modular_model_index.json` names the `t2va` / `fl2va` half as its own class, so [`~ModularPipeline.from_pretrained`] resolves that half. The `ref2va` half reads the very same file through its own blocks:
+All three tasks are workflows of the one [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`], and the repository carries one `modular_model_index.json` naming every component with its own loading spec. To serve a single task, pass the workflow to `from_pretrained`: it keeps only that workflow's blocks, so the pipeline's signature (`pipe.doc`) documents exactly that task's inputs, only that task's components are declared, and `load_components` fetches exactly their subfolders — a `t2va` / `fl2va` pipeline never touches `transformer_ref/`, a `ref2va` one never touches `transformer/`.
 
 ```py
 import torch
 from diffusers import ModularPipeline
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines import MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
 
-# `t2va` / `fl2va`: loads `transformer/`, and never `transformer_ref/`.
-pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", workflow="ref2va")
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+```
 
-# `ref2va`: loads `transformer_ref/`, and never `transformer/`, out of the same repository.
-pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+> [!TIP]
+> `pipe.doc` prints what the pipeline in front of you takes and returns — every input with its default, the components it expects and the outputs it produces. Pruned to one workflow it describes exactly that task, which is the quickest way to see what a request needs before making one.
 
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+To keep every workflow available on one pipeline instead, leave the `workflow` argument out: the pipeline then picks the workflow per call from the inputs it is passed.
+
+```py
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
 ```
 
-Each blockset also carries the workflows it serves — `t2va`, `fl2va` and `fl2va_last_frame` for [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`], `ref2va` for [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] — which name the inputs each task requires.
+The *loading* can still go one workflow at a time. This one call fetches `transformer/` and every shared component, which serves both `t2va` and `fl2va`:
 
-The conditioner is a `Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`, and MiniMax-H3 reads the *unnormalized* hidden state after its 50th decoder layer rather than the last one, so the full released checkpoint is used with its language-model head unused.
+```py
+pipe.load_components(workflow="t2va", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+```
+
+A plain `load_components()` with no `workflow=` pulls **both** 61.7GB transformer partitions, which is what lets one pipeline serve all three workflows without another loading call. Pair it with a [`ComponentsManager`] and auto offloading: the weights live in host RAM and the manager moves onto the accelerator just what each step needs, so when the `ref2va` denoiser wants the device the strategy offloads whatever frees enough room. See [Memory](#memory) for the recipes.
 
 ## Two schedulers
 
-Video and audio latents step down two different schedules inside a single transformer call per step, which is why both blocksets expect two [`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`] instances: `scheduler` for the video latents (`shift=12.0` in the released checkpoints) and `audio_scheduler` for the audio latents (`shift=3.0`).
+Video and audio latents step down two different schedules inside a single transformer call per step, which is why the blocks expect two [`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`] instances: `scheduler` for the video latents (`shift=12.0` in the released checkpoints) and `audio_scheduler` for the audio latents (`shift=3.0`).
 
-The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so there is no guider, no `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
+Both transformer partitions are guidance-distilled, so this holds for every workflow: guidance is baked into the weights, there is no guider, no `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
 
 ## Generation constraints
 
@@ -81,7 +88,7 @@ from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
 
 manager = ComponentsManager()
 pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.load_components(workflow="t2va", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda", memory_reserve_margin="12GB")
 pipe.transformer.set_attention_backend("_flash_3_hub")  # Hopper, roughly 3x faster; kernels fetched from the Hub
 ```
@@ -117,7 +124,7 @@ pipe.update_components(
         ),
     ),
 )
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.load_components(workflow="t2va", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 
 # version=2 int8 tensors are pinnable, which streamed offload needs, and freezing removes the one autograd
 # path the quantized tensors cannot serve.
@@ -147,7 +154,7 @@ pipe.update_components(
         "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="text_encoder", dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={"": "cuda:1"}
     ),
 )
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+pipe.load_components(workflow="t2va", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 pipe.transformer.to("cuda:0")
 pipe.vae.to("cuda:0")
 pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda:0")
@@ -161,31 +168,37 @@ Two 80 GB cards run full bfloat16 this way with nothing streaming; two 48 GB car
 
 ```py
 import torch
-from diffusers import ModularPipeline
+from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
 from diffusers.utils import load_image
 from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
 
-pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
-pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-pipe.to("cuda")
+# 61.7GB of transformer and 62.1GB of conditioner do not sit on one accelerator, so the components are
+# registered in a manager that moves each one on and off as the blocks reach it. See [Memory](#memory).
+manager = ComponentsManager()
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda")
+
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
+pipe.load_components(workflow="fl2va", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 
 prompt = "A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot"
+# `output=` returns exactly the named outputs instead of the whole pipeline state.
+outputs = ["videos", "audio", "sampling_rate"]
 
 # Text to video + audio.
-state = pipe(prompt=prompt, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+results = pipe(prompt=prompt, num_frames=124, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42), output=outputs)
 
 # First frame (and optionally last frame) to video + audio. The canvas follows the first keyframe.
 image = load_image(
     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
 )
-state = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42))
+results = pipe(prompt=prompt, image=image, num_frames=124, generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42), output=outputs)
 
 encode_video(
-    state.get("videos")[0],
+    results["videos"][0],
     fps=24,
     output_path="minimax_h3_fl2va.mp4",
-    audio=state.get("audio")[0],
-    audio_sample_rate=state.get("sampling_rate"),
+    audio=results["audio"][0],
+    audio_sample_rate=results["sampling_rate"],
 )
 ```
 
@@ -193,61 +206,117 @@ Video and audio are generated jointly and come out of the call as separate outpu
 
 ## Omni-references
 
-[`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] conditions on an ordered list of references: up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total. The order is semantic. It labels the references in the prompt presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same references is a different request.
+The `ref2va` workflow conditions on an ordered list of references: up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total. The order is semantic. It labels the references in the prompt presentation (`"<Picture 1>"`, `"<Audio 1>"`, `"<Video 1>"`) and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same references is a different request.
 
 Unlike the keyframes above, references do not bind the generated geometry: they are encoded at their own resolution and the target canvas defaults to MiniMax-H3's 16:9.
 
-Every reference is a [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference`], and it takes a path or a URL as well as in-memory media: a path is decoded when the reference is built, with [`~utils.load_image`] for an image and [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV) for a video or an audio file, so the blocks themselves never open a media file. Decoding brings the rates along, which is what the model needs: a video reference reads its frame rate off the container and adopts the container's soundtrack when it has one, and an audio reference its sample rate.
+There is one reference class per modality, each holding in-memory media and the rate that media carries:
+
+| reference | media | rate it declares |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] | `image` | — |
+| [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] | `frames`, and `audio` for its own soundtrack | `fps`, defaulting to MiniMax-H3's 24.0, and `sample_rate` |
+| [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] | `audio` | `sample_rate`, defaulting to the audio VAE's own |
+
+The rates are what everything is resampled from: frames onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, a waveform onto the audio VAE's sample rate. Media at MiniMax-H3's own rates flows through untouched, so only data produced at another rate has to say so.
 
-In-memory media declares the rates it carries instead, defaulting to MiniMax-H3's own: `fps=24.0` and the audio VAE's sample rate, so only self-generated data at another rate has to say so. An explicit `fps` or `sample_rate` also wins over a container whose metadata is wrong. Frames are resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps by dropping and duplicating whole frames, and a waveform onto the audio VAE's sample rate. A video reference conditions on its motion **and**, when it carries an `audio` waveform, on that soundtrack, which is then packed as this reference's own.
+A reference is built one of two ways: decoded from a media file with the class's `from_file` classmethod, or constructed directly from media the request already holds in memory — which is how a previous generation feeds back in (see [A generation as a reference](#a-generation-as-a-reference)).
+
+The blocks never open a media file — decoding a path is the caller's job, as it is everywhere else in the library. Each reference class does it through its `from_file` classmethod, which takes a path or a URL (video and audio through [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV)) and returns a reference carrying the rates the container reports — a video brings its frame rate and its soundtrack along. Prefer `from_file` over [`~utils.load_video`], which drops the frame rate: a reference built from frames whose real rate was lost is conditioned on at the wrong speed, and nothing raises.
 
 ```py
 import torch
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines import MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
-from diffusers.utils import load_image, load_video
+from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import (
+    MiniMaxH3AudioReference,
+    MiniMaxH3ImageReference,
+    MiniMaxH3VideoReference,
+)
+from diffusers.utils import load_video
 from diffusers.utils.export_utils import encode_video
 
-pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
+# `ref2va` is a workflow of the one MiniMax-H3 pipeline; selecting it loads only the `transformer_ref/`
+# checkpoint partition, and the manager moves each component on and off the accelerator in turn.
+manager = ComponentsManager()
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda")
+
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", workflow="ref2va", components_manager=manager)
 pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-pipe.to("cuda")
 
-subject = load_image(
+subject = MiniMaxH3ImageReference.from_file(
     "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/astronaut.jpg"
 )
 
-# A reference decodes a path or a URL as it is built, rates included: the video brings its own frame rate and its
-# soundtrack, the audio clip its sample rate.
-state = pipe(
+# Decoding a file brings its rates along: the video its own frame rate and its soundtrack, the clip its sample rate.
+results = pipe(
     prompt="The character speaks in time with the reference recording, natural lip movement",
     references=[
-        MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject),
-        MiniMaxH3Reference(
-            video="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/hiker.mp4"
+        subject,
+        MiniMaxH3VideoReference.from_file(
+            "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/hiker.mp4"
         ),
-        MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
+        MiniMaxH3AudioReference.from_file("voice.wav"),
     ],
     num_frames=124,
+    output=["videos", "audio", "sampling_rate"],
 )
 
-# In-memory media says which rates it carries, MiniMax-H3's own by default.
+# Frames a request already holds declare the rate they carry — `load_video` does not preserve it.
 motion = load_video("motion_ref.mp4")
-state = pipe(
+results = pipe(
     prompt="The subject walks toward camera, matching the reference video's shot rhythm",
-    references=[MiniMaxH3Reference(image=subject), MiniMaxH3Reference(video=motion, fps=30.0)],
+    references=[subject, MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=motion, fps=30.0)],
     num_frames=124,
+    output=["videos", "audio", "sampling_rate"],
 )
 
 encode_video(
-    state.get("videos")[0],
+    results["videos"][0],
     fps=24,
     output_path="minimax_h3_ref2va.mp4",
-    audio=state.get("audio")[0],
-    audio_sample_rate=state.get("sampling_rate"),
+    audio=results["audio"][0],
+    audio_sample_rate=results["sampling_rate"],
 )
 ```
 
-`num_frames` may be left out, but only when exactly one reference carries audio: the duration is then that soundtrack's, snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode. A soundtrack whose *aligned* duration falls outside the 5 to 15 seconds MiniMax-H3 generates is rejected rather than silently stretched, so a clip just under 15 seconds — which rounds up to 362 frames, i.e. 15.083 seconds — has to name a shorter `num_frames` explicitly.
+`num_frames` is required for `ref2va`. To generate a video exactly as long as a reference soundtrack, compute it from the clip — `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)` — and it is snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode; the resulting duration must stay between the 5 and 15 seconds MiniMax-H3 generates.
+
+### A generation as a reference
+
+Because the workflows share one pipeline, a `t2va` generation can be fed straight back as a `ref2va` reference — and the in-memory constructor is built for exactly this hand-off. The generated media is already at MiniMax-H3's own rates (frames at 24 fps, the soundtrack at the audio VAE's sample rate), so the reference needs no rate arguments and nothing is re-encoded through a lossy container on the way:
+
+```py
+import torch
+from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3VideoReference
+
+manager = ComponentsManager()
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda")
+
+# The full pipeline holds every workflow and picks one per call from the inputs. Loading without a
+# `workflow=` brings both transformer partitions in one call, so the `ref2va` request that follows the
+# `t2va` generation needs no further loading.
+pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
+pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+results = pipe(
+    prompt="An astronaut hiking through the mountains, humming a tune",
+    num_frames=124,
+    output=["videos", "audio", "sampling_rate"],
+)
+
+reference = MiniMaxH3VideoReference(
+    frames=results["videos"][0],
+    audio=results["audio"][0],
+    sample_rate=results["sampling_rate"],
+)
+results = pipe(
+    prompt="The same astronaut now walks along a beach at sunset, humming the same tune",
+    references=[reference],
+    num_frames=124,
+    output=["videos", "audio", "sampling_rate"],
+)
+```
 
 ## MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
 
@@ -257,14 +326,17 @@ encode_video(
 
 [[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Blocks
 
-## MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+## MiniMaxH3ImageReference
 
-[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+[[autodoc]] modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3ImageReference
+    - from_file
 
-## MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+## MiniMaxH3VideoReference
 
-[[autodoc]] MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+[[autodoc]] modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3VideoReference
+    - from_file
 
-## MiniMaxH3Reference
+## MiniMaxH3AudioReference
 
-[[autodoc]] modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3Reference
+[[autodoc]] modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.MiniMaxH3AudioReference
+    - from_file
diff --git a/docs/source/en/modular_diffusers/modular_pipeline.md b/docs/source/en/modular_diffusers/modular_pipeline.md
index caa3b2e5a361..68177c7e7fb8 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/modular_diffusers/modular_pipeline.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/modular_diffusers/modular_pipeline.md
@@ -234,6 +234,12 @@ pipeline = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained(
 )
 ```
 
+When the pipeline blocks define workflows (check `pipeline.blocks.available_workflows`), pass `workflow=` to keep only that workflow's blocks — the same pruning as [`~ModularPipelineBlocks.get_workflow`]. The pipeline then only declares the components that workflow uses, and its docstring describes exactly that workflow's inputs.
+
+```py
+pipeline = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-Image", workflow="inpainting")
+```
+
 ## Loading components
 
 A [`ModularPipeline`] doesn't automatically instantiate with components. It only loads the configuration and component specifications. You can load components with [`~ModularPipeline.load_components`].
@@ -252,6 +258,12 @@ You can also load specific components by name. The example below only loads the
 pipeline.load_components(names=["text_encoder"], dtype=torch.float16)
 ```
 
+On a pipeline whose blocks define workflows, `workflow=` loads only the components that workflow uses. The pipeline keeps all its blocks, so this is the convenient way to run one pipeline across workflows: each call adds just what the new workflow still misses.
+
+```py
+pipeline.load_components(workflow="inpainting", dtype=torch.float16)
+```
+
 After loading, printing the pipeline shows which components are loaded — the first two fields change from `null` to the component's library and class.
 
 ```py
diff --git a/src/diffusers/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/__init__.py
index 3c8a46426d2a..2deff4b71cb2 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/__init__.py
@@ -537,8 +537,6 @@
             "LTXModularPipeline",
             "MiniMaxH3Blocks",
             "MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline",
-            "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks",
-            "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline",
             "QwenImageAutoBlocks",
             "QwenImageEditAutoBlocks",
             "QwenImageEditModularPipeline",
@@ -1365,8 +1363,6 @@
             LTXModularPipeline,
             MiniMaxH3Blocks,
             MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
-            MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
-            MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
             QwenImageAutoBlocks,
             QwenImageEditAutoBlocks,
             QwenImageEditModularPipeline,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
index 586138fc884e..56d4707092b3 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -707,14 +707,8 @@ def _stitch_tiles(
             result_rows.append(torch.cat(result_row, dim=-1))
         return torch.cat(result_rows, dim=-2)
 
-    @apply_forward_hook
     def _encode_clip(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
-        r"""
-        Encode one temporal clip, spatially tiled when tiling is enabled.
-
-        MiniMax-H3 encodes a keyframe or an image reference through this method rather than through [`~encode`],
-        because a single frame must not go through the temporal chunking, so it carries the offload hook too.
-        """
+        r"""Encode one temporal clip, spatially tiled when tiling is enabled."""
         if not self.use_tiling:
             return self.quant_conv(self.encoder(x))
 
@@ -768,17 +762,19 @@ def _decode_clip(self, z: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 
         return self._stitch_tiles(rows, y_overlaps, x_overlaps)
 
-    @apply_forward_hook
     def _encode(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         r"""
         Encode a video in `clip_length`-frame chunks and drop the `token_drop` trailing latent frames.
 
-        MiniMax-H3 encodes a video reference through this method rather than through [`~encode`], because the
-        posterior is sampled under a fixed generator rather than through the distribution object, so it carries the
-        offload hook too.
+        A single frame has no temporal extent to chunk, so it goes through the spatial encoder alone. Padding it up to
+        `clip_length` by repetition instead would run the temporal path over `clip_length` copies of the same image and
+        return `clip_length // temporal_compression_ratio - token_drop` latent frames rather than one — which is not
+        the conditioning MiniMax-H3 was trained with.
         """
         clip_length = self.config.clip_length
         num_frames = x.shape[2]
+        if num_frames == 1:
+            return self._encode_clip(x)
         if num_frames % clip_length != 0:
             pad_frames = x[:, :, -1:].repeat(1, 1, (-num_frames) % clip_length, 1, 1)
             x = torch.cat([x, pad_frames], dim=2)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
index c35c62e28ec3..0b24768642bb 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -93,10 +93,6 @@ class MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput(BaseOutput):
     latent_dist: MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution
 
 
-def _wn_conv1d(*args, **kwargs) -> nn.Module:
-    return weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(*args, **kwargs))
-
-
 def kaiser_sinc_filter1d(cutoff: float, half_width: float, kernel_size: int) -> torch.Tensor:
     r"""Kaiser-windowed sinc low-pass filter of shape `[1, 1, kernel_size]`.
 
@@ -234,9 +230,9 @@ def __init__(self, dim: int, dilation: int):
         super().__init__()
         self.block = nn.Sequential(
             MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(dim),
-            _wn_conv1d(dim, dim, kernel_size=7, dilation=dilation, padding=((7 - 1) * dilation) // 2),
+            weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(dim, dim, kernel_size=7, dilation=dilation, padding=((7 - 1) * dilation) // 2)),
             MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(dim),
-            _wn_conv1d(dim, dim, kernel_size=1),
+            weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(dim, dim, kernel_size=1)),
         )
 
     def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
@@ -257,12 +253,14 @@ def __init__(self, dim: int, stride: int):
             MiniMaxH3AudioResidualUnit(dim // 2, dilation=3),
             MiniMaxH3AudioResidualUnit(dim // 2, dilation=9),
             MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(dim // 2),
-            _wn_conv1d(
-                dim // 2,
-                dim,
-                kernel_size=2 * stride,
-                stride=stride,
-                padding=math.ceil(stride / 2),
+            weight_norm(
+                nn.Conv1d(
+                    dim // 2,
+                    dim,
+                    kernel_size=2 * stride,
+                    stride=stride,
+                    padding=math.ceil(stride / 2),
+                )
             ),
         )
 
@@ -275,13 +273,13 @@ class MiniMaxH3AudioEncoder(nn.Module):
 
     def __init__(self, d_model: int, strides: tuple[int, ...], d_latent: int):
         super().__init__()
-        block: list[nn.Module] = [_wn_conv1d(1, d_model, kernel_size=7, padding=3)]
+        block: list[nn.Module] = [weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(1, d_model, kernel_size=7, padding=3))]
         for stride in strides:
             d_model *= 2
             block.append(MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderBlock(d_model, stride=stride))
         block += [
             MiniMaxH3AudioSnake1d(d_model),
-            _wn_conv1d(d_model, d_latent, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
+            weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(d_model, d_latent, kernel_size=3, padding=1)),
         ]
         self.block = nn.Sequential(*block)
 
@@ -403,12 +401,15 @@ def __init__(self, channels: int, kernel_size: int, dilation: tuple[int, ...]):
         super().__init__()
         self.convs1 = nn.ModuleList(
             [
-                _wn_conv1d(channels, channels, kernel_size, dilation=d, padding=(kernel_size * d - d) // 2)
+                weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(channels, channels, kernel_size, dilation=d, padding=(kernel_size * d - d) // 2))
                 for d in dilation
             ]
         )
         self.convs2 = nn.ModuleList(
-            [_wn_conv1d(channels, channels, kernel_size, dilation=1, padding=(kernel_size - 1) // 2) for _ in dilation]
+            [
+                weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(channels, channels, kernel_size, dilation=1, padding=(kernel_size - 1) // 2))
+                for _ in dilation
+            ]
         )
         self.activations = nn.ModuleList(
             [
@@ -442,7 +443,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.num_kernels = len(resblock_kernel_sizes)
         self.num_upsamples = len(upsample_rates)
 
-        self.conv_pre = _wn_conv1d(in_channels, upsample_initial_channel, 7, 1, padding=3)
+        self.conv_pre = weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(in_channels, upsample_initial_channel, 7, 1, padding=3))
 
         # Each upsampler is wrapped in a one-element `ModuleList` in the original checkpoint
         # (`ups.<i>.0`); the extra nesting is kept so the state dict stays a passthrough.
@@ -471,7 +472,7 @@ def __init__(
                 self.resblocks.append(MiniMaxH3AudioAMPBlock(channels, kernel, tuple(dilation)))
 
         self.activation_post = MiniMaxH3AudioActivation1d(activation=MiniMaxH3AudioSnakeBeta(channels))
-        self.conv_post = _wn_conv1d(channels, 1, 7, 1, padding=3, bias=False)
+        self.conv_post = weight_norm(nn.Conv1d(channels, 1, 7, 1, padding=3, bias=False))
 
     def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         hidden_states = self.conv_pre(hidden_states)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py
index a107a004b7f2..008a654c3fa3 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -124,8 +124,6 @@
     _import_structure["minimax_h3"] = [
         "MiniMaxH3Blocks",
         "MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline",
-        "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks",
-        "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline",
     ]
     _import_structure["z_image"] = [
         "ZImageAutoBlocks",
@@ -184,8 +182,6 @@
         from .minimax_h3 import (
             MiniMaxH3Blocks,
             MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
-            MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
-            MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
         )
         from .modular_pipeline import (
             AutoPipelineBlocks,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
index 6f492f17eff1..04e06a1e156b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/__init__.py
@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@
 
     _dummy_objects.update(get_objects_from_module(dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects))
 else:
-    _import_structure["modular_blocks_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Blocks", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks"]
-    _import_structure["modular_pipeline"] = ["MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline"]
-    _import_structure["packing_ref2va"] = ["MiniMaxH3Reference"]
+    _import_structure["modular_blocks_minimax_h3"] = ["MiniMaxH3Blocks"]
+    _import_structure["modular_pipeline"] = ["MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline"]
+    _import_structure["references"] = [
+        "MiniMaxH3AudioReference",
+        "MiniMaxH3ImageReference",
+        "MiniMaxH3Reference",
+        "MiniMaxH3VideoReference",
+    ]
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING or DIFFUSERS_SLOW_IMPORT:
     try:
@@ -32,9 +37,14 @@
     except OptionalDependencyNotAvailable:
         from ...utils.dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects import *  # noqa F403
     else:
-        from .modular_blocks_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Blocks, MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
-        from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
-        from .packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3Reference
+        from .modular_blocks_minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Blocks
+        from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+        from .references import (
+            MiniMaxH3AudioReference,
+            MiniMaxH3ImageReference,
+            MiniMaxH3Reference,
+            MiniMaxH3VideoReference,
+        )
 else:
     import sys
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
index ef874b1e0100..19ec2d0786bf 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
@@ -12,98 +12,185 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import numpy as np
 import torch
 
 from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
 from ...utils import logging
 from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
-from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
-from .packing import (
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, ConfigSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import (
     MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
-    MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
-    build_packed_sequence,
-    build_row_timesteps,
-    patchify_video_latents,
+    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG,
+    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
+    MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
+    align_num_frames,
+    audio_latent_num_frames,
+    resolve_canvas_size,
+    video_latent_num_frames,
 )
-from .packing_ref2va import MiniMaxH3PreparedReference, build_ref2va_packed_sequence
+from .references import MiniMaxH3Reference
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
-def _layout_inputs() -> list[InputParam]:
-    r"""What both packed layouts are built from, beyond the conditioning of the task itself."""
-    return [
-        InputParam(
-            name="text_token_tags",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.",
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Number of video latent frames."
-        ),
-        InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
-        InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
-        InputParam(
-            name="num_audio_latents",
-            type_hint=int,
-            required=True,
-            description="Number of audio latents per channel.",
-        ),
-    ]
-
-
-def _layout_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
-    r"""The row layout of the packed sequence, shared by the two tasks."""
-    return [
-        OutputParam(
-            "layout",
-            type_hint=MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
-            description="The structural description of the packed sequence.",
-        ),
-        OutputParam(
-            "position_ids",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            description="The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row, in float64.",
-        ),
-        OutputParam("token_tags", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="The modality tag of every row."),
-        OutputParam(
-            "video_indices",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            description="Sequence positions of the video rows, conditioning rows first.",
-        ),
-        OutputParam(
-            "audio_indices",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            description="Sequence positions of the audio rows, reference rows first.",
-        ),
-        OutputParam("text_indices", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="Sequence positions of the text rows."),
-        OutputParam(
-            "num_condition_video_rows",
-            type_hint=int,
-            description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows rather than generated rows.",
-        ),
-        OutputParam(
-            "num_condition_audio_rows",
-            type_hint=int,
-            description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows rather than generated rows.",
-        ),
-    ]
-
-
-def _set_layout_state(block_state, layout: MiniMaxH3PackedSequence, device: torch.device) -> None:
-    block_state.layout = layout
-    block_state.position_ids = layout.position_ids.to(device)
-    block_state.token_tags = layout.token_tags.to(device)
-    block_state.video_indices = layout.video_indices.to(device)
-    block_state.audio_indices = layout.audio_indices.to(device)
-    block_state.text_indices = layout.text_indices.to(device)
-    block_state.num_condition_video_rows = layout.num_condition_video_rows
-    block_state.num_condition_audio_rows = layout.num_condition_audio_rows
+# Rotary-time constants. One latent frame spans `5/3 * frames_per_latent` rotary units, where the pattern
+# `(1, 4, 4, 4, 4)` mirrors the VAE's 17-pixel-frames-to-5-latent-frames grouping; the spatial axes are normalized
+# by the square root of the latent area and scaled by 32.
+_ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE = 5.0 / 3.0
+_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT = (1, 4, 4, 4, 4)
+_ROPE_SPATIAL_SCALE = 32
+
+
+def patchify_video_latents(latents: torch.Tensor, patch_size: tuple[int, int, int]) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Pack video latents into transformer rows.
+
+    Args:
+        latents (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, channels, num_frames, height, width)`):
+            The latents to pack.
+        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The `(t, h, w)` patch.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size * num_patches, channels * prod(patch_size))`: The packed rows, ordered
+        frame-major then row-major.
+    """
+    patch_t, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+    batch_size, channels, num_frames, height, width = latents.shape
+    if num_frames % patch_t or height % patch_h or width % patch_w:
+        raise ValueError(f"Latents of shape {tuple(latents.shape)} are not divisible by the patch {patch_size}.")
+
+    latents = latents.reshape(
+        batch_size,
+        channels,
+        num_frames // patch_t,
+        patch_t,
+        height // patch_h,
+        patch_h,
+        width // patch_w,
+        patch_w,
+    )
+    latents = latents.permute(0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 7)
+    return latents.reshape(-1, channels * patch_t * patch_h * patch_w).contiguous()
+
+
+def _spatial_position_grid(dim: int, patch: int, sqrt_area: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    One aspect-normalized spatial rotary axis: `dim // patch` coordinates centred on the unit interval, scaled up by
+    32. The right endpoint is excluded, so a square canvas spans `[0, 32)`.
+    """
+    ratio = dim / sqrt_area
+    left = (1.0 - ratio) / 2.0
+    # Built with numpy: `np.linspace(..., endpoint=False)` is `start + arange(num) * (stop - start) / num`, which is
+    # not what `torch.linspace` computes, and the float64 grid has to be reproduced exactly.
+    grid = np.linspace(left, left + ratio, dim // patch, endpoint=False) * _ROPE_SPATIAL_SCALE
+    return torch.from_numpy(grid).to(torch.float64)
+
+
+def _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames: int, origin: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""The rotary time of every latent frame, starting at `origin`. Spacing is non-uniform: `5/3 * (1, 4, 4, 4, 4)`."""
+    spans = torch.tensor(
+        [
+            _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
+            for index in range(num_latent_frames)
+        ],
+        dtype=torch.float64,
+    )
+    return origin + torch.cat([torch.zeros(1, dtype=torch.float64), spans[:-1].cumsum(0)])
+
+
+def _temporal_position_span_pairwise(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
+    r"""
+    The rotary time spanned by `num_latent_frames` latent frames.
+
+    Summed by numpy (pairwise summation) rather than sequentially: the reference computes the keyframe anchor this
+    way and the two summation orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards.
+    """
+    spans = np.ones(num_latent_frames, dtype=np.float64) * _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
+    for index in range(len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)):
+        spans[index :: len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)] *= _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index]
+    return float(spans.sum())
+
+
+def _temporal_position_span_sequential(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
+    r"""
+    The rotary time a video reference advances the clock by.
+
+    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`_temporal_position_span_pairwise`] sums
+    the same series: that one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16
+    latent frames onwards. The reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
+    """
+    return sum(
+        _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
+        for index in range(num_latent_frames)
+    )
+
+
+def _frame_position_grid(
+    latent_height: int, latent_width: int, patch_h: int, patch_w: int
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    r"""The `(h, w)` rotary coordinates of one latent frame, and the width axis they were built from."""
+    sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
+    height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
+    width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
+    grids = torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")
+    return torch.stack([grid.reshape(-1) for grid in grids], dim=-1), width_grid
+
+
+def _fill_audio_positions(
+    position_ids: torch.Tensor,
+    rows: slice,
+    num_audio_latents: int,
+    rotary_time: float,
+    width_grid: torch.Tensor,
+) -> None:
+    r"""
+    Place one channel-major audio block.
+
+    Audio rows carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid of *their own* block —
+    the target grid for a standalone audio reference, the video's grid for a soundtrack.
+    """
+    time = rotary_time + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
+    position_ids[rows, 0] = time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
+    position_ids[rows, 2] = torch.cat(
+        [
+            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
+            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[-1]), dtype=torch.float64),
+        ]
+    )
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3NoKeyframeAnchorsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Declares that a `t2va` request anchors no keyframes. The layout step is the same block for `t2va` and "
+            "`fl2va` and reads the anchors the request resolved; a text-only one resolves none, and saying so here "
+            "keeps `keyframe_anchors` off the `t2va` signature."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "keyframe_anchors",
+                type_hint=tuple,
+                description="Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to — empty, since there are none.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+
+        block_state.keyframe_anchors = ()
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
@@ -112,15 +199,38 @@ class MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Builds the packed layout of a `t2va` / `fl2va` request — `[text | keyframe conditions | target audio | "
-            "target video]` — and its fp64 rotary grid. MiniMax-H3 runs full self-attention over this one sequence, "
-            "so the layout is what every later block addresses rows through."
+            "Resolves the geometry of a `t2va` / `fl2va` request — the canvas, the `17 * n + 5` frame count the video "
+            "VAE can decode and the latent shapes every later block keys off — and builds the packed layout from it: "
+            "`[text | keyframe conditions | target audio | target video]` plus its fp64 rotary grid. MiniMax-H3 runs "
+            "full self-attention over this one sequence, so the layout is what every later block addresses rows "
+            "through."
         )
 
+    @property
+    def expected_configs(self) -> list[ConfigSpec]:
+        # The canvas MiniMax-H3 was released for, which a request without keyframes generates on at 16:9.
+        return [ConfigSpec("canvas_short_edge", 768), ConfigSpec("canvas_max_pixels", 768 * 1344)]
+
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
         return [
-            *_layout_inputs(),
+            InputParam(
+                name="text_token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.",
+            ),
+            InputParam.template("height", description="Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
+            InputParam.template("width", description="Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_frames",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=124,
+                description=(
+                    "Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video "
+                    "VAE can decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds."
+                ),
+            ),
             InputParam(
                 name="keyframe_anchors",
                 type_hint=tuple,
@@ -131,13 +241,213 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
 
     @property
     def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
-        return _layout_outputs()
+        return [
+            OutputParam("height", type_hint=int, description="Resolved height of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("width", type_hint=int, description="Resolved width of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("num_frames", type_hint=int, description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5."),
+            OutputParam("num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated video latent frames."),
+            OutputParam("latent_height", type_hint=int, description="Height of the generated video latents."),
+            OutputParam("latent_width", type_hint=int, description="Width of the generated video latents."),
+            OutputParam(
+                "num_audio_latents", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated audio latents per channel."
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "position_ids",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row, in float64.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="The modality tag of every row.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "video_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="Sequence positions of the video rows, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="Sequence positions of the audio rows, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "text_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="Sequence positions of the text rows.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows rather than generated rows.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows rather than generated rows.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def build_packed_sequence(
+        text_token_tags: torch.Tensor,
+        num_latent_frames: int,
+        latent_height: int,
+        latent_width: int,
+        num_audio_latents: int,
+        patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+        keyframe_anchors: tuple[str, ...] = (),
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, int, int]:
+        r"""
+        Build the `[text | keyframe conditions | target audio | target video]` layout used by the `t2va` and `fl2va`
+        tasks.
+
+        Args:
+            text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
+                The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a keyframe's vision block,
+                which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
+            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
+            latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
+            latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
+            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
+            patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+            keyframe_anchors (`tuple[str, ...]`):
+                One entry per keyframe conditioning block, in packed order: `"first"` anchors the block at the first
+                latent frame, `"last"` at the last one.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple`: `position_ids`, `token_tags`, `video_indices`, `audio_indices`, `text_indices`, and the number of
+            leading video and audio rows that are conditioning rather than generated.
+        """
+        _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+        rows_per_frame = (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
+        num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
+        num_condition_rows = len(keyframe_anchors) * rows_per_frame
+        num_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+        num_video_rows = num_latent_frames * rows_per_frame
+        sequence_length = num_text_tokens + num_condition_rows + num_audio_rows + num_video_rows
+
+        condition_start = num_text_tokens
+        audio_start = condition_start + num_condition_rows
+        video_start = audio_start + num_audio_rows
+
+        # 1. The (t, h, w) grid. Text rows sit on the time axis at their row index, and the media rows continue the time
+        # axis from there, so text length shifts the whole media clock.
+        position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
+        position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
+
+        sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
+        height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
+        width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
+        frame_grid = torch.stack(
+            [grid.reshape(-1) for grid in torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")], -1
+        )
+
+        for index, anchor in enumerate(keyframe_anchors):
+            if anchor == "first":
+                anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens)
+            elif anchor == "last":
+                anchor_time = (
+                    float(num_text_tokens) + _temporal_position_span_pairwise(num_latent_frames) - _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
+                )
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"A keyframe anchor must be 'first' or 'last', got {anchor!r}.")
+            rows = slice(condition_start + index * rows_per_frame, condition_start + (index + 1) * rows_per_frame)
+            position_ids[rows, 0] = anchor_time
+            position_ids[rows, 1:] = frame_grid
+
+        # Audio rows are channel-major and share the video's rotary clock: one unit per latent at 40 latents/s equals
+        # 24 fps * 5/3. They carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid.
+        audio_time = float(num_text_tokens) + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
+        position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 0] = audio_time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
+        position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 2] = torch.cat(
+            [
+                torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
+                torch.full((num_audio_rows - num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[-1]), dtype=torch.float64),
+            ]
+        )
+
+        video_position_ids = torch.empty(num_latent_frames, rows_per_frame, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
+        video_position_ids[:, :, 0] = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, float(num_text_tokens))[:, None]
+        video_position_ids[:, :, 1:] = frame_grid[None]
+        position_ids[video_start:] = video_position_ids.reshape(-1, 3)
+
+        # 2. Row indices and modality tags.
+        video_indices = torch.cat(
+            [torch.arange(condition_start, audio_start), torch.arange(video_start, sequence_length)]
+        )
+        audio_indices = torch.arange(audio_start, video_start)
+        text_indices = torch.arange(num_text_tokens)
+
+        token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
+        token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
+        token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
+        token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+
+        return position_ids, token_tags, video_indices, audio_indices, text_indices, num_condition_rows, 0
 
     @torch.no_grad()
     def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        # Without a keyframe to take the aspect ratio from, MiniMax-H3 generates on its own 16:9 canvas.
+        if block_state.height is None:
+            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(
+                16,
+                9,
+                components.canvas_multiple,
+                components.config.canvas_short_edge,
+                components.config.canvas_max_pixels,
+            )
+        if block_state.height % components.canvas_multiple or block_state.width % components.canvas_multiple:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {components.canvas_multiple}, got "
+                f"{block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
+            )
 
-        layout = build_packed_sequence(
+        frames_per_chunk = components.vae_frames_per_chunk
+        latents_per_chunk = components.vae_latents_per_chunk
+        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames, frames_per_chunk, latents_per_chunk)
+        if aligned_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
+            logger.warning(
+                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {block_state.num_frames} "
+                f"up to {aligned_num_frames}."
+            )
+            block_state.num_frames = aligned_num_frames
+        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
+        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        duration = block_state.num_frames / components.fps
+        if not components.min_duration <= duration <= components.max_duration:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {components.min_duration} and {components.max_duration} seconds "
+                f"at {components.fps} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE "
+                f"can encode, must be between {int(components.min_duration * components.fps)} and "
+                f"{int(components.max_duration * components.fps)}, got {block_state.num_frames}."
+            )
+
+        ratio = components.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+        block_state.num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(
+            block_state.num_frames, frames_per_chunk, latents_per_chunk
+        )
+        block_state.latent_height = block_state.height // ratio
+        block_state.latent_width = block_state.width // ratio
+        block_state.num_audio_latents = audio_latent_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
+
+        (
+            position_ids,
+            token_tags,
+            video_indices,
+            audio_indices,
+            text_indices,
+            block_state.num_condition_video_rows,
+            block_state.num_condition_audio_rows,
+        ) = self.build_packed_sequence(
             block_state.text_token_tags,
             block_state.num_latent_frames,
             block_state.latent_height,
@@ -146,53 +456,308 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
             components.patch_size,
             block_state.keyframe_anchors,
         )
-        _set_layout_state(block_state, layout, components._execution_device)
+        block_state.position_ids = position_ids.to(device)
+        block_state.token_tags = token_tags.to(device)
+        block_state.video_indices = video_indices.to(device)
+        block_state.audio_indices = audio_indices.to(device)
+        block_state.text_indices = text_indices.to(device)
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Builds the packed layout of a `ref2va` request — `[text | reference blocks | target audio | target "
-            "video]` — and its fp64 rotary grid. The reference order advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so "
-            "it is part of the layout rather than a detail of the presentation."
+            "Resolves the latent shapes of a `ref2va` request and builds its packed layout — `[text | reference "
+            "blocks | target audio | target video]` — plus its fp64 rotary grid. The reference order advances the "
+            "shared audio/video rotary clock, so it is part of the layout rather than a detail of the presentation."
         )
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
         return [
-            *_layout_inputs(),
             InputParam(
-                name="prepared_references",
-                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                name="text_token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="normalized_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
                 required=True,
-                description="The prepared references, in packed order, with their latent geometry filled in.",
+                description="The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="condition_latents",
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
+                required=True,
+                description=(
+                    "The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. "
+                    "Their shape is where every reference block's geometry comes from."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_condition_latents",
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
+                required=True,
+                description="The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.",
+            ),
+            InputParam.template("height", required=True, description="Height of the generated video in pixels."),
+            InputParam.template("width", required=True, description="Width of the generated video in pixels."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_frames",
+                type_hint=int,
+                required=True,
+                description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5.",
             ),
         ]
 
     @property
     def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
-        return _layout_outputs()
+        return [
+            OutputParam("height", type_hint=int, description="Resolved height of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("width", type_hint=int, description="Resolved width of the generated video in pixels."),
+            OutputParam("num_frames", type_hint=int, description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5."),
+            OutputParam("num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated video latent frames."),
+            OutputParam("latent_height", type_hint=int, description="Height of the generated video latents."),
+            OutputParam("latent_width", type_hint=int, description="Width of the generated video latents."),
+            OutputParam(
+                "num_audio_latents", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated audio latents per channel."
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "position_ids",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row, in float64.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="The modality tag of every row.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "video_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="Sequence positions of the video rows, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="Sequence positions of the audio rows, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "text_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description="Sequence positions of the text rows.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows rather than generated rows.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows rather than generated rows.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
+        text_token_tags: torch.Tensor,
+        references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
+        condition_latents: list[torch.Tensor],
+        audio_condition_latents: list[torch.Tensor],
+        num_latent_frames: int,
+        latent_height: int,
+        latent_width: int,
+        num_audio_latents: int,
+        patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, int, int]:
+        r"""
+        Build the `[text | reference blocks | target audio | target video]` layout of the `ref2va` task.
+
+        Args:
+            text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
+                The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a reference's vision block,
+                which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
+                The references, in packed order. Only their modality is read here; the geometry comes from the latents.
+            condition_latents (`list[torch.Tensor]`):
+                One `(1, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor per image and video reference,
+                in packed order, as [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep`] produced them.
+            audio_condition_latents (`list[torch.Tensor]`):
+                One `(num_audio_latents * 2, audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference, in packed order.
+            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
+            latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
+            latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
+            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
+            patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple`: `position_ids`, `token_tags`, `video_indices`, `audio_indices`, `text_indices`, and the number of
+            leading video and audio rows that are references rather than generated.
+        """
+        _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
+        num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
+        num_target_video_rows = num_latent_frames * (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
+        num_target_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+
+        # The geometry of every reference block is the shape of what the encoder produced for it, so the two can never
+        # disagree. Both lists are in packed order but skip the references they do not apply to, so they are consumed as
+        # iterators alongside the reference list rather than indexed by it.
+        visual_geometry = iter(tuple(latents.shape[2:5]) for latents in condition_latents)
+        audio_row_counts = iter(rows.shape[0] for rows in audio_condition_latents)
+        num_reference_video_rows = sum(
+            frames * (height // patch_h) * (width // patch_w)
+            for frames, height, width in (tuple(latents.shape[2:5]) for latents in condition_latents)
+        )
+        num_reference_audio_rows = sum(rows.shape[0] for rows in audio_condition_latents)
+        sequence_length = (
+            num_text_tokens
+            + num_reference_video_rows
+            + num_reference_audio_rows
+            + num_target_audio_rows
+            + num_target_video_rows
+        )
+
+        position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
+        position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
+        target_frame_grid, target_width_grid = _frame_position_grid(latent_height, latent_width, patch_h, patch_w)
+
+        # Reference blocks, in request order. `rotary_time` is the shared audio/video clock: it starts where the text
+        # rows end and every block pushes it forward by the time that block occupies.
+        video_indices, audio_indices = [], []
+        cursor = num_text_tokens
+        rotary_time = float(num_text_tokens)
+        for reference in references:
+            if reference.kind == "image":
+                num_latent_frames_, reference_height, reference_width = next(visual_geometry)
+                num_video_rows = num_latent_frames_ * (reference_height // patch_h) * (reference_width // patch_w)
+                rows = slice(cursor, cursor + num_video_rows)
+                cursor = rows.stop
+                video_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
+                frame_grid, _ = _frame_position_grid(reference_height, reference_width, patch_h, patch_w)
+                position_ids[rows, 0] = rotary_time
+                position_ids[rows, 1:] = frame_grid
+                # An image is a single frame and takes a single integer rotary slot, not a latent frame's 5/3 units.
+                rotary_time += 1.0
+            elif reference.kind == "audio":
+                num_audio_rows = next(audio_row_counts)
+                reference_audio_latents = num_audio_rows // MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+                rows = slice(cursor, cursor + num_audio_rows)
+                cursor = rows.stop
+                audio_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
+                _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, rows, reference_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid)
+                rotary_time += float(reference_audio_latents)
+            elif reference.kind == "video":
+                # A video reference's soundtrack rows are packed immediately before its video rows and share their
+                # origin, so the two are rotary-aligned exactly as the generated audio and video are.
+                num_audio_rows = next(audio_row_counts) if reference.has_audio else 0
+                reference_audio_latents = num_audio_rows // MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+                num_latent_frames_, reference_height, reference_width = next(visual_geometry)
+                num_video_rows = num_latent_frames_ * (reference_height // patch_h) * (reference_width // patch_w)
+                audio_rows = slice(cursor, cursor + num_audio_rows)
+                video_rows = slice(audio_rows.stop, audio_rows.stop + num_video_rows)
+                cursor = video_rows.stop
+                audio_indices.append(torch.arange(audio_rows.start, audio_rows.stop))
+                video_indices.append(torch.arange(video_rows.start, video_rows.stop))
+
+                frame_grid, width_grid = _frame_position_grid(reference_height, reference_width, patch_h, patch_w)
+                _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, audio_rows, reference_audio_latents, rotary_time, width_grid)
+                frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames_, rotary_time)
+                position_ids[video_rows, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(frame_grid.shape[0])
+                position_ids[video_rows, 1:] = frame_grid.repeat(num_latent_frames_, 1)
+                rotary_time += max(
+                    float(reference_audio_latents), _temporal_position_span_sequential(num_latent_frames_)
+                )
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"A reference must be an 'image', a 'video' or an 'audio', got {reference.kind!r}.")
+
+        # The generated rows. Target audio and target video share the origin the reference blocks left behind.
+        audio_start = cursor
+        video_start = audio_start + num_target_audio_rows
+        _fill_audio_positions(
+            position_ids, slice(audio_start, video_start), num_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid
+        )
+        frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, rotary_time)
+        position_ids[video_start:, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(target_frame_grid.shape[0])
+        position_ids[video_start:, 1:] = target_frame_grid.repeat(num_latent_frames, 1)
+
+        video_indices = torch.cat(video_indices + [torch.arange(video_start, sequence_length)])
+        audio_indices = torch.cat(audio_indices + [torch.arange(audio_start, video_start)])
+        text_indices = torch.arange(num_text_tokens)
+
+        token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
+        token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
+        token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
+        token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+
+        return (
+            position_ids,
+            token_tags,
+            video_indices,
+            audio_indices,
+            text_indices,
+            num_reference_video_rows,
+            num_reference_audio_rows,
+        )
 
     @torch.no_grad()
-    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        # The canvas and the frame count are settled by the setup step, but in a hand-assembled chain this block
+        # sees user input directly — and a canvas off the multiple floor-divides into a broken decode.
+        multiple = components.canvas_multiple
+        if block_state.height % multiple or block_state.width % multiple:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {multiple}, got {block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
+            )
+        # A `ref2va` soundtrack is truncated to the generated duration as the references are prepared, so
+        # `num_frames` has to be final before the setup step runs.
+        ratio = components.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
+        block_state.num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(
+            block_state.num_frames, components.vae_frames_per_chunk, components.vae_latents_per_chunk
+        )
+        block_state.latent_height = block_state.height // ratio
+        block_state.latent_width = block_state.width // ratio
+        block_state.num_audio_latents = audio_latent_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
 
-        layout = build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
+        (
+            position_ids,
+            token_tags,
+            video_indices,
+            audio_indices,
+            text_indices,
+            block_state.num_condition_video_rows,
+            block_state.num_condition_audio_rows,
+        ) = self.build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
             block_state.text_token_tags,
-            block_state.prepared_references,
+            block_state.normalized_references,
+            block_state.condition_latents,
+            block_state.audio_condition_latents,
             block_state.num_latent_frames,
             block_state.latent_height,
             block_state.latent_width,
             block_state.num_audio_latents,
             components.patch_size,
         )
-        _set_layout_state(block_state, layout, components._execution_device)
+        block_state.position_ids = position_ids.to(device)
+        block_state.token_tags = token_tags.to(device)
+        block_state.video_indices = video_indices.to(device)
+        block_state.audio_indices = audio_indices.to(device)
+        block_state.text_indices = text_indices.to(device)
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
@@ -204,9 +769,11 @@ class MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Draws the initial noise of the generated rows and prepends the conditioning rows. MiniMax-H3 draws the "
-            "video noise as a latent tensor and patchifies it afterwards, then the audio noise directly in row "
-            "layout — both off the request's generator, after the conditioning noise of the encoder step."
+            "Draws the noise of the generated rows and packs them: the video noise as a latent tensor first, then "
+            "the audio noise directly in row layout, both off the request's generator, in that order. Every "
+            "workflow generates the same way, so this is the same block for all of them; a request that conditions "
+            "on something noises it *before* this block — the draw order is part of what its generator reproduces — "
+            "and puts it in front of these rows after."
         )
 
     @property
@@ -242,16 +809,6 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
                 type_hint=torch.Tensor,
                 description="Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.",
             ),
-            InputParam(
-                name="condition_latents",
-                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-                description="The video conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.",
-            ),
-            InputParam(
-                name="audio_condition_latents",
-                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-                description="The audio conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.",
-            ),
         ]
 
     @property
@@ -260,92 +817,276 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
             OutputParam(
                 "latents",
                 type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-                description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+                description="The generated video rows of the packed sequence.",
             ),
             OutputParam(
                 "audio_latents",
                 type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-                description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+                description="The generated audio rows of the packed sequence, channel-major.",
             ),
         ]
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def prepare_latents(
-        components,
-        num_latent_frames: int,
-        latent_height: int,
-        latent_width: int,
-        num_audio_latents: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
-        latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-        audio_latents: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-        r"""
-        Draw the initial noise of both modalities and pack it into transformer rows.
-
-        A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that generator
-        reproduces: the conditioning noise of the keyframes or references first (one draw per condition, in
-        [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.packing.keyframe_condition_noise`]), then the video noise here, as a latent tensor
-        that is patchified afterwards, then the audio noise, directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or
-        `audio_latents` skips its draw and shifts the ones after it.
-
-        Args:
-            num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of video latent frames.
-            latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
-            latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
-            num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
-            device (`torch.device`): The device the rows are drawn on.
-            generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
-            latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
-                latent_width)`, used instead of the draw.
-            audio_latents (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`.
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+        patch_size = components.patch_size
 
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the video rows and the channel-major audio rows.
-        """
+        # A request draws every stream from the one generator it is given, and the order is part of what that
+        # generator reproduces: any conditioning noise first (drawn before this block), then the video noise as a
+        # latent tensor, then the audio noise directly in row layout. Passing `latents` or `audio_latents` skips its
+        # draw and shifts the ones after it.
+        latents = block_state.latents
         if latents is None:
             latents = randn_tensor(
-                (1, components.vae_latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
-                generator=generator,
+                (
+                    1,
+                    components.vae_latent_channels,
+                    block_state.num_latent_frames,
+                    block_state.latent_height,
+                    block_state.latent_width,
+                ),
+                generator=block_state.generator,
                 device=device,
                 dtype=torch.float32,
             )
-        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(torch.float32), components.patch_size)
+        video_rows = patchify_video_latents(latents.to(device, torch.float32), patch_size)
 
-        if audio_latents is None:
+        if block_state.audio_latents is None:
             audio_rows = randn_tensor(
-                (num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, components.audio_latent_channels),
-                generator=generator,
+                (block_state.num_audio_latents * components.audio_channels, components.audio_latent_channels),
+                generator=block_state.generator,
                 device=device,
                 dtype=torch.float32,
             )
         else:
-            audio_rows = audio_latents.to(torch.float32).permute(0, 2, 1).reshape(-1, components.audio_latent_channels)
-        return video_rows.to(device), audio_rows.to(device)
+            audio_rows = (
+                block_state.audio_latents.to(device, torch.float32)
+                .permute(0, 2, 1)
+                .reshape(-1, components.audio_latent_channels)
+            )
+
+        block_state.latents, block_state.audio_latents = video_rows, audio_rows
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3PrepareConditionLatentsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Noises the encoded visual conditioning to MiniMax-H3's conditioning level and packs it into rows — the "
+            "`fl2va` keyframes or the `ref2va` image and video references, the same recipe either way. It runs "
+            "*before* the noise of the generated rows is drawn, because a request draws one condition at a time "
+            "first and that order is part of what its generator reproduces."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler)]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam.template(
+                "generator",
+                description=(
+                    "The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per "
+                    "condition, before the noise of the generated rows."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many conditioning rows the layout reserved, which the packed conditioning must match.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="condition_latents",
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
+                required=True,
+                description=(
+                    "The encoded video conditioning latents, one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, "
+                    "latent_height, latent_width)` tensor per condition in packed order."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "condition_rows",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The noised conditioning, packed into the leading video rows of the sequence.",
+            ),
+        ]
 
     @torch.no_grad()
     def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+        patch_size = components.patch_size
 
-        latents, audio_latents = self.prepare_latents(
-            components,
-            block_state.num_latent_frames,
-            block_state.latent_height,
-            block_state.latent_width,
-            block_state.num_audio_latents,
-            components._execution_device,
-            block_state.generator,
-            block_state.latents,
-            block_state.audio_latents,
+        # One draw per condition, in packed order. Each is packed on its own because `ref2va` references are encoded
+        # at their own resolutions, so their latents do not share a shape.
+        packed = []
+        for condition in block_state.condition_latents:
+            noise = randn_tensor(condition.shape, generator=block_state.generator, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+            # The anchors are not fully clean: the released model noises them to `t = 0.999` and holds them there
+            # for every step. Mixing before the patchify is the same arithmetic, since patchify only permutes.
+            noised = components.scheduler.scale_noise(condition.to(device), components.keyframe_noise_aug, noise)
+            packed.append(patchify_video_latents(noised, patch_size))
+        block_state.condition_rows = torch.cat(packed)
+        # In a hand-assembled chain the canvas reaching the layout is user input, so it can disagree with the
+        # conditioning that was actually encoded. Left alone the mismatch first surfaces as an `index_copy` shape
+        # error inside the transformer, 50 layers deep.
+        if block_state.condition_rows.shape[0] != block_state.num_condition_video_rows:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"The layout reserved {block_state.num_condition_video_rows} conditioning rows but the encoded "
+                f"conditioning latents pack into {block_state.condition_rows.shape[0]}. The canvas the layout was "
+                "built from and the one the conditioning was encoded at do not agree."
+            )
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3FL2VAPrepareLatentsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Finishes the video rows of a `fl2va` request by putting its noised keyframe conditioning in front of "
+            "the generated rows, which is where the layout reserved it. The denoising loop only ever writes the "
+            "generated rows, so the conditioning rides through every step unchanged."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="condition_rows",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The noised keyframe conditioning, packed into rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The generated video rows of the packed sequence.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+
+        block_state.latents = torch.cat([block_state.condition_rows, block_state.latents])
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLatentsStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Finishes both streams of a `ref2va` request by putting its conditioning in front of the generated "
+            "rows, which is where the layout reserved it: the noised image and video references on the video side, "
+            "and the reference soundtracks on the audio side. The soundtracks are never noised — a reference "
+            "soundtrack conditions at `t = 0` — and the denoising loop only ever writes the generated rows, so all "
+            "of it rides through every step unchanged."
         )
-        if block_state.condition_latents is not None:
-            latents = torch.cat([block_state.condition_latents, latents])
-        if block_state.audio_condition_latents is not None:
-            audio_latents = torch.cat([block_state.audio_condition_latents, audio_latents])
-        block_state.latents, block_state.audio_latents = latents, audio_latents
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="condition_rows",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The noised conditioning of the image and video references, packed into rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The generated video rows of the packed sequence.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_condition_latents",
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
+                required=True,
+                description=(
+                    "The audio conditioning rows to prepend, one tensor per audio-bearing reference in packed "
+                    "order. Empty for a request that has none."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many reference audio rows the layout reserved, which the packed rows must match.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The generated audio rows of the packed sequence, channel-major.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
+
+        block_state.latents = torch.cat([block_state.condition_rows, block_state.latents])
+
+        if block_state.audio_condition_latents:
+            num_reference_audio_rows = sum(rows.shape[0] for rows in block_state.audio_condition_latents)
+            if num_reference_audio_rows != block_state.num_condition_audio_rows:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"The layout reserved {block_state.num_condition_audio_rows} reference audio rows but the encoded "
+                    f"soundtracks pack into {num_reference_audio_rows}. The references the layout was built from and "
+                    "the ones the audio conditioning was encoded from do not agree."
+                )
+            block_state.audio_latents = torch.cat(
+                [rows.to(device) for rows in block_state.audio_condition_latents] + [block_state.audio_latents]
+            )
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
@@ -375,10 +1116,34 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
         return [
             InputParam.template("num_inference_steps", required=True),
             InputParam(
-                name="layout",
-                type_hint=MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
+                name="video_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
                 required=True,
-                description="The structural description of the packed sequence.",
+                description="Sequence positions of the video rows, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="Sequence positions of the audio rows, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="text_indices",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="Sequence positions of the text rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows.",
             ),
         ]
 
@@ -397,6 +1162,47 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
             ),
         ]
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def build_row_timesteps(
+        video_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        audio_indices: torch.Tensor,
+        num_condition_video_rows: int,
+        num_condition_audio_rows: int,
+        num_text_tokens: int,
+        video_timestep: float,
+        audio_timestep: float,
+        condition_video_timestep: float,
+        condition_audio_timestep: float,
+    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        r"""
+        Assign a timestep to every row of the packed sequence and reduce it to the transformer's `(timestep,
+        timestep_indices)` pair.
+
+        One forward serves rows at different noise levels: the generated video and audio rows step down their own
+        schedules while the conditioning rows stay pinned at their noise-augmentation level. Text rows never reach an
+        output head and inherit the video timestep.
+
+        Args:
+            video_indices (`torch.Tensor`): Sequence positions of the video rows, conditioning rows first.
+            audio_indices (`torch.Tensor`): Sequence positions of the audio rows, reference rows first.
+            num_condition_video_rows (`int`): How many leading video rows are conditioning rows.
+            num_condition_audio_rows (`int`): How many leading audio rows are reference rows.
+            num_text_tokens (`int`): Number of text rows, which never reach an output head.
+            video_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the generated video rows.
+            audio_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the generated audio rows.
+            condition_video_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the video conditioning rows.
+            condition_audio_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the audio reference rows.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the distinct timesteps, sorted, and the index of every row into them.
+        """
+        sequence_length = int(video_indices.numel() + audio_indices.numel() + num_text_tokens)
+        row_timesteps = torch.full((sequence_length,), video_timestep, dtype=torch.float32)
+        row_timesteps[video_indices[:num_condition_video_rows]] = condition_video_timestep
+        row_timesteps[audio_indices[num_condition_audio_rows:]] = audio_timestep
+        row_timesteps[audio_indices[:num_condition_audio_rows]] = condition_audio_timestep
+        return torch.unique(row_timesteps, sorted=True, return_inverse=True)
+
     @torch.no_grad()
     def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
@@ -410,11 +1216,15 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         block_state.row_timestep_plan = [
             tuple(
                 tensor.to(device)
-                for tensor in build_row_timesteps(
-                    block_state.layout,
+                for tensor in self.build_row_timesteps(
+                    block_state.video_indices,
+                    block_state.audio_indices,
+                    block_state.num_condition_video_rows,
+                    block_state.num_condition_audio_rows,
+                    block_state.text_indices.numel(),
                     float(timestep),
                     float(audio_timestep),
-                    max(float(timestep), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG),
+                    max(float(timestep), components.keyframe_noise_aug),
                     1.0,
                 )
             )
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index 88978bb6ff77..d493eb29f636 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -12,96 +12,62 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import math
+
+import numpy as np
 import PIL
 import torch
-from PIL import Image, ImageOps
+from PIL import Image
 
+from ...configuration_utils import FrozenDict
+from ...image_processor import VaeImageProcessor
 from ...utils import logging
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
-from ..modular_pipeline_utils import InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
-from .packing import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
+from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, ConfigSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
+from .modular_pipeline import (
     MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION,
+    MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
     align_num_frames,
-    audio_latent_num_frames,
-    prepare_keyframe_image,
     resolve_canvas_size,
-    video_latent_num_frames,
 )
-from .packing_ref2va import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES,
-    MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
+from .references import (
+    MiniMaxH3AudioReference,
+    MiniMaxH3ImageReference,
     MiniMaxH3Reference,
-    prepare_reference_frames,
-    prepare_reference_image,
-    prepare_reference_waveform,
-    reference_kind,
-    reference_media_to_uint8,
-    resample_reference_frames,
-    resolve_reference_image_size,
+    MiniMaxH3VideoReference,
 )
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
-def _latent_geometry(components, height: int, width: int, num_frames: int) -> tuple[int, int, int, int]:
-    r"""The latent geometry the packed layout, the noise draws and the decoders all key off."""
-    ratio = components.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
-    return video_latent_num_frames(num_frames), height // ratio, width // ratio, audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames)
-
-
-def _latent_geometry_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
-    r"""The declaration of what [`_latent_geometry`] resolves, shared by the two setup blocks."""
-    return [
-        OutputParam("num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated video latent frames."),
-        OutputParam("latent_height", type_hint=int, description="Height of the generated video latents."),
-        OutputParam("latent_width", type_hint=int, description="Width of the generated video latents."),
-        OutputParam("num_audio_latents", type_hint=int, description="Number of generated audio latents per channel."),
-    ]
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3SetupStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+class MiniMaxH3ResizeStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Resolves the plan shared by the `t2va` and `fl2va` tasks: the canvas (MiniMax-H3's own 768-short-edge "
-            "geometry for the aspect ratio of the first keyframe, or 16:9 without keyframes), the `17 * n + 5` frame "
-            "count the video VAE can decode, the latent geometry every later block keys off, and the keyframes put "
-            "onto that canvas."
+            "Puts the `fl2va` keyframes onto the target canvas — MiniMax-H3's own 768-short-edge geometry for the "
+            "aspect ratio of the first keyframe unless `height` and `width` say otherwise. The canvas resolved here "
+            "is the one the whole request generates at."
         )
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _check_inputs(block_state) -> None:
-        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
-            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
-        if block_state.height is not None and (
-            block_state.height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or block_state.width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
-        ):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got "
-                f"{block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
-            )
-        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
-        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
-        duration = aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
-        if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
-                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
-                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {block_state.num_frames} (rounded up to "
-                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
-            )
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec(
+                "image_processor",
+                VaeImageProcessor,
+                config=FrozenDict({"vae_scale_factor": 16}),
+                default_creation_method="from_config",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def expected_configs(self) -> list[ConfigSpec]:
+        # The canvas MiniMax-H3 was released for. Every block that resolves one declares these, so a fine-tune that
+        # generates at another resolution is configured rather than patched.
+        return [ConfigSpec("canvas_short_edge", 768), ConfigSpec("canvas_max_pixels", 768 * 1344)]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
@@ -124,15 +90,6 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
             ),
             InputParam.template("height", description="Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
             InputParam.template("width", description="Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
-            InputParam(
-                name="num_frames",
-                type_hint=int,
-                default=124,
-                description=(
-                    "Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video "
-                    "VAE can decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds."
-                ),
-            ),
         ]
 
     @property
@@ -140,117 +97,125 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         return [
             OutputParam("height", type_hint=int, description="Resolved height of the generated video in pixels."),
             OutputParam("width", type_hint=int, description="Resolved width of the generated video in pixels."),
-            OutputParam("num_frames", type_hint=int, description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5."),
-            *_latent_geometry_outputs(),
             OutputParam(
                 "keyframes",
                 type_hint=list,
-                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order (empty for `t2va`).",
+                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.",
             ),
             OutputParam(
                 "keyframe_anchors",
                 type_hint=tuple,
-                description="Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.",
+                description=(
+                    "Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order. Positional with "
+                    "`keyframes`, so both are resolved here."
+                ),
             ),
         ]
 
     @torch.no_grad()
     def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
-        self._check_inputs(block_state)
 
-        keyframes = [
-            ImageOps.exif_transpose(keyframe).convert("RGB")
-            for keyframe in (block_state.image, block_state.last_image)
-            if keyframe is not None
-        ]
+        keyframes = [keyframe for keyframe in (block_state.image, block_state.last_image) if keyframe is not None]
         block_state.keyframe_anchors = tuple(
             anchor
             for anchor, keyframe in (("first", block_state.image), ("last", block_state.last_image))
             if keyframe is not None
         )
         if block_state.height is None:
-            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(*(keyframes[0].size if keyframes else (16, 9)))
-
-        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
-        if aligned_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
-            logger.warning(
-                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {block_state.num_frames} "
-                f"up to {aligned_num_frames}."
+            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(
+                *keyframes[0].size,
+                components.canvas_multiple,
+                components.config.canvas_short_edge,
+                components.config.canvas_max_pixels,
             )
-            block_state.num_frames = aligned_num_frames
-
-        (
-            block_state.num_latent_frames,
-            block_state.latent_height,
-            block_state.latent_width,
-            block_state.num_audio_latents,
-        ) = _latent_geometry(components, block_state.height, block_state.width, block_state.num_frames)
-
-        block_state.keyframes = [
-            prepare_keyframe_image(keyframe, block_state.height, block_state.width, stretch=index == 0)
-            for index, keyframe in enumerate(keyframes)
-        ]
+
+        prepared = []
+        for index, keyframe in enumerate(keyframes):
+            if keyframe.size == (block_state.width, block_state.height):
+                prepared.append(keyframe)
+            elif index == 0:
+                # The geometry anchor is stretched onto the canvas. `resize_mode="default"` is exactly PIL's
+                # `resize((width, height), LANCZOS)`, verified pixel-identical across aspect ratios.
+                prepared.append(
+                    components.image_processor.resize(keyframe, height=block_state.height, width=block_state.width)
+                )
+            else:
+                # The follower is cover-cropped. `VaeImageProcessor`'s `resize_mode="crop"` is *not* a drop-in here:
+                # it sizes with floor division and centres with `w // 2 - src_w // 2`, where MiniMax-H3 rounds and
+                # centres with `(src_w - w) // 2`. The two agree on some aspect ratios and differ by a pixel on
+                # others (106 of 218 sampled), which would move the conditioning latents off the reference
+                # implementation, so the released model's arithmetic is kept.
+                scale = max(block_state.width / keyframe.size[0], block_state.height / keyframe.size[1])
+                resized_size = (
+                    max(block_state.width, round(keyframe.size[0] * scale)),
+                    max(block_state.height, round(keyframe.size[1] * scale)),
+                )
+                left = max(0, (resized_size[0] - block_state.width) // 2)
+                top = max(0, (resized_size[1] - block_state.height) // 2)
+                resized = keyframe.resize(resized_size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
+                prepared.append(resized.crop((left, top, left + block_state.width, top + block_state.height)))
+        block_state.keyframes = prepared
+
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        max_images: int = 9,
+        max_videos: int = 3,
+        max_audios: int = 3,
+        max_references: int = 12,
+        reference_image_short_edge: int = 2048,
+    ):
+        r"""
+        Resolve a `ref2va` request's plan and normalize its references onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions.
+
+        Args:
+            max_images (`int`, defaults to 9): Image references a request may carry.
+            max_videos (`int`, defaults to 3): Video references a request may carry.
+            max_audios (`int`, defaults to 3): Audio references a request may carry.
+            max_references (`int`, defaults to 12): References of any modality a request may carry in total.
+            reference_image_short_edge (`int`, defaults to 2048):
+                The short edge an image reference is resized to, upscaling included.
+
+        The limits are what MiniMax-H3 documents for the released checkpoint; they bound nothing but this block's own
+        validation, so a fine-tune that packs more can raise them.
+        """
+        self.max_images = max_images
+        self.max_videos = max_videos
+        self.max_audios = max_audios
+        self.max_references = max_references
+        self.reference_image_short_edge = reference_image_short_edge
+        super().__init__()
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Resolves the `ref2va` plan: the canvas (MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 unless asked otherwise — references never "
-            "bind the generated geometry), the references prepared at their own resolutions, the frame count they "
-            "imply when it was left open, and the latent geometry every later block keys off."
+            "Resolves the `ref2va` plan — the canvas (MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 unless asked otherwise; references never "
+            "bind the generated geometry) and the `17 * n + 5` frame count — and normalizes every reference onto "
+            "MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions."
         )
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _check_inputs(components, block_state) -> None:
-        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
-            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
-        if block_state.height is not None and (
-            block_state.height % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE or block_state.width % MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
-        ):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE}, got "
-                f"{block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
-            )
-        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
-        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-        aligned_num_frames = None if block_state.num_frames is None else align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames)
-        duration = None if aligned_num_frames is None else aligned_num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS
-        if duration is not None and not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} and {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds at "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_FPS} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
-                f"encode, must be between {int(MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)} and "
-                f"{int(MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION * MINIMAX_H3_FPS)}, got {block_state.num_frames} (rounded up to "
-                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
-            )
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec(
+                "image_processor",
+                VaeImageProcessor,
+                config=FrozenDict({"vae_scale_factor": 16}),
+                default_creation_method="from_config",
+            ),
+        ]
 
-        if not block_state.references:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "`ref2va` needs at least one reference; use `MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline` for text-only requests."
-            )
-        kinds = [reference_kind(index, entry) for index, entry in enumerate(block_state.references)]
-        for kind, limit in (
-            ("image", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES),
-            ("video", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS),
-            ("audio", MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS),
-        ):
-            if kinds.count(kind) > limit:
-                raise ValueError(f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {limit} {kind} references, got {kinds.count(kind)}.")
-        if len(kinds) > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES} references in total, got {len(kinds)}."
-            )
-        if set(kinds) == {"audio"}:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "An audio reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference and cannot be used "
-                "on its own."
-            )
+    @property
+    def expected_configs(self) -> list[ConfigSpec]:
+        # The canvas MiniMax-H3 was released for, which a video reference is put on as well.
+        return [ConfigSpec("canvas_short_edge", 768), ConfigSpec("canvas_max_pixels", 768 * 1344)]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
@@ -262,11 +227,12 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
                 description=(
                     "The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels "
                     "them in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different "
-                    "order is a different request. Every [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] carries exactly one medium, a path or "
-                    "in-memory media — `image` (at most 9), `video` at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` "
-                    "soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or `audio` at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at "
-                    "most 12 references in total, and audio references cannot be the only ones. A path is decoded "
-                    "when the reference is built, so these blocks only ever see pixels and samples."
+                    "order is a different request. One dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a "
+                    "[`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most 9), a [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most "
+                    "3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or a [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its "
+                    "own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio references cannot "
+                    "be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file: decode with each class's `from_file` "
+                    "classmethod, which brings the rates along."
                 ),
             ),
             InputParam.template("height", description="Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32."),
@@ -274,10 +240,11 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
             InputParam(
                 name="num_frames",
                 type_hint=int,
+                required=True,
                 description=(
                     "Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video "
-                    "VAE can decode. May be left out, but only when exactly one reference carries audio, in which "
-                    "case the duration is that soundtrack's."
+                    "VAE can decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video "
+                    "as long as a reference soundtrack, pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`."
                 ),
             ),
         ]
@@ -288,121 +255,234 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
             OutputParam("height", type_hint=int, description="Resolved height of the generated video in pixels."),
             OutputParam("width", type_hint=int, description="Resolved width of the generated video in pixels."),
             OutputParam("num_frames", type_hint=int, description="Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5."),
-            *_latent_geometry_outputs(),
             OutputParam(
-                "prepared_references",
-                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
-                description="The references prepared at their own resolutions, in packed order.",
+                "normalized_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
+                description=(
+                    "The references normalized onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions, in packed order: the "
+                    "same public reference types the request passed in, with an image resized to its own "
+                    "2048 pixel short edge, a video resampled onto 24 fps and onto the canvas its own aspect ratio "
+                    "resolves to, and a soundtrack put on the audio VAE's sample rate and truncated to the generated "
+                    "duration."
+                ),
             ),
         ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    def prepare_references(
-        components, references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference], num_frames: int | None
-    ) -> tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]:
+    def _normalize_video_condition(
+        frames, fps: float, num_frames: int, canvas_multiple: int, canvas_short_edge: int, canvas_max_pixels: int
+    ) -> np.ndarray:
         r"""
-        Resolve the references and, if it was left open, the duration they imply.
+        Normalize a video reference's frames: any accepted layout, onto `uint8` at 24 fps, truncated to the generated
+        frame count, on the canvas its own aspect ratio resolves to.
 
-        Every reference is prepared at its own resolution: an image is resized to a 2048 pixel short edge, a video is
-        resampled onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps, rescaled onto the 768 pixel canvas of *its own* aspect ratio and
-        truncated to the generated frame count, and a soundtrack is put on the audio VAE's sample rate and truncated to
-        the generated duration. None of this touches the target canvas.
-
-        A reference that left its `fps` or its `sample_rate` out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own rate, and
-        its frames or its samples then flow through untouched.
-
-        A video reference goes through the two passes the reference implementation's `ffmpeg` decode applied, in the
-        same order: the constant frame rate resample of `resample_reference_frames` and the LANCZOS rescale of
-        `prepare_reference_frames`. Frames handed over at 24 fps and already at the canvas their own aspect ratio
-        resolves to therefore reach the VAE untouched, which is the parity-exact route.
+        The two passes reproduce the reference implementation's `ffmpeg` decode, in the same order: the constant frame
+        rate resample first (dropping and duplicating whole frames, as `ffmpeg`'s `fps` filter does), the LANCZOS
+        rescale second. Frames handed over at 24 fps and already at the canvas their own aspect ratio resolves to flow
+        through untouched, which is the parity-exact route: the reference rescaled with `ffmpeg`'s own LANCZOS while
+        decoding, so only frames decoded at the canvas reproduce its pixels bit for bit.
 
         Args:
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
-                The `references` input of a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request.
-            num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
-                The requested frame count, or `None` to derive it from the single audio-bearing reference.
+            frames (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`):
+                The reference frames: a list of images, a `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` array or a
+                `(num_frames, 3, height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`.
+            fps (`float`): The frame rate `frames` carries.
+            num_frames (`int`): The generated frame count the reference is truncated to.
+            canvas_multiple (`int`): What both canvas axes round to, i.e. `components.canvas_multiple`.
+            canvas_short_edge (`int`), canvas_max_pixels (`int`):
+                The canvas rule the reference is put on, i.e. `components.config.canvas_short_edge` and
+                `components.config.canvas_max_pixels` — the same one the generated video follows.
 
         Returns:
-            `tuple[list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], int]`: the prepared references, in packed order, and the frame
-            count.
+            `np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`: the normalized `uint8` RGB frames.
         """
-        resolved = [
-            MiniMaxH3PreparedReference(kind=reference_kind(index, entry), has_audio=entry.has_audio)
-            for index, entry in enumerate(references)
-        ]
+        # Any accepted layout onto `uint8` THWC. A `torch.Tensor` is channels-first, as everywhere else in
+        # diffusers, and a `np.ndarray` channels-last; floating point values are read over `[0, 1]`.
+        if isinstance(frames, list):
+            frames = np.stack([np.asarray(frame.convert("RGB")) for frame in frames])
+        if isinstance(frames, torch.Tensor):
+            frames = frames.movedim(-3, -1).cpu().numpy()
+        frames = np.asarray(frames)
+        if frames.dtype != np.uint8:
+            frames = (frames * 255.0).round().clip(0, 255).astype(np.uint8)
+        if frames.ndim != 4 or frames.shape[3] != 3:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"A reference video must be `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` RGB frames, got {tuple(frames.shape)}."
+            )
 
-        # The duration may be left open, but then exactly one reference may carry audio, or the request is ambiguous.
-        if num_frames is None:
-            audio_bearing = [index for index, reference in enumerate(resolved) if reference.has_audio]
-            if len(audio_bearing) != 1:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "`num_frames` may only be left to the references when exactly one of them carries audio, got "
-                    f"{len(audio_bearing)}."
-                )
-            index = audio_bearing[0]
-            sample_rate = references[index].sample_rate or components.audio_sampling_rate
-            duration = references[index].audio.shape[-1] / sample_rate
-            if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION <= duration <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, outside the "
-                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION} to {MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates."
-                )
-            num_frames = align_num_frames(round(duration * MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
-            # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the
-            # ceiling has to hold for: a 14.99 second soundtrack rounds up to 362 frames, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-            if num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"`references[{index}]` is {duration:g} seconds long, which rounds up to {num_frames} frames "
-                    f"(`17 * n + 5`), i.e. {num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS:g} seconds — past the "
-                    f"{MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION} seconds MiniMax-H3 generates. Pass `num_frames` to generate a "
-                    "shorter video from this soundtrack."
-                )
-        num_frames = align_num_frames(num_frames)
+        # Onto MiniMax-H3's 24 fps grid: every frame is held until the slot of the next one, and the last one until
+        # the slot the stream's end rounds to.
+        if fps <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"A reference video must have a positive frame rate, got {fps}.")
+        if fps != MINIMAX_H3_FPS:
+            scale = MINIMAX_H3_FPS / fps
+            slots = np.floor(np.arange(frames.shape[0]) * scale + 0.5).astype(np.int64)
+            frames = np.repeat(frames, np.diff(slots, append=math.floor(frames.shape[0] * scale + 0.5)), axis=0)
+
+        # Truncated to the generated frame count and put on the canvas of its *own* aspect ratio — the same rule the
+        # target canvas follows, unlike an image reference.
+        frames = frames[:num_frames]
+        height, width = resolve_canvas_size(
+            frames.shape[2], frames.shape[1], canvas_multiple, canvas_short_edge, canvas_max_pixels
+        )
+        if frames.shape[1:3] == (height, width):
+            return frames
+        return np.stack(
+            [np.asarray(Image.fromarray(frame).resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)) for frame in frames]
+        )
 
-        for reference, entry in zip(resolved, references):
-            if reference.kind == "image":
-                image = entry.image
-                if not isinstance(image, Image.Image):
-                    image = Image.fromarray(reference_media_to_uint8(image))
-                image = ImageOps.exif_transpose(image).convert("RGB")
-                height, width = resolve_reference_image_size(*image.size)
-                reference.image = prepare_reference_image(image, height, width)
-            elif reference.kind == "video":
-                frames = resample_reference_frames(reference_media_to_uint8(entry.video), float(entry.fps))
-                reference.frames = prepare_reference_frames(frames, num_frames)
-            if reference.has_audio:
-                reference.waveform = prepare_reference_waveform(
-                    entry.audio,
-                    entry.sample_rate or components.audio_sampling_rate,
-                    components.audio_sampling_rate,
-                    max_duration=num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
-                )
-        return resolved, num_frames
+    @staticmethod
+    def _normalize_audio_condition(
+        waveform: torch.Tensor, sample_rate: int, target_sample_rate: int, max_duration: float
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        r"""
+        Normalize a reference soundtrack onto the audio VAE's sample rate, as a stereo waveform.
+
+        The reference implementation extracts a soundtrack at a native rate, truncates it there and resamples it once,
+        in torch, which this mirrors: the truncation is applied at `sample_rate` and the resampling is a single
+        `torchaudio` pass. A mono waveform is upmixed by repeating its channel.
+
+        Args:
+            waveform (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`): The soundtrack, mono or stereo.
+            sample_rate (`int`): The sample rate `waveform` carries its samples at.
+            target_sample_rate (`int`): The audio VAE's sample rate, i.e. what the waveform is resampled to.
+            max_duration (`float`): Truncate the reference to this many seconds.
+
+        Returns:
+            `torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, num_samples)`: the float32 waveform.
+        """
+        waveform = torch.as_tensor(waveform)
+        if waveform.ndim != 2 or waveform.shape[0] not in (1, 2):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "A reference soundtrack must be a `(channels, num_samples)` mono or stereo waveform, got "
+                f"{tuple(waveform.shape)}."
+            )
+        waveform = waveform.to(torch.float32)[:, : int(max_duration * sample_rate)]
+        if waveform.shape[0] != 2:
+            waveform = waveform.expand(2, -1).contiguous()
+        if sample_rate == target_sample_rate:
+            return waveform
+
+        try:
+            import torchaudio
+        except ImportError as error:
+            raise ImportError(
+                f"Resampling a MiniMax-H3 reference soundtrack from {sample_rate} Hz to {target_sample_rate} Hz "
+                "needs `torchaudio`. Pass a waveform already at the audio VAE's sample rate to do without it."
+            ) from error
+        return torchaudio.transforms.Resample(sample_rate, target_sample_rate)(waveform)
 
     @torch.no_grad()
-    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
-        self._check_inputs(components, block_state)
 
-        if block_state.height is None:
-            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(16, 9)
+        # 1. Validate the request.
+        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
+        multiple = components.canvas_multiple
+        if block_state.height is not None and (block_state.height % multiple or block_state.width % multiple):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`height` and `width` must be multiples of {multiple}, got {block_state.height}x{block_state.width}."
+            )
+        if not block_state.references:
+            raise ValueError("`ref2va` needs at least one reference; use the `t2va` workflow for text-only requests.")
+        for index, entry in enumerate(block_state.references):
+            if not isinstance(entry, MiniMaxH3Reference):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"`references[{index}]` must be a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`], [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] or "
+                    f"[`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`], got {type(entry)}. MiniMax-H3 blocks never open media files, so a "
+                    "request that holds paths decodes them first, with each class's `from_file` classmethod."
+                )
+        kinds = [entry.kind for entry in block_state.references]
+        for kind, limit in (("image", self.max_images), ("video", self.max_videos), ("audio", self.max_audios)):
+            if kinds.count(kind) > limit:
+                raise ValueError(f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {limit} {kind} references, got {kinds.count(kind)}.")
+        if len(kinds) > self.max_references:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 accepts at most {self.max_references} references in total, got {len(kinds)}."
+            )
+        if set(kinds) == {"audio"}:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "An audio reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference and cannot be used "
+                "on its own."
+            )
 
-        requested_num_frames = block_state.num_frames
-        block_state.prepared_references, block_state.num_frames = self.prepare_references(
-            components, block_state.references, block_state.num_frames
+        # 2. Resolve the canvas and the frame count. The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned*
+        # frame count, so that is what the ceiling holds for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be
+        # rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        if block_state.height is None:
+            block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(
+                16, 9, multiple, components.config.canvas_short_edge, components.config.canvas_max_pixels
+            )
+        aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(
+            block_state.num_frames, components.vae_frames_per_chunk, components.vae_latents_per_chunk
         )
-        if requested_num_frames is not None and requested_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
+        duration = aligned_num_frames / components.fps
+        if not components.min_duration <= duration <= components.max_duration:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {components.min_duration} and {components.max_duration} seconds at "
+                f"{components.fps} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
+                f"encode, must be between {int(components.min_duration * components.fps)} and "
+                f"{int(components.max_duration * components.fps)}, got {block_state.num_frames} (rounded up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
+            )
+        if aligned_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
             logger.warning(
-                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {requested_num_frames} up "
-                f"to {block_state.num_frames}."
+                f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {block_state.num_frames} "
+                f"up to {aligned_num_frames}."
             )
+        block_state.num_frames = aligned_num_frames
+
+        # 3. Normalize the media, in packed order.
+        normalized = []
+        for entry in block_state.references:
+            waveform = None
+            if entry.has_audio:
+                sample_rate = entry.sample_rate
+                if sample_rate is None:
+                    sample_rate = components.audio_sampling_rate
+                waveform = self._normalize_audio_condition(
+                    entry.audio,
+                    sample_rate,
+                    components.audio_sampling_rate,
+                    max_duration=block_state.num_frames / components.fps,
+                )
 
-        (
-            block_state.num_latent_frames,
-            block_state.latent_height,
-            block_state.latent_width,
-            block_state.num_audio_latents,
-        ) = _latent_geometry(components, block_state.height, block_state.width, block_state.num_frames)
+            if entry.kind == "image":
+                # Images are encoded at high detail — a 2048 pixel short edge, upscaling included, with *no* area
+                # cap — unlike video references and the target itself, which share the one canvas rule. Expected in
+                # RGB, as `load_image` returns.
+                image = entry.image
+                if image.size[0] <= 0 or image.size[1] <= 0:
+                    raise ValueError(f"A reference image must have a positive size, got {image.size}.")
+                width, height = image.size
+                if width > 4 * height or height > 4 * width:
+                    raise ValueError(f"A reference image must be within 1:4 and 4:1, got {width}x{height}.")
+                scale = self.reference_image_short_edge / min(width, height)
+                target_height = max(multiple, round(height * scale / multiple) * multiple)
+                target_width = max(multiple, round(width * scale / multiple) * multiple)
+                if image.size != (target_width, target_height):
+                    image = components.image_processor.resize(image, height=target_height, width=target_width)
+                normalized.append(MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=image))
+            elif entry.kind == "video":
+                normalized.append(
+                    MiniMaxH3VideoReference(
+                        frames=self._normalize_video_condition(
+                            entry.frames,
+                            float(entry.fps),
+                            block_state.num_frames,
+                            multiple,
+                            components.config.canvas_short_edge,
+                            components.config.canvas_max_pixels,
+                        ),
+                        fps=float(components.fps),
+                        audio=waveform,
+                        sample_rate=None if waveform is None else components.audio_sampling_rate,
+                    )
+                )
+            else:
+                normalized.append(MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=components.audio_sampling_rate))
+        block_state.normalized_references = normalized
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
index fc4ee359267b..6620d8a36996 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
@@ -21,27 +21,122 @@
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
 from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
-from .packing import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
-    unpack_audio_tokens,
-    unpatchify_video_tokens,
-)
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
+class MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Turns the denoised rows of the packed sequence back into latents: drops the conditioning rows the loop "
+            "never wrote, then unpacks the video rows into `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, "
+            "latent_width)` and the channel-major audio rows into the `(2, audio_latent_channels, num_audio_latents)` "
+            "the mono audio VAE consumes. The decoders then take latents from any source, and popping them leaves "
+            "latents in hand."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The denoised video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The denoised audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_video_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows and are dropped here.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_condition_audio_rows",
+                type_hint=int,
+                default=0,
+                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows and are dropped here.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Number of video latent frames."
+            ),
+            InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
+            InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
+            InputParam(
+                name="num_audio_latents",
+                type_hint=int,
+                required=True,
+                description="Number of audio latents per channel.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, "
+                "latent_height, latent_width)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        patch_t, patch_h, patch_w = components.patch_size
+        channels = components.vae_latent_channels
+
+        # The inverse of the patchify in the prepare-latents step: rows are frame-major then row-major.
+        rows = block_state.latents[block_state.num_condition_video_rows :]
+        rows = rows.reshape(
+            -1,
+            block_state.num_latent_frames // patch_t,
+            block_state.latent_height // patch_h,
+            block_state.latent_width // patch_w,
+            channels,
+            patch_t,
+            patch_h,
+            patch_w,
+        )
+        rows = rows.permute(0, 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7)
+        block_state.latents = rows.reshape(
+            -1, channels, block_state.num_latent_frames, block_state.latent_height, block_state.latent_width
+        ).contiguous()
+
+        # Audio rows are channel-major, and the mono audio VAE takes the two stereo channels as two batch items.
+        audio_rows = block_state.audio_latents[block_state.num_condition_audio_rows :]
+        audio_rows = audio_rows.reshape(components.audio_channels, block_state.num_audio_latents, audio_rows.shape[-1])
+        block_state.audio_latents = audio_rows.permute(0, 2, 1).contiguous()
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
 class MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Unpacks the generated video rows back into latents, denormalizes them and decodes them into video. The "
-            "spatial tiling of the video VAE covers the canvas exactly, so the decoded frames need no crop back, but "
-            "the decode itself runs under float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32, and the VAE "
-            "produces ImageNet-normalized RGB that is reverted here."
+            "Denormalizes the generated video latents and decodes them into video. The spatial tiling of the video "
+            "VAE covers the canvas exactly, so the decoded frames need no crop back, but the decode itself runs under "
+            "float16 autocast even though the VAE weights are float32, and the VAE produces ImageNet-normalized RGB "
+            "that is reverted here."
         )
 
     @property
@@ -65,22 +160,9 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
                 name="latents",
                 type_hint=torch.Tensor,
                 required=True,
-                description="The denoised video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
-            ),
-            InputParam(
-                name="num_condition_video_rows",
-                type_hint=int,
-                default=0,
-                description="How many leading video rows are conditioning rows and are dropped here.",
-            ),
-            InputParam(
-                name="num_latent_frames", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Number of video latent frames."
-            ),
-            InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
-            InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
-            InputParam.template(
-                "output_type", description="Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents."
+                description="The generated video latents.",
             ),
+            InputParam.template("output_type", description="Output format: 'pil', 'np' or 'pt'."),
         ]
 
     @property
@@ -92,29 +174,16 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         device = components._execution_device
 
-        latents = unpatchify_video_tokens(
-            block_state.latents[block_state.num_condition_video_rows :],
-            block_state.num_latent_frames,
-            block_state.latent_height,
-            block_state.latent_width,
-            components.vae_latent_channels,
-            components.patch_size,
-        )
         latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
         latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents = latents * latents_std + latents_mean
-
-        if block_state.output_type == "latent":
-            block_state.videos = latents
-        else:
-            with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
-                video = components.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
-            pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-            pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-            video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
-            block_state.videos = components.video_processor.postprocess_video(
-                video, output_type=block_state.output_type
-            )
+        latents = block_state.latents * latents_std + latents_mean
+
+        with torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=torch.float16, enabled=device.type == "cuda"):
+            video = components.vae.decode(latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(components.pixel_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        pixel_std = torch.tensor(components.pixel_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+        video = (video.float() * pixel_std + pixel_mean).clamp(0, 1)
+        block_state.videos = components.video_processor.postprocess_video(video, output_type=block_state.output_type)
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
@@ -126,8 +195,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Unpacks the generated audio rows back into latents, denormalizes them and decodes them into a stereo "
-            "waveform. The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items."
+            "Denormalizes the generated audio latents and decodes them into a stereo waveform. The audio VAE is mono "
+            "and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items."
         )
 
     @property
@@ -141,22 +210,7 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
                 name="audio_latents",
                 type_hint=torch.Tensor,
                 required=True,
-                description="The denoised audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
-            ),
-            InputParam(
-                name="num_condition_audio_rows",
-                type_hint=int,
-                default=0,
-                description="How many leading audio rows are reference rows and are dropped here.",
-            ),
-            InputParam(
-                name="num_audio_latents",
-                type_hint=int,
-                required=True,
-                description="Number of audio latents per channel.",
-            ),
-            InputParam.template(
-                "output_type", description="Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents."
+                description="The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.",
             ),
         ]
 
@@ -180,18 +234,12 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         device = components._execution_device
 
-        audio_latents = unpack_audio_tokens(
-            block_state.audio_latents[block_state.num_condition_audio_rows :], block_state.num_audio_latents
-        )
         audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
         audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1)
-        audio_latents = audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
+        audio_latents = block_state.audio_latents * audio_latents_std + audio_latents_mean
 
-        if block_state.output_type == "latent":
-            block_state.audio = audio_latents
-        else:
-            audio = components.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
-            block_state.audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
+        audio = components.audio_vae.decode(audio_latents, return_dict=False)[0]
+        block_state.audio = audio.float().permute(1, 0, 2)
         block_state.sampling_rate = components.audio_sampling_rate
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py
index d149273371bb..2f2ce59bfda6 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/denoise.py
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import inspect
+
 import torch
 
 from ...models import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
@@ -24,100 +26,28 @@
     PipelineState,
 )
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
-def _denoiser_inputs() -> list[InputParam]:
-    r"""Everything one MiniMax-H3 forward reads, beyond the transformer itself."""
-    return [
-        InputParam(
-            name="latents",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="audio_latents",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
-        ),
-        InputParam.template("prompt_embeds"),
-        InputParam(
-            name="row_timestep_plan",
-            type_hint=list,
-            required=True,
-            description="One `(timestep, timestep_indices)` pair per step.",
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="token_tags", type_hint=torch.Tensor, required=True, description="The modality tag of every row."
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="position_ids",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row.",
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="video_indices",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="Sequence positions of the video rows.",
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="audio_indices",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="Sequence positions of the audio rows.",
-        ),
-        InputParam(
-            name="text_indices",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            required=True,
-            description="Sequence positions of the text rows.",
-        ),
-        InputParam.template("attention_kwargs"),
-    ]
-
-
-def _denoiser_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
-    return [
-        OutputParam(
-            "noise_pred", type_hint=torch.Tensor, description="Predicted velocity of the video rows of the sequence."
-        ),
-        OutputParam(
-            "audio_noise_pred",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            description="Predicted velocity of the audio rows of the sequence.",
-        ),
-    ]
-
-
-def _predict_velocity(transformer: MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel, block_state: BlockState, i: int):
-    r"""One MiniMax-H3 forward pass: every row of the packed sequence, at its own noise level, at once."""
-    unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = block_state.row_timestep_plan[i]
-    return transformer(
-        hidden_states=block_state.latents[None],
-        audio_hidden_states=block_state.audio_latents[None],
-        encoder_hidden_states=block_state.prompt_embeds,
-        timestep=unique_timesteps,
-        timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
-        token_tags=block_state.token_tags,
-        position_ids=block_state.position_ids,
-        video_indices=block_state.video_indices,
-        audio_indices=block_state.audio_indices,
-        text_indices=block_state.text_indices,
-        attention_kwargs=block_state.attention_kwargs,
-        return_dict=False,
-    )
-
-
 class MiniMaxH3LoopDenoiser(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
+    def __init__(self, transformer_name: str = "transformer"):
+        r"""
+        Run the one MiniMax-H3 forward pass of a denoising iteration.
+
+        Args:
+            transformer_name (`str`, defaults to `"transformer"`):
+                The component the forward runs against. One repository holds both checkpoint partitions —
+                `transformer/` for `t2va`/`fl2va` and `transformer_ref/` for `ref2va` — under different component
+                names, so which partition a loop drives is configuration, not a separate block.
+        """
+        self.transformer_name = transformer_name
+        super().__init__()
+
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
@@ -128,52 +58,84 @@ def description(self) -> str:
 
     @property
     def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
-        return [ComponentSpec("transformer", MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel)]
+        return [ComponentSpec(self.transformer_name, MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel)]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
-        return _denoiser_inputs()
+        return [
+            InputParam(
+                name="latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                name="audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                required=True,
+                description="The channel-major audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.",
+            ),
+            InputParam.template("prompt_embeds"),
+            InputParam(
+                name="row_timestep_plan",
+                type_hint=list,
+                required=True,
+                description="One `(timestep, timestep_indices)` pair per step.",
+            ),
+            InputParam(
+                kwargs_type="denoiser_input_fields",
+                description=(
+                    "The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, "
+                    "`position_ids` and the three row-index tensors."
+                ),
+            ),
+            InputParam.template("attention_kwargs"),
+        ]
 
     @property
     def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
-        return _denoiser_outputs()
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "noise_pred",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="Predicted velocity of the video rows of the sequence.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_noise_pred",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="Predicted velocity of the audio rows of the sequence.",
+            ),
+        ]
 
     @torch.no_grad()
     def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, block_state: BlockState, i: int, t: torch.Tensor):
-        block_state.noise_pred, block_state.audio_noise_pred = _predict_velocity(
-            components.transformer, block_state, i
+        transformer = getattr(components, self.transformer_name)
+        unique_timesteps, timestep_indices = block_state.row_timestep_plan[i]
+        # The layout tags its outputs `denoiser_input_fields`, and their names are the transformer's own parameter
+        # names, so the rows of the packed sequence are described to it without this block enumerating them.
+        layout_kwargs = {
+            name: value
+            for name, value in block_state.denoiser_input_fields.items()
+            if name in inspect.signature(transformer.forward).parameters
+        }
+        block_state.noise_pred, block_state.audio_noise_pred = transformer(
+            hidden_states=block_state.latents[None],
+            audio_hidden_states=block_state.audio_latents[None],
+            encoder_hidden_states=block_state.prompt_embeds,
+            timestep=unique_timesteps,
+            timestep_indices=timestep_indices,
+            attention_kwargs=block_state.attention_kwargs,
+            return_dict=False,
+            **layout_kwargs,
         )
         return components, block_state
 
 
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VALoopDenoiser(ModularPipelineBlocks):
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
-
-    @property
-    def description(self) -> str:
-        return (
-            "Runs the one MiniMax-H3 forward pass of a `ref2va` denoising iteration, against the `transformer_ref` "
-            "partition of the checkpoint."
-        )
-
-    @property
-    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
-        return [ComponentSpec("transformer_ref", MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel)]
-
-    @property
-    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
-        return _denoiser_inputs()
-
-    @property
-    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
-        return _denoiser_outputs()
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VALoopDenoiser(MiniMaxH3LoopDenoiser):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
-    @torch.no_grad()
-    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, block_state: BlockState, i: int, t: torch.Tensor):
-        block_state.noise_pred, block_state.audio_noise_pred = _predict_velocity(
-            components.transformer_ref, block_state, i
-        )
-        return components, block_state
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__(transformer_name="transformer_ref")
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3LoopSchedulerStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
@@ -316,7 +278,7 @@ def description(self) -> str:
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep(MiniMaxH3DenoiseLoopWrapper):
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
     block_classes = [MiniMaxH3Ref2VALoopDenoiser, MiniMaxH3LoopSchedulerStep]
     block_names = ["denoiser", "update"]
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
index da2d611eaba0..bfd73ff1e93f 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
@@ -17,82 +17,216 @@
 from transformers import Qwen2TokenizerFast, Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration, Qwen3VLProcessor
 
 from ...models import AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3, AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio
-from ...models.autoencoders.vae import DiagonalGaussianDistribution
-from ...schedulers import MiniMaxH3Scheduler
 from ...utils import logging
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
-from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
-from .packing import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED,
-    MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN,
-    MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD,
-    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER,
-    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
-    keyframe_condition_noise,
-    patchify_video_latents,
-)
-from .packing_ref2va import (
-    MiniMaxH3PreparedReference,
-    build_ref2va_presentation,
-    sample_reference_video_frames,
-    trim_reference_num_frames,
-)
+from .modular_pipeline import MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+from .references import MiniMaxH3Reference
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
-def _check_prompt(prompt) -> None:
-    r"""MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing."""
-    if not isinstance(prompt, str):
+def get_qwen3vl_prompt_embeds(
+    text_encoder,
+    processor,
+    token_ids: list[int],
+    vision_inputs: dict | None = None,
+    text_encoder_layer: int = 50,
+    device: torch.device | None = None,
+    dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Encode one tokenized MiniMax-H3 presentation with the Qwen3-VL conditioner.
+
+    Unlike its `get_<encoder>_prompt_embeds` siblings this takes the *tokenized* presentation rather than a prompt
+    string: MiniMax-H3's tokenization is the presentation-building phase that precedes it, where every reference or
+    keyframe prepends a label and a vision block. The `mm_token_type_ids` built here are Qwen-internal (`0` text, `1`
+    image, `2` video — they drive Qwen3-VL's per-modality-run rotary layout and never leave this function) and are not
+    MiniMax-H3's own per-row modality tags, which the presentation phase produces alongside `token_ids`.
+
+    Args:
+        text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`): The conditioner.
+        processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`): Its processor, which derives the token type ids from the vision pad ids.
+        token_ids (`list[int]`): The tokenized presentation.
+        vision_inputs (`dict`, *optional*):
+            The vision tensors of the presentation's blocks, by the conditioner's own parameter names —
+            `pixel_values` / `image_grid_thw` for images, `pixel_values_videos` / `video_grid_thw` for videos.
+        text_encoder_layer (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 50):
+            Which hidden state conditions the transformer, i.e. `components.text_encoder_layer`.
+        device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
+        dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden state after decoder layer `text_encoder_layer`.
+    """
+    num_layers = text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
+    if num_layers <= text_encoder_layer:
         raise ValueError(
-            f"MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got {type(prompt)}."
+            f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{text_encoder_layer}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
+            f"conditioner, which needs more than {text_encoder_layer} decoder layers, but "
+            f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
+            f"{text_encoder_layer} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
         )
 
+    input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+    mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+
+    vision_kwargs = {}
+    for name, value in (vision_inputs or {}).items():
+        vision_kwargs[name] = value.to(device, text_encoder.dtype) if name.startswith("pixel_") else value.to(device)
+
+    # `text_encoder.model` is a submodule, and a CPU-offload hook — accelerate's or the one the
+    # `ComponentsManager` attaches — wraps the *top-level* module's `forward` alone, so calling the submodule
+    # directly would leave the conditioner on the CPU. Fire the hook by hand instead of routing through
+    # `text_encoder(...)`: MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses the language-model head, whose
+    # vocabulary-wide projection over every token is all the top-level forward would add.
+    # TODO: firing another module's offload hook by hand is not something a block should do. It is here
+    # because MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` off `text_encoder.model` while the hook wraps only the
+    # top-level `forward`. Needs a real answer — an opt-in on the conditioner, or a hook that follows
+    # submodule calls.
+    hook = getattr(text_encoder, "_hf_hook", None)
+    if hook is not None and hasattr(hook, "pre_forward"):
+        hook.pre_forward(text_encoder)
+    outputs = text_encoder.model(
+        input_ids=input_ids,
+        attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
+        mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
+        use_cache=False,
+        output_hidden_states=True,
+        **vision_kwargs,
+    )
+    return outputs.hidden_states[text_encoder_layer].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+
+def encode_vae_condition(
+    vae, pixels: torch.Tensor, pixel_mean: tuple, pixel_std: tuple, encode_seed: int = 42
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    r"""
+    Encode one visual condition — a keyframe or a `ref2va` reference — into normalized conditioning latents.
+
+    The recipe is the released model's, and every part of it is needed to reproduce its conditioning: the pixels are
+    ImageNet-normalized, the posterior is *sampled* under a fresh generator seeded independently of the request, and
+    the sampled latent is rounded to float16 (~11 bits of every conditioning latent) before being normalized. A
+    single frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a frame stack goes through the temporal chunking,
+    which is what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+
+    Args:
+        vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`): The video VAE.
+        pixels (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(1, 3, num_frames, height, width)`):
+            The condition's `uint8` pixels, on the VAE's device. `num_frames` is 1 for a keyframe or an image
+            reference.
+        pixel_mean (`tuple[float, float, float]`), pixel_std (`tuple[float, float, float]`):
+            The video VAE's pixel convention, i.e. `components.pixel_mean` / `components.pixel_std`.
+        encode_seed (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 42):
+            Seed the posterior is sampled under, i.e. `components.keyframe_encode_seed`.
+
+    Returns:
+        `torch.Tensor`: one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` float32 CPU
+        tensor.
+    """
+    latents_mean = torch.tensor(vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+    latents_std = torch.tensor(vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+    pixel_mean = torch.tensor(pixel_mean, device=pixels.device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+    pixel_std = torch.tensor(pixel_std, device=pixels.device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
+
+    pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
+    posterior = vae.encode(pixels, return_dict=False)[0]
+    latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(encode_seed))
+    latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
+    return (latents - latents_mean) / latents_std
 
-def _conditioner_components() -> list[ComponentSpec]:
-    r"""MiniMax-H3's conditioner: a Qwen3-VL read at its 50th decoder layer, with its language-model head unused."""
-    return [
-        ComponentSpec("text_encoder", Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration),
-        ComponentSpec("tokenizer", Qwen2TokenizerFast),
-        ComponentSpec("processor", Qwen3VLProcessor),
-    ]
 
+class MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    @property
+    def description(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            "Encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `t2va` request: the prompt verbatim, with no chat template and "
+            "no special tokens. The checkpoint is guidance-distilled, so there is no negative prompt and no "
+            "unconditional branch."
+        )
 
-def _conditioner_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
-    return [
-        OutputParam.template(
-            "prompt_embeds",
-            description=(
-                "The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the "
-                "50th decoder layer of the Qwen3-VL conditioner."
+    @property
+    def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("text_encoder", Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration),
+            ComponentSpec("tokenizer", Qwen2TokenizerFast),
+            ComponentSpec("processor", Qwen3VLProcessor),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
+        return [
+            InputParam.template("prompt", description="The prompt to guide generation, a single string."),
+        ]
+
+    @property
+    def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
+        return [
+            OutputParam.template(
+                "prompt_embeds",
+                description=(
+                    "The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the "
+                    "50th decoder layer of the Qwen3-VL conditioner."
+                ),
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "text_token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description=(
+                    "The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds` — all text for this presentation."
+                ),
             ),
-        ),
-        OutputParam(
-            "text_token_tags",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            description="The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`; a vision block is tagged as video.",
-        ),
-    ]
+        ]
 
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        if not isinstance(block_state.prompt, str):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
+                f"{type(block_state.prompt)}."
+            )
 
-class MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
+        token_ids = components.tokenizer(block_state.prompt, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+
+        # One conditioner call. The block emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does — it has no
+        # denoiser of its own, since it is meant to run on its own.
+        block_state.prompt_embeds = get_qwen3vl_prompt_embeds(
+            components.text_encoder,
+            components.processor,
+            token_ids,
+            {},
+            text_encoder_layer=components.text_encoder_layer,
+            device=components._execution_device,
+            dtype=components.text_encoder.dtype,
+        )
+        block_state.text_token_tags = torch.full((len(token_ids),), components.text_tag, dtype=torch.long)
+
+        self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
+        return components, state
+
+
+class MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `t2va` / `fl2va` request: the prompt verbatim, preceded by a "
+            "Encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `fl2va` request: the prompt verbatim, preceded by a "
             '`"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block per keyframe, with no chat template and no special tokens. '
             "The checkpoint is guidance-distilled, so there is no negative prompt and no unconditional branch."
         )
 
     @property
     def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
-        return _conditioner_components()
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("text_encoder", Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration),
+            ComponentSpec("tokenizer", Qwen2TokenizerFast),
+            ComponentSpec("processor", Qwen3VLProcessor),
+        ]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
@@ -101,113 +235,79 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
             InputParam(
                 name="keyframes",
                 type_hint=list,
-                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order (empty or None for `t2va`).",
+                description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.",
             ),
         ]
 
     @property
     def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
-        return _conditioner_outputs()
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def encode_prompt(
-        components,
-        prompt: str,
-        images: list | None = None,
-        device: torch.device | None = None,
-        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-        r"""
-        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a request and encode it.
-
-        The presentation is the verbatim prompt for `t2va`. Every keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a
-        vision block (`<|vision_start|>`, one `<|image_pad|>` per vision patch, `<|vision_end|>`) — no chat template
-        and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the
-        transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
-
-        Args:
-            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
-            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, *optional*):
-                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
-            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
-
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
-            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
-        """
-        device = device or components._execution_device
-        dtype = dtype or components.transformer.dtype
+        return [
+            OutputParam.template(
+                "prompt_embeds",
+                description=(
+                    "The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the "
+                    "50th decoder layer of the Qwen3-VL conditioner."
+                ),
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "text_token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description=(
+                    "The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`; a vision block is tagged as video."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
 
-        num_layers = components.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
-        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        if not isinstance(block_state.prompt, str):
             raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
-                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
-                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
+                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
+                f"{type(block_state.prompt)}."
             )
-
-        pixel_values, image_grid_thw = None, None
+        tokenizer, processor = components.tokenizer, components.processor
+        text_tag, video_tag = components.text_tag, components.video_tag
+
+        # 1. Vision features of the keyframes, batched. The presentation is text-only without them.
+        vision_inputs, image_grid_thw = {}, None
+        if block_state.keyframes:
+            vision = processor.image_processor(images=block_state.keyframes, return_tensors="pt")
+            image_grid_thw = vision["image_grid_thw"]
+            vision_inputs = {"pixel_values": vision["pixel_values"], "image_grid_thw": image_grid_thw}
+
+        # 2. The presentation, tokenized: a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block per keyframe, then the prompt
+        # verbatim. The rows of a vision block are tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the
+        # transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
         token_ids, token_tags = [], []
-        if images:
-            vision = components.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
-            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
-            merge_size = components.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
-            for index in range(len(images)):
+        if block_state.keyframes:
+            merge_size = processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
+            for index in range(len(block_state.keyframes)):
                 num_image_tokens = int(image_grid_thw[index].prod()) // merge_size
-                label_ids = components.tokenizer(f"<Picture {index + 1}>: ", add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+                label_ids = tokenizer(f"<Picture {index + 1}>: ", add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
                 vision_ids = (
-                    [components.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
-                    + [components.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|image_pad|>")] * num_image_tokens
-                    + [components.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
+                    [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
+                    + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|image_pad|>")] * num_image_tokens
+                    + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
                 )
                 token_ids += label_ids + vision_ids
-                token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(label_ids) + [MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG] * len(vision_ids)
-        prompt_ids = components.tokenizer(prompt, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+                token_tags += [text_tag] * len(label_ids) + [video_tag] * len(vision_ids)
+        prompt_ids = tokenizer(block_state.prompt, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
         token_ids += prompt_ids
-        token_tags += [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(prompt_ids)
-
-        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
-        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
-        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
-        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
-            components.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
-        )
-        # `text_encoder.model` is a submodule, and a CPU-offload hook — accelerate's or the one the
-        # `ComponentsManager` attaches — wraps the *top-level* module's `forward` alone, so calling the submodule
-        # directly would leave the conditioner on the CPU. Fire the hook by hand instead of routing through
-        # `text_encoder(...)`: MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses the language-model head, whose
-        # vocabulary-wide projection over every token is all the top-level forward would add.
-        hook = getattr(components.text_encoder, "_hf_hook", None)
-        if hook is not None and hasattr(hook, "pre_forward"):
-            hook.pre_forward(components.text_encoder)
-        outputs = components.text_encoder.model(
-            input_ids=input_ids,
-            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
-            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
-            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, components.text_encoder.dtype),
-            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
-            use_cache=False,
-            output_hidden_states=True,
-        )
-        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
-        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
-
-    @torch.no_grad()
-    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
-        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
-        _check_prompt(block_state.prompt)
-
-        # `encode_prompt` defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser of
-        # its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
-        block_state.prompt_embeds, block_state.text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(
-            components,
-            block_state.prompt,
-            block_state.keyframes,
+        token_tags += [text_tag] * len(prompt_ids)
+
+        # 3. One conditioner call. The block emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does — it has no
+        # denoiser of its own, since it is meant to run on its own.
+        block_state.prompt_embeds = get_qwen3vl_prompt_embeds(
+            components.text_encoder,
+            processor,
+            token_ids,
+            vision_inputs,
+            text_encoder_layer=components.text_encoder_layer,
             device=components._execution_device,
             dtype=components.text_encoder.dtype,
         )
+        block_state.text_token_tags = torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
@@ -219,17 +319,14 @@ class MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Encodes the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows and noises them to MiniMax-H3's "
-            "conditioning level. The rows are the anchors of the whole denoising loop: the loop only ever writes the "
-            "generated rows, so they are never updated again."
+            "Encodes the `fl2va` keyframes into conditioning latents. They become the anchors of the whole denoising "
+            "loop, which only ever writes the generated rows, so they are never updated again — the prepare-latents "
+            "step noises them to MiniMax-H3's conditioning level and packs them."
         )
 
     @property
     def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
-        return [
-            ComponentSpec("vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3),
-            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
-        ]
+        return [ComponentSpec("vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3)]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
@@ -240,15 +337,6 @@ def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
                 required=True,
                 description="The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.",
             ),
-            InputParam(name="latent_height", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Height of the video latents."),
-            InputParam(name="latent_width", type_hint=int, required=True, description="Width of the video latents."),
-            InputParam.template(
-                "generator",
-                description=(
-                    "The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise "
-                    "of the prepare-latents step."
-                ),
-            ),
         ]
 
     @property
@@ -256,74 +344,52 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         return [
             OutputParam(
                 "condition_latents",
-                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-                description="The noise-augmented video conditioning rows, in packed order.",
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
+                description=(
+                    "The normalized video conditioning latents, one `(1, latent_channels, 1, latent_height, "
+                    "latent_width)` tensor per keyframe, in packed order. One entry per condition is what the "
+                    "prepare-latents step draws its noise against, so the list is the unit the request's generator "
+                    "is consumed in."
+                ),
             )
         ]
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def encode_keyframes(components, images: list, device: torch.device | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
-        r"""
-        Encode the `fl2va` keyframes into packed conditioning rows.
-
-        The keyframes go through the video VAE's spatial encoder only — they are single frames, so none of its
-        17-frame temporal chunking applies — and the posterior is *sampled*, under a generator seeded with 42
-        independently of the request seed. The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized, as in the
-        reference implementation; both are part of reproducing the released model's conditioning.
-
-        Args:
-            images (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`):
-                The keyframes, already prepared onto the target canvas, in packed order.
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAE on.
-
-        Returns:
-            `torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_condition_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`: the float32
-            conditioning rows.
-        """
-        device = device or components._execution_device
-        latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-
-        rows = []
-        for image in images:
-            pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
-            pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
-            # `vae.encode` chunks along time for videos; a keyframe is one frame and is encoded by the (tiled)
-            # spatial encoder alone, which is what the released model conditions on.
-            moments = components.vae._encode_clip(pixels)
-            posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
-            latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
-            # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
-            # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
-            latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
-            rows.append(patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, components.patch_size))
-        return torch.cat(rows)
-
     @torch.no_grad()
     def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         device = components._execution_device
 
-        condition_latents = self.encode_keyframes(components, block_state.keyframes, device=device)
-        noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
-            ((1, block_state.latent_height, block_state.latent_width),) * len(block_state.keyframes),
-            components.patch_size,
-            components.vae_latent_channels,
-            generator=block_state.generator,
-            device=device,
-        )
-        block_state.condition_latents = components.scheduler.scale_noise(
-            condition_latents.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
-        )
+        # A keyframe is a single frame, so the VAE runs its spatial encoder alone with none of the 17-frame
+        # temporal chunking.
+        block_state.condition_latents = [
+            encode_vae_condition(
+                components.vae,
+                torch.from_numpy(np.array(image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None],
+                components.pixel_mean,
+                components.pixel_std,
+                components.keyframe_encode_seed,
+            )
+            for image in block_state.keyframes
+        ]
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+
+    def __init__(self, video_sample_fps: float = 2.0):
+        r"""
+        Encode the presentation of a `ref2va` request.
+
+        Args:
+            video_sample_fps (`float`, defaults to 2.0):
+                The rate the conditioner reads a reference video at: every `24 / video_sample_fps`-th of the
+                normalized 24 fps frames.
+        """
+        self.video_sample_fps = video_sample_fps
+        super().__init__()
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
@@ -336,155 +402,258 @@ def description(self) -> str:
 
     @property
     def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
-        return _conditioner_components()
+        return [
+            ComponentSpec("text_encoder", Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration),
+            ComponentSpec("tokenizer", Qwen2TokenizerFast),
+            ComponentSpec("processor", Qwen3VLProcessor),
+        ]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
         return [
             InputParam.template("prompt", description="The prompt to guide generation, a single string."),
             InputParam(
-                name="prepared_references",
-                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                name="normalized_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
                 required=True,
-                description="The prepared references, in packed order.",
+                description="The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.",
             ),
         ]
 
     @property
     def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
-        return _conditioner_outputs()
+        return [
+            OutputParam.template(
+                "prompt_embeds",
+                description=(
+                    "The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the "
+                    "50th decoder layer of the Qwen3-VL conditioner."
+                ),
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "text_token_tags",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description=(
+                    "The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`; a vision block is tagged as video."
+                ),
+            ),
+        ]
 
     @staticmethod
-    def encode_prompt(
-        components,
-        prompt: str,
-        references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
-        device: torch.device | None = None,
-        dtype: torch.dtype | None = None,
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    def _sample_video_condition_frames(
+        frames: np.ndarray, fps: float, sample_fps: float, temporal_patch: int
+    ) -> tuple[list[np.ndarray], list[float]]:
         r"""
-        Build MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request and encode it.
+        Sample the frames the conditioner sees from a normalized reference video, and label their vision blocks.
 
-        Every reference prepends a label, in request order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision
-        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio (a waveform never reaches the conditioner), and
-        `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries
-        sound is labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The
-        prompt then follows, verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens. The rows of a vision block are
-        tagged as *video* rather than text, which is what the transformer's AdaLN modulation keys off.
+        The conditioner reads a reference at `sample_fps`: every `fps / sample_fps`-th frame, deduplicated. Qwen3-VL
+        then merges the sampled frames in groups of `temporal_patch` — repeating the last one when the count does not
+        divide — and a merged group is labelled with the mean of its timestamps, which `"<{timestamp:.1f} seconds>"`
+        renders with Python's round-half-to-even, so the first block of a 2 fps pair is `"<0.2 seconds>"` rather than
+        `"<0.3 seconds>"`.
 
         Args:
-            prompt (`str`): The prompt to encode.
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
-                The prepared references, in packed order, as returned by
-                [`~MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references`].
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
-            dtype (`torch.dtype`, *optional*): The dtype of the returned embeddings.
+            frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`): The normalized reference video.
+            fps (`float`): The rate `frames` is at, i.e. `components.fps`.
+            sample_fps (`float`): The rate the conditioner reads at, i.e. the block's `video_sample_fps`.
+            temporal_patch (`int`): Qwen3-VL's temporal patch, read off the processor.
 
         Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)` hidden states and the
-            `(num_text_tokens,)` per-row modality tags.
+            `tuple[list[np.ndarray], list[float]]`: the sampled frames and one timestamp per vision block.
         """
-        device = device or components._execution_device
-        dtype = dtype or components.transformer_ref.dtype
+        stride = fps / sample_fps
+        indices, cursor = [], 0.0
+        while round(cursor) < frames.shape[0]:
+            if not indices or round(cursor) > indices[-1]:
+                indices.append(round(cursor))
+            cursor += stride
+
+        timestamps = [index / sample_fps for index in range(len(indices))]
+        timestamps += [timestamps[-1]] * (-len(timestamps) % temporal_patch)
+        block_timestamps = [
+            (timestamps[index] + timestamps[index + temporal_patch - 1]) / 2
+            for index in range(0, len(timestamps), temporal_patch)
+        ]
+        return [frames[index] for index in indices], block_timestamps
 
-        num_layers = components.text_encoder.config.text_config.num_hidden_layers
-        if num_layers <= MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 conditions on `hidden_states[{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER}]` of its Qwen3-VL "
-                f"conditioner, which needs more than {MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} decoder layers, but "
-                f"`text_encoder` has {num_layers}. The last hidden state of a stack truncated to exactly "
-                f"{MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER} layers is post-norm and is not the conditioning MiniMax-H3 expects."
-            )
+    def _gather_vision_features(
+        self, processor, references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference], fps: float
+    ) -> tuple[dict, list[int], list[int], list[list[float]]]:
+        r"""
+        Run the references' pixels through the conditioner's processors, batched per modality.
+
+        The vision tensors are batched per modality while the presentation is tokenized in request order; the two
+        agree because the filtering here preserves relative order within each modality and Qwen3-VL fills the n-th
+        pad *run* of a modality with the n-th entry of that modality's batch. Audio contributes nothing — a waveform
+        never reaches the conditioner.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple`: the vision tensors by the conditioner's parameter names, the vision token count per image
+            reference, the per-block token count per video reference, and the block timestamps per video reference.
+        """
+        merge_size = processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
+        vision_inputs = {}
 
-        merge_size = components.processor.image_processor.merge_size**2
-        pixel_values, image_grid_thw, image_token_counts = None, None, []
+        image_token_counts = []
         images = [reference.image for reference in references if reference.kind == "image"]
         if images:
-            vision = components.processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
-            pixel_values, image_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values"], vision["image_grid_thw"]
-            image_token_counts = [int(grid.prod()) // merge_size for grid in image_grid_thw]
+            image_features = processor.image_processor(images=images, return_tensors="pt")
+            vision_inputs["pixel_values"] = image_features["pixel_values"]
+            vision_inputs["image_grid_thw"] = image_features["image_grid_thw"]
+            image_token_counts = [int(grid.prod()) // merge_size for grid in image_features["image_grid_thw"]]
 
-        pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw, video_block_token_counts = None, None, []
+        video_block_token_counts, video_block_timestamps = [], []
         videos = [reference for reference in references if reference.kind == "video"]
         if videos:
-            sampled = [sample_reference_video_frames(reference.frames) for reference in videos]
-            for reference, (_, block_timestamps) in zip(videos, sampled):
-                reference.block_timestamps = block_timestamps
-            vision = components.processor.video_processor(
+            temporal_patch = processor.video_processor.temporal_patch_size
+            sampled = [
+                self._sample_video_condition_frames(reference.frames, fps, self.video_sample_fps, temporal_patch)
+                for reference in videos
+            ]
+            video_block_timestamps = [timestamps for _, timestamps in sampled]
+            video_features = processor.video_processor(
                 videos=[np.stack(frames) for frames, _ in sampled], do_sample_frames=False, return_tensors="pt"
             )
-            pixel_values_videos, video_grid_thw = vision["pixel_values_videos"], vision["video_grid_thw"]
-            video_block_token_counts = [int(grid[1]) * int(grid[2]) // merge_size for grid in video_grid_thw]
-            for reference, grid in zip(videos, video_grid_thw):
-                if int(grid[0]) != len(reference.block_timestamps):
+            vision_inputs["pixel_values_videos"] = video_features["pixel_values_videos"]
+            vision_inputs["video_grid_thw"] = video_features["video_grid_thw"]
+            video_block_token_counts = [
+                int(grid[1]) * int(grid[2]) // merge_size for grid in video_features["video_grid_thw"]
+            ]
+            for timestamps, grid in zip(video_block_timestamps, video_features["video_grid_thw"]):
+                if int(grid[0]) != len(timestamps):
                     raise ValueError(
                         f"The processor merged a reference video into {int(grid[0])} vision blocks, but MiniMax-H3 "
-                        f"labels {len(reference.block_timestamps)} of them."
+                        f"labels {len(timestamps)} of them."
                     )
 
-        token_ids, token_tags = build_ref2va_presentation(
-            components.tokenizer, prompt, references, image_token_counts, video_block_token_counts
-        )
-        input_ids = torch.tensor([token_ids], dtype=torch.long, device=device)
-        # Qwen3-VL lays its 3D rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the token type ids the
-        # processor derives from the vision pad ids (`0` text, `1` image, `2` video).
-        mm_token_type_ids = torch.tensor(
-            components.processor.create_mm_token_type_ids([token_ids]), dtype=torch.long, device=device
-        )
-        # `text_encoder.model` is a submodule, and a CPU-offload hook — accelerate's or the one the
-        # `ComponentsManager` attaches — wraps the *top-level* module's `forward` alone, so calling the submodule
-        # directly would leave the conditioner on the CPU. Fire the hook by hand instead of routing through
-        # `text_encoder(...)`: MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]` and never uses the language-model head, whose
-        # vocabulary-wide projection over every token is all the top-level forward would add.
-        hook = getattr(components.text_encoder, "_hf_hook", None)
-        if hook is not None and hasattr(hook, "pre_forward"):
-            hook.pre_forward(components.text_encoder)
-        outputs = components.text_encoder.model(
-            input_ids=input_ids,
-            attention_mask=torch.ones_like(input_ids),
-            mm_token_type_ids=mm_token_type_ids,
-            pixel_values=None if pixel_values is None else pixel_values.to(device, components.text_encoder.dtype),
-            image_grid_thw=None if image_grid_thw is None else image_grid_thw.to(device),
-            pixel_values_videos=(
-                None if pixel_values_videos is None else pixel_values_videos.to(device, components.text_encoder.dtype)
-            ),
-            video_grid_thw=None if video_grid_thw is None else video_grid_thw.to(device),
-            use_cache=False,
-            output_hidden_states=True,
-        )
-        prompt_embeds = outputs.hidden_states[MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER].to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
-        return prompt_embeds, torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
+        return vision_inputs, image_token_counts, video_block_token_counts, video_block_timestamps
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _build_presentation(
+        tokenizer,
+        prompt: str,
+        references: list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
+        image_token_counts: list[int],
+        video_block_token_counts: list[int],
+        video_block_timestamps: list[list[float]],
+        text_tag: int = 1,
+        video_tag: int = 0,
+    ) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
+        r"""
+        Tokenize MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request.
+
+        Every reference prepends a label, in packed order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision
+        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio — a waveform never reaches the conditioner — and
+        `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries
+        sound is labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The
+        prompt follows verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens.
+
+        Args:
+            tokenizer (`Qwen2TokenizerFast`): Tokenizer of the conditioner.
+            prompt (`str`): The prompt, appended verbatim.
+            references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`): The normalized references, in packed order.
+            image_token_counts (`list[int]`): Number of vision tokens of every image reference's block.
+            video_block_token_counts (`list[int]`): Number of vision tokens per block of every video reference.
+            video_block_timestamps (`list[list[float]]`): The timestamp of every vision block, per video reference.
+            text_tag (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 1): MiniMax-H3's modality tag for a text row.
+            video_tag (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 0): MiniMax-H3's modality tag for a vision block's rows.
+
+        Returns:
+            `tuple[list[int], list[int]]`: the token ids and their modality tags.
+        """
+
+        def text(value: str) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
+            token_ids = tokenizer(value, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
+            return token_ids, [text_tag] * len(token_ids)
+
+        def vision(pad_token: str, num_tokens: int) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
+            token_ids = (
+                [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
+                + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(pad_token)] * num_tokens
+                + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
+            )
+            return token_ids, [video_tag] * len(token_ids)
+
+        token_ids, token_tags = [], []
+
+        def emit(segment: tuple[list[int], list[int]]) -> None:
+            token_ids.extend(segment[0])
+            token_tags.extend(segment[1])
+
+        counts = {"image": 0, "video": 0, "audio": 0}
+        for reference in references:
+            if reference.has_audio:
+                counts["audio"] += 1
+                emit(text(f"<Audio {counts['audio']}>: "))
+            if reference.kind == "image":
+                counts["image"] += 1
+                emit(text(f"<Picture {counts['image']}>: "))
+                emit(vision("<|image_pad|>", image_token_counts[counts["image"] - 1]))
+            elif reference.kind == "video":
+                counts["video"] += 1
+                emit(text(f"<Video {counts['video']}>: "))
+                for timestamp in video_block_timestamps[counts["video"] - 1]:
+                    # `"{:.1f}"` rounds half to even, so the mean of a 2 fps pair renders as "<0.2 seconds>".
+                    emit(text(f"<{timestamp:.1f} seconds>"))
+                    emit(vision("<|video_pad|>", video_block_token_counts[counts["video"] - 1]))
+        emit(text(prompt))
+        return token_ids, token_tags
 
     @torch.no_grad()
-    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
-        _check_prompt(block_state.prompt)
+        if not isinstance(block_state.prompt, str):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so `prompt` must be a single string, got "
+                f"{type(block_state.prompt)}."
+            )
+        references = block_state.normalized_references
 
-        # `encode_prompt` defaults the embedding dtype to the denoiser's; a text encoder block has no denoiser of
-        # its own — it is meant to run on its own — so it emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does.
-        block_state.prompt_embeds, block_state.text_token_tags = self.encode_prompt(
-            components,
+        # 1. Vision features, batched per modality — audio contributes nothing to the conditioner.
+        vision_inputs, image_token_counts, video_token_counts, video_timestamps = self._gather_vision_features(
+            components.processor, references, components.fps
+        )
+
+        # 2. The presentation, tokenized in request order.
+        token_ids, token_tags = self._build_presentation(
+            components.tokenizer,
             block_state.prompt,
-            block_state.prepared_references,
+            references,
+            image_token_counts,
+            video_token_counts,
+            video_timestamps,
+            text_tag=components.text_tag,
+            video_tag=components.video_tag,
+        )
+
+        # 3. One conditioner call. The block emits the conditioner's dtype, as every other model does — it has no
+        # denoiser of its own, since it is meant to run on its own.
+        block_state.prompt_embeds = get_qwen3vl_prompt_embeds(
+            components.text_encoder,
+            components.processor,
+            token_ids,
+            vision_inputs,
+            text_encoder_layer=components.text_encoder_layer,
             device=components._execution_device,
             dtype=components.text_encoder.dtype,
         )
+        block_state.text_token_tags = torch.tensor(token_tags, dtype=torch.long)
 
         self.set_block_state(state, block_state)
         return components, state
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep(ModularPipelineBlocks):
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
 
     @property
     def description(self) -> str:
         return (
-            "Encodes the `ref2va` references into packed conditioning rows — image and video references through the "
-            "video VAE, soundtracks through the audio VAE — and noises the visual ones to MiniMax-H3's conditioning "
-            "level. Audio references ride along clean, at `t = 1.0`. Both are anchors of the whole denoising loop, "
-            "which only ever writes the generated rows. The latent geometry of every reference is resolved here, so "
-            "this runs before the packed layout is built."
+            "Encodes the `ref2va` references — image and video references through the video VAE, soundtracks through "
+            "the audio VAE. They are the anchors of the whole denoising loop, which only ever writes the generated "
+            "rows; the prepare-latents step noises the visual ones to MiniMax-H3's conditioning level and packs them, "
+            "while soundtracks ride along clean at `t = 1.0`. The latent geometry of every reference is the shape of "
+            "what this emits, which is what the packed layout is built from."
         )
 
     @property
@@ -492,24 +661,16 @@ def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
         return [
             ComponentSpec("vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3),
             ComponentSpec("audio_vae", AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio),
-            ComponentSpec("scheduler", MiniMaxH3Scheduler),
         ]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
         return [
             InputParam(
-                name="prepared_references",
-                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
+                name="normalized_references",
+                type_hint=list[MiniMaxH3Reference],
                 required=True,
-                description="The prepared references, in packed order. Their latent geometry is filled in here.",
-            ),
-            InputParam.template(
-                "generator",
-                description=(
-                    "The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise "
-                    "of the prepare-latents step."
-                ),
+                description="The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.",
             ),
         ]
 
@@ -518,118 +679,73 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
         return [
             OutputParam(
                 "condition_latents",
-                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
                 description=(
-                    "The noise-augmented video conditioning rows of the image and video references, in packed order, "
+                    "The encoded video conditioning latents of the image and video references, one `(1, "
+                    "latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor each in packed order, "
                     "or None when the references carry none."
                 ),
             ),
             OutputParam(
                 "audio_condition_latents",
-                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                type_hint=list[torch.Tensor],
                 description=(
-                    "The clean audio conditioning rows of the reference soundtracks, in packed order, or None when "
-                    "the references carry none."
+                    "The clean audio conditioning rows of the reference soundtracks, one `(num_audio_latents * 2, "
+                    "audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference in packed order. One entry per "
+                    "reference rather than one concatenated block, because the packed layout is built from the row "
+                    "count of each."
                 ),
             ),
         ]
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def encode_references(
-        components, references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference], device: torch.device | None = None
-    ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor | None, torch.Tensor | None]:
-        r"""
-        Encode the references into packed conditioning rows, and resolve their latent geometry.
-
-        Image and video references go through the video VAE with the same recipe the `fl2va` keyframes use: the
-        posterior is *sampled* under a generator seeded with 42 independently of the request seed, and the sampled
-        latent is rounded to float16 before being normalized. An image is a single frame and is encoded by the spatial
-        encoder alone, while a video reference goes through the 17-frames-per-5-latents temporal chunking. Reference
-        soundtracks instead take the posterior *mean*, and are never sampled.
-
-        Args:
-            references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
-                The prepared references, in packed order. Their latent geometry is filled in here.
-            device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the VAEs on.
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
+        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
+        device = components._execution_device
 
-        Returns:
-            `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the `(num_condition_video_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`
-            video rows and the `(num_condition_audio_rows, audio_latent_channels)` audio rows, both float32 on CPU and
-            both `None` when the references carry no such rows.
-        """
-        device = device or components._execution_device
-        latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_mean = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
-        pixel_std = torch.tensor(MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
         audio_latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, 1, -1)
         audio_latents_std = torch.tensor(components.audio_vae.config.latents_std).view(1, 1, -1)
 
-        video_rows, audio_rows = [], []
-        for reference in references:
-            if reference.kind != "audio":
-                if reference.kind == "image":
-                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(reference.image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
-                else:
-                    frames = reference.frames[: trim_reference_num_frames(reference.frames.shape[0])]
-                    pixels = torch.from_numpy(frames.copy()).to(device).permute(3, 0, 1, 2)[None]
-                pixels = (pixels.to(torch.float32).div(255.0) - pixel_mean) / pixel_std
-                # A single frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a video goes through the temporal
-                # chunking, which is what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
-                moments = (
-                    components.vae._encode_clip(pixels)
-                    if reference.kind == "image"
-                    else components.vae._encode(pixels)
+        condition_latents, audio_condition_latents = [], []
+        for reference in block_state.normalized_references:
+            if reference.kind == "image":
+                pixels = torch.from_numpy(np.array(reference.image)).to(device).permute(2, 0, 1)[None, :, None]
+                condition_latents.append(
+                    encode_vae_condition(
+                        components.vae,
+                        pixels,
+                        components.pixel_mean,
+                        components.pixel_std,
+                        components.keyframe_encode_seed,
+                    )
+                )
+            elif reference.kind == "video":
+                # Snap *down* to `17 * n + 5` so the VAE encodes without padding; this only bites when the reference
+                # is shorter than the target, whose own frame count already has that form.
+                frames_per_chunk = components.vae_frames_per_chunk
+                latents_per_chunk = components.vae_latents_per_chunk
+                num_frames = reference.frames.shape[0]
+                num_frames = (
+                    max(1, (num_frames - latents_per_chunk) // frames_per_chunk) * frames_per_chunk + latents_per_chunk
                 )
-                posterior = DiagonalGaussianDistribution(moments)
-                latents = posterior.sample(generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED))
-                # The sampled latent is rounded to float16 before it is normalized: ~11 bits of every conditioning
-                # latent, so the released model's conditioning cannot be reproduced without it.
-                latents = latents.to(torch.float16).float().cpu()
-                reference.num_latent_frames = latents.shape[2]
-                reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width = latents.shape[3], latents.shape[4]
-                video_rows.append(
-                    patchify_video_latents((latents - latents_mean) / latents_std, components.patch_size)
+                pixels = torch.from_numpy(reference.frames[:num_frames].copy()).to(device).permute(3, 0, 1, 2)[None]
+                condition_latents.append(
+                    encode_vae_condition(
+                        components.vae,
+                        pixels,
+                        components.pixel_mean,
+                        components.pixel_std,
+                        components.keyframe_encode_seed,
+                    )
                 )
 
             if reference.has_audio:
-                posterior = components.audio_vae.encode(reference.waveform.to(device)[:, None], return_dict=False)[0]
-                # Channel-major rows: the two stereo channels are two batch items of the mono audio VAE.
+                posterior = components.audio_vae.encode(reference.audio.to(device)[:, None], return_dict=False)[0]
+                # Channel-major rows: the two stereo channels are two batch items of the mono audio VAE. Soundtracks
+                # take the posterior *mean*, and are never sampled.
                 latents = posterior.mode().float().cpu().transpose(1, 2)
-                reference.num_audio_latents = latents.shape[1]
                 normalized = (latents - audio_latents_mean) / audio_latents_std
-                audio_rows.append(normalized.reshape(-1, components.audio_latent_channels))
-
-        return (
-            torch.cat(video_rows) if video_rows else None,
-            torch.cat(audio_rows) if audio_rows else None,
-        )
-
-    @torch.no_grad()
-    def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -> PipelineState:
-        block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
-        device = components._execution_device
-
-        condition_latents, audio_condition_latents = self.encode_references(
-            components, block_state.prepared_references, device=device
-        )
-        if condition_latents is not None:
-            noise = keyframe_condition_noise(
-                tuple(
-                    (reference.num_latent_frames, reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width)
-                    for reference in block_state.prepared_references
-                    if reference.kind != "audio"
-                ),
-                components.patch_size,
-                components.vae_latent_channels,
-                generator=block_state.generator,
-                device=device,
-            )
-            condition_latents = components.scheduler.scale_noise(
-                condition_latents.to(device), MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG, noise
-            )
-        if audio_condition_latents is not None:
-            audio_condition_latents = audio_condition_latents.to(device)
+                audio_condition_latents.append(normalized.reshape(-1, components.audio_latent_channels))
 
         block_state.condition_latents = condition_latents
         block_state.audio_condition_latents = audio_condition_latents
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
index b1a7b4f69724..6f83751719ba 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
@@ -17,15 +17,20 @@
 from ..modular_pipeline import ConditionalPipelineBlocks, SequentialPipelineBlocks
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import OutputParam
 from .before_denoise import (
+    MiniMaxH3FL2VAPrepareLatentsStep,
+    MiniMaxH3NoKeyframeAnchorsStep,
+    MiniMaxH3PrepareConditionLatentsStep,
     MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
     MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLatentsStep,
     MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep,
     MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
 )
-from .before_encoder import MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep, MiniMaxH3SetupStep
-from .decoders import MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep, MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep
+from .before_encoder import MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep, MiniMaxH3ResizeStep
+from .decoders import MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep, MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep, MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep
 from .denoise import MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep, MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep
 from .encoders import (
+    MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep,
     MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep,
     MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep,
     MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep,
@@ -33,52 +38,183 @@
 )
 
 
-def _generation_outputs() -> list[OutputParam]:
-    r"""Video and audio are generated jointly; muxing them into one file is up to the caller."""
-    return [
-        OutputParam.template("videos", description="The generated video."),
-        OutputParam(
-            "audio",
-            type_hint=torch.Tensor,
-            description="The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.",
-        ),
-        OutputParam("sampling_rate", type_hint=int, description="Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz."),
-    ]
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3AutoBeforeEncodeStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Media preparation block.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`): it resolves the plan and normalizes every reference onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions.
+       - `MiniMaxH3ResizeStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), putting the keyframes onto the target canvas.
+       - a text-only request (`t2va`) skips this block, and the layout step falls back to MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 canvas.
+
+      Components:
+          image_processor (`VaeImageProcessor`)
+
+      Configs:
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
+          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+
+      Inputs:
+          references (`list`, *optional*):
+              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt
+              presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different request. One
+              dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most 9), a
+              [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or a
+              [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio
+              references cannot be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file: decode with each class's `from_file`
+              classmethod, which brings the rates along.
+          height (`int`, *optional*):
+              Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          width (`int`, *optional*):
+              Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
+              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video as long as a reference soundtrack,
+              pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`.
+          image (`Image`, *optional*):
+              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived from its own
+              aspect ratio.
+          last_image (`Image`, *optional*):
+              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image` it is the
+              follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
+
+      Outputs:
+          height (`int`):
+              Resolved height of the generated video in pixels.
+          width (`int`):
+              Resolved width of the generated video in pixels.
+          num_frames (`int`):
+              Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5.
+          normalized_references (`list`):
+              The references normalized onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions, in packed order: the same public reference
+              types the request passed in, with an image resized to its own 2048 pixel short edge, a video resampled onto 24 fps
+              and onto the canvas its own aspect ratio resolves to, and a soundtrack put on the audio VAE's sample rate and
+              truncated to the generated duration.
+          keyframes (`list`):
+              The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+          keyframe_anchors (`tuple`):
+              Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order. Positional with `keyframes`, so both are
+              resolved here.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep, MiniMaxH3ResizeStep]
+    block_names = ["ref2va", "keyframes"]
+    block_trigger_inputs = ["references", "image", "last_image"]
+    default_block_name = None
+
+    def select_block(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
+        if kwargs.get("references") is not None:
+            return "ref2va"
+        if kwargs.get("image") is not None or kwargs.get("last_image") is not None:
+            return "keyframes"
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Media preparation block.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`): it resolves the plan and "
+            "normalizes every reference onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3ResizeStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), putting the keyframes onto the "
+            "target canvas.\n"
+            + " - a text-only request (`t2va`) skips this block, and the layout step falls back to MiniMax-H3's own "
+            "16:9 canvas."
+        )
 
 
 # auto_docstring
-class MiniMaxH3AutoKeyframeVaeEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
+class MiniMaxH3AutoTextEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Keyframe conditioning block.
-       - MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep runs for the `fl2va` task, whichever of the two keyframes is given.
-       - when neither `image` nor `last_image` is provided (`t2va`), this block is skipped.
+    Text encoder block. Every branch encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of the request with the Qwen3-VL conditioner.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), labelling every reference in the presentation.
+       - `MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), labelling every keyframe in the presentation.
+       - `MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep` runs otherwise (`t2va`), presenting the prompt alone.
 
       Components:
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`)
+          tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`)
+          processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
 
       Inputs:
+          prompt (`str`):
+              The prompt to guide generation, a single string.
+          normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
+              The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
           keyframes (`list`, *optional*):
               The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
-          latent_height (`int`, *optional*):
-              Height of the video latents.
-          latent_width (`int`, *optional*):
-              Width of the video latents.
-          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise of the
-              prepare-latents step.
 
       Outputs:
-          condition_latents (`Tensor`):
-              The noise-augmented video conditioning rows, in packed order.
+          prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
+              The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the 50th decoder layer
+              of the Qwen3-VL conditioner.
+          text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
+              The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`; a vision block is tagged as video.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep, MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep, MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep]
+    block_names = ["ref2va", "fl2va", "t2va"]
+    block_trigger_inputs = ["references", "image", "last_image"]
+    default_block_name = "t2va"
+
+    def select_block(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
+        if kwargs.get("references") is not None:
+            return "ref2va"
+        if kwargs.get("image") is not None or kwargs.get("last_image") is not None:
+            return "fl2va"
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Text encoder block. Every branch encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of the request with the Qwen3-VL "
+            "conditioner.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), labelling every "
+            "reference in the presentation.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), labelling every "
+            "keyframe in the presentation.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep` runs otherwise (`t2va`), presenting the prompt alone."
+        )
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3AutoVaeEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    VAE encoder block.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`).
+       - `MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`).
+       - a text-only request (`t2va`) skips this block.
+
+      Components:
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`)
+          audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
+              The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
+          keyframes (`list`, *optional*):
+              The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+
+      Outputs:
+          condition_latents (`list`):
+              The encoded video conditioning latents of the image and video references, one `(1, latent_channels,
+              num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor each in packed order, or None when the references carry
+              none.
+          audio_condition_latents (`list`):
+              The clean audio conditioning rows of the reference soundtracks, one `(num_audio_latents * 2,
+              audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference in packed order. One entry per reference rather than one
+              concatenated block, because the packed layout is built from the row count of each.
     """
 
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
-    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep]
-    block_names = ["keyframes"]
-    block_trigger_inputs = ["image", "last_image"]
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep, MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep]
+    block_names = ["ref2va", "keyframes"]
+    block_trigger_inputs = ["references", "image", "last_image"]
     default_block_name = None
 
     def select_block(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
+        if kwargs.get("references") is not None:
+            return "ref2va"
         if kwargs.get("image") is not None or kwargs.get("last_image") is not None:
             return "keyframes"
         return None
@@ -86,214 +222,517 @@ def select_block(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
     @property
     def description(self):
         return (
-            "Keyframe conditioning block.\n"
-            + " - MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep runs for the `fl2va` task, whichever of the two keyframes is given.\n"
-            + " - when neither `image` nor `last_image` is provided (`t2va`), this block is skipped."
+            "VAE encoder block.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`).\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`).\n"
+            + " - a text-only request (`t2va`) skips this block."
         )
 
 
 # auto_docstring
-class MiniMaxH3DecodeStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+class MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack.
+    Core denoising workflow for `t2va`: builds the packed layout, draws and packs the noise, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
 
       Components:
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) video_processor (`VideoProcessor`) audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+
+      Configs:
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
+          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
-          latents (`Tensor`):
-              The denoised video rows of the packed sequence, conditioning rows first.
-          num_condition_video_rows (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 0):
-              How many leading video rows are conditioning rows and are dropped here.
-          num_latent_frames (`int`):
-              Number of video latent frames.
-          latent_height (`int`):
-              Height of the video latents.
-          latent_width (`int`):
-              Width of the video latents.
-          output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
-              Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents.
-          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
-              The denoised audio rows of the packed sequence, reference rows first.
-          num_condition_audio_rows (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 0):
-              How many leading audio rows are reference rows and are dropped here.
-          num_audio_latents (`int`):
-              Number of audio latents per channel.
+          text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
+              The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.
+          height (`int`, *optional*):
+              Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          width (`int`, *optional*):
+              Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
+          num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
+              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The video noise is drawn from it first, then the audio noise.
+          latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
+              draw.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+          num_inference_steps (`int`):
+              The number of denoising steps.
+          prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
+              text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
+          **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
+              the three row-index tensors.
+          attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+              Additional kwargs for attention processors.
 
       Outputs:
-          videos (`list`):
-              The generated video.
-          audio (`Tensor`):
-              The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.
-          sampling_rate (`int`):
-              Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
     """
 
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
-    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep, MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep]
-    block_names = ["video", "audio"]
+    block_classes = [
+        MiniMaxH3NoKeyframeAnchorsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep,
+    ]
+    block_names = [
+        "no_keyframe_anchors",
+        "prepare_layout",
+        "prepare_latents",
+        "set_timesteps",
+        "denoise",
+        "after_denoise",
+    ]
 
     @property
     def description(self):
-        return "Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack."
+        return (
+            "Core denoising workflow for `t2va`: builds the packed layout, draws and packs the noise, plans the "
+            "per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the "
+            "denoised rows back into latents."
+        )
 
     @property
     def outputs(self):
-        return _generation_outputs()
+        # What the decode steps consume: the generated latents of either modality.
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, "
+                "latent_height, latent_width)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.",
+            ),
+        ]
 
 
 # auto_docstring
-class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+class MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text only) and
-    `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint.
-
-      Supported workflows:
-        - `t2va`: requires `prompt`
-        - `fl2va`: requires `prompt`, `image`
-        - `fl2va_last_frame`: requires `prompt`, `last_image`
+    Core denoising workflow for `fl2va`: builds the packed layout with the keyframes anchored, draws and packs the noise around the keyframe conditioning, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
 
       Components:
-          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`) tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`) processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) video_processor (`VideoProcessor`) audio_vae
-          (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+
+      Configs:
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
+          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
-          image (`Image`, *optional*):
-              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived
-              from its own aspect ratio.
-          last_image (`Image`, *optional*):
-              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image`
-              it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
+          text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
+              The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.
           height (`int`, *optional*):
               Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
-              decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
-          prompt (`str`):
-              The prompt to guide generation, a single string.
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
+              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+          keyframe_anchors (`tuple`, *optional*, defaults to ()):
+              Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise of the
-              prepare-latents step.
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
+              noise of the generated rows.
+          condition_latents (`list`):
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`
+              tensor per condition in packed order.
           latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
-              instead of the draw.
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
+              draw.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
-          condition_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              The video conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.
-          audio_condition_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              The audio conditioning rows to prepend, or None for a request that has none.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
               The number of denoising steps.
+          prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
+              text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
+          **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
+              the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
-          output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
-              Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents.
 
       Outputs:
-          videos (`list`):
-              The generated video.
-          audio (`Tensor`):
-              The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.
-          sampling_rate (`int`):
-              Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
     """
 
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
     block_classes = [
-        MiniMaxH3SetupStep,
-        MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep,
-        MiniMaxH3AutoKeyframeVaeEncoderStep,
         MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareConditionLatentsStep,
         MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3FL2VAPrepareLatentsStep,
         MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
         MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep,
-        MiniMaxH3DecodeStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep,
     ]
     block_names = [
-        "setup",
-        "text_encoder",
-        "vae_encoder",
         "prepare_layout",
+        "prepare_condition_latents",
         "prepare_latents",
+        "prepare_latents_fl2va",
         "set_timesteps",
         "denoise",
-        "decode",
+        "after_denoise",
     ]
-    # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions, so the two blocksets are two workflows over one shared
-    # `modular_model_index.json`, and each declares only the components its own half loads. The keys below are the
-    # task names a `workflow=` argument to `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` would take, so that the component subset
-    # of a task can be resolved from the index without instantiating the blocks first.
-    _workflow_map = {
-        "t2va": {"prompt": True},
-        "fl2va": {"prompt": True, "image": True},
-        "fl2va_last_frame": {"prompt": True, "last_image": True},
-    }
 
     @property
     def description(self):
         return (
-            "Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text "
-            "only) and `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint."
+            "Core denoising workflow for `fl2va`: builds the packed layout with the keyframes anchored, draws and "
+            "packs the noise around the keyframe conditioning, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop "
+            "against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def outputs(self):
+        # What the decode steps consume: the generated latents of either modality.
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, "
+                "latent_height, latent_width)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Core denoising workflow for `ref2va`: builds the packed layout with one block per reference, draws and packs the noise, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer_ref` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
+
+      Components:
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
+              The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.
+          normalized_references (`list`):
+              The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
+          condition_latents (`list`):
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is where
+              every reference block's geometry comes from.
+          audio_condition_latents (`list`):
+              The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.
+          height (`int`):
+              Height of the generated video in pixels.
+          width (`int`):
+              Width of the generated video in pixels.
+          num_frames (`int`):
+              Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5.
+          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
+              noise of the generated rows.
+          latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
+              draw.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+          num_inference_steps (`int`):
+              The number of denoising steps.
+          prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
+              text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
+          **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
+              the three row-index tensors.
+          attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+              Additional kwargs for attention processors.
+
+      Outputs:
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareConditionLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLatentsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
+        MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep,
+    ]
+    block_names = [
+        "prepare_layout",
+        "prepare_condition_latents",
+        "prepare_latents",
+        "prepare_latents_ref2va",
+        "set_timesteps",
+        "denoise",
+        "after_denoise",
+    ]
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Core denoising workflow for `ref2va`: builds the packed layout with one block per reference, draws and "
+            "packs the noise, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer_ref` "
+            "partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents."
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def outputs(self):
+        # What the decode steps consume: the generated latents of either modality.
+        return [
+            OutputParam(
+                "latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, "
+                "latent_height, latent_width)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio_latents",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3AutoDenoiseStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Denoise block.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), against the `transformer_ref` checkpoint partition.
+       - `MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), against the `transformer` partition.
+       - `MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep` runs otherwise (`t2va`), against the `transformer` partition.
+
+      Components:
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+
+      Configs:
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
+          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+
+      Inputs:
+          text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
+              The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`.
+          normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
+              The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
+          condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is where
+              every reference block's geometry comes from.
+          audio_condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
+              The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.
+          height (`int`, *optional*):
+              Height of the generated video in pixels.
+          width (`int`, *optional*):
+              Width of the generated video in pixels.
+          num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
+              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+          generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
+              noise of the generated rows.
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
+              draw.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
+          num_inference_steps (`int`):
+              The number of denoising steps.
+          prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
+              text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
+          **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
+              the three row-index tensors.
+          attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
+              Additional kwargs for attention processors.
+          keyframe_anchors (`tuple`, *optional*, defaults to ()):
+              Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.
+
+      Outputs:
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep, MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep, MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep]
+    block_names = ["ref2va", "fl2va", "t2va"]
+    block_trigger_inputs = ["references", "image", "last_image"]
+    default_block_name = "t2va"
+
+    def select_block(self, **kwargs) -> str | None:
+        if kwargs.get("references") is not None:
+            return "ref2va"
+        if kwargs.get("image") is not None or kwargs.get("last_image") is not None:
+            return "fl2va"
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return (
+            "Denoise block.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), against the "
+            "`transformer_ref` checkpoint partition.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), against the "
+            "`transformer` partition.\n"
+            + " - `MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep` runs otherwise (`t2va`), against the `transformer` partition."
         )
 
+
+# auto_docstring
+class MiniMaxH3DecodeStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+    """
+    Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack.
+
+      Components:
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`)
+          video_processor (`VideoProcessor`)
+          audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+
+      Inputs:
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated video latents.
+          output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
+              Output format: 'pil', 'np' or 'pt'.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
+              The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
+
+      Outputs:
+          videos (`list`):
+              The generated video.
+          audio (`Tensor`):
+              The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.
+          sampling_rate (`int`):
+              Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
+    """
+
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
+    block_classes = [MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep, MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep]
+    block_names = ["video", "audio"]
+
+    @property
+    def description(self):
+        return "Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack."
+
     @property
     def outputs(self):
-        return _generation_outputs()
+        return [
+            OutputParam.template("videos", description="The generated video."),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam("sampling_rate", type_hint=int, description="Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz."),
+        ]
 
 
 # auto_docstring
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
+class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation from an ordered list of image, video and audio
-    references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the Ref2VA checkpoint.
+    Auto Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3: the `t2va` (text only), `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) and `ref2va` (omni-reference) workflows, selected on the `references` and keyframe inputs. Without a `workflow=`, loading the components pulls **both** 61.7GB transformer partitions — pass one to load only what the task needs.
 
       Supported workflows:
+        - `t2va`: requires `prompt`
+        - `fl2va`: requires `prompt`, `image` or `prompt`, `last_image`
         - `ref2va`: requires `prompt`, `references`
 
       Components:
-          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`) tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`) processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) video_processor
-          (`VideoProcessor`)
+          image_processor (`VaeImageProcessor`)
+          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`)
+          tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`)
+          processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`)
+          audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          video_processor (`VideoProcessor`)
+
+      Configs:
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
+          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
-          references (`list`):
-              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the
-              prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
-              request. Every [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] carries exactly one medium, a path or in-memory media — `image` (at
-              most 9), `video` at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or
-              `audio` at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio references
-              cannot be the only ones. A path is decoded when the reference is built, so these blocks only ever see
-              pixels and samples.
+          references (`list`, *optional*):
+              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt
+              presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different request. One
+              dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most 9), a
+              [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or a
+              [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio
+              references cannot be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file: decode with each class's `from_file`
+              classmethod, which brings the rates along.
           height (`int`, *optional*):
               Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
-              decode. May be left out, but only when exactly one reference carries audio, in which case the duration is
-              that soundtrack's.
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
+              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video as long as a reference soundtrack,
+              pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`.
+          image (`Image`, *optional*):
+              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived from its own
+              aspect ratio.
+          last_image (`Image`, *optional*):
+              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image` it is the
+              follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
           prompt (`str`):
               The prompt to guide generation, a single string.
+          normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
+              The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
+          keyframes (`list`, *optional*):
+              The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
+          condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is where
+              every reference block's geometry comes from.
+          audio_condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
+              The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it before the target noise of the
-              prepare-latents step.
-          latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
-              instead of the draw.
-          audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
+              noise of the generated rows.
+          latents (`Tensor`):
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
+              draw.
+          audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
               The number of denoising steps.
+          **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
+              the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
+          keyframe_anchors (`tuple`, *optional*, defaults to ()):
+              Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.
           output_type (`str`, *optional*, defaults to pil):
-              Output format: 'pil', 'np', 'pt' or 'latent' for the raw latents.
+              Output format: 'pil', 'np' or 'pt'.
 
       Outputs:
           videos (`list`):
@@ -304,42 +743,49 @@ class MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
               Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz.
     """
 
-    # The `ref2va` task family has its own `MODULAR_PIPELINE_MAPPING` key, so that `init_pipeline` resolves
-    # `MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline` (and its `transformer_ref` partition) rather than the FL2VA one.
-    model_name = "minimax-h3-ref2va"
+    model_name = "minimax-h3"
     block_classes = [
-        MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep,
-        MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep,
-        MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep,
-        MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep,
-        MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep,
-        MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep,
-        MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AutoBeforeEncodeStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AutoTextEncoderStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AutoVaeEncoderStep,
+        MiniMaxH3AutoDenoiseStep,
         MiniMaxH3DecodeStep,
     ]
     block_names = [
-        "setup",
+        "before_encode",
         "text_encoder",
-        "reference_encoder",
-        "prepare_layout",
-        "prepare_latents",
-        "set_timesteps",
+        "vae_encoder",
         "denoise",
         "decode",
     ]
-    # The `ref2va` task name, i.e. the value a `workflow=` argument to `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` would take
-    # to resolve this half — and its `transformer_ref` partition — out of the shared `modular_model_index.json`.
+    # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions (`transformer/` for `t2va`/`fl2va`, `transformer_ref/` for
+    # `ref2va`), so the tasks are workflows over one shared `modular_model_index.json`, each declaring only the
+    # components its own half loads. The keys below are the task names a `workflow=` argument to
+    # `ModularPipeline.from_pretrained` takes, so that the component subset of a task can be resolved from the index
+    # without instantiating the blocks first.
     _workflow_map = {
+        "t2va": {"prompt": True},
+        "fl2va": ({"prompt": True, "image": True}, {"prompt": True, "last_image": True}),
         "ref2va": {"prompt": True, "references": True},
     }
 
     @property
     def description(self):
         return (
-            "Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation from an ordered list of image, video and "
-            "audio references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the Ref2VA checkpoint."
+            "Auto Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3: the `t2va` (text "
+            "only), `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) and `ref2va` (omni-reference) workflows, selected on the "
+            "`references` and keyframe inputs. Without a `workflow=`, loading the components pulls **both** 61.7GB "
+            "transformer partitions — pass one to load only what the task needs."
         )
 
     @property
     def outputs(self):
-        return _generation_outputs()
+        return [
+            OutputParam.template("videos", description="The generated video."),
+            OutputParam(
+                "audio",
+                type_hint=torch.Tensor,
+                description="The generated soundtrack, of shape `(1, 2, num_samples)`.",
+            ),
+            OutputParam("sampling_rate", type_hint=int, description="Sample rate of the generated soundtrack in Hz."),
+        ]
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
index 97ab2314beaa..0be5ccc9d90b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -19,10 +19,130 @@
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
 
 
+# Per-row modality tags. They index the transformer's AdaLN table, so the values are a checkpoint contract.
+MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG = 0
+MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG = 1
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG = 2
+
+# MiniMax-H3 generates at a fixed 24 fps. The canvas it generates on is configurable rather than a constant here:
+# the short edge and the area cap are the `canvas_short_edge` / `canvas_max_pixels` configs of the blocks that
+# resolve a canvas, and the multiple both axes round to follows from the VAE and the transformer, so it is
+# `MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline.canvas_multiple` below. All three reach these helpers as arguments.
+MINIMAX_H3_FPS = 24
+MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO = 1 / 4
+MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO = 4
+
+# The audio VAE hops 800 samples at 32 kHz, i.e. 40 latents per second. Stereo is carried as two channel-major
+# blocks of audio rows (and as two batch items at the audio VAE boundary, which is mono).
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND = 40
+MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS = 2
+
+
+def resolve_canvas_size(
+    aspect_width: float, aspect_height: float, canvas_multiple: int, short_edge: int, max_pixels: int
+) -> tuple[int, int]:
+    r"""
+    Resolve a display aspect ratio into a MiniMax-H3 canvas.
+
+    The short edge starts at `short_edge`, the area is capped at `max_pixels` and both axes are then rounded to the
+    nearest `canvas_multiple` — so the final area may end up slightly above the pre-rounding budget. Only the ratio of
+    the first two arguments matters; pass either the aspect ratio (`16, 9`) or the source dimensions of a keyframe.
+
+    Args:
+        aspect_width (`float`): Width of the target ratio.
+        aspect_height (`float`): Height of the target ratio.
+        canvas_multiple (`int`):
+            What both axes round to, i.e. `components.canvas_multiple` — 32 for the released checkpoint.
+        short_edge (`int`):
+            The short edge to aim for, i.e. `components.config.canvas_short_edge` — 768 for the released checkpoint.
+        max_pixels (`int`):
+            The area budget, i.e. `components.config.canvas_max_pixels` — `768 * 1344` for the released checkpoint.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[int, int]`: the `(height, width)` of the canvas.
+    """
+    if aspect_width <= 0 or aspect_height <= 0:
+        raise ValueError(f"The aspect ratio must be positive, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height}.")
+
+    ratio = aspect_width / aspect_height
+    if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO <= ratio <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"MiniMax-H3 supports aspect ratios from 1:4 to 4:1, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height} ({ratio:g})."
+        )
+
+    if ratio >= 1.0:
+        width, height = short_edge * ratio, float(short_edge)
+    else:
+        width, height = float(short_edge), short_edge / ratio
+
+    area = width * height
+    if area > max_pixels:
+        scale = (max_pixels / area) ** 0.5
+        width, height = width * scale, height * scale
+
+    multiple = canvas_multiple
+    return max(multiple, round(height / multiple) * multiple), max(multiple, round(width / multiple) * multiple)
+
+
+def align_num_frames(num_frames: int, frames_per_chunk: int, latents_per_chunk: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    Snap a frame count up to the next `frames_per_chunk * n + latents_per_chunk` the video VAE can encode.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): The requested number of frames.
+        frames_per_chunk (`int`): Pixel frames the video VAE encodes per chunk, its `clip_length`.
+        latents_per_chunk (`int`): Latent frames a chunk keeps, the VAE's `tokens_chunk_size`.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The aligned number of frames.
+    """
+    if num_frames < 1:
+        raise ValueError(f"`num_frames` must be positive, got {num_frames}.")
+    while num_frames % frames_per_chunk != latents_per_chunk:
+        num_frames += 1
+    return num_frames
+
+
+def video_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int, frames_per_chunk: int, latents_per_chunk: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    The number of latent frames the video VAE produces for a `17 * n + 5` frame count.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): An aligned number of frames.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The number of latent frames, `5 * n + 2`.
+    """
+    if num_frames % frames_per_chunk != latents_per_chunk:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"`num_frames` must be of the form {frames_per_chunk} * n + {latents_per_chunk}, got {num_frames}."
+        )
+    return (num_frames - latents_per_chunk) // frames_per_chunk * latents_per_chunk + 2
+
+
+def audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
+    r"""
+    The number of audio latents that covers a video of `num_frames` frames at 24 fps.
+
+    Args:
+        num_frames (`int`): The number of video frames.
+
+    Returns:
+        `int`: The number of audio latents, rounded at the 40 Hz latent grid.
+    """
+    return int(round(num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND))
+
+
 class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(ModularPipeline):
     """
-    A ModularPipeline for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3, covering the `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va`
-    (first and/or last keyframe) tasks of the FL2VA checkpoint.
+    A ModularPipeline for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3: the `t2va` (text only) and `fl2va` (first
+    and/or last keyframe) workflows against the `transformer/` checkpoint partition, and the `ref2va` (omni-reference)
+    workflow against `transformer_ref/`. One repository holds both partitions, and selecting a workflow loads only its
+    own:
+
+    ```py
+    pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", workflow="ref2va")
+    ```
 
     MiniMax-H3 denoises **one packed sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the keyframe conditioning latents,
     the audio latents and the video latents at once, which is why the blocks pass a row layout around rather than
@@ -33,8 +153,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(ModularPipeline):
     `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
 
     MiniMax-H3 is modular only: this pipeline and its blocks are the whole integration, there is no
-    `DiffusionPipeline` half. This class carries the config-derived geometry the blocks read off the components, the
-    packed-sequence geometry lives in `modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.packing`, and the conditioning, encoding and noise
+    `DiffusionPipeline` half. This module carries the model facts every block keys off — the config-derived geometry
+    as properties, the canvas and frame-count arithmetic as functions — and the conditioning, encoding and noise
     contracts live on the blocks themselves.
 
     ```py
@@ -62,6 +182,18 @@ def vae_latent_channels(self):
             return self.vae.config.latent_channels
         return 24
 
+    @property
+    def vae_frames_per_chunk(self):
+        if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None:
+            return self.vae.config.clip_length
+        return 17
+
+    @property
+    def vae_latents_per_chunk(self):
+        if getattr(self, "vae", None) is not None:
+            return self.vae.tokens_chunk_size
+        return 5
+
     @property
     def audio_sampling_rate(self):
         if getattr(self, "audio_vae", None) is not None:
@@ -76,40 +208,85 @@ def audio_latent_channels(self):
 
     @property
     def patch_size(self):
-        if getattr(self, "transformer", None) is not None:
-            return tuple(self.transformer.config.patch_size)
+        # One repository holds both checkpoint partitions — `transformer/` for `t2va`/`fl2va`, `transformer_ref/`
+        # for `ref2va` — and a workflow loads only its own, so read whichever is present.
+        for name in ("transformer", "transformer_ref"):
+            if getattr(self, name, None) is not None:
+                return tuple(getattr(self, name).config.patch_size)
         return (1, 2, 2)
 
+    @property
+    def canvas_multiple(self):
+        r"""What the generated height and width have to be a multiple of, 32 for the released checkpoint."""
+        # A canvas has to survive the VAE's spatial compression and still be a whole number of patch rows wide, so
+        # the multiple is the product of the two.
+        return self.vae_spatial_compression_ratio * self.patch_size[2]
 
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline(MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline):
-    """
-    A ModularPipeline for joint video + audio generation from omni-references with MiniMax-H3, the `ref2va` task of the
-    Ref2VA checkpoint.
+    @property
+    def fps(self):
+        r"""MiniMax-H3's own frame rate. Everything it generates and conditions on is resampled onto it."""
+        return MINIMAX_H3_FPS
 
-    A request carries an ordered list of references — up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips, 12 in total — and
-    MiniMax-H3 packs one block per reference in front of the generated rows. The order is semantic: it labels the
-    references in the prompt presentation and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock, so reordering the same
-    references is a different request.
+    @property
+    def min_duration(self):
+        r"""Shortest video MiniMax-H3 generates, in seconds."""
+        return 5.0
 
-    The transformer is registered as `transformer_ref`, so one repository can hold both checkpoint partitions
-    (`transformer/` for [`MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline`], `transformer_ref/` for this one) and either pipeline loads only
-    its own weights. One repository also means one `modular_model_index.json`, which names the `t2va` / `fl2va` half;
-    load this one through its blocks instead, which reads the very same file:
+    @property
+    def max_duration(self):
+        r"""Longest video MiniMax-H3 generates, in seconds."""
+        return 15.0
 
-    ```py
-    pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks().init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3")
-    pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-    ```
+    @property
+    def audio_channels(self):
+        r"""Channels of the generated soundtrack: MiniMax-H3 is stereo, packed channel-major."""
+        return MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
 
-    The blocks carry the `ref2va` conditioning, encoding and noise contracts themselves.
+    @property
+    def text_encoder_layer(self):
+        r"""
+        Which Qwen3-VL hidden state conditions the transformer.
 
-    > [!WARNING] > This is an experimental feature and is likely to change in the future.
-    """
+        MiniMax-H3 reads `hidden_states[50]`, not the final one: the last layer is post-norm and is not the
+        conditioning the released weights were trained against.
+        """
+        return 50
 
-    default_blocks_name = "MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks"
+    @property
+    def pixel_mean(self):
+        r"""Per-channel mean the video VAE's input is normalized by, ImageNet's."""
+        return (0.485, 0.456, 0.406)
 
     @property
-    def patch_size(self):
-        if getattr(self, "transformer_ref", None) is not None:
-            return tuple(self.transformer_ref.config.patch_size)
-        return (1, 2, 2)
+    def pixel_std(self):
+        r"""Per-channel standard deviation the video VAE's input is normalized by, ImageNet's."""
+        return (0.229, 0.224, 0.225)
+
+    @property
+    def keyframe_encode_seed(self):
+        r"""
+        Seed the conditioning posterior is sampled under, independently of the request's own generator.
+
+        Fixed at 42 in the reference implementation, so the same keyframe always encodes to the same anchor.
+        """
+        return 42
+
+    @property
+    def keyframe_noise_aug(self):
+        r"""
+        The `t` a visual conditioning anchor is held at: 0.999, just short of clean.
+
+        The released model was trained with its anchors very slightly noised, so conditioning on exactly `t = 1.0`
+        is off-distribution.
+        """
+        return 0.999
+
+    @property
+    def text_tag(self):
+        r"""The modality tag of a text row of the packed sequence."""
+        return MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG
+
+    @property
+    def video_tag(self):
+        r"""The modality tag of a video row of the packed sequence, which a vision block's rows also carry."""
+        return MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
deleted file mode 100644
index c84f7e7f9aa8..000000000000
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,538 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-r"""
-Packed-sequence and conditioning machinery of the MiniMax-H3 blocks.
-
-This module holds no block of its own: it is the checkpoint's geometry and its constants, imported by every block
-of `modular_pipelines.minimax_h3` that has to place a row, so that none of them reimplements it.
-
-MiniMax-H3 runs its transformer over a single packed 1-D sequence that holds every modality at once. For the
-text/keyframe tasks the row order is
-
-```
-[ text (L) | keyframe conditions (C) | target audio (A) | target video (V) ]
-```
-
-and every piece of geometry in this module exists to place a row in that sequence and to give it its `(t, h, w)`
-rotary coordinate. The coordinates are built in float64 because video and audio share one 40-units-per-second
-rotary clock — video advances `5/3` rotary units per pixel frame at 24 fps, audio advances one unit per latent at
-40 latents/s — and that shared clock *is* the audio/video alignment.
-
-The reference implementation pads the packed sequence up to a multiple of 64 and keeps the padding tail as a
-separate attention document. Padding therefore cannot influence a live row, and this module builds the sequence
-without it: `MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel` then needs no attention mask, which keeps the unmasked attention
-backends available.
-"""
-
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-
-import numpy as np
-import torch
-from PIL import Image
-
-from ...utils.torch_utils import randn_tensor
-
-
-# Per-row modality tags. They index the transformer's AdaLN table, so the values are a checkpoint contract.
-MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG = 0
-MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG = 1
-MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG = 2
-
-# MiniMax-H3 generates at a fixed 24 fps and was released for a 768 pixel short edge only, with a soft area cap of
-# 768x1344 and both axes rounded to a multiple of 32.
-MINIMAX_H3_FPS = 24
-MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE = 768
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS = 768 * 1344
-MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE = 32
-MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO = 1 / 4
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO = 4
-MINIMAX_H3_MIN_DURATION = 5.0
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_DURATION = 15.0
-
-# The video VAE encodes 17 pixel frames per chunk and drops the 3 trailing latent frames of every chunk, so
-# `17 * n + 5` pixel frames map to `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
-MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK = 17
-MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK = 5
-
-# The pixel convention of the video VAE: ImageNet-normalized RGB over a `[0, 1]` base range.
-MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_MEAN = (0.485, 0.456, 0.406)
-MINIMAX_H3_PIXEL_STD = (0.229, 0.224, 0.225)
-
-# MiniMax-H3 conditions on the *unnormalized* hidden state its Qwen3-VL conditioner produces after the 50th of its 64
-# decoder layers, i.e. `hidden_states[50]` (`hidden_states[0]` being the embedding output).
-MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_ENCODER_LAYER = 50
-
-# The audio VAE hops 800 samples at 32 kHz, i.e. 40 latents per second. Stereo is carried as two channel-major
-# blocks of audio rows (and as two batch items at the audio VAE boundary, which is mono).
-MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND = 40
-MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS = 2
-
-# Conditioning rows are not fully clean: the released model noises keyframe latents to `t = 0.999` and runs them at
-# that timestep for every denoising step.
-MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_NOISE_AUG = 0.999
-
-# The seeded posterior sample of the keyframe VAE encode. Fixed at 42 independently of the request seed.
-MINIMAX_H3_KEYFRAME_ENCODE_SEED = 42
-
-# Rotary-time constants. One latent frame spans `5/3 * frames_per_latent` rotary units, where the pattern
-# `(1, 4, 4, 4, 4)` mirrors the VAE's 17-pixel-frames-to-5-latent-frames grouping; the spatial axes are normalized
-# by the square root of the latent area and scaled by 32.
-_ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE = 5.0 / 3.0
-_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT = (1, 4, 4, 4, 4)
-_ROPE_SPATIAL_SCALE = 32
-
-
-@dataclass
-class MiniMaxH3PackedSequence:
-    r"""
-    The structural description of one packed MiniMax-H3 sequence.
-
-    Attributes:
-        sequence_length (`int`):
-            Total number of rows, `L + C + A + V`.
-        position_ids (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(sequence_length, 3)`, float64):
-            The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinate of every row.
-        token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(sequence_length,)`):
-            The modality tag of every row.
-        video_indices (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Sequence positions of the video rows: the keyframe conditioning rows first, then the target rows.
-        audio_indices (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Sequence positions of the audio rows: reference rows first (`ref2va` only), then the target rows.
-        text_indices (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Sequence positions of the text rows.
-        num_condition_video_rows (`int`):
-            How many leading entries of `video_indices` are conditioning rows rather than generated rows.
-        num_condition_audio_rows (`int`):
-            How many leading entries of `audio_indices` are reference rows rather than generated rows.
-    """
-
-    sequence_length: int
-    position_ids: torch.Tensor
-    token_tags: torch.Tensor
-    video_indices: torch.Tensor
-    audio_indices: torch.Tensor
-    text_indices: torch.Tensor
-    num_condition_video_rows: int
-    num_condition_audio_rows: int
-
-
-def resolve_canvas_size(aspect_width: float, aspect_height: float) -> tuple[int, int]:
-    r"""
-    Resolve a display aspect ratio into a MiniMax-H3 canvas.
-
-    The short edge starts at 768, the area is capped at `768 * 1344` and both axes are then rounded to the nearest
-    multiple of 32 — so the final area may end up slightly above the pre-rounding budget. Only the ratio of the two
-    arguments matters; pass either the aspect ratio (`16, 9`) or the source dimensions of a keyframe.
-
-    Args:
-        aspect_width (`float`): Width of the target ratio.
-        aspect_height (`float`): Height of the target ratio.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[int, int]`: the `(height, width)` of the canvas.
-    """
-    if aspect_width <= 0 or aspect_height <= 0:
-        raise ValueError(f"The aspect ratio must be positive, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height}.")
-
-    ratio = aspect_width / aspect_height
-    if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO <= ratio <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"MiniMax-H3 supports aspect ratios from 1:4 to 4:1, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height} ({ratio:g})."
-        )
-
-    if ratio >= 1.0:
-        width, height = MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE * ratio, float(MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE)
-    else:
-        width, height = float(MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE), MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE / ratio
-
-    area = width * height
-    if area > MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS:
-        scale = (MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS / area) ** 0.5
-        width, height = width * scale, height * scale
-
-    multiple = MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
-    return max(multiple, round(height / multiple) * multiple), max(multiple, round(width / multiple) * multiple)
-
-
-def align_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
-    r"""
-    Snap a frame count up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can encode.
-
-    Args:
-        num_frames (`int`): The requested number of frames.
-
-    Returns:
-        `int`: The aligned number of frames.
-    """
-    if num_frames < 1:
-        raise ValueError(f"`num_frames` must be positive, got {num_frames}.")
-    while num_frames % MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK != MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK:
-        num_frames += 1
-    return num_frames
-
-
-def video_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
-    r"""
-    The number of latent frames the video VAE produces for a `17 * n + 5` frame count.
-
-    Args:
-        num_frames (`int`): An aligned number of frames.
-
-    Returns:
-        `int`: The number of latent frames, `5 * n + 2`.
-    """
-    if num_frames % MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK != MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK:
-        raise ValueError(f"`num_frames` must be of the form 17 * n + 5, got {num_frames}.")
-    return (
-        num_frames - MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK
-    ) // MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK * MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK + 2
-
-
-def audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
-    r"""
-    The number of audio latents that covers a video of `num_frames` frames at 24 fps.
-
-    Args:
-        num_frames (`int`): The number of video frames.
-
-    Returns:
-        `int`: The number of audio latents, rounded at the 40 Hz latent grid.
-    """
-    return int(round(num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND))
-
-
-def prepare_keyframe_image(image, height: int, width: int, stretch: bool):
-    r"""
-    Put a keyframe onto the target canvas.
-
-    The first keyframe of a request is the geometry anchor and is *stretched* onto the canvas, while a second
-    keyframe follows that canvas and is cover-cropped (aspect-preserving max-scale LANCZOS resize plus a centre
-    crop). An image that already is the canvas is returned untouched, without a resampling pass.
-
-    Args:
-        image (`PIL.Image.Image`): The keyframe, in RGB and already EXIF-transposed.
-        height (`int`): Canvas height.
-        width (`int`): Canvas width.
-        stretch (`bool`): Whether to stretch (geometry anchor) instead of cover-cropping (follower).
-
-    Returns:
-        `PIL.Image.Image`: The prepared keyframe.
-    """
-    if image.size == (width, height):
-        return image
-    if stretch:
-        return image.resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
-
-    scale = max(width / image.size[0], height / image.size[1])
-    resized_size = (max(width, round(image.size[0] * scale)), max(height, round(image.size[1] * scale)))
-    left = max(0, (resized_size[0] - width) // 2)
-    top = max(0, (resized_size[1] - height) // 2)
-    resized = image.resize(resized_size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
-    return resized.crop((left, top, left + width, top + height))
-
-
-def patchify_video_latents(latents: torch.Tensor, patch_size: tuple[int, int, int]) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""
-    Pack video latents into transformer rows.
-
-    Args:
-        latents (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, channels, num_frames, height, width)`):
-            The latents to pack.
-        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The `(t, h, w)` patch.
-
-    Returns:
-        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size * num_patches, channels * prod(patch_size))`: The packed rows, ordered
-        frame-major then row-major.
-    """
-    patch_t, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
-    batch_size, channels, num_frames, height, width = latents.shape
-    if num_frames % patch_t or height % patch_h or width % patch_w:
-        raise ValueError(f"Latents of shape {tuple(latents.shape)} are not divisible by the patch {patch_size}.")
-
-    latents = latents.reshape(
-        batch_size,
-        channels,
-        num_frames // patch_t,
-        patch_t,
-        height // patch_h,
-        patch_h,
-        width // patch_w,
-        patch_w,
-    )
-    latents = latents.permute(0, 2, 4, 6, 1, 3, 5, 7)
-    return latents.reshape(-1, channels * patch_t * patch_h * patch_w).contiguous()
-
-
-def unpatchify_video_tokens(
-    rows: torch.Tensor,
-    num_latent_frames: int,
-    latent_height: int,
-    latent_width: int,
-    channels: int,
-    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""
-    Unpack transformer rows back into video latents. The inverse of [`patchify_video_latents`].
-
-    Args:
-        rows (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_patches, channels * prod(patch_size))`): The packed rows.
-        num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of latent frames.
-        latent_height (`int`): Latent height.
-        latent_width (`int`): Latent width.
-        channels (`int`): Number of latent channels.
-        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The `(t, h, w)` patch.
-
-    Returns:
-        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
-    """
-    patch_t, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
-    rows = rows.reshape(
-        -1,
-        num_latent_frames // patch_t,
-        latent_height // patch_h,
-        latent_width // patch_w,
-        channels,
-        patch_t,
-        patch_h,
-        patch_w,
-    )
-    rows = rows.permute(0, 4, 1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7)
-    return rows.reshape(-1, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width).contiguous()
-
-
-def unpack_audio_tokens(rows: torch.Tensor, num_audio_latents: int) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""
-    Unpack the channel-major audio rows into audio VAE latents.
-
-    Args:
-        rows (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_audio_latents * 2, latent_channels)`): The packed audio rows.
-        num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of audio latents per channel.
-
-    Returns:
-        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, latent_channels, num_audio_latents)`: One batch item per stereo channel, which
-        is what the mono audio VAE consumes.
-    """
-    rows = rows.reshape(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, num_audio_latents, rows.shape[-1])
-    return rows.permute(0, 2, 1).contiguous()
-
-
-def _spatial_position_grid(dim: int, patch: int, sqrt_area: float) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""
-    One aspect-normalized spatial rotary axis: `dim // patch` coordinates centred on the unit interval, scaled up by
-    32. The right endpoint is excluded, so a square canvas spans `[0, 32)`.
-    """
-    ratio = dim / sqrt_area
-    left = (1.0 - ratio) / 2.0
-    # Built with numpy: `np.linspace(..., endpoint=False)` is `start + arange(num) * (stop - start) / num`, which is
-    # not what `torch.linspace` computes, and the float64 grid has to be reproduced exactly.
-    grid = np.linspace(left, left + ratio, dim // patch, endpoint=False) * _ROPE_SPATIAL_SCALE
-    return torch.from_numpy(grid).to(torch.float64)
-
-
-def _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames: int, origin: float) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""The rotary time of every latent frame, starting at `origin`. Spacing is non-uniform: `5/3 * (1, 4, 4, 4, 4)`."""
-    spans = torch.tensor(
-        [
-            _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
-            for index in range(num_latent_frames)
-        ],
-        dtype=torch.float64,
-    )
-    return origin + torch.cat([torch.zeros(1, dtype=torch.float64), spans[:-1].cumsum(0)])
-
-
-def _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
-    r"""
-    The rotary time spanned by `num_latent_frames` latent frames.
-
-    Summed by numpy (pairwise summation) rather than sequentially: the reference computes the keyframe anchor this
-    way and the two summation orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards.
-    """
-    spans = np.ones(num_latent_frames, dtype=np.float64) * _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
-    for index in range(len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)):
-        spans[index :: len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)] *= _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index]
-    return float(spans.sum())
-
-
-def build_packed_sequence(
-    text_token_tags: torch.Tensor,
-    num_latent_frames: int,
-    latent_height: int,
-    latent_width: int,
-    num_audio_latents: int,
-    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
-    keyframe_anchors: tuple[str, ...] = (),
-) -> MiniMaxH3PackedSequence:
-    r"""
-    Build the `[text | keyframe conditions | target audio | target video]` layout used by the `t2va` and `fl2va`
-    tasks.
-
-    Args:
-        text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
-            The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a keyframe's vision block,
-            which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
-        num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
-        latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
-        latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
-        num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
-        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
-        keyframe_anchors (`tuple[str, ...]`):
-            One entry per keyframe conditioning block, in packed order: `"first"` anchors the block at the first
-            latent frame, `"last"` at the last one.
-
-    Returns:
-        [`MiniMaxH3PackedSequence`]
-    """
-    _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
-    rows_per_frame = (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
-    num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
-    num_condition_rows = len(keyframe_anchors) * rows_per_frame
-    num_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
-    num_video_rows = num_latent_frames * rows_per_frame
-    sequence_length = num_text_tokens + num_condition_rows + num_audio_rows + num_video_rows
-
-    condition_start = num_text_tokens
-    audio_start = condition_start + num_condition_rows
-    video_start = audio_start + num_audio_rows
-
-    # 1. The (t, h, w) grid. Text rows sit on the time axis at their row index, and the media rows continue the time
-    # axis from there, so text length shifts the whole media clock.
-    position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
-    position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
-
-    sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
-    height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
-    width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
-    frame_grid = torch.stack([grid.reshape(-1) for grid in torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")], -1)
-
-    for index, anchor in enumerate(keyframe_anchors):
-        if anchor == "first":
-            anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens)
-        elif anchor == "last":
-            anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens) + _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames) - _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(f"A keyframe anchor must be 'first' or 'last', got {anchor!r}.")
-        rows = slice(condition_start + index * rows_per_frame, condition_start + (index + 1) * rows_per_frame)
-        position_ids[rows, 0] = anchor_time
-        position_ids[rows, 1:] = frame_grid
-
-    # Audio rows are channel-major and share the video's rotary clock: one unit per latent at 40 latents/s equals
-    # 24 fps * 5/3. They carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid.
-    audio_time = float(num_text_tokens) + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
-    position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 0] = audio_time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
-    position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 2] = torch.cat(
-        [
-            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
-            torch.full((num_audio_rows - num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[-1]), dtype=torch.float64),
-        ]
-    )
-
-    video_position_ids = torch.empty(num_latent_frames, rows_per_frame, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
-    video_position_ids[:, :, 0] = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, float(num_text_tokens))[:, None]
-    video_position_ids[:, :, 1:] = frame_grid[None]
-    position_ids[video_start:] = video_position_ids.reshape(-1, 3)
-
-    # 2. Row indices and modality tags.
-    video_indices = torch.cat([torch.arange(condition_start, audio_start), torch.arange(video_start, sequence_length)])
-    audio_indices = torch.arange(audio_start, video_start)
-    text_indices = torch.arange(num_text_tokens)
-
-    token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
-    token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
-    token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
-    token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
-
-    return MiniMaxH3PackedSequence(
-        sequence_length=sequence_length,
-        position_ids=position_ids,
-        token_tags=token_tags,
-        video_indices=video_indices,
-        audio_indices=audio_indices,
-        text_indices=text_indices,
-        num_condition_video_rows=num_condition_rows,
-        num_condition_audio_rows=0,
-    )
-
-
-def build_row_timesteps(
-    layout: MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
-    video_timestep: float,
-    audio_timestep: float,
-    condition_video_timestep: float,
-    condition_audio_timestep: float,
-) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-    r"""
-    Assign a timestep to every row of the packed sequence and reduce it to the transformer's `(timestep,
-    timestep_indices)` pair.
-
-    One forward serves rows at different noise levels: the generated video and audio rows step down their own
-    schedules while the conditioning rows stay pinned at their noise-augmentation level. Text rows never reach an
-    output head and inherit the video timestep.
-
-    Args:
-        layout ([`MiniMaxH3PackedSequence`]): The packed layout.
-        video_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the generated video rows.
-        audio_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the generated audio rows.
-        condition_video_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the video conditioning rows.
-        condition_audio_timestep (`float`): Timestep of the audio reference rows.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]`: the distinct timesteps, sorted, and the index of every row into them.
-    """
-    row_timesteps = torch.full((layout.sequence_length,), video_timestep, dtype=torch.float32)
-    row_timesteps[layout.video_indices[: layout.num_condition_video_rows]] = condition_video_timestep
-    row_timesteps[layout.audio_indices[layout.num_condition_audio_rows :]] = audio_timestep
-    row_timesteps[layout.audio_indices[: layout.num_condition_audio_rows]] = condition_audio_timestep
-    return torch.unique(row_timesteps, sorted=True, return_inverse=True)
-
-
-def keyframe_condition_noise(
-    condition_latent_shapes: tuple[tuple[int, int, int], ...],
-    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
-    latent_channels: int,
-    generator: torch.Generator | list[torch.Generator] | None = None,
-    device: torch.device | None = None,
-    dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float32,
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""
-    Draw the noise that the keyframe (or reference) conditioning rows are mixed with.
-
-    One draw per condition, in packed order, off the request's generator. The conditioning rows are prepared before
-    the target rows, so these are the *first* draws of a request, ahead of the video and audio noise of
-    [`~MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep.prepare_latents`] — the order is part of what a generator reproduces.
-
-    Args:
-        condition_latent_shapes (`tuple[tuple[int, int, int], ...]`):
-            The `(num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` of every condition, in packed order.
-        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
-        latent_channels (`int`): Number of video latent channels.
-        generator (`torch.Generator`, *optional*): The generator of the request.
-        device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device the noise is drawn on.
-        dtype (`torch.dtype`, defaults to `torch.float32`): The dtype of the noise.
-
-    Returns:
-        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_condition_rows, latent_channels * prod(patch_size))`: the noise rows,
-        concatenated in packed order.
-    """
-    rows = []
-    for num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width in condition_latent_shapes:
-        noise = randn_tensor(
-            (1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width),
-            generator=generator,
-            device=device,
-            dtype=dtype,
-        )
-        rows.append(patchify_video_latents(noise, patch_size))
-    return torch.cat(rows)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3518c9558a0c..000000000000
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/packing_ref2va.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,841 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-r"""
-The `ref2va` half of MiniMax-H3's packed sequence: omni-reference conditioning.
-
-`ref2va` takes an ordered list of references — images, videos (with their soundtrack) and audio clips — and packs one
-block per reference ahead of the generated rows:
-
-```
-[ text (L) | reference block 1 | reference block 2 | ... | target audio (A) | target video (V) ]
-```
-
-The blocks are packed in **request order**, and a video reference packs its soundtrack rows immediately *before* its
-own video rows. Order is semantic twice over: it fixes the `"<Picture i>"` / `"<Audio j>"` / `"<Video k>"` labels of
-the prompt presentation, and it advances the shared rotary clock — an image reference occupies one rotary slot, an
-audio reference as many as it has latents, and a video reference the longer of its own two spans, its soundtrack and
-its frames sharing one origin.
-
-Unlike a `fl2va` keyframe, a reference never binds the target geometry: every reference is prepared at its own
-resolution (2048 pixel short edge for images, MiniMax-H3's 768 pixel canvas for videos) and carries its own
-aspect-normalized spatial grid.
-
-References reach the blocks as in-memory media: a video is decoded frames plus the `fps` they carry, and a soundtrack
-a waveform plus its sample rate. A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] takes a path or a URL too, but it decodes it when it is
-built, so that no block of this model ever opens a media file.
-"""
-
-import contextlib
-import math
-import os
-import tempfile
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field
-from typing import Any
-from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
-
-import numpy as np
-import requests
-import torch
-from PIL import Image
-
-from ...utils import is_av_available, load_image
-from ...utils.constants import DIFFUSERS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
-from .packing import (
-    _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE,
-    _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT,
-    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE,
-    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK,
-    MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK,
-    MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
-    MiniMaxH3PackedSequence,
-    _spatial_position_grid,
-    _temporal_position_grid,
-    resolve_canvas_size,
-)
-
-
-# Reference images are resized to a 2048 pixel short edge — upscaling included — and both axes are rounded to a
-# multiple of 32 independently. There is no area cap, so a 4:1 reference is 8192x2048.
-MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 2048
-
-# The conditioner sees a reference video at 2 fps, and Qwen3-VL merges every two of those frames into one vision
-# block labelled with the mean timestamp of the pair.
-MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_VIDEO_SAMPLE_FPS = 2.0
-MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH = 2
-
-# Documented per-request limits of the omni-reference task.
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_IMAGES = 9
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_VIDEOS = 3
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCE_AUDIOS = 3
-MINIMAX_H3_MAX_REFERENCES = 12
-
-
-@contextlib.contextmanager
-def _local_media_file(media):
-    r"""The reference media as a local file: a URL is downloaded to a temporary file, removed on the way out."""
-    path = str(media)
-    if not path.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
-        if not os.path.isfile(path):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"Incorrect path or URL. URLs must start with `http://` or `https://`, and {path} is not a valid path."
-            )
-        yield path
-        return
-
-    response = requests.get(path, stream=True, timeout=DIFFUSERS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
-    if response.status_code != 200:
-        raise ValueError(f"Failed to download {path}. Status code: {response.status_code}")
-    suffix = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(unquote(urlparse(path).path)))[1]
-    download = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False)
-    try:
-        with download as file:
-            for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
-                file.write(chunk)
-        yield download.name
-    finally:
-        os.remove(download.name)
-
-
-def _import_av():
-    r"""PyAV, the soft dependency a reference decodes a media file with."""
-    if not is_av_available():
-        raise ImportError(
-            "Decoding a MiniMax-H3 reference from a file needs PyAV. You can install it with `pip install av`, or "
-            "pass the decoded media itself: frames and the `fps` they carry for a video, a `(channels, num_samples)` "
-            "waveform and its `sample_rate` for audio."
-        )
-
-    import av
-
-    return av
-
-
-def _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, stream) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
-    r"""
-    An audio stream's samples as a `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform, at the rate the container carries them.
-
-    Args:
-        av (`module`): PyAV.
-        container (`av.container.InputContainer`): The open container.
-        stream (`av.audio.stream.AudioStream`): The stream to decode.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[torch.Tensor, int]`: the waveform and its sample rate.
-    """
-    sample_rate = int(stream.codec_context.sample_rate)
-    # Planar float is a format conversion only: the sample rate and the channel layout stay the container's own, and a
-    # mono soundtrack is upmixed later, by `prepare_reference_waveform`.
-    resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout=stream.layout, rate=sample_rate)
-    chunks = []
-    for frame in container.decode(stream):
-        chunks += [torch.from_numpy(resampled.to_ndarray()) for resampled in resampler.resample(frame)]
-    # Whatever the resampler is still holding.
-    chunks += [torch.from_numpy(resampled.to_ndarray()) for resampled in resampler.resample(None)]
-    return torch.cat(chunks, dim=-1).to(torch.float32), sample_rate
-
-
-def decode_reference_video(media) -> tuple[np.ndarray, float, tuple[torch.Tensor, int] | None]:
-    r"""
-    Decode a reference video file into `uint8` RGB frames, at the resolution and the frame rate it carries.
-
-    Args:
-        media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the video.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[np.ndarray, float, tuple[torch.Tensor, int]]`: the `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` frames, the frame
-        rate the container reports, and its soundtrack with that soundtrack's own sample rate, `None` when the
-        container carries no audio stream.
-    """
-    av = _import_av()
-    with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
-        stream = container.streams.video[0]
-        frames, rotation = [], 0.0
-        for frame in container.decode(stream):
-            # The display matrix rotation belongs to the stream, and PyAV surfaces it on every frame of it.
-            rotation = frame.rotation
-            frames.append(frame.to_ndarray(format="rgb24"))
-        frame_rate = float(stream.average_rate or stream.guessed_rate)
-        soundtrack = None
-        if container.streams.audio:
-            # Decoding the frames drained the container, so the soundtrack is read in a second pass over it.
-            container.seek(0)
-            soundtrack = _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, container.streams.audio[0])
-
-    if not frames:
-        raise ValueError(f"No video frames to decode in {media}.")
-    frames = np.stack(frames)
-    # `ffmpeg` displays a frame upright by undoing the counterclockwise rotation the display matrix carries, which is
-    # what this reproduces, snapped to the nearest quarter turn. A non-square pixel aspect ratio is left alone: the
-    # reference implementation resolved a reference's canvas from its *display* geometry, so a stream that carries a
-    # sample aspect ratio is conditioned on at the wrong shape, and correcting it is untested guesswork here.
-    turns = round(rotation / 90.0) % 4
-    if turns:
-        frames = np.ascontiguousarray(np.rot90(frames, k=-turns, axes=(1, 2)))
-    return frames, frame_rate, soundtrack
-
-
-def decode_reference_audio(media) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
-    r"""
-    Decode a reference audio file into a waveform, at the sample rate it carries.
-
-    Args:
-        media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the audio, or of a video whose soundtrack is taken.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[torch.Tensor, int]`: the `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform and its sample rate.
-    """
-    av = _import_av()
-    with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
-        if not container.streams.audio:
-            raise ValueError(f"No audio stream to decode in {media}.")
-        return _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, container.streams.audio[0])
-
-
-@dataclass
-class MiniMaxH3Reference:
-    r"""
-    One omni-reference of a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request: an image, a video, or an audio clip.
-
-    A reference carries exactly one medium — plus, for a video, the `audio` of its own soundtrack, which is then
-    conditioned on as that reference's own. References are passed to the blocks as a list, **in the order the model
-    should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock,
-    so a different order is a different request.
-
-    Every medium may be a path or a URL as well as in-memory media. A path is decoded here, when the reference is
-    built, and with it the rates that come with it: no MiniMax-H3 block opens a media file. Decoding a video or an
-    audio file needs [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV).
-
-    ```py
-    >>> from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference
-
-    >>> # A file or a URL is decoded on the spot, at the rate the container reports.
-    >>> references = [
-    ...     MiniMaxH3Reference(video="motion_ref.mp4"),
-    ...     MiniMaxH3Reference(image="subject.png"),
-    ...     MiniMaxH3Reference(audio="voice.wav"),
-    ... ]
-
-    >>> # In-memory media instead carries the rates it was produced at, MiniMax-H3's own by default.
-    >>> import numpy as np
-
-    >>> frames = np.zeros((30, 480, 854, 3), dtype="uint8")
-    >>> reference = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames, fps=30.0)
-    ```
-
-    Attributes:
-        image (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-            A subject, style or scene reference: at most 9 per request. A path or a URL, which is read with
-            [`~utils.load_image`], a `(height, width, 3)` array or a `(3, height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or floating
-            point over `[0, 1]`. Mutually exclusive with `video`.
-        video (`str`, `os.PathLike`, `list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-            A motion and camera reference: at most 3 per request. A path or a URL, which PyAV decodes into frames, a
-            list of images, a `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` array or a `(num_frames, 3, height, width)` tensor.
-            Mutually exclusive with `image`. A decoded file brings its soundtrack along, as this reference's own, so
-            conditioning on a file's motion alone means decoding its frames first, with [`~utils.load_video`].
-        fps (`float`, *optional*):
-            The frame rate `video` carries its frames at, which is what places its vision blocks on the conditioner's
-            2 fps grid. Left out, it is the rate the container reports for a decoded file and MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps
-            for in-memory frames, and `fps` holds that resolved rate once the reference is built. Passing it wins over
-            both, which is only needed when a container's metadata is wrong. MiniMax-H3's clock is 24 fps, so any other
-            rate is resampled onto it by dropping and duplicating whole frames.
-        audio (`str`, `os.PathLike` or `torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`, *optional*):
-            A voice or music reference, mono or stereo: at most 3 per request, and never on its own — an audio
-            reference has to be paired with at least one image or video reference. A path or a URL, which PyAV decodes
-            into a waveform, or the waveform itself. Passed next to `video`, it is that video's soundtrack instead of a
-            reference of its own. An audio reference never reaches the conditioner and is encoded by the audio VAE
-            alone.
-        sample_rate (`int`, *optional*):
-            The rate `audio` carries its samples at. Left out, it is the rate the container reports for a decoded file,
-            and for an in-memory waveform the audio VAE's own, which leaves the samples untouched. Passing it wins over
-            both, which is only needed when a container's metadata is wrong. Any other rate is resampled onto the audio
-            VAE's own.
-    """
-
-    image: str | os.PathLike | Image.Image | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None
-    video: str | os.PathLike | list[Image.Image] | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor | None = None
-    fps: float | None = None
-    audio: str | os.PathLike | torch.Tensor | None = None
-    sample_rate: int | None = None
-
-    def __post_init__(self):
-        # A video reference conditions on its soundtrack too, so `audio` is a second medium of a video reference.
-        media = [name for name in ("image", "video", "audio") if getattr(self, name) is not None]
-        if media not in (["image"], ["video"], ["audio"], ["video", "audio"]):
-            raise ValueError(
-                "A `MiniMaxH3Reference` must carry exactly one of `image`, `video` or `audio` — plus, for a video, "
-                f"the `audio` of its soundtrack — got {media if media else 'none of them'}."
-            )
-
-        # A path is decoded on the spot, so that the blocks only ever see in-memory media. A rate the request
-        # passed explicitly wins over the one the container reports, for a container whose metadata is wrong.
-        if isinstance(self.image, (str, os.PathLike)):
-            self.image = load_image(str(self.image))
-        if isinstance(self.video, (str, os.PathLike)):
-            frames, frame_rate, soundtrack = decode_reference_video(self.video)
-            self.video = frames
-            self.fps = frame_rate if self.fps is None else self.fps
-            if soundtrack is not None and self.audio is None:
-                self.audio, soundtrack_sample_rate = soundtrack
-                self.sample_rate = soundtrack_sample_rate if self.sample_rate is None else self.sample_rate
-        if isinstance(self.audio, (str, os.PathLike)):
-            self.audio, sample_rate = decode_reference_audio(self.audio)
-            self.sample_rate = sample_rate if self.sample_rate is None else self.sample_rate
-        if self.fps is None:
-            self.fps = float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
-
-    @property
-    def kind(self) -> str:
-        r"""The modality this reference is packed as: `"image"`, `"video"` or `"audio"`."""
-        if self.image is not None:
-            return "image"
-        return "video" if self.video is not None else "audio"
-
-    @property
-    def has_audio(self) -> bool:
-        r"""Whether this reference contributes audio rows, i.e. whether it carries a waveform."""
-        return self.audio is not None
-
-
-def reference_kind(index: int, entry: Any) -> str:
-    r"""
-    The modality of one `references` entry, which the [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] validated at construction.
-    """
-    if not isinstance(entry, MiniMaxH3Reference):
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"`references[{index}]` must be a [`MiniMaxH3Reference`], got {type(entry)}. A request is built from "
-            "the dataclass: `MiniMaxH3Reference(image=...)`, `MiniMaxH3Reference(video=...)` or "
-            "`MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=...)`."
-        )
-    # A reference decodes a path when it is built, so the blocks only ever see in-memory media.
-    for name in ("image", "video", "audio"):
-        if isinstance(getattr(entry, name), (str, os.PathLike)):
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"`references[{index}].{name}` is a path. MiniMax-H3 blocks never open media files: rebuild "
-                "the reference, which decodes a path as it is built."
-            )
-    return entry.kind
-
-
-@dataclass
-class MiniMaxH3PreparedReference:
-    r"""
-    One `ref2va` reference prepared for packing, in packed order.
-
-    A [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] is resolved in three passes: the blocks read the modality off the request (`kind`,
-    `has_audio`), prepares the pixels or samples (`image`, `frames`, `waveform`), and finally encodes them, which is
-    what fixes the latent geometry (`num_latent_frames`, `latent_height`, `latent_width`, `num_audio_latents`) the
-    packed layout is built from.
-
-    Attributes:
-        kind (`str`):
-            `"image"`, `"video"` or `"audio"`.
-        has_audio (`bool`):
-            Whether this reference contributes audio rows. Always `True` for `"audio"`, and `True` for a `"video"` the
-            request passed a soundtrack with.
-        image (`PIL.Image.Image`):
-            The prepared reference image.
-        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`):
-            The prepared reference video, `uint8` RGB at 24 fps.
-        waveform (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, num_samples)`):
-            The prepared soundtrack, stereo at the audio VAE's sample rate.
-        block_timestamps (`list[float]`):
-            The timestamp of every vision block the conditioner sees for a video reference.
-        num_latent_frames (`int`), latent_height (`int`), latent_width (`int`):
-            Latent geometry of the visual rows.
-        num_audio_latents (`int`):
-            Number of audio latents per channel.
-    """
-
-    kind: str
-    has_audio: bool = False
-    image: Any = None
-    frames: Any = None
-    waveform: torch.Tensor | None = None
-    block_timestamps: list[float] = field(default_factory=list)
-    num_latent_frames: int = 1
-    latent_height: int = 0
-    latent_width: int = 0
-    num_audio_latents: int = 0
-
-    @property
-    def num_video_rows(self) -> int:
-        r"""The number of packed video rows, for the `(1, 2, 2)` patch MiniMax-H3 packs video latents with."""
-        return self.num_latent_frames * (self.latent_height // 2) * (self.latent_width // 2)
-
-    @property
-    def num_audio_rows(self) -> int:
-        r"""The number of packed audio rows: one per latent and per stereo channel."""
-        return self.num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
-
-
-def _temporal_position_span(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
-    r"""
-    The rotary time a video reference advances the clock by.
-
-    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`~modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.packing._temporal_position_span`] sums
-    the same series: that one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16
-    latent frames onwards. The reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
-    """
-    return sum(
-        _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
-        for index in range(num_latent_frames)
-    )
-
-
-def _frame_position_grid(
-    latent_height: int, latent_width: int, patch_h: int, patch_w: int
-) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-    r"""The `(h, w)` rotary coordinates of one latent frame, and the width axis they were built from."""
-    sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
-    height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
-    width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
-    grids = torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")
-    return torch.stack([grid.reshape(-1) for grid in grids], dim=-1), width_grid
-
-
-def _fill_audio_positions(
-    position_ids: torch.Tensor,
-    rows: slice,
-    num_audio_latents: int,
-    rotary_time: float,
-    width_grid: torch.Tensor,
-) -> None:
-    r"""
-    Place one channel-major audio block.
-
-    Audio rows carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid of *their own* block —
-    the target grid for a standalone audio reference, the video's grid for a soundtrack.
-    """
-    time = rotary_time + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
-    position_ids[rows, 0] = time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
-    position_ids[rows, 2] = torch.cat(
-        [
-            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
-            torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[-1]), dtype=torch.float64),
-        ]
-    )
-
-
-def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
-    text_token_tags: torch.Tensor,
-    references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
-    num_latent_frames: int,
-    latent_height: int,
-    latent_width: int,
-    num_audio_latents: int,
-    patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
-) -> MiniMaxH3PackedSequence:
-    r"""
-    Build the `[text | reference blocks | target audio | target video]` layout of the `ref2va` task.
-
-    Args:
-        text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
-            The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a reference's vision block,
-            which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
-        references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`):
-            The references, in packed order, with their latent geometry already resolved.
-        num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
-        latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
-        latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
-        num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
-        patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
-
-    Returns:
-        [`MiniMaxH3PackedSequence`]
-    """
-    _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
-    num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
-    num_target_video_rows = num_latent_frames * (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
-    num_target_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
-    num_reference_video_rows = sum(reference.num_video_rows for reference in references if reference.kind != "audio")
-    num_reference_audio_rows = sum(reference.num_audio_rows for reference in references)
-    sequence_length = (
-        num_text_tokens
-        + num_reference_video_rows
-        + num_reference_audio_rows
-        + num_target_audio_rows
-        + num_target_video_rows
-    )
-
-    position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
-    position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
-    target_frame_grid, target_width_grid = _frame_position_grid(latent_height, latent_width, patch_h, patch_w)
-
-    # Reference blocks, in request order. `rotary_time` is the shared audio/video clock: it starts where the text
-    # rows end and every block pushes it forward by the time that block occupies.
-    video_indices, audio_indices = [], []
-    cursor = num_text_tokens
-    rotary_time = float(num_text_tokens)
-    for reference in references:
-        if reference.kind == "image":
-            rows = slice(cursor, cursor + reference.num_video_rows)
-            cursor = rows.stop
-            video_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
-            frame_grid, _ = _frame_position_grid(reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width, patch_h, patch_w)
-            position_ids[rows, 0] = rotary_time
-            position_ids[rows, 1:] = frame_grid
-            # An image is a single frame and takes a single integer rotary slot, not a latent frame's 5/3 units.
-            rotary_time += 1.0
-        elif reference.kind == "audio":
-            rows = slice(cursor, cursor + reference.num_audio_rows)
-            cursor = rows.stop
-            audio_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
-            _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, rows, reference.num_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid)
-            rotary_time += float(reference.num_audio_latents)
-        elif reference.kind == "video":
-            # A video reference's soundtrack rows are packed immediately before its video rows and share their
-            # origin, so the two are rotary-aligned exactly as the generated audio and video are.
-            audio_rows = slice(cursor, cursor + reference.num_audio_rows)
-            video_rows = slice(audio_rows.stop, audio_rows.stop + reference.num_video_rows)
-            cursor = video_rows.stop
-            audio_indices.append(torch.arange(audio_rows.start, audio_rows.stop))
-            video_indices.append(torch.arange(video_rows.start, video_rows.stop))
-
-            frame_grid, width_grid = _frame_position_grid(
-                reference.latent_height, reference.latent_width, patch_h, patch_w
-            )
-            _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, audio_rows, reference.num_audio_latents, rotary_time, width_grid)
-            frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(reference.num_latent_frames, rotary_time)
-            position_ids[video_rows, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(frame_grid.shape[0])
-            position_ids[video_rows, 1:] = frame_grid.repeat(reference.num_latent_frames, 1)
-            rotary_time += max(
-                float(reference.num_audio_latents), _temporal_position_span(reference.num_latent_frames)
-            )
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(f"A reference must be an 'image', a 'video' or an 'audio', got {reference.kind!r}.")
-
-    # The generated rows. Target audio and target video share the origin the reference blocks left behind.
-    audio_start = cursor
-    video_start = audio_start + num_target_audio_rows
-    _fill_audio_positions(
-        position_ids, slice(audio_start, video_start), num_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid
-    )
-    frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, rotary_time)
-    position_ids[video_start:, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(target_frame_grid.shape[0])
-    position_ids[video_start:, 1:] = target_frame_grid.repeat(num_latent_frames, 1)
-
-    video_indices = torch.cat(video_indices + [torch.arange(video_start, sequence_length)])
-    audio_indices = torch.cat(audio_indices + [torch.arange(audio_start, video_start)])
-    text_indices = torch.arange(num_text_tokens)
-
-    token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
-    token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
-    token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
-    token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
-
-    return MiniMaxH3PackedSequence(
-        sequence_length=sequence_length,
-        position_ids=position_ids,
-        token_tags=token_tags,
-        video_indices=video_indices,
-        audio_indices=audio_indices,
-        text_indices=text_indices,
-        num_condition_video_rows=num_reference_video_rows,
-        num_condition_audio_rows=num_reference_audio_rows,
-    )
-
-
-def resolve_reference_image_size(width: int, height: int) -> tuple[int, int]:
-    r"""
-    Resolve the resolution a reference image is encoded at: a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple
-    of 32. Upscaling is intended, and unlike the target canvas there is no area cap.
-
-    Args:
-        width (`int`): Width of the source image.
-        height (`int`): Height of the source image.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[int, int]`: the `(height, width)` the reference is resized to.
-    """
-    if width <= 0 or height <= 0:
-        raise ValueError(f"A reference image must have a positive size, got {width}x{height}.")
-    if width > 4 * height or height > 4 * width:
-        raise ValueError(f"A reference image must be within 1:4 and 4:1, got {width}x{height}.")
-
-    scale = MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE / min(width, height)
-    multiple = MINIMAX_H3_CANVAS_MULTIPLE
-    return (
-        max(multiple, round(height * scale / multiple) * multiple),
-        max(multiple, round(width * scale / multiple) * multiple),
-    )
-
-
-def reference_media_to_uint8(media) -> np.ndarray:
-    r"""
-    An in-memory reference image or video as channels-last `uint8` RGB.
-
-    Args:
-        media (`PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray`, `torch.Tensor` or `list`):
-            One image, one video, or a list of either. A `torch.Tensor` is channels-first, as everywhere else in
-            diffusers, and a `np.ndarray` channels-last; floating point values are read over `[0, 1]`.
-
-    Returns:
-        `np.ndarray`: the `uint8` RGB pixels, `(height, width, 3)` for a single image and `(num_frames, height, width,
-        3)` for a video or a list.
-    """
-    if isinstance(media, list):
-        return np.stack([reference_media_to_uint8(item) for item in media])
-    if isinstance(media, Image.Image):
-        return np.asarray(media.convert("RGB"))
-    if isinstance(media, torch.Tensor):
-        media = media.movedim(-3, -1).cpu().numpy()
-    media = np.asarray(media)
-    if media.dtype != np.uint8:
-        media = (media * 255.0).round().clip(0, 255).astype(np.uint8)
-    return media
-
-
-def prepare_reference_image(image, height: int, width: int):
-    r"""
-    Resize a reference image onto its own resolution with LANCZOS. An image that already is that size is returned
-    untouched, without a resampling pass.
-
-    Args:
-        image (`PIL.Image.Image`): The reference, in RGB and already EXIF-transposed.
-        height (`int`): Target height, as resolved by [`resolve_reference_image_size`].
-        width (`int`): Target width.
-
-    Returns:
-        `PIL.Image.Image`: The prepared reference.
-    """
-    if image.size == (width, height):
-        return image
-    return image.resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
-
-
-def resample_reference_frames(frames: np.ndarray, fps: float) -> np.ndarray:
-    r"""
-    Resample a reference video onto MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps, dropping and duplicating whole frames.
-
-    The reference implementation decoded every video reference through `ffmpeg`'s `fps` filter, a constant frame rate
-    resampler: every source frame lands on the output slot its timestamp rounds to, `round(index * 24 / fps)`, and a
-    slot holds the last frame that landed on it, so a frame whose successor lands on the same slot is dropped and a
-    frame whose successor skips slots is repeated. The end of the stream is rounded onto the grid the very same way,
-    which is what fixes the length at `round(num_frames * 24 / fps)` slots and decides whether the last frame is
-    repeated to reach it or dropped for overshooting it.
-
-    Reproducing that selection is what makes a constant frame rate reference give the very frames the reference's
-    decode gave, and it is an exact identity — the same array, no copy — for frames already at 24 fps.
-
-    Args:
-        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`): The reference video, `uint8` RGB.
-        fps (`float`): The frame rate `frames` was decoded at.
-
-    Returns:
-        `np.ndarray`: the frames on MiniMax-H3's 24 fps grid, `frames` itself when they already are.
-    """
-    if fps <= 0:
-        raise ValueError(f"A reference video must have a positive frame rate, got {fps}.")
-    if fps == MINIMAX_H3_FPS:
-        return frames
-
-    scale = MINIMAX_H3_FPS / fps
-    slots = np.floor(np.arange(frames.shape[0]) * scale + 0.5).astype(np.int64)
-    # Every frame is held until the slot of the next one, and the last one until the slot the stream's end rounds to.
-    return np.repeat(frames, np.diff(slots, append=math.floor(frames.shape[0] * scale + 0.5)), axis=0)
-
-
-def prepare_reference_frames(frames: np.ndarray, num_frames: int) -> np.ndarray:
-    r"""
-    Put a reference video onto the canvas its own aspect ratio resolves to, and cap it at the generated frame count.
-
-    Frames that already are that canvas flow through untouched, with no resampling pass and no copy, and that is the
-    parity-exact route: the reference implementation rescaled the frames with `ffmpeg`'s own LANCZOS scaler while
-    decoding them, so only frames decoded at the canvas reproduce its pixels bit for bit. Any other size is resized
-    frame by frame with PIL, the very path [`prepare_reference_image`] takes.
-
-    Args:
-        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`):
-            The reference video, `uint8` RGB at 24 fps, as returned by [`resample_reference_frames`].
-        num_frames (`int`): The frame count the reference is truncated to, i.e. the target's own frame count.
-
-    Returns:
-        `np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`: The prepared reference.
-    """
-    if frames.ndim != 4 or frames.shape[3] != 3:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"A reference video must be `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` RGB frames, got {tuple(frames.shape)}."
-        )
-    frames = frames[:num_frames]
-    height, width = resolve_canvas_size(frames.shape[2], frames.shape[1])
-    if frames.shape[1:3] == (height, width):
-        return frames
-    return np.stack(
-        [np.asarray(Image.fromarray(frame).resize((width, height), Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)) for frame in frames]
-    )
-
-
-def sample_reference_video_frames(frames: np.ndarray) -> tuple[list[np.ndarray], list[float]]:
-    r"""
-    Sample the frames the conditioner sees from a prepared reference video, and label their vision blocks.
-
-    The conditioner reads a reference at 2 fps: every 12th of the 24 fps frames, deduplicated. Qwen3-VL then merges
-    the sampled frames in pairs — repeating the last one when there is an odd number of them — and a merged pair is
-    labelled with the mean of its two timestamps, which `"<{timestamp:.1f} seconds>"` renders with Python's
-    round-half-to-even, so the first block of a 2 fps pair is `"<0.2 seconds>"` rather than `"<0.3 seconds>"`.
-
-    Args:
-        frames (`np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`): The prepared reference video, at 24 fps.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[list[np.ndarray], list[float]]`: the sampled frames and one timestamp per vision block.
-    """
-    stride = MINIMAX_H3_FPS / MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_VIDEO_SAMPLE_FPS
-    indices, cursor = [], 0.0
-    while round(cursor) < frames.shape[0]:
-        if not indices or round(cursor) > indices[-1]:
-            indices.append(round(cursor))
-        cursor += stride
-
-    timestamps = [index / MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_VIDEO_SAMPLE_FPS for index in range(len(indices))]
-    timestamps += [timestamps[-1]] * (-len(timestamps) % MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH)
-    block_timestamps = [
-        (timestamps[index] + timestamps[index + MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH - 1]) / 2
-        for index in range(0, len(timestamps), MINIMAX_H3_QWEN_TEMPORAL_PATCH)
-    ]
-    return [frames[index] for index in indices], block_timestamps
-
-
-def prepare_reference_waveform(
-    waveform: torch.Tensor, sample_rate: int, target_sample_rate: int, max_duration: float
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    r"""
-    Put a reference soundtrack on the audio VAE's sample rate, as a stereo waveform.
-
-    The reference implementation extracts a soundtrack at a native rate, truncates it there and resamples it once, in
-    torch, which this mirrors: the truncation is applied at `sample_rate` and the resampling is a single `torchaudio`
-    pass. A mono waveform is upmixed by repeating its channel.
-
-    Args:
-        waveform (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`): The soundtrack, mono or stereo.
-        sample_rate (`int`): The sample rate `waveform` carries its samples at.
-        target_sample_rate (`int`): The audio VAE's sample rate, i.e. what the waveform is resampled to.
-        max_duration (`float`): Truncate the reference to this many seconds.
-
-    Returns:
-        `torch.Tensor` of shape `(2, num_samples)`: the float32 waveform.
-    """
-    waveform = torch.as_tensor(waveform)
-    if waveform.ndim != 2 or waveform.shape[0] not in (1, MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS):
-        raise ValueError(
-            "A reference soundtrack must be a `(channels, num_samples)` mono or stereo waveform, got "
-            f"{tuple(waveform.shape)}."
-        )
-    waveform = waveform.to(torch.float32)[:, : int(max_duration * sample_rate)]
-    if waveform.shape[0] != MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS:
-        waveform = waveform.expand(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS, -1).contiguous()
-    if sample_rate == target_sample_rate:
-        return waveform
-
-    try:
-        import torchaudio
-    except ImportError as error:
-        raise ImportError(
-            f"Resampling a MiniMax-H3 reference soundtrack from {sample_rate} Hz to {target_sample_rate} Hz needs "
-            "`torchaudio`. Pass a waveform already at the audio VAE's sample rate to do without it."
-        ) from error
-    return torchaudio.transforms.Resample(sample_rate, target_sample_rate)(waveform)
-
-
-def build_ref2va_presentation(
-    tokenizer,
-    prompt: str,
-    references: list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference],
-    image_token_counts: list[int],
-    video_block_token_counts: list[int],
-) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
-    r"""
-    Tokenize MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request.
-
-    Every reference prepends a label, in packed order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision block
-    for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio — a waveform never reaches the conditioner — and `"<Video k>: "`
-    plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries sound is labelled
-    `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The prompt follows verbatim,
-    with no chat template and no special tokens.
-
-    Args:
-        tokenizer (`Qwen2TokenizerFast`): Tokenizer of the conditioner.
-        prompt (`str`): The prompt, appended verbatim.
-        references (`list[MiniMaxH3PreparedReference]`): The prepared references, in packed order.
-        image_token_counts (`list[int]`): Number of vision tokens of every image reference's block.
-        video_block_token_counts (`list[int]`): Number of vision tokens per block of every video reference.
-
-    Returns:
-        `tuple[list[int], list[int]]`: the token ids and their modality tags. A vision block is tagged `0` (video) and
-        everything else `1` (text).
-    """
-
-    def text(value: str) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
-        token_ids = tokenizer(value, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
-        return token_ids, [MINIMAX_H3_TEXT_TAG] * len(token_ids)
-
-    def vision(pad_token: str, num_tokens: int) -> tuple[list[int], list[int]]:
-        token_ids = (
-            [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_start|>")]
-            + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(pad_token)] * num_tokens
-            + [tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("<|vision_end|>")]
-        )
-        return token_ids, [MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG] * len(token_ids)
-
-    token_ids, token_tags = [], []
-
-    def emit(segment: tuple[list[int], list[int]]) -> None:
-        token_ids.extend(segment[0])
-        token_tags.extend(segment[1])
-
-    counts = {"image": 0, "video": 0, "audio": 0}
-    for reference in references:
-        if reference.has_audio:
-            counts["audio"] += 1
-            emit(text(f"<Audio {counts['audio']}>: "))
-        if reference.kind == "image":
-            counts["image"] += 1
-            emit(text(f"<Picture {counts['image']}>: "))
-            emit(vision("<|image_pad|>", image_token_counts[counts["image"] - 1]))
-        elif reference.kind == "video":
-            counts["video"] += 1
-            emit(text(f"<Video {counts['video']}>: "))
-            for timestamp in reference.block_timestamps:
-                # `"{:.1f}"` rounds half to even, so the mean of a 2 fps pair renders as "<0.2 seconds>".
-                emit(text(f"<{timestamp:.1f} seconds>"))
-                emit(vision("<|video_pad|>", video_block_token_counts[counts["video"] - 1]))
-    emit(text(prompt))
-    return token_ids, token_tags
-
-
-def trim_reference_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
-    r"""
-    Snap a reference video's frame count *down* to a `17 * n + 5` the video VAE encodes without padding.
-
-    A reference is truncated to the target's own frame count, which already is of that form, so this only bites when
-    the reference is shorter than the video being generated.
-
-    Args:
-        num_frames (`int`): The number of frames the reference carries.
-
-    Returns:
-        `int`: The number of frames to encode.
-    """
-    if num_frames < 1:
-        raise ValueError(f"A reference video must have at least one frame, got {num_frames}.")
-    return (
-        max(1, (num_frames - MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK) // MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK)
-        * MINIMAX_H3_FRAMES_PER_CHUNK
-        + MINIMAX_H3_LATENTS_PER_CHUNK
-    )
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2b0ab4a057a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
@@ -0,0 +1,317 @@
+# Copyright 2026 The MiniMax and HuggingFace Teams. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+r"""
+The references of a MiniMax-H3 `ref2va` request: one public dataclass per modality.
+
+`ref2va` conditions on an ordered list of references — images, videos (with their soundtrack) and audio clips —
+packed one block per reference ahead of the generated rows. The order is semantic twice over: it fixes the
+`"<Picture i>"` / `"<Audio j>"` / `"<Video k>"` labels of the prompt presentation, and it advances the shared
+audio/video rotary clock, so a different order is a different request.
+
+Every reference holds in-memory media plus the rate that media carries. No block of this model opens a media file;
+each class decodes a path or a URL through its `from_file` classmethod, which brings the rates along. That is the
+reason to prefer `from_file` over a bare `load_video`: MiniMax-H3 resamples a reference onto its own 24 fps, so a
+video whose real rate is lost on the way in is conditioned on at the wrong speed, silently.
+"""
+
+import contextlib
+import os
+import tempfile
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from urllib.parse import unquote, urlparse
+
+import numpy as np
+import requests
+import torch
+from PIL import Image
+
+from ...utils import is_av_available, load_image
+from ...utils.constants import DIFFUSERS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
+from .modular_pipeline import MINIMAX_H3_FPS
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3Reference:
+    r"""
+    Base class of the three references a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request conditions on:
+    [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`], [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] and [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`].
+
+    References are passed to the blocks as a list, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them
+    in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
+    request.
+
+    Every reference holds in-memory media, and the rate that media carries where there is one — MiniMax-H3 resamples a
+    reference onto its own 24 fps and onto the audio VAE's sample rate, so a rate lost on the way in is a request
+    conditioned at the wrong speed. Each class decodes a file through its `from_file` classmethod, along with the
+    rates.
+
+    ```py
+    >>> import numpy as np
+    >>> from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import (
+    ...     MiniMaxH3AudioReference,
+    ...     MiniMaxH3ImageReference,
+    ...     MiniMaxH3VideoReference,
+    ... )
+
+    >>> references = [
+    ...     MiniMaxH3ImageReference.from_file("subject.png"),
+    ...     MiniMaxH3VideoReference.from_file("motion_ref.mp4"),  # frames, their `fps`, and the soundtrack
+    ...     MiniMaxH3AudioReference.from_file("voice.wav"),  # waveform and its `sample_rate`
+    ... ]
+
+    >>> # Media a request produced itself declares the rate it was produced at.
+    >>> frames = np.zeros((30, 480, 854, 3), dtype="uint8")
+    >>> reference = MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames, fps=30.0)
+    ```
+    """
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3ImageReference(MiniMaxH3Reference):
+    r"""
+    A subject, style or scene reference: at most 9 per request.
+
+    Attributes:
+        image (`PIL.Image.Image`):
+            The reference image. It never binds the generated geometry — it is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge of
+            its own aspect ratio, whatever canvas the request generates at.
+    """
+
+    image: Image.Image
+
+    kind = "image"
+    has_audio = False
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_file(cls, media) -> "MiniMaxH3ImageReference":
+        r"""
+        Load an image file into a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`], through [`~utils.load_image`].
+
+        Args:
+            media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the image.
+        """
+        return cls(image=load_image(str(media)))
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3VideoReference(MiniMaxH3Reference):
+    r"""
+    A motion and camera reference: at most 3 per request, conditioned on together with its own soundtrack.
+
+    Attributes:
+        frames (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`):
+            The reference frames: a list of images, a `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` array or a `(num_frames, 3,
+            height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`.
+        fps (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 24.0):
+            The frame rate `frames` carries, which is what places the reference's vision blocks on the conditioner's 2
+            fps grid. MiniMax-H3's own clock is 24 fps, so any other rate is resampled onto it by dropping and
+            duplicating whole frames — which makes this the field to get right when the frames came from a file.
+        audio (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`, *optional*):
+            This video's soundtrack, mono or stereo, conditioned on as the reference's own rather than as a reference
+            of its own. Left out, the reference conditions on motion alone.
+        sample_rate (`int`, *optional*):
+            The rate `audio` carries its samples at. Left out, it is the audio VAE's own, which leaves the samples
+            untouched; any other rate is resampled onto it.
+    """
+
+    frames: list[Image.Image] | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor
+    fps: float | None = None
+    audio: torch.Tensor | None = None
+    sample_rate: int | None = None
+
+    kind = "video"
+
+    def __post_init__(self):
+        if self.fps is None:
+            self.fps = float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
+
+    @property
+    def has_audio(self) -> bool:
+        r"""Whether this reference contributes audio rows, i.e. whether it carries a soundtrack."""
+        return self.audio is not None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_file(cls, media) -> "MiniMaxH3VideoReference":
+        r"""
+        Decode a video file into a [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`], at the resolution, the frame rate and the soundtrack
+        it carries.
+
+        The rates land on the reference, which is the point of decoding this way rather than with
+        [`~utils.load_video`]: MiniMax-H3 resamples a reference onto its own 24 fps, so a frame rate lost on the way
+        in is a request conditioned at the wrong speed, with nothing to raise about it. A container whose metadata is
+        wrong is corrected by overriding `fps` or `sample_rate` on the returned reference.
+
+        Needs [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV).
+
+        Args:
+            media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the video.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`]: the `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` `uint8` frames at the frame rate the
+            container reports, carrying its soundtrack and that soundtrack's own sample rate when it has an audio
+            stream.
+        """
+        frames, fps, audio, sample_rate = _decode_video_file(media)
+        return cls(frames=frames, fps=fps, audio=audio, sample_rate=sample_rate)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class MiniMaxH3AudioReference(MiniMaxH3Reference):
+    r"""
+    A voice or music reference: at most 3 per request, and never on its own — an audio reference has to be paired with
+    at least one image or video reference. It never reaches the conditioner and is encoded by the audio VAE alone.
+
+    Attributes:
+        audio (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(channels, num_samples)`):
+            The reference waveform, mono or stereo.
+        sample_rate (`int`, *optional*):
+            The rate `audio` carries its samples at. Left out, it is the audio VAE's own, which leaves the samples
+            untouched; any other rate is resampled onto it.
+    """
+
+    audio: torch.Tensor
+    sample_rate: int | None = None
+
+    kind = "audio"
+    has_audio = True
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_file(cls, media) -> "MiniMaxH3AudioReference":
+        r"""
+        Decode an audio file into a [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`], at the sample rate it carries.
+
+        Needs [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV).
+
+        Args:
+            media (`str` or `os.PathLike`): Path or URL of the audio, or of a video whose soundtrack is taken.
+
+        Returns:
+            [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`]: the `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform at the sample rate the
+            container reports.
+        """
+        audio, sample_rate = _decode_audio_file(media)
+        return cls(audio=audio, sample_rate=sample_rate)
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _local_media_file(media):
+    r"""The reference media as a local file: a URL is downloaded to a temporary file, removed on the way out."""
+    path = str(media)
+    if not path.startswith(("http://", "https://")):
+        if not os.path.isfile(path):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Incorrect path or URL. URLs must start with `http://` or `https://`, and {path} is not a valid path."
+            )
+        yield path
+        return
+
+    response = requests.get(path, stream=True, timeout=DIFFUSERS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+    if response.status_code != 200:
+        raise ValueError(f"Failed to download {path}. Status code: {response.status_code}")
+    suffix = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(unquote(urlparse(path).path)))[1]
+    download = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False)
+    try:
+        with download as file:
+            for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
+                file.write(chunk)
+        yield download.name
+    finally:
+        os.remove(download.name)
+
+
+def _import_av():
+    r"""PyAV, the soft dependency a media file is decoded with."""
+    if not is_av_available():
+        raise ImportError(
+            "Decoding a MiniMax-H3 reference from a file needs PyAV. You can install it with `pip install av`, or "
+            "build the reference from decoded media itself: frames and the `fps` they carry for a video, a "
+            "`(channels, num_samples)` waveform and its `sample_rate` for audio."
+        )
+
+    import av
+
+    return av
+
+
+def _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, stream) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
+    r"""
+    An audio stream's samples as a `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform, at the rate the container carries them.
+
+    Args:
+        av (`module`): PyAV.
+        container (`av.container.InputContainer`): The open container.
+        stream (`av.audio.stream.AudioStream`): The stream to decode.
+
+    Returns:
+        `tuple[torch.Tensor, int]`: the waveform and its sample rate.
+    """
+    sample_rate = int(stream.codec_context.sample_rate)
+    # Planar float is a format conversion only: the sample rate and the channel layout stay the container's own, and a
+    # mono soundtrack is upmixed later, by the setup step's audio normalization.
+    resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout=stream.layout, rate=sample_rate)
+    chunks = []
+    for frame in container.decode(stream):
+        chunks += [torch.from_numpy(resampled.to_ndarray()) for resampled in resampler.resample(frame)]
+    # Whatever the resampler is still holding.
+    chunks += [torch.from_numpy(resampled.to_ndarray()) for resampled in resampler.resample(None)]
+    return torch.cat(chunks, dim=-1).to(torch.float32), sample_rate
+
+
+def _decode_video_file(media) -> tuple[np.ndarray, float, torch.Tensor | None, int | None]:
+    r"""
+    A video file's frames as `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` `uint8`, the frame rate the container reports, and its
+    soundtrack with that soundtrack's sample rate (`None, None` without an audio stream). The machinery behind
+    [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference.from_file`].
+    """
+    av = _import_av()
+    with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
+        stream = container.streams.video[0]
+        frames, rotation = [], 0.0
+        for frame in container.decode(stream):
+            # The display matrix rotation belongs to the stream, and PyAV surfaces it on every frame of it.
+            rotation = frame.rotation
+            frames.append(frame.to_ndarray(format="rgb24"))
+        frame_rate = float(stream.average_rate or stream.guessed_rate)
+        soundtrack = None
+        if container.streams.audio:
+            # Decoding the frames drained the container, so the soundtrack is read in a second pass over it.
+            container.seek(0)
+            soundtrack = _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, container.streams.audio[0])
+
+    if not frames:
+        raise ValueError(f"No video frames to decode in {media}.")
+    frames = np.stack(frames)
+    # `ffmpeg` displays a frame upright by undoing the counterclockwise rotation the display matrix carries, which is
+    # what this reproduces, snapped to the nearest quarter turn. A non-square pixel aspect ratio is left alone: the
+    # reference implementation resolved a reference's canvas from its *display* geometry, so a stream that carries a
+    # sample aspect ratio is conditioned on at the wrong shape, and correcting it is untested guesswork here.
+    turns = round(rotation / 90.0) % 4
+    if turns:
+        frames = np.ascontiguousarray(np.rot90(frames, k=-turns, axes=(1, 2)))
+    waveform, sample_rate = soundtrack if soundtrack is not None else (None, None)
+    return frames, frame_rate, waveform, sample_rate
+
+
+def _decode_audio_file(media) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
+    r"""
+    An audio file's `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform, at the sample rate the container reports. The
+    machinery behind [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference.from_file`].
+    """
+    av = _import_av()
+    with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
+        if not container.streams.audio:
+            raise ValueError(f"No audio stream to decode in {media}.")
+        waveform, sample_rate = _decode_reference_soundtrack(av, container, container.streams.audio[0])
+    return waveform, sample_rate
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
index ec34812f0c89..1a6424197dc9 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+import gc
 import importlib
 import inspect
 import os
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@
 from ..utils import PushToHubMixin, is_accelerate_available, logging
 from ..utils.dynamic_modules_utils import get_class_from_dynamic_module, resolve_trust_remote_code
 from ..utils.hub_utils import load_or_create_model_card, populate_model_card
-from ..utils.torch_utils import is_compiled_module
+from ..utils.torch_utils import empty_device_cache, is_compiled_module
 from .components_manager import ComponentsManager
 from .modular_pipeline_utils import (
     MODULAR_MODEL_CARD_TEMPLATE,
@@ -150,7 +151,6 @@ def _helios_pyramid_map_fn(config_dict=None):
         ("hunyuan-video-1.5", _create_default_map_fn("HunyuanVideo15ModularPipeline")),
         ("ltx", _create_default_map_fn("LTXModularPipeline")),
         ("minimax-h3", _create_default_map_fn("MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline")),
-        ("minimax-h3-ref2va", _create_default_map_fn("MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline")),
         ("ernie-image", _create_default_map_fn("ErnieImageModularPipeline")),
     ]
 )
@@ -1020,9 +1020,16 @@ def get_workflow(self, workflow_name: str):
             )
 
         if workflow_name not in self._workflow_map:
-            raise ValueError(f"Workflow {workflow_name} not found in {self.__class__.__name__}")
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Workflow {workflow_name!r} not found in {self.__class__.__name__}. "
+                f"Available workflows: {list(self._workflow_map)}"
+            )
 
         trigger_inputs = self._workflow_map[workflow_name]
+        if isinstance(trigger_inputs, tuple):
+            # a tuple of trigger dicts lists alternative spellings of the same workflow (e.g. `image` or
+            # `last_image`); every spelling resolves the same blocks, so pruning uses the first
+            trigger_inputs = trigger_inputs[0]
         workflow_blocks = self.get_execution_blocks(**trigger_inputs)
 
         return workflow_blocks
@@ -1634,6 +1641,7 @@ def __init__(
         pretrained_model_name_or_path: str | os.PathLike | None = None,
         components_manager: ComponentsManager | None = None,
         collection: str | None = None,
+        workflow: str | None = None,
         modular_config_dict: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
         config_dict: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
         **kwargs,
@@ -1660,6 +1668,9 @@ def __init__(
                 Optional ComponentsManager for managing multiple component cross different pipelines and apply
                 offloading strategies.
             collection: Optional collection name for organizing components in the ComponentsManager.
+            workflow: Optional workflow name. If provided, the blocks are pruned to that workflow's execution
+                    blocks (see `ModularPipelineBlocks.get_workflow`), so the pipeline only expects — and
+                    `load_components()` only loads — the components that workflow uses.
             **kwargs: Additional arguments passed to `load_config()` when loading pretrained configuration.
 
         Examples:
@@ -1728,6 +1739,11 @@ def __init__(
             else:
                 logger.warning(f"`blocks` is `None`, no default blocks class found for {self.__class__.__name__}")
 
+        if workflow is not None:
+            if blocks is None:
+                raise ValueError(f"`workflow={workflow!r}` requires pipeline blocks, but none could be resolved.")
+            blocks = blocks.get_workflow(workflow)
+
         self._blocks = blocks
         self._components_manager = components_manager
         self._collection = collection
@@ -1833,6 +1849,7 @@ def from_pretrained(
         trust_remote_code: bool | None = None,
         components_manager: ComponentsManager | None = None,
         collection: str | None = None,
+        workflow: str | None = None,
         **kwargs,
     ):
         """
@@ -1852,6 +1869,10 @@ def from_pretrained(
                 offloading strategies.
             collection (`str`, optional):`
                 Collection name for organizing components in the ComponentsManager.
+            workflow (`str`, optional):
+                Name of a workflow declared by the pipeline blocks. If provided, the blocks are pruned to that
+                workflow's execution blocks, so the pipeline only expects — and `load_components()` only loads —
+                the components that workflow uses.
         """
         from ..pipelines.pipeline_loading_utils import _get_pipeline_class
 
@@ -1905,6 +1926,7 @@ def from_pretrained(
             pretrained_model_name_or_path=pretrained_model_name_or_path,
             components_manager=components_manager,
             collection=collection,
+            workflow=workflow,
             modular_config_dict=modular_config_dict,
             config_dict=config_dict,
             **kwargs,
@@ -2368,7 +2390,7 @@ def update_components(self, **kwargs):
             config_to_register[name] = new_value
         self.register_to_config(**config_to_register)
 
-    def load_components(self, names: list[str] | str | None = None, **kwargs):
+    def load_components(self, names: list[str] | str | None = None, workflow: str | None = None, **kwargs):
         """
         Load selected components from specs.
 
@@ -2376,6 +2398,8 @@ def load_components(self, names: list[str] | str | None = None, **kwargs):
             names: list of component names to load. If None, will load all components with
                    default_creation_method == "from_pretrained". If provided as a list or string, will load only the
                    specified components.
+            workflow: name of a workflow declared by the pipeline blocks. If provided, only the components that
+                   workflow's execution blocks use are loaded. Cannot be combined with `names`.
             **kwargs: additional kwargs to be passed to `from_pretrained()`.Can be:
              - a single value to be applied to all components to be loaded, e.g. dtype=torch.bfloat16
              - a dict, e.g. dtype={"unet": torch.bfloat16, "default": torch.float32}
@@ -2385,6 +2409,9 @@ def load_components(self, names: list[str] | str | None = None, **kwargs):
                `pretrained_model_name_or_path`, `variant`, `revision`, etc.
         """
 
+        if workflow is not None and names is not None:
+            raise ValueError("Pass either `names` or `workflow`, not both.")
+
         if names is None:
             names = [
                 name
@@ -2398,6 +2425,10 @@ def load_components(self, names: list[str] | str | None = None, **kwargs):
         elif not isinstance(names, list):
             raise ValueError(f"Invalid type for names: {type(names)}")
 
+        if workflow is not None:
+            workflow_component_names = {spec.name for spec in self.blocks.get_workflow(workflow).expected_components}
+            names = [name for name in names if name in workflow_component_names]
+
         components_to_load = {name for name in names if name in self._component_specs}
         unknown_names = {name for name in names if name not in self._component_specs}
         if len(unknown_names) > 0:
@@ -2465,6 +2496,43 @@ def load_components(self, names: list[str] | str | None = None, **kwargs):
         # Register all components at once
         self.register_components(**components_to_register)
 
+    def unload_components(self, names: list[str] | str):
+        """
+        Unload selected components, freeing their memory.
+
+        The component attribute is set back to `None` and, if a ComponentsManager is attached, the component is
+        removed from it. The component spec is untouched, so the component can be loaded again later with
+        `load_components()`.
+
+        Args:
+            names: component name or list of component names to unload.
+        """
+        if isinstance(names, str):
+            names = [names]
+        elif not isinstance(names, list):
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid type for names: {type(names)}")
+
+        unknown_names = {name for name in names if name not in self._component_specs}
+        if len(unknown_names) > 0:
+            logger.warning(f"Unknown components will be ignored: {unknown_names}")
+
+        for name in names:
+            if name in unknown_names:
+                continue
+            # not holding the full `components` dict across iterations: a lingering reference would keep the
+            # unloaded component alive through the gc pass below
+            component = self.components.get(name)
+            if component is None:
+                continue
+            component_id = f"{name}_{id(component)}"
+            self.register_components(**{name: None})
+            del component
+            if self._components_manager is not None and component_id in self._components_manager.components:
+                self._components_manager.remove(component_id)
+
+        gc.collect()
+        empty_device_cache()
+
     # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.pipeline_utils.DiffusionPipeline._maybe_raise_error_if_group_offload_active
     def _maybe_raise_error_if_group_offload_active(
         self, raise_error: bool = False, module: torch.nn.Module | None = None
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline_utils.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline_utils.py
index 712a605e4494..e4a81e398e8c 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline_utils.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline_utils.py
@@ -916,7 +916,10 @@ def format_workflow(workflow_map):
     """Format a workflow map into a readable string representation.
 
     Args:
-        workflow_map: Dictionary mapping workflow names to trigger inputs
+        workflow_map:
+            Dictionary mapping workflow names to trigger inputs. A value is either one trigger dict, or a tuple of
+            trigger dicts listing alternative spellings of the same workflow (e.g. `image` or `last_image`), rendered
+            joined with "or".
 
     Returns:
         A formatted string representing all workflows
@@ -926,10 +929,11 @@ def format_workflow(workflow_map):
 
     lines = ["Supported workflows:"]
     for workflow_name, trigger_inputs in workflow_map.items():
-        required_inputs = [k for k, v in trigger_inputs.items() if v]
-        if required_inputs:
-            inputs_str = ", ".join(f"`{t}`" for t in required_inputs)
-            lines.append(f"  - `{workflow_name}`: requires {inputs_str}")
+        alternatives = trigger_inputs if isinstance(trigger_inputs, tuple) else (trigger_inputs,)
+        requires = [", ".join(f"`{t}`" for t, v in alternative.items() if v) for alternative in alternatives]
+        requires = [fragment for fragment in requires if fragment]
+        if requires:
+            lines.append(f"  - `{workflow_name}`: requires {' or '.join(requires)}")
         else:
             lines.append(f"  - `{workflow_name}`: default (no additional inputs required)")
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
index d5abf9efa891..8058937aa2a8 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/utils/dummy_torch_and_transformers_objects.py
@@ -542,36 +542,6 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
 
 
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks(metaclass=DummyObject):
-    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-
-class MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline(metaclass=DummyObject):
-    _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(self, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_config(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        requires_backends(cls, ["torch", "transformers"])
-
-
 class QwenImageAutoBlocks(metaclass=DummyObject):
     _backends = ["torch", "transformers"]
 
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 6e1bf9f4236a..4b7c7ad16c0e 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -20,185 +20,145 @@
 from diffusers.modular_pipelines import (
     MiniMaxH3Blocks,
     MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
-    MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks,
-    MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline,
 )
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import MiniMaxH3Reference, packing, packing_ref2va
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3 import (
+    MiniMaxH3AudioReference,
+    MiniMaxH3ImageReference,
+    MiniMaxH3VideoReference,
+)
 from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.before_encoder import MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep
-from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.encoders import MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep, MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep
-
-from ...testing_utils import torch_device
-from ..test_modular_pipelines_common import ModularPipelineTesterMixin, _get_specified_components
-
-
-# MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so the shortest admissible request is 124 frames
-# (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length the video VAE can decode). It is affordable on CPU because the canvas is tiny: 32
-# pixels is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row per latent frame.
-NUM_FRAMES = 124
-RESOLUTION = 32
-NUM_LATENT_FRAMES = 37
-NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS = 207
-# `prod(encoder_rates)` of the tiny audio VAE, standing in for the released 800 samples per latent.
-AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH = 4
-# The tiny audio VAE's own sample rate, so a reference soundtrack is never resampled.
-AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE = 40 * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH
-
-# The released short edge of an image reference is 2048 pixels, which packs thousands of conditioning rows.
-TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE = 64
-
-# Both blocksets read the same repository, as the released one does: `transformer/` serves the `t2va` / `fl2va` half
-# and `transformer_ref/` the `ref2va` one, every other component is shared.
-TINY_MODULAR_REPO_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-minimax-h3-modular-pipe"
-
-
-T2VA_WORKFLOW = [
-    ("setup", "MiniMaxH3SetupStep"),
-    ("text_encoder", "MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep"),
-    ("prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep"),
-    ("prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
-    ("set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
-    ("denoise", "MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep"),
-    ("decode.video", "MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep"),
-    ("decode.audio", "MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep"),
-]
-# A keyframe adds the one block that encodes it; whether it anchors the first or the last frame is a matter of the
-# packed layout, not of which blocks run.
-FL2VA_WORKFLOW = [
-    *T2VA_WORKFLOW[:2],
-    ("vae_encoder", "MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep"),
-    *T2VA_WORKFLOW[2:],
-]
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.encoders import (
+    MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep,
+    MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep,
+    MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep,
+)
+from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.modular_pipeline import MINIMAX_H3_FPS
+
+from ..test_modular_pipelines_common import ModularPipelineTesterMixin
+
+
+# The blocks every workflow of [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`] runs, in order. A keyframe adds the canvas block and the one
+# block that encodes it; whether it anchors the first or the last frame is a matter of the packed layout, not of
+# which blocks run, so `fl2va` covers both.
 MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOWS = {
-    "t2va": T2VA_WORKFLOW,
-    "fl2va": FL2VA_WORKFLOW,
-    "fl2va_last_frame": FL2VA_WORKFLOW,
+    "t2va": [
+        ("text_encoder", "MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep"),
+        ("denoise.no_keyframe_anchors", "MiniMaxH3NoKeyframeAnchorsStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
+        ("denoise.denoise", "MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep"),
+        ("denoise.after_denoise", "MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep"),
+        ("decode.video", "MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep"),
+        ("decode.audio", "MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep"),
+    ],
+    "fl2va": [
+        ("before_encode", "MiniMaxH3ResizeStep"),
+        ("text_encoder", "MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep"),
+        ("vae_encoder", "MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLayoutStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_condition_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareConditionLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_latents_fl2va", "MiniMaxH3FL2VAPrepareLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
+        ("denoise.denoise", "MiniMaxH3DenoiseStep"),
+        ("denoise.after_denoise", "MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep"),
+        ("decode.video", "MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep"),
+        ("decode.audio", "MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep"),
+    ],
 }
 MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOWS = {
     "ref2va": [
-        ("setup", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep"),
+        ("before_encode", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep"),
         ("text_encoder", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep"),
-        ("reference_encoder", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep"),
-        ("prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep"),
-        ("prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
-        ("set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
-        ("denoise", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep"),
+        ("vae_encoder", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_layout", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLayoutStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_condition_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareConditionLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_latents", "MiniMaxH3PrepareLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.prepare_latents_ref2va", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VAPrepareLatentsStep"),
+        ("denoise.set_timesteps", "MiniMaxH3SetTimestepsStep"),
+        ("denoise.denoise", "MiniMaxH3Ref2VADenoiseStep"),
+        ("denoise.after_denoise", "MiniMaxH3AfterDenoiseStep"),
         ("decode.video", "MiniMaxH3VideoDecodeStep"),
         ("decode.audio", "MiniMaxH3AudioDecodeStep"),
-    ]
+    ],
 }
 
+# What each pruned workflow asks for, pinned explicitly: every component with its class (each half loads its own
+# transformer partition, nothing else differs), the pipeline configs it declares, and every input — the optional
+# ones with their defaults, the required ones by name.
+_SHARED_COMPONENTS = {
+    "text_encoder": "Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration",
+    "tokenizer": "Qwen2Tokenizer",
+    "processor": "Qwen3VLProcessor",
+    "scheduler": "MiniMaxH3Scheduler",
+    "audio_scheduler": "MiniMaxH3Scheduler",
+    "vae": "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3",
+    "audio_vae": "AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio",
+    "video_processor": "VideoProcessor",
+}
+# The canvas MiniMax-H3 was released for. Every workflow resolves a canvas somewhere — from a keyframe, from a
+# reference or from the bare 16:9 default — so all three declare the rule as pipeline config.
+_SHARED_CONFIGS = {"canvas_short_edge": 768, "canvas_max_pixels": 768 * 1344}
+_SHARED_INPUTS = {
+    "height": None,
+    "width": None,
+    "generator": None,
+    "latents": None,
+    "audio_latents": None,
+    "attention_kwargs": None,
+    "output_type": "pil",
+}
+MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOW_DEFAULTS = {
+    "t2va": {
+        "components": {**_SHARED_COMPONENTS, "transformer": "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel"},
+        "configs": _SHARED_CONFIGS,
+        "required_inputs": ["prompt", "num_inference_steps"],
+        "inputs": {**_SHARED_INPUTS, "num_frames": 124},
+    },
+    "fl2va": {
+        "components": {
+            **_SHARED_COMPONENTS,
+            "transformer": "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel",
+            "image_processor": "VaeImageProcessor",
+        },
+        "configs": _SHARED_CONFIGS,
+        "required_inputs": ["prompt", "num_inference_steps"],
+        "inputs": {**_SHARED_INPUTS, "num_frames": 124, "image": None, "last_image": None},
+    },
+}
+MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOW_DEFAULTS = {
+    "ref2va": {
+        "components": {
+            **_SHARED_COMPONENTS,
+            "transformer_ref": "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel",
+            "image_processor": "VaeImageProcessor",
+        },
+        "configs": _SHARED_CONFIGS,
+        # `num_frames` cannot default on ref2va: reference soundtracks are truncated to the generated duration, so a
+        # silent 124-frame default would cut them short. It is required instead.
+        "required_inputs": ["prompt", "references", "num_frames", "num_inference_steps"],
+        "inputs": _SHARED_INPUTS,
+    },
+}
 
-def _video_frames(num_frames: int, size: int) -> np.ndarray:
-    """Synthesized video reference frames: `uint8` RGB at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps."""
-    return (np.random.default_rng(0).random((num_frames, size, size, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
-
-
-def _waveform(duration: float) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """A synthesized soundtrack: a stereo waveform at the tiny audio VAE's own sample rate, so nothing is resampled."""
-    return torch.rand(2, round(duration * AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE), generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
-
-
-def _reference_video(num_frames: int, size: int) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
-    """A silent video reference at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps."""
-    return MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(num_frames, size), fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
-
-
-def _reference_audio(duration: float) -> MiniMaxH3Reference:
-    """A standalone audio reference at the tiny audio VAE's own sample rate."""
-    return MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=_waveform(duration), sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE)
-
-
-# The synthesized media fixtures the file-decoding tests are built from: a tiny 8 fps clip with a stereo soundtrack.
-FIXTURE_FPS = 8.0
-FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES = 8
-FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE = 8000
-
-
-def _write_video(path, with_audio: bool) -> None:
-    """Encode a tiny 64x32 clip, with a stereo soundtrack when asked, with PyAV."""
-    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
-
-    with av.open(str(path), "w") as container:
-        # Both streams are declared before anything is muxed, which is what the muxer needs to lay out the file.
-        video_stream = container.add_stream("libx264", rate=int(FIXTURE_FPS))
-        video_stream.width, video_stream.height, video_stream.pix_fmt = 64, 32, "yuv420p"
-        audio_stream = None
-        if with_audio:
-            audio_stream = container.add_stream("aac", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-            audio_stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
-
-        for index in range(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES):
-            pixels = np.full((32, 64, 3), index * 16, dtype="uint8")
-            frame = av.VideoFrame.from_ndarray(pixels, format="rgb24")
-            frame.pts = index
-            container.mux(video_stream.encode(frame))
-        container.mux(video_stream.encode())
-
-        if audio_stream is None:
-            return
-        num_samples = int(FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES / FIXTURE_FPS * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-        samples = np.zeros((1, 2 * num_samples), dtype="int16")
-        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(samples, format="s16", layout="stereo")
-        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        resampler = av.audio.resampler.AudioResampler(format="fltp", layout="stereo", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-        pts = 0
-        for resampled in resampler.resample(frame):
-            resampled.pts = pts
-            pts += resampled.samples
-            container.mux(audio_stream.encode(resampled))
-        container.mux(audio_stream.encode())
-
-
-def _media_fixtures(directory) -> tuple:
-    """A video with a soundtrack, a still image and an audio clip, as files a reference can be built from."""
-    av = pytest.importorskip("av")
-
-    video_path, image_path, audio_path = (
-        directory / "reference.mp4",
-        directory / "reference.png",
-        directory / "reference.wav",
-    )
-    _write_video(video_path, with_audio=True)
-    Image.new("RGB", (64, 32), color=(10, 20, 30)).save(image_path)
-    with av.open(str(audio_path), "w") as container:
-        stream = container.add_stream("pcm_s16le", rate=FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE)
-        stream.codec_context.layout = "stereo"
-        frame = av.AudioFrame.from_ndarray(
-            np.zeros((1, 2 * FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE), dtype="int16"), format="s16", layout="stereo"
-        )
-        frame.sample_rate = FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        frame.pts = 0
-        container.mux(stream.encode(frame))
-        container.mux(stream.encode())
-    return video_path, image_path, audio_path
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="module")
-def small_references():
-    """
-    Encode references at `TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE` instead of the released 2048 pixels.
-
-    A 2048 pixel short edge packs thousands of conditioning rows, which is minutes per pipeline call on CPU. Every
-    request of this module passes `height` and `width`, so the canvas of a generated video is never derived from
-    these. `TestMiniMaxH3ReferenceGeometry` restores the released value where it pins it.
-    """
-    with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patch:
-        patch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_SHORT_EDGE", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        patch.setattr(packing, "MINIMAX_H3_MAX_PIXELS", TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE**2 * 2)
-        yield
 
+class TestMiniMaxH3ModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
+    """The `t2va` and `fl2va` requests of [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`]: a prompt, optionally with keyframes."""
 
-class MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
-    """What the two blocksets share: the repository, the output surface and the tests that do not apply."""
+    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+    pipeline_blocks_class = MiniMaxH3Blocks
+    pretrained_model_name_or_path = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-minimax-h3-modular-pipe"
 
-    pretrained_model_name_or_path = TINY_MODULAR_REPO_ID
+    params = frozenset(["prompt", "image", "last_image", "height", "width", "num_frames"])
     # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
     batch_params = frozenset()
     # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
     # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
     optional_params = frozenset(["num_inference_steps", "latents", "output_type"])
     output_name = "videos"
+    expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOWS
+    expected_workflow_defaults = MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOW_DEFAULTS
 
     @pytest.mark.skip(reason="MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing.")
     def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
@@ -212,42 +172,6 @@ def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
     def test_num_images_per_prompt(self):
         pass
 
-    def test_load_expected_components_from_pretrained(self, tmp_path):
-        r"""
-        Every component the repository holds *for this half* is loaded from it.
-
-        The repository holds both checkpoint partitions, as the released one does, so its index also names the
-        transformer of the other half — which these blocks never declare and must therefore never load.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        specified = _get_specified_components(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, cache_dir=tmp_path)
-
-        expected = {name for name in specified if name in pipe.components}
-        actual = {
-            name
-            for name in pipe.components
-            if getattr(pipe, name, None) is not None
-            and getattr(getattr(pipe, name), "_diffusers_load_id", None) not in (None, "null")
-        }
-
-        assert expected == actual, f"Component mismatch: missing={expected - actual}, unexpected={actual - expected}"
-        assert "transformer_ref" in specified and "transformer" in specified
-
-    def injected_noise(self, pipe, seed=3):
-        r"""The video and audio noise a request would otherwise draw, in the shapes the blocks expect back."""
-        latents = torch.randn(
-            1,
-            pipe.vae_latent_channels,
-            NUM_LATENT_FRAMES,
-            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
-            RESOLUTION // pipe.vae_spatial_compression_ratio,
-            generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed),
-        )
-        audio_latents = torch.randn(
-            2, pipe.audio_latent_channels, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(seed + 1)
-        )
-        return latents, audio_latents
-
     def test_duration_ceiling_holds_for_the_aligned_count(self):
         r"""
         346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds for the
@@ -261,22 +185,17 @@ def test_duration_ceiling_holds_for_the_aligned_count(self):
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounded up to 362"):
             pipe(**inputs)
 
-
-class TestMiniMaxH3ModularPipelineFast(MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase):
-    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
-    pipeline_blocks_class = MiniMaxH3Blocks
-
-    params = frozenset(["prompt", "image", "last_image", "height", "width", "num_frames"])
-    expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOWS
-
     def get_dummy_inputs(self, seed=0):
         return {
             "prompt": "a robot dancing",
             "generator": self.get_generator(seed),
             "num_inference_steps": 2,
-            "height": RESOLUTION,
-            "width": RESOLUTION,
-            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
+            # MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so 124 frames (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length
+            # the video VAE can decode) is the shortest admissible request; a 32 pixel canvas is one `(1, 2, 2)`
+            # patch row per latent frame, which is what makes it affordable on CPU.
+            "height": 32,
+            "width": 32,
+            "num_frames": 124,
             "output_type": "pt",
         }
 
@@ -287,10 +206,11 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
         state = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
         video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
 
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        assert video.shape == (1, 124, 3, 32, 32)
         # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the decoder block stacks
         # back into `(batch, 2, samples)`.
-        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
+        # 207 audio latents at the tiny VAE's 4 samples per latent
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, 207 * 4)
         assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
         assert state.get("sampling_rate") == pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
 
@@ -305,7 +225,7 @@ def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
 
         They are packed in front of the generated video rows and ride along at their own `t = 0.999`. The loop only
         ever writes the generated rows, so the conditioning rows the encoder block produced survive it untouched,
-        which is what the denoised sequence is checked against here. On a `RESOLUTION` canvas a keyframe is a single
+        which is what the denoised sequence is checked against here. On a `32` canvas a keyframe is a single
         `(1, 2, 2)` patch row.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
@@ -315,7 +235,7 @@ def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
         inputs.update(dict.fromkeys(keyframes, keyframe))
         state = pipe(**inputs)
 
-        assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, 124, 3, 32, 32)
         assert state.get("num_condition_video_rows") == num_condition_rows
         condition_latents = state.get("condition_latents")
         assert condition_latents.shape[0] == num_condition_rows
@@ -326,9 +246,10 @@ def test_generator_reproducibility(self, with_keyframe):
         r"""
         Two runs from the same generator state are identical, two seeds differ.
 
-        The blocks draw from the one generator the request carries, in the order they run — the keyframe conditioning
-        noise in the VAE encoder step, then the video and the audio noise in the prepare-latents step — which is the
-        whole reproducibility contract of a request.
+        The blocks draw from the one generator the request carries, in the order they run — a keyframe's conditioning
+        noise in the prepare-condition-latents step, then the video and the audio noise in the prepare-latents step —
+        which is the whole reproducibility contract of a request. The keyframe's own VAE encode draws too, but under
+        a generator of its own seeded independently of the request, so it never shifts the streams after it.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
         keyframe = Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))
@@ -358,7 +279,10 @@ def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
         very same video and soundtrack.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        latents, audio_latents = self.injected_noise(pipe)
+        # the noise the request would otherwise draw, in the shapes the tiny checkpoint expects back: 4 latent
+        # channels over 37 latent frames on the 32/16 canvas, and 8 audio latent channels over 207 latents
+        latents = torch.randn(1, 4, 37, 2, 2, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(3))
+        audio_latents = torch.randn(2, 8, 207, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(4))
 
         outputs = []
         for seed in (7, 8):
@@ -372,47 +296,32 @@ def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
         assert torch.equal(outputs[0][0], outputs[1][0])
         assert torch.equal(outputs[0][1], outputs[1][1])
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("num_keyframes", [0, 1, 2], ids=["text_only", "one_keyframe", "two_keyframes"])
-    def test_encode_prompt(self, num_keyframes):
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("with_keyframes", [False, True], ids=["t2va", "fl2va"])
+    def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self, with_keyframes):
         r"""
-        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever it carries.
-
-        A keyframe prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block, whose rows are tagged as *video*; a
-        text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt and is tagged as text throughout. Every vision block also makes
-        Qwen3-VL lay its rotary positions out per modality, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor
-        derives from the vision pad ids.
+        Either text encoder block runs on its own, without the denoiser or the VAEs, and encodes its presentation in
+        one conditioner call.
+
+        Encoding a presentation once and reusing it across requests is the modular way of passing `prompt_embeds`, so
+        a block may only touch the components it declares. `t2va` presents the prompt verbatim and tags every row as
+        text; `fl2va` prepends a `"<Picture i>: "` label and a vision block per keyframe, whose rows are tagged as
+        *video* — which is also what makes Qwen3-VL lay its rotary positions out per modality, off the
+        `mm_token_type_ids` the processor derives from the vision pad ids.
         """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
-
-        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep.encode_prompt(
-            pipe, "a robot dancing", [keyframe] * num_keyframes, device=torch_device
-        )
-
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer.config.text_dim
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
-        assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
-        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, so a text-only presentation carries text rows alone.
-        assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == ({0, 1} if num_keyframes else {1})
-
-    def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self):
-        r"""
-        The text encoder block runs on its own, without the denoiser or the VAEs.
-
-        Encoding a presentation once and reusing it across requests is the modular way of passing `prompt_embeds`,
-        so the block may only touch the components it declares.
-        """
-        pipe = MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep().init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        keyframes = [Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))] * 2
+        block = MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep() if with_keyframes else MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep()
+        pipe = block.init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
         pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.float32)
 
-        outputs = pipe(prompt="a robot dancing", output=["prompt_embeds", "text_token_tags"])
+        request = {"keyframes": keyframes} if with_keyframes else {}
+        outputs = pipe(prompt="a robot dancing", **request, output=["prompt_embeds", "text_token_tags"])
 
         assert set(pipe.components) == {"text_encoder", "tokenizer", "processor"}
         assert outputs["prompt_embeds"].shape[0] == 1
         assert outputs["prompt_embeds"].shape[1] == outputs["text_token_tags"].shape[0]
-        # `1` tags a text row, and a text-only presentation is the verbatim prompt.
-        assert set(outputs["text_token_tags"].tolist()) == {1}
+        assert torch.isfinite(outputs["prompt_embeds"]).all()
+        # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, so a text-only presentation carries text rows alone.
+        assert set(outputs["text_token_tags"].tolist()) == ({0, 1} if with_keyframes else {1})
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
     def test_output_type(self, output_type):
@@ -425,14 +334,14 @@ def test_output_type(self, output_type):
         video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
 
         if output_type == "np":
-            assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION, 3)
+            assert video.shape == (1, 124, 32, 32, 3)
         elif output_type == "pil":
-            assert len(video[0]) == NUM_FRAMES
-            assert video[0][0].size == (RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+            assert len(video[0]) == 124
+            assert video[0][0].size == (32, 32)
         else:
             # The video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
-            assert video.shape == (1, 4, NUM_LATENT_FRAMES, RESOLUTION // 16, RESOLUTION // 16)
-            assert audio.shape == (2, 8, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS)
+            assert video.shape == (1, 4, 37, 32 // 16, 32 // 16)
+            assert audio.shape == (2, 8, 207)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "overrides,message",
@@ -461,22 +370,84 @@ def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):
             pipe(**inputs)
 
 
-class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipelineFast(MiniMaxH3ModularTesterBase):
-    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipeline
-    pipeline_blocks_class = MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks
+class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
+    """The `ref2va` requests of [`MiniMaxH3Blocks`]: a prompt and an ordered list of references."""
+
+    pipeline_class = MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline
+    pipeline_blocks_class = MiniMaxH3Blocks
+    pretrained_model_name_or_path = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-minimax-h3-modular-pipe"
 
     params = frozenset(["prompt", "references", "height", "width", "num_frames"])
+    # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
+    batch_params = frozenset()
+    # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
+    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
+    optional_params = frozenset(["num_inference_steps", "latents", "output_type"])
+    output_name = "videos"
     expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOWS
+    expected_workflow_defaults = MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOW_DEFAULTS
+
+    def get_pipeline(self, components_manager=None, dtype=torch.float32):
+        r"""
+        Normalize references onto a 64 pixel short edge instead of MiniMax-H3's own resolutions.
+
+        A reference is put on a canvas of its own, and both released sizes pack thousands of conditioning rows —
+        minutes per pipeline call on CPU. The two follow different rules, so both are made small: an image reference
+        by the setup step's own `reference_image_short_edge`, which is why the block is swapped for a configured one,
+        and a video reference by the canvas rule it shares with the generated video, which is pipeline config. Every
+        request here passes `height` and `width`, so shrinking the shared rule never touches a generated canvas.
+        """
+        blocks = self.pipeline_blocks_class()
+        blocks.sub_blocks["before_encode"].sub_blocks["ref2va"] = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep(
+            reference_image_short_edge=64
+        )
+
+        pipeline = blocks.init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, components_manager=components_manager)
+        pipeline.update_components(canvas_short_edge=64, canvas_max_pixels=64**2 * 2)
+        pipeline.load_components(dtype=dtype)
+        pipeline.set_progress_bar_config(disable=None)
+        return pipeline
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing.")
+    def test_inference_batch_consistent(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence, so a batch of prompts is not a thing.")
+    def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="One request generates one video, so there is no `num_images_per_prompt`.")
+    def test_num_images_per_prompt(self):
+        pass
+
+    def test_duration_ceiling_holds_for_the_aligned_count(self):
+        r"""
+        346 frames are 14.417 seconds, but they are rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds: the ceiling holds for the
+        aligned count, so this is rejected rather than silently generating too long a video.
+
+        `ref2va` resolves and checks the frame count in its setup step rather than in the layout step, so the two
+        halves reach this ceiling by different code.
+        """
+        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["num_frames"] = 346
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounded up to 362"):
+            pipe(**inputs)
 
     def get_dummy_inputs(self, seed=0):
         return {
             "prompt": "a robot dancing",
-            "references": [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))],
+            "references": [MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80)))],
             "generator": self.get_generator(seed),
             "num_inference_steps": 2,
-            "height": RESOLUTION,
-            "width": RESOLUTION,
-            "num_frames": NUM_FRAMES,
+            # MiniMax-H3 generates 5 to 15 seconds at a fixed 24 fps, so 124 frames (`17 * 7 + 5`, the next length
+            # the video VAE can decode) is the shortest admissible request; a 32 pixel canvas is one `(1, 2, 2)`
+            # patch row per latent frame, which is what makes it affordable on CPU.
+            "height": 32,
+            "width": 32,
+            "num_frames": 124,
             "output_type": "pt",
         }
 
@@ -487,8 +458,9 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
         state = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
         video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
 
-        assert video.shape == (1, NUM_FRAMES, 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
-        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, NUM_AUDIO_LATENTS * AUDIO_HOP_LENGTH)
+        assert video.shape == (1, 124, 3, 32, 32)
+        # 207 audio latents at the tiny VAE's 4 samples per latent
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, 207 * 4)
         assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
 
     def test_generator_reproducibility(self):
@@ -524,8 +496,12 @@ def test_injected_latents_replace_the_draws(self):
         same noise is still another sample, through the conditioning noise the references are augmented with.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        latents, audio_latents = self.injected_noise(pipe)
-        other_latents, other_audio_latents = self.injected_noise(pipe, seed=11)
+        # the noise the request would otherwise draw, in the shapes the tiny checkpoint expects back: 4 latent
+        # channels over 37 latent frames on the 32/16 canvas, and 8 audio latent channels over 207 latents
+        latents = torch.randn(1, 4, 37, 2, 2, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(3))
+        audio_latents = torch.randn(2, 8, 207, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(4))
+        other_latents = torch.randn(1, 4, 37, 2, 2, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(11))
+        other_audio_latents = torch.randn(2, 8, 207, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(12))
 
         def run(seed, video_noise, audio_noise):
             inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
@@ -548,7 +524,7 @@ def run(seed, video_noise, audio_noise):
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "kinds,num_frames",
-        [(("video",), NUM_FRAMES), (("image", "audio"), None), (("video", "image"), NUM_FRAMES)],
+        [(("video",), 124), (("image", "audio"), 124), (("video", "image"), 124)],
         ids=["video", "image_audio", "video_image"],
     )
     def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
@@ -557,24 +533,26 @@ def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
 
         A video reference conditions on its motion *and*, when the request passes one with it, on its soundtrack, so
         it contributes both visual and audio rows; an audio reference contributes audio rows alone and never reaches
-        the conditioner. The `image_audio` case also leaves `num_frames` to the references, which is admissible
-        because exactly one of them carries audio: the duration is that soundtrack's, snapped up to the next
-        `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode.
+        the conditioner.
 
         The reference rows are pinned for the whole loop, which is what the denoised sequence is checked against: the
         visual anchors keep their noise-augmented values and the audio anchors stay exactly as the encoder produced
         them.
         """
         media = {
-            "image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
-            # A one-second video reference, soundtrack included, and a six-second standalone soundtrack.
-            "video": MiniMaxH3Reference(
-                video=_video_frames(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS, 64),
-                fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
-                audio=_waveform(1.0),
-                sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE,
+            "image": MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+            # A one-second video reference, soundtrack included, and a six-second standalone soundtrack. Both
+            # waveforms are at 160 Hz, the tiny audio VAE's own rate, so nothing is ever resampled.
+            "video": MiniMaxH3VideoReference(
+                frames=(np.random.default_rng(0).random((MINIMAX_H3_FPS, 64, 64, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"),
+                fps=float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
+                audio=torch.rand(2, 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1,
+                sample_rate=160,
+            ),
+            "audio": MiniMaxH3AudioReference(
+                audio=torch.rand(2, 6 * 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1,
+                sample_rate=160,
             ),
-            "audio": _reference_audio(6.0),
         }
 
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
@@ -588,7 +566,7 @@ def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
         num_audio_condition_rows = state.get("num_condition_audio_rows")
         assert num_condition_rows > 0
         assert (num_audio_condition_rows > 0) == any(kind in ("video", "audio") for kind in kinds)
-        assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, state.get("num_frames"), 3, RESOLUTION, RESOLUTION)
+        assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, state.get("num_frames"), 3, 32, 32)
         # The loop only ever writes the generated rows, so the anchors the encoder block produced survive it.
         assert torch.equal(state.get("latents")[:num_condition_rows], state.get("condition_latents"))
         if num_audio_condition_rows:
@@ -599,32 +577,42 @@ def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "kinds", [("image",), ("video",), ("video", "image")], ids=["image", "video", "video_image"]
     )
-    def test_encode_prompt(self, kinds):
+    def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self, kinds):
         r"""
-        The presentation is encoded in one conditioner call, whatever references it labels.
-
-        The rows of a reference's vision block are tagged as *video*, and those blocks are what makes Qwen3-VL lay its
-        rotary positions out per modality run, which it reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor derives from
-        the vision pad ids. A video reference contributes one timestamped block per merged frame pair.
+        The `ref2va` text encoder block runs on its own, without the denoiser or the VAEs, and encodes its
+        presentation in one conditioner call whatever references it labels.
+
+        Encoding a presentation once and reusing it across requests is the modular way of passing `prompt_embeds`, so
+        the block may only touch the components it declares. The rows of a reference's vision block are tagged as
+        *video*, and those blocks are what makes Qwen3-VL lay its rotary positions out per modality run, which it
+        reads off the `mm_token_type_ids` the processor derives from the vision pad ids. A video reference
+        contributes one timestamped block per merged frame pair.
         """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        media = {"image": MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), "video": _reference_video(25, 32)}
-        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(pipe, [media[kind] for kind in kinds], NUM_FRAMES)
+        media = {
+            "image": MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+            "video": MiniMaxH3VideoReference(
+                frames=(np.random.default_rng(0).random((25, 32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"),
+                fps=float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
+            ),
+        }
+        pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep().init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.float32)
 
-        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep.encode_prompt(
-            pipe, "a robot dancing", references, device=torch_device
+        outputs = pipe(
+            prompt="a robot dancing",
+            # the block reads the references the setup step normalized, which for the conditioner is media of any
+            # accepted layout at the model's own rates — what these already are
+            normalized_references=[media[kind] for kind in kinds],
+            output=["prompt_embeds", "text_token_tags"],
         )
+        prompt_embeds, text_token_tags = outputs["prompt_embeds"], outputs["text_token_tags"]
 
+        assert set(pipe.components) == {"text_encoder", "tokenizer", "processor"}
         assert prompt_embeds.shape[0] == 1
-        assert prompt_embeds.shape[-1] == pipe.transformer_ref.config.text_dim
         assert prompt_embeds.shape[1] == text_token_tags.shape[0]
         assert torch.isfinite(prompt_embeds).all()
         # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, and every reference here carries a vision block.
         assert set(text_token_tags.tolist()) == {0, 1}
-        # A 25 frame reference decoded at 24 fps is read at 2 fps, so it is three frames merged into two blocks.
-        for reference in references:
-            if reference.kind == "video":
-                assert reference.block_timestamps == [0.25, 1.0]
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("media_type", ["pil", "np", "pt"], ids=["pil", "numpy", "torch"])
     def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
@@ -635,7 +623,7 @@ def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
         VAE untouched.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        pixels = _video_frames(4, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
+        pixels = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((4, 64, 64, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
         if media_type == "pil":
             image, frames = Image.fromarray(pixels[0]), [Image.fromarray(frame) for frame in pixels]
         elif media_type == "np":
@@ -643,88 +631,51 @@ def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
         else:
             image, frames = torch.from_numpy(pixels[0]).permute(2, 0, 1), torch.from_numpy(pixels).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
 
-        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(
-            pipe,
-            [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=image), MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames, fps=float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS))],
-            NUM_FRAMES,
-        )
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["references"] = [
+            MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=image),
+            MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames, fps=float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS)),
+        ]
+        state = pipe(**inputs)
+        references = state.get("normalized_references")
 
         assert np.array_equal(np.asarray(references[0].image), pixels[0])
         assert np.array_equal(references[1].frames, pixels)
 
-    def test_reference_rates_default_to_the_model_rates(self):
+    def test_reference_without_rates_is_not_resampled(self):
         r"""
-        A reference that leaves its rates out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own: the frames flow through
-        untouched, without a resampling pass and without a copy, and so do the samples of a waveform.
+        A reference that leaves its rates out is taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own — 24 fps for frames, the
+        audio VAE's own sample rate for a waveform — so neither normalization pass runs at all: the frames flow
+        through without a resampling pass and without a copy, and so do the samples of a waveform.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        frames = _video_frames(NUM_FRAMES, TEST_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE)
-        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
+        frames = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((124, 64, 64, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+        waveform = torch.rand(2, 2 * 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
 
-        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(
-            pipe, [MiniMaxH3Reference(video=frames), MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform)], NUM_FRAMES
-        )
+        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
+        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames), MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=waveform)]
+        state = pipe(**inputs)
+        references = state.get("normalized_references")
 
         assert np.shares_memory(references[0].frames, frames)
-        assert torch.equal(references[1].waveform, waveform)
+        assert torch.equal(references[1].audio, waveform)
 
     def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
         r"""A waveform that says it carries another rate is resampled onto the audio VAE's own."""
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        waveform = _waveform(2.0)
-
-        references, _ = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep.prepare_references(
-            pipe,
-            [
-                MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
-                MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE // 2),
-            ],
-            NUM_FRAMES,
-        )
-
-        # Half the audio VAE's rate, so the same samples span twice as many of the VAE's own.
-        assert references[1].waveform.shape == (2, 2 * waveform.shape[-1])
-
-    def test_num_frames_left_open_needs_exactly_one_audio_reference(self):
-        r"""Leaving `num_frames` out is ambiguous unless exactly one reference carries audio."""
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
+        waveform = torch.rand(2, 2 * 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
 
         inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["num_frames"] = None
-
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="may only be left to the references"):
-            pipe(**inputs)
-
-    def test_num_frames_left_open_holds_the_ceiling_for_the_aligned_count(self):
-        r"""
-        A soundtrack just under 15 seconds is rejected rather than silently stretched past the ceiling.
-
-        14.99 seconds round to 360 frames, which the video VAE's `17 * n + 5` grid rounds up to 362, i.e. 15.083
-        seconds. The duration the request generates is the aligned one, so that is what the bound holds for.
-        """
-        pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        inputs["num_frames"] = None
-        inputs["references"] = [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))), _reference_audio(14.99)]
+        inputs["references"] = [
+            MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
+            MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=160 // 2),
+        ]
+        state = pipe(**inputs)
+        references = state.get("normalized_references")
 
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="rounds up to 362 frames"):
-            pipe(**inputs)
+        # Half the audio VAE's rate, so the same samples span twice as many of the VAE's own.
+        assert references[1].audio.shape == (2, 2 * waveform.shape[-1])
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "references,message",
-        [
-            ([], "at least one reference"),
-            ([_reference_audio(6.0)], "cannot be used"),
-            ([MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] * 10, "at most 9 image references"),
-            (
-                [MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))] + [_reference_video(2, 32)] * 4,
-                "at most 3 video references",
-            ),
-            ([{"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))}], "must be a \\[`MiniMaxH3Reference`\\]"),
-        ],
-        ids=["no_references", "audio_alone", "too_many_images", "too_many_videos", "dict_entry"],
-    )
     def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
 
@@ -737,118 +688,93 @@ def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
 
 class TestMiniMaxH3Reference:
     """
-    [`MiniMaxH3Reference`] resolves a request's media at construction, before any block sees it.
+    The three reference dataclasses and the passes that normalize them, neither of which needs a checkpoint.
 
-    None of this needs a pipeline: a reference validates its own modality, decodes a path with PyAV and carries the
-    rates that come with it, which is exactly what makes the blocks able to assume in-memory media throughout.
+    Each class knows its own modality, so nothing has to derive it from which fields happen to be set, and the
+    fields a modality has no use for do not exist on it. The rest is the pure geometry `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep`
+    and the text encoder run a reference through before any VAE or conditioner sees it.
     """
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-        "kwargs,message",
-        [
-            ({}, "exactly one of"),
-            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "video": _video_frames(2, 32)}, "exactly one of"),
-            ({"image": Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), "audio": _waveform(1.0)}, "exactly one of"),
-            ({"image": "astronaut.png"}, "not a valid path"),
-            ({"video": "motion.mp4"}, "not a valid path"),
-            ({"audio": "voice.wav"}, "not a valid path"),
-        ],
-        ids=[
-            "no_medium",
-            "image_and_video",
-            "image_and_audio",
-            "missing_image_file",
-            "missing_video_file",
-            "missing_audio_file",
-        ],
-    )
-    def test_reference_construction(self, kwargs, message):
+    def test_reference_defaults(self):
         r"""
-        A reference resolves itself at construction: exactly one medium, bar a video's own soundtrack, and a path that
-        names a file it can actually open.
+        A reference knows its own modality, and defaults to MiniMax-H3's own frame rate for its frames.
+
+        `kind` and `has_audio` are what the setup step and the layout branch on, so each class has to answer both
+        from its type alone rather than from which fields happen to be set.
         """
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=message):
-            MiniMaxH3Reference(**kwargs)
+        frames = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((2, 32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+        waveform = torch.rand(2, 6 * 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
+
+        # frames handed over without a rate are taken to already be at MiniMax-H3's own 24 fps
+        assert MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames).fps == float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
+
+        # an image conditions on one still: it is a video condition of a single frame, and never an audio one
+        assert MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).kind == "image"
+        assert not MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).has_audio
+
+        # a video conditions on its motion, and on a soundtrack only when it was given one — this one is silent
+        assert MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames).kind == "video"
+        assert not MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames).has_audio
+
+        # a standalone clip is the one kind that is audio-only, so it always contributes audio rows
+        assert MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=160).kind == "audio"
+        assert MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=waveform, sample_rate=160).has_audio
+
+    def test_video_reference_has_audio_follows_its_soundtrack(self):
+        r"""A video reference contributes audio rows exactly when it was given a soundtrack of its own."""
+        frames = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((2, 32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+        waveform = torch.rand(2, 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
 
-    def test_reference_decodes_files(self, tmp_path):
+        assert not MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames).has_audio
+        assert MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=frames, audio=waveform).has_audio
+
+    def test_a_modality_only_carries_its_own_fields(self):
         r"""
-        A reference takes a path as well as in-memory media, and decodes it as it is built: the frames and the samples
-        themselves, plus the rates the container reports, which is what the model conditions on.
+        The fields that used to be dead weight are gone: an image reference has no rates, and no reference can be
+        built holding two media at once.
         """
-        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
-
-        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
-        image = MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path))
-        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
-
-        assert video.kind == "video"
-        assert video.video.shape == (FIXTURE_NUM_FRAMES, 32, 64, 3) and video.video.dtype == np.uint8
-        assert video.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
-        # The container carries a soundtrack, which a video reference conditions on as its own.
-        assert video.has_audio and video.audio.shape[0] == 2 and video.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        assert image.kind == "image" and image.image.size == (64, 32)
-        assert audio.kind == "audio" and audio.audio.shape[0] == 2 and audio.sample_rate == FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE
-        assert audio.audio.dtype == torch.float32
-
-    def test_reference_silent_file_carries_no_soundtrack(self, tmp_path):
-        r"""There is nothing to adopt from a container without an audio stream."""
-        silent_path = tmp_path / "silent.mp4"
-        _write_video(silent_path, with_audio=False)
-
-        reference = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(silent_path))
-
-        assert not reference.has_audio and reference.sample_rate is None
-        assert reference.fps == FIXTURE_FPS
-
-    def test_reference_rates_override_the_container(self, tmp_path):
-        r"""A rate the request passes wins over the one the container reports, whose metadata may be wrong."""
-        video_path, _, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
-
-        video = MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path), fps=12.0, sample_rate=16000)
-        audio = MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path), sample_rate=16000)
-
-        # The container reports `FIXTURE_FPS` and `FIXTURE_SAMPLE_RATE`, and the request overrides both.
-        assert video.fps == 12.0 and video.sample_rate == 16000
-        assert audio.sample_rate == 16000
-
-    def test_reference_file_needs_pyav(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
-        r"""Decoding a video or an audio file is a PyAV job, and says so when PyAV is not installed."""
-        video_path, image_path, audio_path = _media_fixtures(tmp_path)
-        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "is_av_available", lambda: False)
-
-        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
-            MiniMaxH3Reference(video=str(video_path))
-        with pytest.raises(ImportError, match="pip install av"):
-            MiniMaxH3Reference(audio=str(audio_path))
-        # An image never needs it.
-        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=str(image_path)).image.size == (64, 32)
+        frames = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((2, 32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+        waveform = torch.rand(2, 160, generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(1)) * 2 - 1
+        image = MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)))
 
-    def test_reference_defaults(self):
-        r"""A reference knows its own modality, and defaults to MiniMax-H3's own frame rate for its frames."""
-        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(video=_video_frames(2, 32)).fps == float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)
-        assert MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).kind == "image"
-        assert not MiniMaxH3Reference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))).has_audio
-        assert _reference_video(2, 32).kind == "video"
-        assert _reference_audio(6.0).kind == "audio"
-        assert _reference_audio(6.0).has_audio
+        assert not hasattr(image, "fps") and not hasattr(image, "sample_rate")
+        with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+            MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32)), audio=waveform)
+        with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+            MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=waveform, frames=frames)
 
+    def test_video_reference_vision_blocks(self):
+        r"""
+        The conditioner reads a reference video at 2 fps and Qwen3-VL merges every two of those frames into one
+        vision block, labelled with the mean timestamp of the pair.
 
-class TestMiniMaxH3ReferenceGeometry:
-    """
-    How a reference is prepared, which is pure geometry over the packing module and needs no components.
+        A 25 frame reference at 24 fps samples three frames, which merge into two blocks at 0.25 and 1.0 seconds.
+        """
+        frames, timestamps = MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep._sample_video_condition_frames(
+            (np.random.default_rng(0).random((25, 32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"),
+            fps=24.0,
+            sample_fps=2.0,
+            temporal_patch=2,
+        )
 
-    These are the passes `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` runs a reference through before any VAE sees it.
-    """
+        assert len(frames) == 3
+        assert timestamps == [0.25, 1.0]
 
-    def test_reference_image_geometry(self, monkeypatch):
+    def test_reference_image_geometry(self):
         r"""
         A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple of 32, with no area
-        cap. The `small_references` fixture shrinks that short edge for every other test, so restore it here.
+        cap — the released geometry, so the setup step is constructed explicitly rather than through the
+        `small_references` fixture's shrunken default.
         """
-        monkeypatch.setattr(packing_ref2va, "MINIMAX_H3_REFERENCE_IMAGE_SHORT_EDGE", 2048)
+        pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep(reference_image_short_edge=2048).init_pipeline()
 
-        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(80, 48) == (2048, 3424)
-        assert packing_ref2va.resolve_reference_image_size(48, 80) == (3424, 2048)
+        references = pipe(
+            references=[MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (80, 48)))],
+            num_frames=124,
+            output="normalized_references",
+        )
+
+        assert references[0].image.size == (3424, 2048)
 
     def test_video_reference_resampled_to_the_model_frame_rate(self):
         r"""
@@ -858,11 +784,18 @@ def test_video_reference_resampled_to_the_model_frame_rate(self):
         slot. Frames already at 24 fps are returned as they are, without a copy.
         """
         # Every frame carries its own index as its pixel value, so the resampled frames name the ones that survived.
-        frames = np.arange(30, dtype="uint8").reshape(-1, 1, 1, 1) * np.ones((1, 2, 2, 3), dtype="uint8")
+        # The canvas rule is passed shrunken so the frames already sit at the canvas their aspect resolves to, which
+        # makes the resize pass a no-op and lets the 24 fps route return the input without a copy.
+        size = 64
+        frames = np.arange(30, dtype="uint8").reshape(-1, 1, 1, 1) * np.ones((1, size, size, 3), dtype="uint8")
+        canvas = {"canvas_multiple": 32, "canvas_short_edge": 64, "canvas_max_pixels": 64**2 * 2}
 
-        resampled = packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, 30.0)
+        resampled = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep._normalize_video_condition(frames, fps=30.0, num_frames=124, **canvas)
 
         assert [int(frame[0, 0, 0]) for frame in resampled] == [
             index for index in range(30) if index not in (2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27)
         ]
-        assert packing_ref2va.resample_reference_frames(frames, float(packing.MINIMAX_H3_FPS)) is frames
+        untouched = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep._normalize_video_condition(
+            frames, fps=float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS), num_frames=124, **canvas
+        )
+        assert np.shares_memory(untouched, frames)
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/test_modular_pipelines_common.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/test_modular_pipelines_common.py
index 70e30b753693..5c51295a7e79 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/test_modular_pipelines_common.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/test_modular_pipelines_common.py
@@ -505,6 +505,143 @@ def test_workflow_map(self):
                     f"{actual_block.__class__.__name__}, expected {expected_class_name}"
                 )
 
+        # a `_workflow_map` value is either one trigger dict or a tuple of trigger dicts — alternative spellings
+        # of the same workflow, which must all resolve the same blocks since `get_workflow` prunes with the first
+        for workflow_name, trigger_inputs in blocks._workflow_map.items():
+            if isinstance(trigger_inputs, dict):
+                continue
+            assert isinstance(trigger_inputs, tuple) and all(
+                isinstance(alternative, dict) for alternative in trigger_inputs
+            ), (
+                f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': a `_workflow_map` value must be a trigger dict or a tuple of "
+                f"trigger dicts, got {trigger_inputs!r}"
+            )
+            resolved = [list(blocks.get_execution_blocks(**alternative).sub_blocks) for alternative in trigger_inputs]
+            for alternative_blocks in resolved[1:]:
+                assert alternative_blocks == resolved[0], (
+                    f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': its trigger spellings resolve different blocks: "
+                    f"{resolved[0]} vs {alternative_blocks}"
+                )
+
+    def test_workflow_defaults(self):
+        if not getattr(self, "expected_workflow_defaults", None):
+            pytest.skip("Skipping test as expected_workflow_defaults is not set")
+
+        blocks = self.pipeline_blocks_class()
+        for workflow_name, expected_defaults in self.expected_workflow_defaults.items():
+            workflow_blocks = blocks.get_workflow(workflow_name)
+
+            # components: every one of the workflow is named with its class, so one appearing, disappearing or
+            # changing type fails loudly
+            component_specs = {spec.name: spec for spec in workflow_blocks.expected_components}
+            expected_components = expected_defaults["components"]
+            assert set(component_specs) == set(expected_components), (
+                f"Workflow '{workflow_name}' expects components {sorted(component_specs)}, "
+                f"the test expects {sorted(expected_components)}"
+            )
+            for component_name, expected_class_name in expected_components.items():
+                actual_class_name = component_specs[component_name].type_hint.__name__
+                assert actual_class_name == expected_class_name, (
+                    f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': component '{component_name}' is a {actual_class_name}, "
+                    f"expected {expected_class_name}"
+                )
+
+            # configs: the pipeline-level configs the workflow declares, with their defaults
+            config_specs = {spec.name: spec.default for spec in workflow_blocks.expected_configs}
+            expected_configs = expected_defaults.get("configs", {})
+            assert config_specs == expected_configs, (
+                f"Workflow '{workflow_name}' declares configs {config_specs}, the test expects {expected_configs}"
+            )
+
+            # inputs: `inputs` names every optional input with its default and `required_inputs` the required ones,
+            # and together they are exactly the workflow's inputs. kwargs-style inputs (e.g.
+            # **denoiser_input_fields) have no name and no default to pin
+            input_params = {param.name: param for param in workflow_blocks.inputs if param.name is not None}
+            expected_inputs = expected_defaults["inputs"]
+            expected_required = expected_defaults.get("required_inputs", [])
+            assert set(input_params) == set(expected_inputs) | set(expected_required), (
+                f"Workflow '{workflow_name}' takes inputs {sorted(input_params)}, "
+                f"the test expects {sorted(set(expected_inputs) | set(expected_required))}"
+            )
+            for input_name in expected_required:
+                assert input_params[input_name].required, (
+                    f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': input '{input_name}' should be required"
+                )
+            for input_name, expected_default in expected_inputs.items():
+                param = input_params[input_name]
+                assert not param.required and param.default == expected_default, (
+                    f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': input '{input_name}' default is "
+                    f"{param.default!r} (required={param.required}), expected {expected_default!r}"
+                )
+
+    def test_from_pretrained_workflow(self):
+        blocks = self.pipeline_blocks_class()
+        if blocks._workflow_map is None:
+            pytest.skip("Skipping test as _workflow_map is not set")
+
+        for workflow_name in blocks.available_workflows:
+            # the workflow argument should be equivalent to pruning the blocks by hand
+            pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, workflow=workflow_name)
+            ref_pipe = blocks.get_workflow(workflow_name).init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+            assert set(pipe.component_names) == set(ref_pipe.component_names), (
+                f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': pipeline expects components {sorted(pipe.component_names)}, "
+                f"the workflow blocks expect {sorted(ref_pipe.component_names)}"
+            )
+            for name in pipe.pretrained_component_names:
+                assert pipe.get_component_spec(name) == ref_pipe.get_component_spec(name), (
+                    f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': component '{name}' has a different spec than the one "
+                    f"created from the workflow blocks"
+                )
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="Available workflows"):
+            ModularPipeline.from_pretrained(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, workflow="not_a_workflow")
+
+    def test_load_components_workflow(self):
+        blocks = self.pipeline_blocks_class()
+        if blocks._workflow_map is None:
+            pytest.skip("Skipping test as _workflow_map is not set")
+
+        workflow_name = blocks.available_workflows[0]
+
+        # a full pipeline restricted at load time should load the same components as a pipeline
+        # created from the pruned workflow blocks
+        pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        pipe.load_components(workflow=workflow_name)
+        ref_pipe = blocks.get_workflow(workflow_name).init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        ref_pipe.load_components()
+
+        loaded = {name for name in pipe.pretrained_component_names if pipe.components[name] is not None}
+        ref_loaded = {name for name in ref_pipe.pretrained_component_names if ref_pipe.components[name] is not None}
+        assert loaded == ref_loaded, (
+            f"Workflow '{workflow_name}': load_components(workflow=...) loaded {sorted(loaded)}, "
+            f"the pipeline created from the workflow blocks loaded {sorted(ref_loaded)}"
+        )
+
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="not both"):
+            pipe.load_components(names="unet", workflow=workflow_name)
+
+    def test_unload_components(self):
+        pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        pipe.load_components()
+        name = next(name for name in pipe.pretrained_component_names if pipe.components.get(name) is not None)
+        spec_before = pipe._component_specs[name]
+
+        pipe.unload_components(name)
+        assert getattr(pipe, name) is None
+        # the spec survives, so the component can be loaded again
+        assert pipe._component_specs[name] is spec_before
+        pipe.load_components(names=name)
+        assert getattr(pipe, name) is not None
+
+        # with a ComponentsManager attached, unloading also removes the component from the manager
+        manager = ComponentsManager()
+        pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, components_manager=manager)
+        pipe.load_components(names=name)
+        assert len(manager._lookup_ids(name=name)) == 1
+        pipe.unload_components(name)
+        assert getattr(pipe, name) is None
+        assert len(manager._lookup_ids(name=name)) == 0
+
 
 class ModularGuiderTesterMixin:
     def test_guider_cfg(self, expected_max_diff=1e-2):

From baff7c7febdd582a4c260dc3719089f4a740fd2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 01:53:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 11/21] Regenerate the modular auto docstrings and restyle the
 H3 docstrings

`make modular-autodoctrings` and `make quality` both failed on CI. The nine
`# auto_docstring` blocks in `modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py` were stale, and the
docstrings of eleven files had not been through `doc-builder style`.

Nothing but docstrings and comments changes here.

One trap worth recording: `utils/modular_auto_docstring.py` shells out to
`ruff` and degrades silently when it is not on `PATH` ("Warning: tool not
found ... Skipping formatting"), which makes it rewrite 42 unrelated pipelines
instead of the one that is stale.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py |  14 +-
 .../autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py        |  85 +++---
 .../transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py    |  10 +-
 .../minimax_h3/before_denoise.py              |  25 +-
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              |   4 +-
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py  |  33 +--
 .../minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py   | 275 +++++++++---------
 .../minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py            |  12 +-
 .../minimax_h3/references.py                  |  34 +--
 .../modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py     |   9 +-
 .../schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py       |  77 +++--
 11 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 296 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
index 56d4707092b3..acc04f2c179c 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3.py
@@ -279,8 +279,8 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 class MiniMaxH3VideoRotaryPosEmbed(nn.Module):
     r"""
     3-axis rotary embedding for the ViT decoder. Coordinates are length-normalized to `[-1, 1)` per axis and scaled by
-    `2 * pi`, and the resulting `(t, h, w)` angles are concatenated and then duplicated, so the first
-    `rope_dim_ratio * attention_head_dim` channels of every head are rotated.
+    `2 * pi`, and the resulting `(t, h, w)` angles are concatenated and then duplicated, so the first `rope_dim_ratio *
+    attention_head_dim` channels of every head are rotated.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, dim: int, theta: float = 100.0, num_axes: int = 3) -> None:
@@ -398,8 +398,8 @@ def forward(
 class MiniMaxH3VideoViTDecoder3d(nn.Module):
     r"""
     Non-causal ViT decoder. Every latent voxel becomes one token; `num_register_tokens` learned register tokens plus a
-    single all-zero token are appended (all at position `0`), attended over with full self-attention, and dropped
-    again before the patch projection expands each token into a `patch_size_t x patch_size x patch_size` pixel block.
+    single all-zero token are appended (all at position `0`), attended over with full self-attention, and dropped again
+    before the patch projection expands each token into a `patch_size_t x patch_size x patch_size` pixel block.
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -794,9 +794,9 @@ def _decode(self, z: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         r"""
         Decode a latent video, mirroring the chunking that `_encode` applied.
 
-        `token_drop` removed the tail of every encoded chunk, so consecutive decoded chunks overlap by
-        `frame_overlap` pixel frames and are linearly cross-faded. Latent frames are repeated at the end when the
-        length is not a whole number of chunks; the extra pixel frames are cut off again at the end.
+        `token_drop` removed the tail of every encoded chunk, so consecutive decoded chunks overlap by `frame_overlap`
+        pixel frames and are linearly cross-faded. Latent frames are repeated at the end when the length is not a whole
+        number of chunks; the extra pixel frames are cut off again at the end.
         """
         tokens_chunk_size = self.tokens_chunk_size
         token_drop = self.config.token_drop
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
index 0b24768642bb..957774f791bc 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_minimax_h3_audio.py
@@ -16,24 +16,22 @@
 
 Waveform in / waveform out — there is no mel front-end and no separate vocoder:
 
-* the **encoder** is a DAC-lineage strided convolutional stack (Snake activations, weight-normed
-  `Conv1d`) that downsamples by `prod(encoder_rates) = 800`, i.e. 40 latents/s at 32 kHz;
-* a **causal-attention projection** (`pre_block`) rewires the 2048-wide encoder trunk to the
-  32-channel latent width, followed by the `mean_proj` / `logs_proj` posterior heads;
-* the **decoder** is BigVGAN (anti-aliased SnakeBeta activations, transposed-conv upsamplers, AMP
-  residual blocks) preceded by `dec_in_proj`, upsampling by `prod(decoder_rates) = 800`.
-
-The autoencoder is **mono**. MiniMax-H3 carries stereo as two *batch* items — the pipeline decodes
-`[2, 32, T]` into `[2, 1, samples]` and interleaves at the output boundary — so no stereo handling
-belongs here.
-
-Latents are normalized with per-channel `latents_mean` / `latents_std` (32 floats each) rather than a
-scalar `scaling_factor`; both live in the config and are applied by the pipeline.
-
-Module and parameter names are identical to the original checkpoint, so conversion is a passthrough.
-That includes `torch.nn.utils.weight_norm` (the `weight_g` / `weight_v` spelling, as used by the
-other diffusers audio autoencoders) and the registered Kaiser-window resampling `filter` buffers of
-the anti-aliased activations.
+* the **encoder** is a DAC-lineage strided convolutional stack (Snake activations, weight-normed `Conv1d`) that
+  downsamples by `prod(encoder_rates) = 800`, i.e. 40 latents/s at 32 kHz;
+* a **causal-attention projection** (`pre_block`) rewires the 2048-wide encoder trunk to the 32-channel latent width,
+  followed by the `mean_proj` / `logs_proj` posterior heads;
+* the **decoder** is BigVGAN (anti-aliased SnakeBeta activations, transposed-conv upsamplers, AMP residual blocks)
+  preceded by `dec_in_proj`, upsampling by `prod(decoder_rates) = 800`.
+
+The autoencoder is **mono**. MiniMax-H3 carries stereo as two *batch* items — the pipeline decodes `[2, 32, T]` into
+`[2, 1, samples]` and interleaves at the output boundary — so no stereo handling belongs here.
+
+Latents are normalized with per-channel `latents_mean` / `latents_std` (32 floats each) rather than a scalar
+`scaling_factor`; both live in the config and are applied by the pipeline.
+
+Module and parameter names are identical to the original checkpoint, so conversion is a passthrough. That includes
+`torch.nn.utils.weight_norm` (the `weight_g` / `weight_v` spelling, as used by the other diffusers audio autoencoders)
+and the registered Kaiser-window resampling `filter` buffers of the anti-aliased activations.
 """
 
 import math
@@ -57,10 +55,9 @@
 class MiniMaxH3AudioDiagonalGaussianDistribution:
     r"""Posterior of the MiniMax-H3 audio autoencoder, parameterized as `(mean, log_std)`.
 
-    The checkpoint keeps two separate `Conv1d` heads (`mean_proj`, `logs_proj`) instead of one fused
-    moments projection, and the second head predicts the **log standard deviation**, not the log
-    variance. The two tensors are therefore stored as produced, and `mode()` is bit-for-bit
-    `mean_proj`'s output.
+    The checkpoint keeps two separate `Conv1d` heads (`mean_proj`, `logs_proj`) instead of one fused moments
+    projection, and the second head predicts the **log standard deviation**, not the log variance. The two tensors are
+    therefore stored as produced, and `mode()` is bit-for-bit `mean_proj`'s output.
 
     Args:
         mean (`torch.Tensor`): Posterior mean, `[batch_size, latent_channels, num_frames]`.
@@ -96,8 +93,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput(BaseOutput):
 def kaiser_sinc_filter1d(cutoff: float, half_width: float, kernel_size: int) -> torch.Tensor:
     r"""Kaiser-windowed sinc low-pass filter of shape `[1, 1, kernel_size]`.
 
-    Kept arithmetically identical to the `alias-free-torch` implementation the checkpoint was trained
-    with, because the resulting tensor is stored as a persistent buffer.
+    Kept arithmetically identical to the `alias-free-torch` implementation the checkpoint was trained with, because the
+    resulting tensor is stored as a persistent buffer.
     """
     half_size = kernel_size // 2
 
@@ -136,8 +133,8 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 class MiniMaxH3AudioSnakeBeta(nn.Module):
     r"""`x + (exp(beta) + 1e-9)^-1 * sin(exp(alpha) * x)^2` over `[batch_size, channels, length]`.
 
-    The BigVGAN decoder's activation: separate frequency (`alpha`) and magnitude (`beta`) parameters,
-    both stored in log space as `[channels]` vectors.
+    The BigVGAN decoder's activation: separate frequency (`alpha`) and magnitude (`beta`) parameters, both stored in
+    log space as `[channels]` vectors.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, channels: int):
@@ -307,10 +304,9 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 class MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProcessor:
     r"""Processor of [`MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention`].
 
-    The causal mask is expressed as `is_causal=True` rather than as a materialized mask. Every
-    attention backend honours that flag, with two exceptions: `_native_npu`, whose kernel takes no
-    causal argument and would compute *bidirectional* attention, and context parallelism, which
-    raises for causal attention.
+    The causal mask is expressed as `is_causal=True` rather than as a materialized mask. Every attention backend
+    honours that flag, with two exceptions: `_native_npu`, whose kernel takes no causal argument and would compute
+    *bidirectional* attention, and context parallelism, which raises for causal attention.
     """
 
     _attention_backend = None
@@ -345,10 +341,10 @@ def __call__(self, attn: "MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention", hidden_states: torch.T
 class MiniMaxH3AudioCausalAttention(nn.Module, AttentionModuleMixin):
     r"""Causal self-attention that narrows the feature width from `in_dim` to `out_dim`.
 
-    QKV is a single bias-less `nn.Linear`; query and value biases are separate parameters and the key
-    bias is a frozen zero buffer (`zero_k_bias`), exactly as stored in the checkpoint. Heads are
-    `in_dim // num_heads` wide; instead of being concatenated they are **mean-pooled away**, and the
-    remaining head dimension is adaptively average-pooled down to `out_dim`.
+    QKV is a single bias-less `nn.Linear`; query and value biases are separate parameters and the key bias is a frozen
+    zero buffer (`zero_k_bias`), exactly as stored in the checkpoint. Heads are `in_dim // num_heads` wide; instead of
+    being concatenated they are **mean-pooled away**, and the remaining head dimension is adaptively average-pooled
+    down to `out_dim`.
     """
 
     _default_processor_cls = MiniMaxH3AudioAttnProcessor
@@ -393,8 +389,8 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 class MiniMaxH3AudioAMPBlock(nn.Module):
     r"""BigVGAN anti-aliased multi-periodicity block (`AMPBlock1`).
 
-    Each dilation contributes a `(dilated conv, dilation-1 conv)` pair, and every convolution is
-    preceded by its own alias-free SnakeBeta activation.
+    Each dilation contributes a `(dilated conv, dilation-1 conv)` pair, and every convolution is preceded by its own
+    alias-free SnakeBeta activation.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, channels: int, kernel_size: int, dilation: tuple[int, ...]):
@@ -492,8 +488,8 @@ def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
 
 class AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin):
     r"""
-    The audio autoencoder used by [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI): a DAC-lineage
-    convolutional encoder and a BigVGAN decoder, operating directly on mono 32 kHz waveforms.
+    The audio autoencoder used by [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI): a DAC-lineage convolutional encoder
+    and a BigVGAN decoder, operating directly on mono 32 kHz waveforms.
 
     This model inherits from [`ModelMixin`]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the library
     implements for all models (such as downloading or saving).
@@ -587,14 +583,13 @@ def encode(
         r"""
         Encode a waveform into the audio latent posterior.
 
-        The waveform is right-padded to a multiple of `hop_length` (800 samples) first. MiniMax-H3
-        always consumes the posterior **mean** (`latent_dist.mode()`) — the `logs_proj` head is never
-        evaluated by the reference pipeline.
+        The waveform is right-padded to a multiple of `hop_length` (800 samples) first. MiniMax-H3 always consumes the
+        posterior **mean** (`latent_dist.mode()`) — the `logs_proj` head is never evaluated by the reference pipeline.
 
         Args:
             sample (`torch.Tensor`):
-                Mono waveform of shape `[batch_size, 1, samples]`. MiniMax-H3 passes the two stereo
-                channels of a reference clip as `batch_size = 2`.
+                Mono waveform of shape `[batch_size, 1, samples]`. MiniMax-H3 passes the two stereo channels of a
+                reference clip as `batch_size = 2`.
             return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
                 Whether to return a [`MiniMaxH3AudioEncoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
 
@@ -628,8 +623,8 @@ def decode(self, latents: torch.Tensor, return_dict: bool = True) -> DecoderOutp
 
         Args:
             latents (`torch.Tensor`):
-                Denormalized latents of shape `[batch_size, latent_channels, num_frames]`. MiniMax-H3
-                passes the two stereo channels as `batch_size = 2`.
+                Denormalized latents of shape `[batch_size, latent_channels, num_frames]`. MiniMax-H3 passes the two
+                stereo channels as `batch_size = 2`.
             return_dict (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
                 Whether to return a [`~models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput`] instead of a plain tuple.
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
index 5170f149a8ee..1b4a553ced46 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ class MiniMaxH3AdaLayerNormModulation(nn.Module):
     Projects the shared timestep embedding into the six per-(timestep, modality) modulation parameters of one
     transformer block.
 
-    `(num_timesteps, time_embed_dim)` -> six tensors of shape `(num_timesteps * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM,
-    hidden_size)`, in the diffusers `shift_msa, scale_msa, gate_msa, shift_mlp, scale_mlp, gate_mlp` order. The row
-    layout of the returned tensors is `[t0_mod0, t0_mod1, t0_mod2, t1_mod0, ...]`, which is what `timestep_indices *
+    `(num_timesteps, time_embed_dim)` -> six tensors of shape `(num_timesteps * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM, hidden_size)`,
+    in the diffusers `shift_msa, scale_msa, gate_msa, shift_mlp, scale_mlp, gate_mlp` order. The row layout of the
+    returned tensors is `[t0_mod0, t0_mod1, t0_mod2, t1_mod0, ...]`, which is what `timestep_indices *
     MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM + token_tags` addresses.
 
     A single projection is shared by `norm1` and `norm2` and by the three modalities, so it cannot be folded into
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin, PeftA
     The caller is responsible for building the packed layout: patchifying the video latents, ordering the rows, and
     producing the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags and the per-row timestep indices. Padding rows
     (tag `-1`) are kept in a separate attention document, matching the reference implementation, which pads to a
-    multiple of 64 for FlashAttention with `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`. Prefer dropping them — a padless sequence
-    needs no attention mask, keeping the unmasked attention backends available.
+    multiple of 64 for FlashAttention with `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`. Prefer dropping them — a padless sequence needs
+    no attention mask, keeping the unmasked attention backends available.
 
     The batch axis is a pure replication axis: the structural arguments (`timestep`, `timestep_indices`, `token_tags`,
     `position_ids` and the three index tensors) describe one packed layout that every batch item shares, and each item
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
index 19ec2d0786bf..5e639ba6023b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ def _temporal_position_span_pairwise(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
     r"""
     The rotary time spanned by `num_latent_frames` latent frames.
 
-    Summed by numpy (pairwise summation) rather than sequentially: the reference computes the keyframe anchor this
-    way and the two summation orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards.
+    Summed by numpy (pairwise summation) rather than sequentially: the reference computes the keyframe anchor this way
+    and the two summation orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards.
     """
     spans = np.ones(num_latent_frames, dtype=np.float64) * _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
     for index in range(len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)):
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ def _temporal_position_span_sequential(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
     r"""
     The rotary time a video reference advances the clock by.
 
-    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`_temporal_position_span_pairwise`] sums
-    the same series: that one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16
-    latent frames onwards. The reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
+    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`_temporal_position_span_pairwise`] sums the same series: that
+    one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards. The
+    reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
     """
     return sum(
         _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
 
         Args:
             text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
-                The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a keyframe's vision block,
-                which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
+                The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a keyframe's vision
+                block, which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
             num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
             latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
             latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
@@ -588,15 +588,16 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
 
         Args:
             text_token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_text_tokens,)`):
-                The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a reference's vision block,
-                which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
+                The modality tag of every text row. Text is tagged `1`, except for the rows of a reference's vision
+                block, which MiniMax-H3 tags `0` (video).
             references (`list[MiniMaxH3Reference]`):
                 The references, in packed order. Only their modality is read here; the geometry comes from the latents.
             condition_latents (`list[torch.Tensor]`):
-                One `(1, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor per image and video reference,
-                in packed order, as [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep`] produced them.
+                One `(1, channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor per image and video
+                reference, in packed order, as [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VAReferenceEncoderStep`] produced them.
             audio_condition_latents (`list[torch.Tensor]`):
-                One `(num_audio_latents * 2, audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference, in packed order.
+                One `(num_audio_latents * 2, audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference, in packed
+                order.
             num_latent_frames (`int`): Number of target latent frames.
             latent_height (`int`): Target latent height.
             latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index d493eb29f636..c4ca0aa4d38e 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ def _normalize_video_condition(
 
         Args:
             frames (`list[PIL.Image.Image]`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`):
-                The reference frames: a list of images, a `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` array or a
-                `(num_frames, 3, height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`.
+                The reference frames: a list of images, a `(num_frames, height, width, 3)` array or a `(num_frames, 3,
+                height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or floating point over `[0, 1]`.
             fps (`float`): The frame rate `frames` carries.
             num_frames (`int`): The generated frame count the reference is truncated to.
             canvas_multiple (`int`): What both canvas axes round to, i.e. `components.canvas_multiple`.
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
index bfd73ff1e93f..282b5468593b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ def get_qwen3vl_prompt_embeds(
         processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`): Its processor, which derives the token type ids from the vision pad ids.
         token_ids (`list[int]`): The tokenized presentation.
         vision_inputs (`dict`, *optional*):
-            The vision tensors of the presentation's blocks, by the conditioner's own parameter names —
-            `pixel_values` / `image_grid_thw` for images, `pixel_values_videos` / `video_grid_thw` for videos.
+            The vision tensors of the presentation's blocks, by the conditioner's own parameter names — `pixel_values`
+            / `image_grid_thw` for images, `pixel_values_videos` / `video_grid_thw` for videos.
         text_encoder_layer (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 50):
             Which hidden state conditions the transformer, i.e. `components.text_encoder_layer`.
         device (`torch.device`, *optional*): The device to run the conditioner on.
@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ def encode_vae_condition(
 
     The recipe is the released model's, and every part of it is needed to reproduce its conditioning: the pixels are
     ImageNet-normalized, the posterior is *sampled* under a fresh generator seeded independently of the request, and
-    the sampled latent is rounded to float16 (~11 bits of every conditioning latent) before being normalized. A
-    single frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a frame stack goes through the temporal chunking,
-    which is what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
+    the sampled latent is rounded to float16 (~11 bits of every conditioning latent) before being normalized. A single
+    frame is encoded by the (tiled) spatial encoder alone; a frame stack goes through the temporal chunking, which is
+    what turns `17 * n + 5` frames into `5 * n + 2` latent frames.
 
     Args:
         vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`): The video VAE.
@@ -122,8 +122,7 @@ def encode_vae_condition(
             Seed the posterior is sampled under, i.e. `components.keyframe_encode_seed`.
 
     Returns:
-        `torch.Tensor`: one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` float32 CPU
-        tensor.
+        `torch.Tensor`: one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` float32 CPU tensor.
     """
     latents_mean = torch.tensor(vae.config.latents_mean).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
     latents_std = torch.tensor(vae.config.latents_std).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
@@ -385,8 +384,8 @@ def __init__(self, video_sample_fps: float = 2.0):
 
         Args:
             video_sample_fps (`float`, defaults to 2.0):
-                The rate the conditioner reads a reference video at: every `24 / video_sample_fps`-th of the
-                normalized 24 fps frames.
+                The rate the conditioner reads a reference video at: every `24 / video_sample_fps`-th of the normalized
+                24 fps frames.
         """
         self.video_sample_fps = video_sample_fps
         super().__init__()
@@ -482,10 +481,10 @@ def _gather_vision_features(
         r"""
         Run the references' pixels through the conditioner's processors, batched per modality.
 
-        The vision tensors are batched per modality while the presentation is tokenized in request order; the two
-        agree because the filtering here preserves relative order within each modality and Qwen3-VL fills the n-th
-        pad *run* of a modality with the n-th entry of that modality's batch. Audio contributes nothing — a waveform
-        never reaches the conditioner.
+        The vision tensors are batched per modality while the presentation is tokenized in request order; the two agree
+        because the filtering here preserves relative order within each modality and Qwen3-VL fills the n-th pad *run*
+        of a modality with the n-th entry of that modality's batch. Audio contributes nothing — a waveform never
+        reaches the conditioner.
 
         Returns:
             `tuple`: the vision tensors by the conditioner's parameter names, the vision token count per image
@@ -543,10 +542,10 @@ def _build_presentation(
         Tokenize MiniMax-H3's presentation of a `ref2va` request.
 
         Every reference prepends a label, in packed order and numbered per modality: `"<Picture i>: "` plus a vision
-        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio — a waveform never reaches the conditioner — and
-        `"<Video k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries
-        sound is labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The
-        prompt follows verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens.
+        block for an image, `"<Audio j>: "` alone for audio — a waveform never reaches the conditioner — and `"<Video
+        k>: "` plus one timestamped vision block per merged frame pair for a video. A video that carries sound is
+        labelled `"<Audio j>: "` *before* `"<Video k>: "`, mirroring the order its rows are packed in. The prompt
+        follows verbatim, with no chat template and no special tokens.
 
         Args:
             tokenizer (`Qwen2TokenizerFast`): Tokenizer of the conditioner.
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
index 6f83751719ba..310bd9df167b 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
@@ -42,40 +42,41 @@
 class MiniMaxH3AutoBeforeEncodeStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
     """
     Media preparation block.
-       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`): it resolves the plan and normalizes every reference onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions.
-       - `MiniMaxH3ResizeStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), putting the keyframes onto the target canvas.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`): it resolves the plan and normalizes
+         every reference onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions.
+       - `MiniMaxH3ResizeStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), putting the keyframes onto the target
+         canvas.
        - a text-only request (`t2va`) skips this block, and the layout step falls back to MiniMax-H3's own 16:9 canvas.
 
       Components:
           image_processor (`VaeImageProcessor`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
-          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
           references (`list`, *optional*):
-              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt
-              presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different request. One
-              dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most 9), a
-              [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or a
-              [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio
-              references cannot be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file: decode with each class's `from_file`
-              classmethod, which brings the rates along.
+              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the
+              prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
+              request. One dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most
+              9), a [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on
+              as well), or a [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12
+              references in total, and audio references cannot be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file:
+              decode with each class's `from_file` classmethod, which brings the rates along.
           height (`int`, *optional*):
               Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
-              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video as long as a reference soundtrack,
-              pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`.
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
+              decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video as long as a
+              reference soundtrack, pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`.
           image (`Image`, *optional*):
-              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived from its own
-              aspect ratio.
+              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived
+              from its own aspect ratio.
           last_image (`Image`, *optional*):
-              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image` it is the
-              follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
+              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image`
+              it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
 
       Outputs:
           height (`int`):
@@ -85,15 +86,15 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoBeforeEncodeStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
           num_frames (`int`):
               Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5.
           normalized_references (`list`):
-              The references normalized onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions, in packed order: the same public reference
-              types the request passed in, with an image resized to its own 2048 pixel short edge, a video resampled onto 24 fps
-              and onto the canvas its own aspect ratio resolves to, and a soundtrack put on the audio VAE's sample rate and
-              truncated to the generated duration.
+              The references normalized onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions, in packed order: the same public
+              reference types the request passed in, with an image resized to its own 2048 pixel short edge, a video
+              resampled onto 24 fps and onto the canvas its own aspect ratio resolves to, and a soundtrack put on the
+              audio VAE's sample rate and truncated to the generated duration.
           keyframes (`list`):
               The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
           keyframe_anchors (`tuple`):
-              Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order. Positional with `keyframes`, so both are
-              resolved here.
+              Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order. Positional with `keyframes`, so
+              both are resolved here.
     """
 
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
@@ -126,14 +127,14 @@ def description(self):
 class MiniMaxH3AutoTextEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
     """
     Text encoder block. Every branch encodes MiniMax-H3's presentation of the request with the Qwen3-VL conditioner.
-       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), labelling every reference in the presentation.
-       - `MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), labelling every keyframe in the presentation.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), labelling every reference in
+         the presentation.
+       - `MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), labelling every keyframe in the
+         presentation.
        - `MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep` runs otherwise (`t2va`), presenting the prompt alone.
 
       Components:
-          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`)
-          tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`)
-          processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
+          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`) tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`) processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
 
       Inputs:
           prompt (`str`):
@@ -145,8 +146,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoTextEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
 
       Outputs:
           prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
-              The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the 50th decoder layer
-              of the Qwen3-VL conditioner.
+              The hidden state MiniMax-H3 conditions on, of shape `(1, num_text_tokens, 5120)`, read after the 50th
+              decoder layer of the Qwen3-VL conditioner.
           text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
               The per-row modality tag of every row of `prompt_embeds`; a vision block is tagged as video.
     """
@@ -186,8 +187,7 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoVaeEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
        - a text-only request (`t2va`) skips this block.
 
       Components:
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`)
-          audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
 
       Inputs:
           normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
@@ -198,12 +198,12 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoVaeEncoderStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
       Outputs:
           condition_latents (`list`):
               The encoded video conditioning latents of the image and video references, one `(1, latent_channels,
-              num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor each in packed order, or None when the references carry
-              none.
+              num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)` tensor each in packed order, or None when the references
+              carry none.
           audio_condition_latents (`list`):
               The clean audio conditioning rows of the reference soundtracks, one `(num_audio_latents * 2,
-              audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference in packed order. One entry per reference rather than one
-              concatenated block, because the packed layout is built from the row count of each.
+              audio_latent_channels)` tensor per audio-bearing reference in packed order. One entry per reference
+              rather than one concatenated block, because the packed layout is built from the row count of each.
     """
 
     model_name = "minimax-h3"
@@ -232,16 +232,16 @@ def description(self):
 # auto_docstring
 class MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Core denoising workflow for `t2va`: builds the packed layout, draws and packs the noise, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
+    Core denoising workflow for `t2va`: builds the packed layout, draws and packs the noise, plans the per-row
+    timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into
+    latents.
 
       Components:
-          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) transformer
+          (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
-          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
           text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
@@ -251,13 +251,13 @@ class MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
-              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
+              decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
               The generator of the request. The video noise is drawn from it first, then the audio noise.
           latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
-              draw.
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
@@ -265,14 +265,15 @@ class MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
               text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
           **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
-              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
-              the three row-index tensors.
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`,
+              `position_ids` and the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
 
       Outputs:
           latents (`Tensor`):
-              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+              latent_width)`.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
     """
@@ -324,16 +325,16 @@ def outputs(self):
 # auto_docstring
 class MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Core denoising workflow for `fl2va`: builds the packed layout with the keyframes anchored, draws and packs the noise around the keyframe conditioning, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
+    Core denoising workflow for `fl2va`: builds the packed layout with the keyframes anchored, draws and packs the
+    noise around the keyframe conditioning, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the
+    `transformer` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
 
       Components:
-          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) transformer
+          (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
-          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
           text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
@@ -343,19 +344,19 @@ class MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
-              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
+              decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
           keyframe_anchors (`tuple`, *optional*, defaults to ()):
               Which end of the video every keyframe is anchored to, in packed order.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
-              noise of the generated rows.
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition,
+              before the noise of the generated rows.
           condition_latents (`list`):
-              The encoded video conditioning latents, one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`
-              tensor per condition in packed order.
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+              latent_width)` tensor per condition in packed order.
           latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
-              draw.
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
@@ -363,14 +364,15 @@ class MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
               text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
           **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
-              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
-              the three row-index tensors.
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`,
+              `position_ids` and the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
 
       Outputs:
           latents (`Tensor`):
-              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+              latent_width)`.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
     """
@@ -424,12 +426,13 @@ def outputs(self):
 # auto_docstring
 class MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Core denoising workflow for `ref2va`: builds the packed layout with one block per reference, draws and packs the noise, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer_ref` partition and unpacks the denoised rows back into latents.
+    Core denoising workflow for `ref2va`: builds the packed layout with one block per reference, draws and packs the
+    noise, plans the per-row timesteps, runs the denoising loop against the `transformer_ref` partition and unpacks the
+    denoised rows back into latents.
 
       Components:
-          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) transformer_ref
+          (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
 
       Inputs:
           text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
@@ -437,8 +440,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           normalized_references (`list`):
               The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
           condition_latents (`list`):
-              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is where
-              every reference block's geometry comes from.
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is
+              where every reference block's geometry comes from.
           audio_condition_latents (`list`):
               The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.
           height (`int`):
@@ -448,11 +451,11 @@ class MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           num_frames (`int`):
               Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
-              noise of the generated rows.
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition,
+              before the noise of the generated rows.
           latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
-              draw.
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`, *optional*):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
@@ -460,14 +463,15 @@ class MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
               text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
           **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
-              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
-              the three row-index tensors.
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`,
+              `position_ids` and the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
 
       Outputs:
           latents (`Tensor`):
-              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+              latent_width)`.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
     """
@@ -522,19 +526,18 @@ def outputs(self):
 class MiniMaxH3AutoDenoiseStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
     """
     Denoise block.
-       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), against the `transformer_ref` checkpoint partition.
-       - `MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), against the `transformer` partition.
+       - `MiniMaxH3Ref2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when `references` is provided (`ref2va`), against the `transformer_ref`
+         checkpoint partition.
+       - `MiniMaxH3FL2VACoreDenoiseStep` runs when a keyframe is provided (`fl2va`), against the `transformer`
+         partition.
        - `MiniMaxH3CoreDenoiseStep` runs otherwise (`t2va`), against the `transformer` partition.
 
       Components:
-          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
-          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
+          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) transformer_ref
+          (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
-          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
           text_token_tags (`Tensor`):
@@ -542,23 +545,22 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoDenoiseStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
           normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
               The references normalized by the setup step, in packed order.
           condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
-              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is where
-              every reference block's geometry comes from.
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is
+              where every reference block's geometry comes from.
           audio_condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
               The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.
           height (`int`, *optional*):
               Height of the generated video in pixels.
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels.
-          num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 124):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
-              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds.
+          num_frames (`int`, *optional*, defaults to None or 124, depending on the workflow):
+              Resolved number of frames, of the form 17 * n + 5.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
-              noise of the generated rows.
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition,
+              before the noise of the generated rows.
           latents (`Tensor`):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
-              draw.
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
@@ -566,8 +568,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoDenoiseStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
           prompt_embeds (`Tensor`):
               text embeddings used to guide the image generation. Can be generated from text_encoder step.
           **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
-              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
-              the three row-index tensors.
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`,
+              `position_ids` and the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
           keyframe_anchors (`tuple`, *optional*, defaults to ()):
@@ -575,7 +577,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoDenoiseStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
 
       Outputs:
           latents (`Tensor`):
-              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`.
+              The generated video latents, of shape `(1, latent_channels, num_latent_frames, latent_height,
+              latent_width)`.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               The generated audio latents, one batch item per stereo channel.
     """
@@ -611,9 +614,7 @@ class MiniMaxH3DecodeStep(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     Decodes the denoised rows of the packed sequence into the generated video and its soundtrack.
 
       Components:
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`)
-          video_processor (`VideoProcessor`)
-          audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
+          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) video_processor (`VideoProcessor`) audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
 
       Inputs:
           latents (`Tensor`):
@@ -656,7 +657,10 @@ def outputs(self):
 # auto_docstring
 class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
     """
-    Auto Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3: the `t2va` (text only), `fl2va` (first and/or last keyframe) and `ref2va` (omni-reference) workflows, selected on the `references` and keyframe inputs. Without a `workflow=`, loading the components pulls **both** 61.7GB transformer partitions — pass one to load only what the task needs.
+    Auto Modular pipeline blocks for joint video + audio generation with MiniMax-H3: the `t2va` (text only), `fl2va`
+    (first and/or last keyframe) and `ref2va` (omni-reference) workflows, selected on the `references` and keyframe
+    inputs. Without a `workflow=`, loading the components pulls **both** 61.7GB transformer partitions — pass one to
+    load only what the task needs.
 
       Supported workflows:
         - `t2va`: requires `prompt`
@@ -664,45 +668,38 @@ class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
         - `ref2va`: requires `prompt`, `references`
 
       Components:
-          image_processor (`VaeImageProcessor`)
-          text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`)
-          tokenizer (`Qwen2Tokenizer`)
-          processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`)
-          vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`)
-          audio_vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`)
-          scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
-          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
-          transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`)
-          video_processor (`VideoProcessor`)
+          image_processor (`VaeImageProcessor`) text_encoder (`Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration`) tokenizer
+          (`Qwen2Tokenizer`) processor (`Qwen3VLProcessor`) vae (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3`) audio_vae
+          (`AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3Audio`) scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`) audio_scheduler (`MiniMaxH3Scheduler`)
+          transformer_ref (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) transformer (`MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel`) video_processor
+          (`VideoProcessor`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768)
-          canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
 
       Inputs:
           references (`list`, *optional*):
-              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the prompt
-              presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different request. One
-              dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most 9), a
-              [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on as well), or a
-              [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12 references in total, and audio
-              references cannot be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file: decode with each class's `from_file`
-              classmethod, which brings the rates along.
+              The references to condition on, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them in the
+              prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
+              request. One dataclass per modality, all holding in-memory media — a [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`] (at most
+              9), a [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] at its own `fps` (at most 3, whose `audio` soundtrack is conditioned on
+              as well), or a [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`] at its own `sample_rate` (at most 3) — for at most 12
+              references in total, and audio references cannot be the only ones. These blocks never open a media file:
+              decode with each class's `from_file` classmethod, which brings the rates along.
           height (`int`, *optional*):
               Height of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           width (`int`, *optional*):
               Width of the generated video in pixels, a multiple of 32.
           num_frames (`int`, *optional*):
-              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can decode;
-              the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video as long as a reference soundtrack,
-              pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`.
+              Number of frames to generate, at the fixed 24 fps. Snapped up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can
+              decode; the resulting duration must stay between 5 and 15 seconds. To generate a video as long as a
+              reference soundtrack, pass `round(samples / sample_rate * 24)`.
           image (`Image`, *optional*):
-              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived from its own
-              aspect ratio.
+              Keyframe the video starts from. It is *stretched* onto the target canvas, which by default is derived
+              from its own aspect ratio.
           last_image (`Image`, *optional*):
-              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image` it is the
-              follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
+              Keyframe the video ends on. Can be passed on its own to generate *up to* a frame. Combined with `image`
+              it is the follower of the two and is cover-cropped onto the canvas.
           prompt (`str`):
               The prompt to guide generation, a single string.
           normalized_references (`list`, *optional*):
@@ -710,23 +707,23 @@ class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           keyframes (`list`, *optional*):
               The keyframes put onto the target canvas, in packed order.
           condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
-              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is where
-              every reference block's geometry comes from.
+              The encoded video conditioning latents, one per image and video reference in packed order. Their shape is
+              where every reference block's geometry comes from.
           audio_condition_latents (`list`, *optional*):
               The encoded audio conditioning rows, one per audio-bearing reference in packed order.
           generator (`Generator`, *optional*):
-              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition, before the
-              noise of the generated rows.
+              The generator of the request. The conditioning noise is drawn from it first, one draw per condition,
+              before the noise of the generated rows.
           latents (`Tensor`):
-              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used instead of the
-              draw.
+              Pre-generated video noise of shape `(1, 24, num_latent_frames, latent_height, latent_width)`, used
+              instead of the draw.
           audio_latents (`Tensor`):
               Pre-generated audio noise of shape `(2, 32, num_audio_latents)`.
           num_inference_steps (`int`):
               The number of denoising steps.
           **denoiser_input_fields (`None`, *optional*):
-              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`, `position_ids` and
-              the three row-index tensors.
+              The structural description of the packed sequence the transformer reads by name: `token_tags`,
+              `position_ids` and the three row-index tensors.
           attention_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*):
               Additional kwargs for attention processors.
           keyframe_anchors (`tuple`, *optional*, defaults to ()):
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
index 0be5ccc9d90b..04d7913dbc88 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -152,10 +152,10 @@ class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(ModularPipeline):
     The checkpoint is guidance-distilled: guidance is baked into the weights, so there is no guider, no
     `negative_prompt` and no `guidance_scale`, and every step runs exactly one forward pass.
 
-    MiniMax-H3 is modular only: this pipeline and its blocks are the whole integration, there is no
-    `DiffusionPipeline` half. This module carries the model facts every block keys off — the config-derived geometry
-    as properties, the canvas and frame-count arithmetic as functions — and the conditioning, encoding and noise
-    contracts live on the blocks themselves.
+    MiniMax-H3 is modular only: this pipeline and its blocks are the whole integration, there is no `DiffusionPipeline`
+    half. This module carries the model facts every block keys off — the config-derived geometry as properties, the
+    canvas and frame-count arithmetic as functions — and the conditioning, encoding and noise contracts live on the
+    blocks themselves.
 
     ```py
     import torch
@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ def keyframe_noise_aug(self):
         r"""
         The `t` a visual conditioning anchor is held at: 0.999, just short of clean.
 
-        The released model was trained with its anchors very slightly noised, so conditioning on exactly `t = 1.0`
-        is off-distribution.
+        The released model was trained with its anchors very slightly noised, so conditioning on exactly `t = 1.0` is
+        off-distribution.
         """
         return 0.999
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
index 2b0ab4a057a7..ae92480126b8 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@
 r"""
 The references of a MiniMax-H3 `ref2va` request: one public dataclass per modality.
 
-`ref2va` conditions on an ordered list of references — images, videos (with their soundtrack) and audio clips —
-packed one block per reference ahead of the generated rows. The order is semantic twice over: it fixes the
-`"<Picture i>"` / `"<Audio j>"` / `"<Video k>"` labels of the prompt presentation, and it advances the shared
-audio/video rotary clock, so a different order is a different request.
-
-Every reference holds in-memory media plus the rate that media carries. No block of this model opens a media file;
-each class decodes a path or a URL through its `from_file` classmethod, which brings the rates along. That is the
-reason to prefer `from_file` over a bare `load_video`: MiniMax-H3 resamples a reference onto its own 24 fps, so a
-video whose real rate is lost on the way in is conditioned on at the wrong speed, silently.
+`ref2va` conditions on an ordered list of references — images, videos (with their soundtrack) and audio clips — packed
+one block per reference ahead of the generated rows. The order is semantic twice over: it fixes the `"<Picture i>"` /
+`"<Audio j>"` / `"<Video k>"` labels of the prompt presentation, and it advances the shared audio/video rotary clock,
+so a different order is a different request.
+
+Every reference holds in-memory media plus the rate that media carries. No block of this model opens a media file; each
+class decodes a path or a URL through its `from_file` classmethod, which brings the rates along. That is the reason to
+prefer `from_file` over a bare `load_video`: MiniMax-H3 resamples a reference onto its own 24 fps, so a video whose
+real rate is lost on the way in is conditioned on at the wrong speed, silently.
 """
 
 import contextlib
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
 @dataclass
 class MiniMaxH3Reference:
     r"""
-    Base class of the three references a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request conditions on:
-    [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`], [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] and [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`].
+    Base class of the three references a [`MiniMaxH3Ref2VABlocks`] request conditions on: [`MiniMaxH3ImageReference`],
+    [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`] and [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference`].
 
     References are passed to the blocks as a list, **in the order the model should read them**: the order labels them
     in the prompt presentation and lays them out on the shared rotary clock, so a different order is a different
@@ -145,12 +145,12 @@ def has_audio(self) -> bool:
     @classmethod
     def from_file(cls, media) -> "MiniMaxH3VideoReference":
         r"""
-        Decode a video file into a [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`], at the resolution, the frame rate and the soundtrack
-        it carries.
+        Decode a video file into a [`MiniMaxH3VideoReference`], at the resolution, the frame rate and the soundtrack it
+        carries.
 
         The rates land on the reference, which is the point of decoding this way rather than with
-        [`~utils.load_video`]: MiniMax-H3 resamples a reference onto its own 24 fps, so a frame rate lost on the way
-        in is a request conditioned at the wrong speed, with nothing to raise about it. A container whose metadata is
+        [`~utils.load_video`]: MiniMax-H3 resamples a reference onto its own 24 fps, so a frame rate lost on the way in
+        is a request conditioned at the wrong speed, with nothing to raise about it. A container whose metadata is
         wrong is corrected by overriding `fps` or `sample_rate` on the returned reference.
 
         Needs [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV).
@@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ def _decode_video_file(media) -> tuple[np.ndarray, float, torch.Tensor | None, i
 
 def _decode_audio_file(media) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
     r"""
-    An audio file's `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform, at the sample rate the container reports. The
-    machinery behind [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference.from_file`].
+    An audio file's `(channels, num_samples)` float32 waveform, at the sample rate the container reports. The machinery
+    behind [`MiniMaxH3AudioReference.from_file`].
     """
     av = _import_av()
     with _local_media_file(media) as path, av.open(path) as container:
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
index 1a6424197dc9..9bf1ddca3b98 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -1871,8 +1871,8 @@ def from_pretrained(
                 Collection name for organizing components in the ComponentsManager.
             workflow (`str`, optional):
                 Name of a workflow declared by the pipeline blocks. If provided, the blocks are pruned to that
-                workflow's execution blocks, so the pipeline only expects — and `load_components()` only loads —
-                the components that workflow uses.
+                workflow's execution blocks, so the pipeline only expects — and `load_components()` only loads — the
+                components that workflow uses.
         """
         from ..pipelines.pipeline_loading_utils import _get_pipeline_class
 
@@ -2500,9 +2500,8 @@ def unload_components(self, names: list[str] | str):
         """
         Unload selected components, freeing their memory.
 
-        The component attribute is set back to `None` and, if a ComponentsManager is attached, the component is
-        removed from it. The component spec is untouched, so the component can be loaded again later with
-        `load_components()`.
+        The component attribute is set back to `None` and, if a ComponentsManager is attached, the component is removed
+        from it. The component spec is untouched, so the component can be loaded again later with `load_components()`.
 
         Args:
             names: component name or list of component names to unload.
diff --git a/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py
index db3217060c15..ca69ae6a2f6a 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/schedulers/scheduling_minimax_h3.py
@@ -14,28 +14,25 @@
 
 """Rectified-flow Euler scheduler for MiniMax-H3.
 
-Three things make this incompatible with a [`FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler`] config, which is why
-it is a separate class:
-
-1. **The velocity sign is reversed.** MiniMax-H3's transformer predicts a *data-ward* velocity, so
-   `x0 = x_t + sigma * v` instead of diffusers' `x0 = x_t - sigma * v`.
-2. **Timesteps are `t = 1 - sigma` in `[0, 1]`**, with `t = 1` meaning *clean*. Flow-match
-   schedulers expose `timesteps = sigma * num_train_timesteps`, i.e. the opposite direction on a
-   1000x scale. The transformer's AdaLN consumes the H3 convention directly.
-3. **The sigma grid starts from `linspace(1, 0, num_inference_steps)`** — the terminal zero is part
-   of the requested step count, and duplicates created by the shift are collapsed with
-   `unique_consecutive`. `FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler` instead builds
-   `linspace(1, 1/num_train_timesteps, ...)` and appends a terminal sigma afterwards, so
-   `len(sigmas)` and every interior value differ.
-
-Everything else is ordinary rectified flow: the exponential shift `sigma' = s*sigma / (1 + (s-1)*sigma)`,
-and an Euler update written as the `x_t` / `x0` blend `x_next = r*x_t + (1 - r)*x0` with
-`r = sigma_next / sigma`, evaluated in float32. Despite the reference class being named
-"euler ancestral", `eta` is 0 — no noise is ever re-injected.
-
-MiniMax-H3 runs **two schedules per request**, one per modality (`shift=12.0` for video,
-`shift=3.0` for audio). The modality is not a property of the scheduler: a pipeline holds two
-instances, e.g. `scheduler` and `audio_scheduler`.
+Three things make this incompatible with a [`FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler`] config, which is why it is a separate
+class:
+
+1. **The velocity sign is reversed.** MiniMax-H3's transformer predicts a *data-ward* velocity, so `x0 = x_t + sigma *
+   v` instead of diffusers' `x0 = x_t - sigma * v`.
+2. **Timesteps are `t = 1 - sigma` in `[0, 1]`**, with `t = 1` meaning *clean*. Flow-match schedulers expose `timesteps
+   = sigma * num_train_timesteps`, i.e. the opposite direction on a 1000x scale. The transformer's AdaLN consumes the
+   H3 convention directly.
+3. **The sigma grid starts from `linspace(1, 0, num_inference_steps)`** — the terminal zero is part of the requested
+   step count, and duplicates created by the shift are collapsed with `unique_consecutive`.
+   `FlowMatchEulerDiscreteScheduler` instead builds `linspace(1, 1/num_train_timesteps, ...)` and appends a terminal
+   sigma afterwards, so `len(sigmas)` and every interior value differ.
+
+Everything else is ordinary rectified flow: the exponential shift `sigma' = s*sigma / (1 + (s-1)*sigma)`, and an Euler
+update written as the `x_t` / `x0` blend `x_next = r*x_t + (1 - r)*x0` with `r = sigma_next / sigma`, evaluated in
+float32. Despite the reference class being named "euler ancestral", `eta` is 0 — no noise is ever re-injected.
+
+MiniMax-H3 runs **two schedules per request**, one per modality (`shift=12.0` for video, `shift=3.0` for audio). The
+modality is not a property of the scheduler: a pipeline holds two instances, e.g. `scheduler` and `audio_scheduler`.
 """
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass
@@ -66,8 +63,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3Scheduler(SchedulerMixin, ConfigMixin):
 
     Args:
         shift (`float`, defaults to `12.0`):
-            Exponential shift applied to the sigma grid, `sigma' = s*sigma / (1 + (s-1)*sigma)`. The
-            released checkpoints use `12.0` for video latents and `3.0` for audio latents.
+            Exponential shift applied to the sigma grid, `sigma' = s*sigma / (1 + (s-1)*sigma)`. The released
+            checkpoints use `12.0` for video latents and `3.0` for audio latents.
     """
 
     _compatibles = []
@@ -133,20 +130,20 @@ def set_timesteps(
         r"""
         Build the sigma / timestep schedule.
 
-        The grid is `linspace(1, 0, num_inference_steps)` pushed through the exponential shift, with
-        consecutive duplicates collapsed. The terminal `0` is already part of that grid — the shift maps
-        `0` to exactly `0` — so the schedule holds `num_inference_steps` sigmas and drives
-        `num_inference_steps - 1` model evaluations, exposed as `self.timesteps = 1 - sigmas[:-1]`.
+        The grid is `linspace(1, 0, num_inference_steps)` pushed through the exponential shift, with consecutive
+        duplicates collapsed. The terminal `0` is already part of that grid — the shift maps `0` to exactly `0` — so
+        the schedule holds `num_inference_steps` sigmas and drives `num_inference_steps - 1` model evaluations, exposed
+        as `self.timesteps = 1 - sigmas[:-1]`.
 
         Args:
             num_inference_steps (`int`, *optional*):
                 Number of sigma grid points, terminal `0` included. Ignored when `sigmas` is given.
             device (`str` or `torch.device`, *optional*):
-                Device the schedule tensors are moved to. The grid itself is always built on CPU in
-                float32 so the schedule does not depend on the accelerator.
+                Device the schedule tensors are moved to. The grid itself is always built on CPU in float32 so the
+                schedule does not depend on the accelerator.
             sigmas (`list[float]` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
-                A fully-formed sigma schedule, used verbatim (no shifting, no deduplication). It must be
-                strictly decreasing and terminate at `0.0`.
+                A fully-formed sigma schedule, used verbatim (no shifting, no deduplication). It must be strictly
+                decreasing and terminate at `0.0`.
         """
         if sigmas is None:
             if num_inference_steps is None or num_inference_steps < 2:
@@ -178,8 +175,8 @@ def index_for_timestep(self, timestep: float | torch.Tensor) -> int:
 
         Args:
             timestep (`float` or `torch.Tensor`):
-                A value taken from `self.timesteps`. The schedule is strictly increasing in `t`, so the
-                match is unique.
+                A value taken from `self.timesteps`. The schedule is strictly increasing in `t`, so the match is
+                unique.
 
         Returns:
             `int`: The index of `timestep`.
@@ -202,9 +199,8 @@ def scale_noise(
         r"""
         Rectified-flow forward process, in MiniMax-H3's `t` convention: `x_t = t*x_0 + (1 - t)*noise`.
 
-        MiniMax-H3 uses this to noise its conditioning anchors, where `t` is the `noise_aug` level
-        rather than a schedule entry, so `timestep` is taken at face value and is *not* looked up in
-        `self.timesteps`.
+        MiniMax-H3 uses this to noise its conditioning anchors, where `t` is the `noise_aug` level rather than a
+        schedule entry, so `timestep` is taken at face value and is *not* looked up in `self.timesteps`.
 
         Args:
             sample (`torch.FloatTensor`):
@@ -234,10 +230,9 @@ def step(
         r"""
         Take one Euler (`eta = 0`) step.
 
-        The model output is a data-ward velocity, so the denoised estimate is
-        `x0 = x_t + (1 - t) * v` — note the `+`, the opposite of the usual flow-match convention.
-        The update is then the blend `x_next = r*x_t + (1 - r)*x0` with `r = sigma_next / sigma`,
-        evaluated in float32 for half-precision samples.
+        The model output is a data-ward velocity, so the denoised estimate is `x0 = x_t + (1 - t) * v` — note the `+`,
+        the opposite of the usual flow-match convention. The update is then the blend `x_next = r*x_t + (1 - r)*x0`
+        with `r = sigma_next / sigma`, evaluated in float32 for half-precision samples.
 
         Args:
             model_output (`torch.FloatTensor`):

From 99ced1b293ef5ffc4e8178fd478d2c182f174c75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 02:19:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 12/21] Fix the H3 fast tests against the refactored state
 contract
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`condition_latents` is the VAE encoder block's own output — a list of one latent
per condition — and the after-denoise step unpacks `latents` and drops the
conditioning rows, so neither is meaningful once a request has come back. The
end-to-end tests no longer reach for them; a new standalone test runs
`MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep` on its own, which is where the list is real.

Three other tests were failing for reasons of their own:

- `test_check_inputs_references` was missing its `@parametrize` and errored at
  collection. Added four cases that hit real validation.
- The duration ceiling had drifted between the two blocks that check it.
  `before_denoise` warned and reassigned before validating, so it reported `got
  362` — a count the caller never passed, right after warning it had rounded
  their 346. It now validates first, like `before_encoder` already did, and both
  messages read `got 346 (rounded up to 362)`.
- `height` without `width` raised `TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for %:
  'NoneType' and 'int'` on `t2va`, and died inside the resize on `fl2va`. Both
  blocks now raise the same error `MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` already raised.

58 passed -> 71 passed, 5 failed, no errors. What is left: `output_type="latent"`
has no opt-out in the video decode block, `reference_image_short_edge` is a
constructor argument so it does not survive save/reload, an image reference is
PIL-only where the test expects three layouts, and `test_float16_inference`,
which fails on the base branch too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../minimax_h3/before_denoise.py              | 23 ++++---
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              |  2 +
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       | 69 ++++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
index 5e639ba6023b..0654163b5ed0 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
@@ -396,6 +396,8 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         device = components._execution_device
 
+        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
         # Without a keyframe to take the aspect ratio from, MiniMax-H3 generates on its own 16:9 canvas.
         if block_state.height is None:
             block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(
@@ -414,22 +416,23 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         frames_per_chunk = components.vae_frames_per_chunk
         latents_per_chunk = components.vae_latents_per_chunk
         aligned_num_frames = align_num_frames(block_state.num_frames, frames_per_chunk, latents_per_chunk)
+        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
+        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
+        duration = aligned_num_frames / components.fps
+        if not components.min_duration <= duration <= components.max_duration:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {components.min_duration} and {components.max_duration} seconds at "
+                f"{components.fps} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE can "
+                f"encode, must be between {int(components.min_duration * components.fps)} and "
+                f"{int(components.max_duration * components.fps)}, got {block_state.num_frames} (rounded up to "
+                f"{aligned_num_frames})."
+            )
         if aligned_num_frames != block_state.num_frames:
             logger.warning(
                 f"`num_frames` has to be of the form 17 * n + 5 for the video VAE; rounding {block_state.num_frames} "
                 f"up to {aligned_num_frames}."
             )
             block_state.num_frames = aligned_num_frames
-        # The duration the request generates is the one of the *aligned* frame count, so that is what the ceiling has
-        # to hold for: 346 frames would otherwise pass the check and then be rounded up to 362, i.e. 15.083 seconds.
-        duration = block_state.num_frames / components.fps
-        if not components.min_duration <= duration <= components.max_duration:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"MiniMax-H3 generates between {components.min_duration} and {components.max_duration} seconds "
-                f"at {components.fps} fps, so `num_frames`, rounded up to the next `17 * n + 5` the video VAE "
-                f"can encode, must be between {int(components.min_duration * components.fps)} and "
-                f"{int(components.max_duration * components.fps)}, got {block_state.num_frames}."
-            )
 
         ratio = components.vae_spatial_compression_ratio
         block_state.num_latent_frames = video_latent_num_frames(
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index c4ca0aa4d38e..c92fcb664476 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
             for anchor, keyframe in (("first", block_state.image), ("last", block_state.last_image))
             if keyframe is not None
         )
+        if (block_state.height is None) != (block_state.width is None):
+            raise ValueError("`height` and `width` have to be passed together, or neither of them.")
         if block_state.height is None:
             block_state.height, block_state.width = resolve_canvas_size(
                 *keyframes[0].size,
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 4b7c7ad16c0e..249a82581821 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.before_encoder import MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep
 from diffusers.modular_pipelines.minimax_h3.encoders import (
     MiniMaxH3FL2VATextEncoderStep,
+    MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep,
     MiniMaxH3Ref2VATextEncoderStep,
     MiniMaxH3TextEncoderStep,
 )
@@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
 
         state = pipe(**self.get_dummy_inputs())
-        video, audio = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio")
+        video, audio, sampling_rate = state.get("videos"), state.get("audio"), state.get("sampling_rate")
 
         assert video.shape == (1, 124, 3, 32, 32)
         # The audio VAE is mono and takes the two stereo channels as two batch items, which the decoder block stacks
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
         # 207 audio latents at the tiny VAE's 4 samples per latent
         assert audio.shape == (1, 2, 207 * 4)
         assert video.min() >= 0.0 and video.max() <= 1.0
-        assert state.get("sampling_rate") == pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
+        assert sampling_rate == pipe.audio_vae.config.sampling_rate
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "keyframes,num_condition_rows",
@@ -221,12 +222,11 @@ def test_video_and_audio_outputs(self):
     )
     def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
         r"""
-        A keyframe contributes one conditioning row per latent patch, and those rows are pinned for the whole loop.
+        A keyframe contributes one conditioning row per latent patch, and the layout reserves exactly those rows.
 
-        They are packed in front of the generated video rows and ride along at their own `t = 0.999`. The loop only
-        ever writes the generated rows, so the conditioning rows the encoder block produced survive it untouched,
-        which is what the denoised sequence is checked against here. On a `32` canvas a keyframe is a single
-        `(1, 2, 2)` patch row.
+        They are packed in front of the generated video rows and ride along at their own `t = 0.999`, pinned for the
+        whole loop, and the after-denoise step drops them again — so the request comes back with the generated frames
+        alone, whichever end the keyframes anchor. On a `32` canvas a keyframe is a single `(1, 2, 2)` patch row.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
         keyframe = Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((48, 80, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))
@@ -237,9 +237,6 @@ def test_fl2va_keyframes(self, keyframes, num_condition_rows):
 
         assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, 124, 3, 32, 32)
         assert state.get("num_condition_video_rows") == num_condition_rows
-        condition_latents = state.get("condition_latents")
-        assert condition_latents.shape[0] == num_condition_rows
-        assert torch.equal(state.get("latents")[:num_condition_rows], condition_latents)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("with_keyframe", [False, True], ids=["t2va", "fl2va"])
     def test_generator_reproducibility(self, with_keyframe):
@@ -323,6 +320,27 @@ def test_text_encoder_block_standalone(self, with_keyframes):
         # `0` tags a row of a vision block and `1` a text row, so a text-only presentation carries text rows alone.
         assert set(outputs["text_token_tags"].tolist()) == ({0, 1} if with_keyframes else {1})
 
+    def test_keyframe_vae_encoder_block_standalone(self):
+        r"""
+        The `fl2va` VAE encoder block runs on its own and returns one conditioning latent per keyframe.
+
+        One entry per condition is what the prepare-latents step draws its noise against, which is why the block hands
+        the latents over as a list rather than as packed rows. It is also the only place the list is worth looking at:
+        downstream it is noised, packed and finally dropped, so a finished request carries no trace of it.
+        """
+        keyframes = [Image.fromarray((np.random.default_rng(0).random((32, 32, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8"))] * 2
+        pipe = MiniMaxH3KeyframeVaeEncoderStep().init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path)
+        pipe.load_components(dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        outputs = pipe(keyframes=keyframes, output=["condition_latents"])
+        condition_latents = outputs["condition_latents"]
+
+        assert set(pipe.components) == {"vae"}
+        assert len(condition_latents) == len(keyframes)
+        # A keyframe is a single frame, so it encodes to one latent frame on the canvas' own latent grid.
+        assert all(latent.shape == (1, 4, 1, 32 // 16, 32 // 16) for latent in condition_latents)
+        assert all(torch.isfinite(latent).all() for latent in condition_latents)
+
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
     def test_output_type(self, output_type):
         r"""`"latent"` stops before both VAEs and keeps the denormalized latents of either modality."""
@@ -535,9 +553,8 @@ def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
         it contributes both visual and audio rows; an audio reference contributes audio rows alone and never reaches
         the conditioner.
 
-        The reference rows are pinned for the whole loop, which is what the denoised sequence is checked against: the
-        visual anchors keep their noise-augmented values and the audio anchors stay exactly as the encoder produced
-        them.
+        The reference rows are pinned for the whole loop and the after-denoise step drops them again, so what a
+        request comes back with is the generated frames and soundtrack alone, however many rows the references took.
         """
         media = {
             "image": MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (48, 80))),
@@ -567,12 +584,7 @@ def test_reference_combinations(self, kinds, num_frames):
         assert num_condition_rows > 0
         assert (num_audio_condition_rows > 0) == any(kind in ("video", "audio") for kind in kinds)
         assert state.get("videos").shape == (1, state.get("num_frames"), 3, 32, 32)
-        # The loop only ever writes the generated rows, so the anchors the encoder block produced survive it.
-        assert torch.equal(state.get("latents")[:num_condition_rows], state.get("condition_latents"))
-        if num_audio_condition_rows:
-            assert torch.equal(
-                state.get("audio_latents")[:num_audio_condition_rows], state.get("audio_condition_latents")
-            )
+        assert state.get("audio").shape[:2] == (1, 2)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "kinds", [("image",), ("video",), ("video", "image")], ids=["image", "video", "video_image"]
@@ -676,6 +688,25 @@ def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
         # Half the audio VAE's rate, so the same samples span twice as many of the VAE's own.
         assert references[1].audio.shape == (2, 2 * waveform.shape[-1])
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "references,message",
+        [
+            (["a-photo.png"], "never open media files"),
+            (
+                [
+                    MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=np.zeros((1, 8, 8, 3), dtype="uint8"), fps=float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS))
+                    for _ in range(4)
+                ],
+                "at most 3 video references",
+            ),
+            (
+                [MiniMaxH3AudioReference(audio=torch.zeros(2, 160), sample_rate=160)],
+                "cannot be used on its own",
+            ),
+            ([MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (20, 100)))], "within 1:4 and 4:1"),
+        ],
+        ids=["not_a_reference", "too_many_videos", "audio_only", "image_aspect_ratio"],
+    )
     def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
 

From 461e025e4890a669edf1346ab11c68cd65c0412e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 02:42:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 13/21] Stop claiming `num_inference_steps` is optional in the
 H3 tests
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The block declares it `InputParam.template("num_inference_steps", required=True)`
and `expected_workflow_defaults` lists it under `required_inputs` for all three
workflows, so `optional_params` said the opposite in the same file. It was
inherited from the mixin's default set and never examined.

Nothing enforces the requirement today: `_check_inputs` substitutes the declared
default before it tests `required`, and the template carries `default=50`, so
omitting the input runs 50 steps rather than raising. That is not specific to
H3 — 14 call sites on main are in the same position — and it is tracked in #14388.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py        | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 249a82581821..245efbbc93be 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ class TestMiniMaxH3ModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
     # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
     batch_params = frozenset()
     # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
-    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
-    optional_params = frozenset(["num_inference_steps", "latents", "output_type"])
+    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists. `num_inference_steps` is declared required, so it is not listed here either.
+    optional_params = frozenset(["latents", "output_type"])
     output_name = "videos"
     expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOWS
     expected_workflow_defaults = MINIMAX_H3_WORKFLOW_DEFAULTS
@@ -399,8 +399,8 @@ class TestMiniMaxH3Ref2VAModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
     # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into one sequence and rejects a list of prompts, so nothing is batched.
     batch_params = frozenset()
     # The checkpoint is guidance-distilled and generates a video, so neither `guidance_scale` nor
-    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists.
-    optional_params = frozenset(["num_inference_steps", "latents", "output_type"])
+    # `num_images_per_prompt` exists. `num_inference_steps` is declared required, so it is not listed here either.
+    optional_params = frozenset(["latents", "output_type"])
     output_name = "videos"
     expected_workflow_blocks = MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOWS
     expected_workflow_defaults = MINIMAX_H3_REF2VA_WORKFLOW_DEFAULTS

From bad5f94fc53d80cb9f94ff76b4fd6de5a5485dbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 04:04:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 14/21] Fix the two-card recipe, and stop accepting
 `output_type="latent"`
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The two-card section did not run, on this branch or on the base one. A pipeline
resolves a single execution device for all of its components, so the documented
shape — one pipeline whose conditioner is `device_map`ped to the second card and
whose denoiser is moved to the first — built the rotary positions on `cuda:1` and
handed them to a transformer on `cuda:0`:

    transformer_minimax_h3.py, in Rope.forward
    RuntimeError: Expected all tensors to be on the same device, but found at
    least two devices, cuda:1 and cuda:0!

Reproduced against `abc5e9bf7` too, so it is not something the refactor broke;
the section went in as a plausible recipe that was never executed.

The split is therefore between pipelines rather than inside one: pop the text
encoder block into a conditioner of its own, give each pipeline a
`ComponentsManager` pinned to a card, and pass the state from one call to the
other. The managers' hooks are what align `prompt_embeds` onto the denoiser's
card; placing the components by hand instead works too, but then that one tensor
has to be moved explicitly. Verified end to end against the tiny fixture.

`output_type="latent"` is separate. It is not an output format — a request that
wants latents runs a pipeline without the decode blocks — and it used to run the
whole VAE decode before dying inside `postprocess_video` with "latent does not
exist", which does not say what to do instead. The video decode block now rejects
anything it cannot postprocess, before decoding. `test_output_type` covers the
three formats it does accept, and the rejection is a `test_check_inputs` case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md    | 34 ++++++++++++-------
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py  |  6 ++++
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       | 15 +++++---
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index 4d815156b2a5..a99f14703b3f 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -140,27 +140,37 @@ pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda")
 
 On 12 to 16 GB the same recipe works with the video VAE group offloaded too (`offload_type="leaf_level"`, no stream) and a small canvas such as 960x544. Expect the weights to live in host RAM: around 75 GB of it at int8.
 
-With two cards nothing has to be offloaded: the conditioner takes the second card through a `device_map` and the denoiser keeps the first.
+With two cards nothing has to be offloaded: split the pipeline in two and put each half on its own device.
 
 ```py
 import torch
 from diffusers import ComponentsManager, ModularPipeline
-from transformers import Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
+
+workflow = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3").blocks.get_workflow("t2va")
+
+text_manager = ComponentsManager()
+text_manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda:1")
+conditioner = workflow.sub_blocks.pop("text_encoder").init_pipeline(
+    "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=text_manager
+)
+conditioner.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
 
 manager = ComponentsManager()
-pipe = ModularPipeline.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
-pipe.update_components(
-    text_encoder=Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
-        "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", subfolder="text_encoder", dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map={"": "cuda:1"}
-    ),
+manager.enable_auto_cpu_offload(device="cuda:0")
+rest = workflow.init_pipeline("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3", components_manager=manager)
+rest.load_components(dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+prompt = "A red fox trotting through a snowy pine forest, snow crunching underfoot"
+state = conditioner(prompt=prompt)
+results = rest(
+    state=state,
+    num_frames=124,
+    generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
+    output=["videos", "audio", "sampling_rate"],
 )
-pipe.load_components(workflow="t2va", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
-pipe.transformer.to("cuda:0")
-pipe.vae.to("cuda:0")
-pipe.audio_vae.to("cuda:0")
 ```
 
-Two 80 GB cards run full bfloat16 this way with nothing streaming; two 48 GB cards do the same with the int8 loading above on both components.
+Two 80 GB cards run full bfloat16 this way: each half fits on its own card, so nothing is evicted back to host memory once it is resident. Two 48 GB cards do the same with the int8 loading above on both components.
 
 ## Text and keyframes
 
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
index 6620d8a36996..44e9b2034f11 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/decoders.py
@@ -174,6 +174,12 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
         block_state = self.get_block_state(state)
         device = components._execution_device
 
+        if block_state.output_type not in ("pil", "np", "pt"):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"`output_type` must be one of 'pil', 'np' or 'pt', got {block_state.output_type!r}. To keep the "
+                "latents instead of decoding them, run a pipeline that does not include the decode blocks."
+            )
+
         latents_mean = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_mean, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
         latents_std = torch.tensor(components.vae.config.latents_std, device=device).view(1, -1, 1, 1, 1)
         latents = block_state.latents * latents_std + latents_mean
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 245efbbc93be..9e891381b773 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -341,9 +341,13 @@ def test_keyframe_vae_encoder_block_standalone(self):
         assert all(latent.shape == (1, 4, 1, 32 // 16, 32 // 16) for latent in condition_latents)
         assert all(torch.isfinite(latent).all() for latent in condition_latents)
 
-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "latent"])
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("output_type", ["np", "pil", "pt"])
     def test_output_type(self, output_type):
-        r"""`"latent"` stops before both VAEs and keeps the denormalized latents of either modality."""
+        r"""
+        The three formats the video decoder postprocesses to. `output_type` is a video format and nothing else — a
+        request that wants latents instead runs a pipeline without the decode blocks, which is what the audio
+        decoder does whatever is asked of it, since a waveform has only the one representation.
+        """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
 
         inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
@@ -357,9 +361,8 @@ def test_output_type(self, output_type):
             assert len(video[0]) == 124
             assert video[0][0].size == (32, 32)
         else:
-            # The video as `(1, C, F, H, W)` and the audio channel-major.
-            assert video.shape == (1, 4, 37, 32 // 16, 32 // 16)
-            assert audio.shape == (2, 8, 207)
+            assert video.shape == (1, 124, 3, 32, 32)
+        assert audio.shape == (1, 2, 207 * 4)
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "overrides,message",
@@ -369,6 +372,7 @@ def test_output_type(self, output_type):
             ({"width": None}, "have to be passed together"),
             ({"num_frames": 96}, "must be between"),
             ({"num_frames": 400}, "must be between"),
+            ({"output_type": "latent"}, "must be one of 'pil', 'np' or 'pt'"),
         ],
         ids=[
             "prompt_list",
@@ -376,6 +380,7 @@ def test_output_type(self, output_type):
             "height_without_width",
             "shorter_than_five_seconds",
             "longer_than_fifteen_seconds",
+            "output_type_latent",
         ],
     )
     def test_check_inputs(self, overrides, message):

From 5ac532c897ea94d06dd5827338cea1aaee8cbfa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 04:21:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 15/21] Skip the workflow tests whose tiny repositories cannot
 serve them

`test_from_pretrained_workflow`, `test_load_components_workflow` and
`test_unload_components` build a pipeline from `pretrained_model_name_or_path`
and compare it against the test class's own blocks. Three fixtures cannot answer
that, in three different ways, and none of them is about the pipelines' code:

- `tiny-anima-modular-pipe` has no `modular_model_index.json`. Anima assembles
  its dummy components in `get_pipeline` and never loads from a repository, so
  the path it declares had never been exercised.
- `tiny-flux2-klein-modular` names `Flux2KleinBaseAutoBlocks` while its
  `_class_name` and `is_distilled` both say distilled. `from_pretrained` honours
  `_blocks_class_name`, so it builds base blocks, which declare a `guider` the
  distilled ones do not.
- `tiny-qwenimage-edit-modular` names `QwenImageModularPipeline`, so
  `from_pretrained` falls back to `QwenImageAutoBlocks`, which declares no
  `image_conditioned` workflow.

Skipped with a TODO each, since the fixes are Hub-side. The klein and qwenimage
ones are a single key in `modular_model_index.json`; Anima needs a repository
published.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../anima/test_modular_pipeline_anima.py      | 31 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../test_modular_pipeline_flux2_klein.py      | 16 ++++++++++
 .../qwen/test_modular_pipeline_qwenimage.py   | 14 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/anima/test_modular_pipeline_anima.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/anima/test_modular_pipeline_anima.py
index e0652c877e01..d1c4387331d8 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/anima/test_modular_pipeline_anima.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/anima/test_modular_pipeline_anima.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import PIL.Image
+import pytest
 import torch
 from transformers import Qwen2Tokenizer, Qwen3Config, Qwen3Model, T5TokenizerFast
 
@@ -36,6 +37,12 @@
 enable_full_determinism()
 
 
+# TODO: `hf-internal-testing/tiny-anima-modular-pipe` carries no `modular_model_index.json`, so the three tests that
+# build a pipeline from it cannot run. Anima assembles its dummy components in `get_pipeline` instead, which is why
+# nothing noticed until those tests arrived. Publish the tiny repository and drop the overrides below.
+_NO_MODULAR_REPO = "TODO: no tiny Anima modular repository to load from yet."
+
+
 ANIMA_TEXT2IMAGE_WORKFLOWS = {
     "text2image": [
         ("text_encoder", "AnimaTextEncoderStep"),
@@ -177,6 +184,18 @@ class TestAnimaModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin, ModularGuiderTest
     batch_params = frozenset(["prompt", "negative_prompt"])
     expected_workflow_blocks = ANIMA_TEXT2IMAGE_WORKFLOWS
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_NO_MODULAR_REPO)
+    def test_from_pretrained_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_NO_MODULAR_REPO)
+    def test_load_components_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_NO_MODULAR_REPO)
+    def test_unload_components(self):
+        pass
+
     def get_pipeline(self, components_manager=None, dtype=torch.float32):
         pipe = self.pipeline_blocks_class().init_pipeline(components_manager=components_manager)
         pipe.update_components(**get_dummy_components())
@@ -261,6 +280,18 @@ class TestAnimaImg2ImgModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
     batch_params = frozenset(["prompt", "negative_prompt"])
     expected_workflow_blocks = ANIMA_IMG2IMG_WORKFLOWS
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_NO_MODULAR_REPO)
+    def test_from_pretrained_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_NO_MODULAR_REPO)
+    def test_load_components_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_NO_MODULAR_REPO)
+    def test_unload_components(self):
+        pass
+
     def get_pipeline(self, components_manager=None, torch_dtype=torch.float32):
         pipe = self.pipeline_blocks_class().init_pipeline(components_manager=components_manager)
         pipe.update_components(**get_dummy_components())
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/flux2/test_modular_pipeline_flux2_klein.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/flux2/test_modular_pipeline_flux2_klein.py
index 299809b02ca7..8b670792e4e6 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/flux2/test_modular_pipeline_flux2_klein.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/flux2/test_modular_pipeline_flux2_klein.py
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@
 from ..test_modular_pipelines_common import ModularPipelineTesterMixin
 
 
+# TODO: `hf-internal-testing/tiny-flux2-klein-modular` contradicts itself — `_class_name` is
+# `Flux2KleinModularPipeline` and `is_distilled` is `true`, but `_blocks_class_name` is
+# `Flux2KleinBaseAutoBlocks`. `from_pretrained` honours the latter and builds the base blocks, which declare a
+# `guider` the distilled ones do not, so the pipeline it returns has one component more than these blocks expect.
+# Fix `_blocks_class_name` on the Hub and drop the overrides below.
+_FIXTURE_NAMES_BASE_BLOCKS = "TODO: the tiny repository records `Flux2KleinBaseAutoBlocks` for a distilled checkpoint."
+
+
 FLUX2_KLEIN_WORKFLOWS = {
     "text2image": [
         ("text_encoder", "Flux2KleinTextEncoderStep"),
@@ -52,6 +60,10 @@ class TestFlux2KleinModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin):
     not_params = frozenset(["negative_prompt"])
     expected_workflow_blocks = FLUX2_KLEIN_WORKFLOWS
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_FIXTURE_NAMES_BASE_BLOCKS)
+    def test_from_pretrained_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
     def get_dummy_inputs(self, seed=0):
         generator = self.get_generator(seed)
         inputs = {
@@ -98,6 +110,10 @@ class TestFlux2KleinImageConditionedModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMix
     not_params = frozenset(["negative_prompt"])
     expected_workflow_blocks = FLUX2_KLEIN_IMAGE_CONDITIONED_WORKFLOWS
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_FIXTURE_NAMES_BASE_BLOCKS)
+    def test_from_pretrained_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
     def get_dummy_inputs(self, seed=0):
         generator = self.get_generator(seed)
         inputs = {
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/qwen/test_modular_pipeline_qwenimage.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/qwen/test_modular_pipeline_qwenimage.py
index 71345ace1d6b..36ff0341bc79 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/qwen/test_modular_pipeline_qwenimage.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/qwen/test_modular_pipeline_qwenimage.py
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ def test_inference_batch_single_identical(self):
         super().test_inference_batch_single_identical(expected_max_diff=5e-4)
 
 
+# TODO: `hf-internal-testing/tiny-qwenimage-edit-modular` records `_class_name: QwenImageModularPipeline` and
+# `_blocks_class_name: SequentialPipelineBlocks`, so `from_pretrained` falls back to `QwenImageAutoBlocks`, which
+# declares no `image_conditioned` workflow. Point the repository at the Edit classes and drop the overrides below.
+_FIXTURE_NAMES_BASE_PIPELINE = "TODO: the tiny repository records `QwenImageModularPipeline` for an Edit checkpoint."
+
+
 QWEN_IMAGE_EDIT_WORKFLOWS = {
     "image_conditioned": [
         ("text_encoder.resize", "QwenImageEditResizeStep"),
@@ -201,6 +207,14 @@ class TestQwenImageEditModularPipelineFast(ModularPipelineTesterMixin, ModularGu
     batch_params = frozenset(["prompt", "negative_prompt", "image", "mask_image"])
     expected_workflow_blocks = QWEN_IMAGE_EDIT_WORKFLOWS
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_FIXTURE_NAMES_BASE_PIPELINE)
+    def test_from_pretrained_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason=_FIXTURE_NAMES_BASE_PIPELINE)
+    def test_load_components_workflow(self):
+        pass
+
     def get_dummy_inputs(self):
         generator = self.get_generator()
         inputs = {

From 87ea9389b5cb1dabd3e1c7013043f6d57fae2fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 06:02:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 16/21] Declare `reference_image_short_edge` as pipeline config
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

`MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep` resolves three pieces of released-checkpoint geometry
— the canvas short edge, the canvas area cap, and the separate short edge an
image reference is encoded at — and declared only the first two as `ConfigSpec`s.
The third was a constructor argument, so it did not survive a save and reload:
the reloaded pipeline rebuilt the block from the repository, took the 2048
default instead of the 64 the tests configure, resized reference images at a
different resolution, and landed 0.398 away from the original output.

All three now sit together, which is also what lets the test fixture stop
reaching into the block tree to swap in a configured copy — the shrunken
geometry is one `update_components` call next to the canvas rule it belongs
with, and `test_reference_image_geometry` exercises the released default rather
than constructing the block with an explicit 2048.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              | 22 ++++++++--------
 .../minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py   |  6 +++--
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       | 25 +++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index c92fcb664476..9ad6856e7822 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ def __init__(
         max_videos: int = 3,
         max_audios: int = 3,
         max_references: int = 12,
-        reference_image_short_edge: int = 2048,
     ):
         r"""
         Resolve a `ref2va` request's plan and normalize its references onto MiniMax-H3's own rates and resolutions.
@@ -182,8 +181,6 @@ def __init__(
             max_videos (`int`, defaults to 3): Video references a request may carry.
             max_audios (`int`, defaults to 3): Audio references a request may carry.
             max_references (`int`, defaults to 12): References of any modality a request may carry in total.
-            reference_image_short_edge (`int`, defaults to 2048):
-                The short edge an image reference is resized to, upscaling included.
 
         The limits are what MiniMax-H3 documents for the released checkpoint; they bound nothing but this block's own
         validation, so a fine-tune that packs more can raise them.
@@ -192,7 +189,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.max_videos = max_videos
         self.max_audios = max_audios
         self.max_references = max_references
-        self.reference_image_short_edge = reference_image_short_edge
         super().__init__()
 
     @property
@@ -216,8 +212,14 @@ def expected_components(self) -> list[ComponentSpec]:
 
     @property
     def expected_configs(self) -> list[ConfigSpec]:
-        # The canvas MiniMax-H3 was released for, which a video reference is put on as well.
-        return [ConfigSpec("canvas_short_edge", 768), ConfigSpec("canvas_max_pixels", 768 * 1344)]
+        # The canvas MiniMax-H3 was released for, which a video reference is put on as well, and the separate
+        # resolution an image reference is encoded at. All three are geometry of the released checkpoint, so a
+        # fine-tune that was trained at another one is configured rather than patched.
+        return [
+            ConfigSpec("canvas_short_edge", 768),
+            ConfigSpec("canvas_max_pixels", 768 * 1344),
+            ConfigSpec("reference_image_short_edge", 2048),
+        ]
 
     @property
     def inputs(self) -> list[InputParam]:
@@ -451,16 +453,16 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
                 )
 
             if entry.kind == "image":
-                # Images are encoded at high detail — a 2048 pixel short edge, upscaling included, with *no* area
-                # cap — unlike video references and the target itself, which share the one canvas rule. Expected in
-                # RGB, as `load_image` returns.
+                # Images are encoded at high detail — a short edge of their own, 2048 for the released checkpoint,
+                # upscaling included and with *no* area cap — unlike video references and the target itself, which
+                # share the one canvas rule. Expected in RGB, as `load_image` returns.
                 image = entry.image
                 if image.size[0] <= 0 or image.size[1] <= 0:
                     raise ValueError(f"A reference image must have a positive size, got {image.size}.")
                 width, height = image.size
                 if width > 4 * height or height > 4 * width:
                     raise ValueError(f"A reference image must be within 1:4 and 4:1, got {width}x{height}.")
-                scale = self.reference_image_short_edge / min(width, height)
+                scale = components.config.reference_image_short_edge / min(width, height)
                 target_height = max(multiple, round(height * scale / multiple) * multiple)
                 target_width = max(multiple, round(width * scale / multiple) * multiple)
                 if image.size != (target_width, target_height):
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
index 310bd9df167b..23e7f1b83bba 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_blocks_minimax_h3.py
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3AutoBeforeEncodeStep(ConditionalPipelineBlocks):
           image_processor (`VaeImageProcessor`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192) reference_image_short_edge (default:
+          2048)
 
       Inputs:
           references (`list`, *optional*):
@@ -675,7 +676,8 @@ class MiniMaxH3Blocks(SequentialPipelineBlocks):
           (`VideoProcessor`)
 
       Configs:
-          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192)
+          canvas_short_edge (default: 768) canvas_max_pixels (default: 1032192) reference_image_short_edge (default:
+          2048)
 
       Inputs:
           references (`list`, *optional*):
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 9e891381b773..826d573eac06 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@
             "transformer_ref": "MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel",
             "image_processor": "VaeImageProcessor",
         },
-        "configs": _SHARED_CONFIGS,
+        # An image reference is put on a resolution of its own rather than the shared canvas, so `ref2va` declares
+        # one more geometry config than the other two workflows.
+        "configs": {**_SHARED_CONFIGS, "reference_image_short_edge": 2048},
         # `num_frames` cannot default on ref2va: reference soundtracks are truncated to the generated duration, so a
         # silent 124-frame default would cut them short. It is required instead.
         "required_inputs": ["prompt", "references", "num_frames", "num_inference_steps"],
@@ -416,17 +418,14 @@ def get_pipeline(self, components_manager=None, dtype=torch.float32):
 
         A reference is put on a canvas of its own, and both released sizes pack thousands of conditioning rows —
         minutes per pipeline call on CPU. The two follow different rules, so both are made small: an image reference
-        by the setup step's own `reference_image_short_edge`, which is why the block is swapped for a configured one,
-        and a video reference by the canvas rule it shares with the generated video, which is pipeline config. Every
-        request here passes `height` and `width`, so shrinking the shared rule never touches a generated canvas.
+        by `reference_image_short_edge`, and a video reference by the canvas rule it shares with the generated video.
+        Both are pipeline config, so they survive a save and reload. Every request here passes `height` and `width`,
+        so shrinking the shared rule never touches a generated canvas.
         """
-        blocks = self.pipeline_blocks_class()
-        blocks.sub_blocks["before_encode"].sub_blocks["ref2va"] = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep(
-            reference_image_short_edge=64
+        pipeline = self.pipeline_blocks_class().init_pipeline(
+            self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, components_manager=components_manager
         )
-
-        pipeline = blocks.init_pipeline(self.pretrained_model_name_or_path, components_manager=components_manager)
-        pipeline.update_components(canvas_short_edge=64, canvas_max_pixels=64**2 * 2)
+        pipeline.update_components(canvas_short_edge=64, canvas_max_pixels=64**2 * 2, reference_image_short_edge=64)
         pipeline.load_components(dtype=dtype)
         pipeline.set_progress_bar_config(disable=None)
         return pipeline
@@ -799,10 +798,10 @@ def test_video_reference_vision_blocks(self):
     def test_reference_image_geometry(self):
         r"""
         A reference image is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge, both axes rounded to a multiple of 32, with no area
-        cap — the released geometry, so the setup step is constructed explicitly rather than through the
-        `small_references` fixture's shrunken default.
+        cap — the released geometry, which is what the block declares, so this runs it on its own defaults rather
+        than through the shrunken ones the pipeline tests configure.
         """
-        pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep(reference_image_short_edge=2048).init_pipeline()
+        pipe = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep().init_pipeline()
 
         references = pipe(
             references=[MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (80, 48)))],

From b88b343e71e38bd404f7f082ac4a2cbde63713e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 07:15:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 17/21] Accept a reference image in the three layouts a video
 reference takes
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

`MiniMaxH3VideoReference.frames` takes a list of images, a channels-last array
or a channels-first tensor; `MiniMaxH3ImageReference.image` took a PIL image
only, and the two array layouts failed on `entry.image.size` — an element count
on numpy, a bound method on torch — with `TypeError: 'int' object is not
subscriptable`.

Passing an array through as-is would have been worse than the crash. The resize
would silently drop to `F.interpolate`'s nearest-neighbour where a PIL image
gets LANCZOS, and the VAE encode does `np.array(image).permute(2, 0, 1)`, which
fixes the axes of an image and scrambles those of a channels-first tensor. So
the layouts are normalized onto a PIL image before any of that, through the
processor component the block already declares: `pt_to_numpy` for the channel
axis and `numpy_to_pil` for the array. Neither converts dtype, and
`numpy_to_pil` scales by 255, so `uint8` is normalized on the original object
first — after `pt_to_numpy` a `uint8` tensor is floats over `[0, 255]` and a
later dtype check would miss it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              | 21 ++++++++++++++++++-
 .../minimax_h3/references.py                  |  9 ++++----
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       |  8 +++++--
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index 9ad6856e7822..86e7ed8b89b7 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -455,8 +455,27 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
             if entry.kind == "image":
                 # Images are encoded at high detail — a short edge of their own, 2048 for the released checkpoint,
                 # upscaling included and with *no* area cap — unlike video references and the target itself, which
-                # share the one canvas rule. Expected in RGB, as `load_image` returns.
+                # share the one canvas rule.
+                #
+                # Any accepted layout onto a PIL image first, through the processor's own conversions: a
+                # `torch.Tensor` is channels-first, as everywhere else in diffusers, and a `np.ndarray`
+                # channels-last. Both carry floating point over `[0, 1]`, which is what `numpy_to_pil` scales
+                # back up, so `uint8` is normalized before it gets there. Everything below is the geometry of a
+                # decoded image, and `image_processor.resize` interpolates an array with `F.interpolate` rather
+                # than the LANCZOS the released model was conditioned on, so nothing may reach it as one.
                 image = entry.image
+                if isinstance(image, torch.Tensor):
+                    if image.dtype == torch.uint8:
+                        image = image.float() / 255.0
+                    image = components.image_processor.pt_to_numpy(image[None])[0]
+                if isinstance(image, np.ndarray):
+                    if image.ndim != 3 or image.shape[2] != 3:
+                        raise ValueError(
+                            f"A reference image must be `(height, width, 3)` RGB pixels, got {tuple(image.shape)}."
+                        )
+                    if image.dtype == np.uint8:
+                        image = image.astype(np.float32) / 255.0
+                    image = components.image_processor.numpy_to_pil(image)[0]
                 if image.size[0] <= 0 or image.size[1] <= 0:
                     raise ValueError(f"A reference image must have a positive size, got {image.size}.")
                 width, height = image.size
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
index ae92480126b8..b8b2cd840270 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/references.py
@@ -84,12 +84,13 @@ class MiniMaxH3ImageReference(MiniMaxH3Reference):
     A subject, style or scene reference: at most 9 per request.
 
     Attributes:
-        image (`PIL.Image.Image`):
-            The reference image. It never binds the generated geometry — it is encoded at a 2048 pixel short edge of
-            its own aspect ratio, whatever canvas the request generates at.
+        image (`PIL.Image.Image`, `np.ndarray` or `torch.Tensor`):
+            The reference image: an image, a `(height, width, 3)` array or a `(3, height, width)` tensor, `uint8` or
+            floating point over `[0, 1]`. It never binds the generated geometry — it is encoded at a short edge of its
+            own, 2048 for the released checkpoint, whatever canvas the request generates at.
     """
 
-    image: Image.Image
+    image: Image.Image | np.ndarray | torch.Tensor
 
     kind = "image"
     has_audio = False
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 826d573eac06..3256085ce724 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
         if media_type == "pil":
             image, frames = Image.fromarray(pixels[0]), [Image.fromarray(frame) for frame in pixels]
         elif media_type == "np":
-            image, frames = pixels[0] / 255.0, pixels
+            image, frames = pixels[0] / 255.0, pixels / 255.0
         else:
             image, frames = torch.from_numpy(pixels[0]).permute(2, 0, 1), torch.from_numpy(pixels).permute(0, 3, 1, 2)
 
@@ -708,8 +708,12 @@ def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
                 "cannot be used on its own",
             ),
             ([MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (20, 100)))], "within 1:4 and 4:1"),
+            (
+                [MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=np.zeros((32, 32), dtype="uint8"))],
+                r"must be `\(height, width, 3\)` RGB pixels",
+            ),
         ],
-        ids=["not_a_reference", "too_many_videos", "audio_only", "image_aspect_ratio"],
+        ids=["not_a_reference", "too_many_videos", "audio_only", "image_aspect_ratio", "image_not_rgb"],
     )
     def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()

From 023797e8080450788e15287d778896152e0f6661 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 08:19:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 18/21] Read the model's constants off the pipeline rather than
 the module
MIME-Version: 1.0
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`before_denoise.py` imported `MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS`, `MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG`
and `MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG` and read them inside its layout builders, even though
two of the three were already exposed as pipeline properties and used that way
everywhere else. They are arguments now, passed from `components.*` at the two
`__call__` sites; `audio_tag` needed the property `text_tag` and `video_tag`
already had, which is presumably why it was the one still reaching for the
global.

Same treatment where a helper cannot see a pipeline: `resolve_canvas_size` and
`audio_latent_num_frames` take the constants as default arguments instead of
closing over them, and `_normalize_video_condition` takes the rate it resamples
onto, so `before_encoder.py` imports none of them at all. What is left of the
constants is their definitions, the properties that expose them, and default
argument values.

Two helpers with a single caller each are inlined at it: the two rotary-time
sums, which are a parity contract — the reference sums the same series pairwise
in one place and sequentially in the other, and the orders differ in the last
ulp from 16 latent frames onwards. Both inlined sums are bit-identical to the
functions they replace across 1..399 latent frames, and the two still disagree
on 373 of those counts. `_frame_position_grid` stays, and `build_packed_sequence`
now calls it rather than repeating its five lines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../minimax_h3/before_denoise.py              | 116 ++++++++++--------
 .../minimax_h3/before_encoder.py              |  15 ++-
 .../minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py            |  32 +++--
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       |   7 +-
 4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
index 0654163b5ed0..c670467a9307 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_denoise.py
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, ConfigSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
 from .modular_pipeline import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS,
-    MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG,
-    MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG,
     MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
     align_num_frames,
     audio_latent_num_frames,
@@ -101,33 +98,6 @@ def _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames: int, origin: float) -> torch.Tens
     return origin + torch.cat([torch.zeros(1, dtype=torch.float64), spans[:-1].cumsum(0)])
 
 
-def _temporal_position_span_pairwise(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
-    r"""
-    The rotary time spanned by `num_latent_frames` latent frames.
-
-    Summed by numpy (pairwise summation) rather than sequentially: the reference computes the keyframe anchor this way
-    and the two summation orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards.
-    """
-    spans = np.ones(num_latent_frames, dtype=np.float64) * _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
-    for index in range(len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)):
-        spans[index :: len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)] *= _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index]
-    return float(spans.sum())
-
-
-def _temporal_position_span_sequential(num_latent_frames: int) -> float:
-    r"""
-    The rotary time a video reference advances the clock by.
-
-    Summed sequentially in float64, which is *not* how [`_temporal_position_span_pairwise`] sums the same series: that
-    one reproduces a numpy pairwise sum, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards. The
-    reference implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
-    """
-    return sum(
-        _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
-        for index in range(num_latent_frames)
-    )
-
-
 def _frame_position_grid(
     latent_height: int, latent_width: int, patch_h: int, patch_w: int
 ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
@@ -145,6 +115,7 @@ def _fill_audio_positions(
     num_audio_latents: int,
     rotary_time: float,
     width_grid: torch.Tensor,
+    audio_channels: int,
 ) -> None:
     r"""
     Place one channel-major audio block.
@@ -153,7 +124,7 @@ def _fill_audio_positions(
     the target grid for a standalone audio reference, the video's grid for a soundtrack.
     """
     time = rotary_time + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
-    position_ids[rows, 0] = time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
+    position_ids[rows, 0] = time.repeat(audio_channels)
     position_ids[rows, 2] = torch.cat(
         [
             torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
@@ -301,6 +272,9 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
         latent_width: int,
         num_audio_latents: int,
         patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+        audio_channels: int,
+        audio_tag: int,
+        video_tag: int,
         keyframe_anchors: tuple[str, ...] = (),
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, int, int]:
         r"""
@@ -316,6 +290,11 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
             latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
             num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
             patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+            audio_channels (`int`): Channels the soundtrack is packed channel-major over, i.e.
+                `components.audio_channels`.
+            audio_tag (`int`), video_tag (`int`):
+                The modality tags an audio and a video row carry, i.e. `components.audio_tag` and
+                `components.video_tag`.
             keyframe_anchors (`tuple[str, ...]`):
                 One entry per keyframe conditioning block, in packed order: `"first"` anchors the block at the first
                 latent frame, `"last"` at the last one.
@@ -328,7 +307,7 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
         rows_per_frame = (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
         num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
         num_condition_rows = len(keyframe_anchors) * rows_per_frame
-        num_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+        num_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * audio_channels
         num_video_rows = num_latent_frames * rows_per_frame
         sequence_length = num_text_tokens + num_condition_rows + num_audio_rows + num_video_rows
 
@@ -341,20 +320,20 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
         position_ids = torch.zeros(sequence_length, 3, dtype=torch.float64)
         position_ids[:num_text_tokens, 0] = torch.arange(num_text_tokens, dtype=torch.float64)
 
-        sqrt_area = np.sqrt(latent_height * latent_width)
-        height_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_height, patch_h, sqrt_area)
-        width_grid = _spatial_position_grid(latent_width, patch_w, sqrt_area)
-        frame_grid = torch.stack(
-            [grid.reshape(-1) for grid in torch.meshgrid(height_grid, width_grid, indexing="ij")], -1
-        )
+        frame_grid, width_grid = _frame_position_grid(latent_height, latent_width, patch_h, patch_w)
 
         for index, anchor in enumerate(keyframe_anchors):
             if anchor == "first":
                 anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens)
             elif anchor == "last":
-                anchor_time = (
-                    float(num_text_tokens) + _temporal_position_span_pairwise(num_latent_frames) - _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
-                )
+                # The rotary time the generated frames span, summed by numpy's pairwise summation because that is
+                # how the reference computes this anchor. The soundtrack span in the `ref2va` layout sums the same
+                # series sequentially, and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards, so
+                # the port keeps both — one per call site.
+                spans = np.ones(num_latent_frames, dtype=np.float64) * _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
+                for offset in range(len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)):
+                    spans[offset :: len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)] *= _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[offset]
+                anchor_time = float(num_text_tokens) + float(spans.sum()) - _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE
             else:
                 raise ValueError(f"A keyframe anchor must be 'first' or 'last', got {anchor!r}.")
             rows = slice(condition_start + index * rows_per_frame, condition_start + (index + 1) * rows_per_frame)
@@ -364,7 +343,7 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
         # Audio rows are channel-major and share the video's rotary clock: one unit per latent at 40 latents/s equals
         # 24 fps * 5/3. They carry no height coordinate and are pinned to the two extremes of the width grid.
         audio_time = float(num_text_tokens) + torch.arange(num_audio_latents, dtype=torch.float64)
-        position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 0] = audio_time.repeat(MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS)
+        position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 0] = audio_time.repeat(audio_channels)
         position_ids[audio_start:video_start, 2] = torch.cat(
             [
                 torch.full((num_audio_latents,), float(width_grid[0]), dtype=torch.float64),
@@ -386,8 +365,8 @@ def build_packed_sequence(
 
         token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
         token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
-        token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
-        token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+        token_tags[audio_indices] = audio_tag
+        token_tags[video_indices] = video_tag
 
         return position_ids, token_tags, video_indices, audio_indices, text_indices, num_condition_rows, 0
 
@@ -457,6 +436,9 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
             block_state.latent_width,
             block_state.num_audio_latents,
             components.patch_size,
+            components.audio_channels,
+            components.audio_tag,
+            components.video_tag,
             block_state.keyframe_anchors,
         )
         block_state.position_ids = position_ids.to(device)
@@ -585,6 +567,9 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
         latent_width: int,
         num_audio_latents: int,
         patch_size: tuple[int, int, int],
+        audio_channels: int,
+        audio_tag: int,
+        video_tag: int,
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, int, int]:
         r"""
         Build the `[text | reference blocks | target audio | target video]` layout of the `ref2va` task.
@@ -606,6 +591,11 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
             latent_width (`int`): Target latent width.
             num_audio_latents (`int`): Number of target audio latents per channel.
             patch_size (`tuple[int, int, int]`): The transformer's `(t, h, w)` patch.
+            audio_channels (`int`): Channels the soundtrack is packed channel-major over, i.e.
+                `components.audio_channels`.
+            audio_tag (`int`), video_tag (`int`):
+                The modality tags an audio and a video row carry, i.e. `components.audio_tag` and
+                `components.video_tag`.
 
         Returns:
             `tuple`: `position_ids`, `token_tags`, `video_indices`, `audio_indices`, `text_indices`, and the number of
@@ -614,7 +604,7 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
         _, patch_h, patch_w = patch_size
         num_text_tokens = text_token_tags.shape[0]
         num_target_video_rows = num_latent_frames * (latent_height // patch_h) * (latent_width // patch_w)
-        num_target_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+        num_target_audio_rows = num_audio_latents * audio_channels
 
         # The geometry of every reference block is the shape of what the encoder produced for it, so the two can never
         # disagree. Both lists are in packed order but skip the references they do not apply to, so they are consumed as
@@ -657,17 +647,19 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
                 rotary_time += 1.0
             elif reference.kind == "audio":
                 num_audio_rows = next(audio_row_counts)
-                reference_audio_latents = num_audio_rows // MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+                reference_audio_latents = num_audio_rows // audio_channels
                 rows = slice(cursor, cursor + num_audio_rows)
                 cursor = rows.stop
                 audio_indices.append(torch.arange(rows.start, rows.stop))
-                _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, rows, reference_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid)
+                _fill_audio_positions(
+                    position_ids, rows, reference_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid, audio_channels
+                )
                 rotary_time += float(reference_audio_latents)
             elif reference.kind == "video":
                 # A video reference's soundtrack rows are packed immediately before its video rows and share their
                 # origin, so the two are rotary-aligned exactly as the generated audio and video are.
                 num_audio_rows = next(audio_row_counts) if reference.has_audio else 0
-                reference_audio_latents = num_audio_rows // MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_CHANNELS
+                reference_audio_latents = num_audio_rows // audio_channels
                 num_latent_frames_, reference_height, reference_width = next(visual_geometry)
                 num_video_rows = num_latent_frames_ * (reference_height // patch_h) * (reference_width // patch_w)
                 audio_rows = slice(cursor, cursor + num_audio_rows)
@@ -677,13 +669,21 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
                 video_indices.append(torch.arange(video_rows.start, video_rows.stop))
 
                 frame_grid, width_grid = _frame_position_grid(reference_height, reference_width, patch_h, patch_w)
-                _fill_audio_positions(position_ids, audio_rows, reference_audio_latents, rotary_time, width_grid)
+                _fill_audio_positions(
+                    position_ids, audio_rows, reference_audio_latents, rotary_time, width_grid, audio_channels
+                )
                 frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames_, rotary_time)
                 position_ids[video_rows, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(frame_grid.shape[0])
                 position_ids[video_rows, 1:] = frame_grid.repeat(num_latent_frames_, 1)
-                rotary_time += max(
-                    float(reference_audio_latents), _temporal_position_span_sequential(num_latent_frames_)
+                # The rotary time this reference advances the clock by, summed sequentially in float64. That is *not*
+                # how `_temporal_position_span_pairwise` sums the same series — it reproduces a numpy pairwise sum,
+                # and the two orders differ in the last ulp from 16 latent frames onwards. The reference
+                # implementation keeps both, one per call site, so the port has to as well.
+                video_span = sum(
+                    _ROPE_FRAME_RESCALE * _ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT[index % len(_ROPE_FRAMES_PER_LATENT)]
+                    for index in range(num_latent_frames_)
                 )
+                rotary_time += max(float(reference_audio_latents), video_span)
             else:
                 raise ValueError(f"A reference must be an 'image', a 'video' or an 'audio', got {reference.kind!r}.")
 
@@ -691,7 +691,12 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
         audio_start = cursor
         video_start = audio_start + num_target_audio_rows
         _fill_audio_positions(
-            position_ids, slice(audio_start, video_start), num_audio_latents, rotary_time, target_width_grid
+            position_ids,
+            slice(audio_start, video_start),
+            num_audio_latents,
+            rotary_time,
+            target_width_grid,
+            audio_channels,
         )
         frame_time = _temporal_position_grid(num_latent_frames, rotary_time)
         position_ids[video_start:, 0] = frame_time.repeat_interleave(target_frame_grid.shape[0])
@@ -703,8 +708,8 @@ def build_ref2va_packed_sequence(
 
         token_tags = torch.empty(sequence_length, dtype=torch.long)
         token_tags[text_indices] = text_token_tags.to(torch.long)
-        token_tags[audio_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
-        token_tags[video_indices] = MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+        token_tags[audio_indices] = audio_tag
+        token_tags[video_indices] = video_tag
 
         return (
             position_ids,
@@ -756,6 +761,9 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
             block_state.latent_width,
             block_state.num_audio_latents,
             components.patch_size,
+            components.audio_channels,
+            components.audio_tag,
+            components.video_tag,
         )
         block_state.position_ids = position_ids.to(device)
         block_state.token_tags = token_tags.to(device)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
index 86e7ed8b89b7..ebae839fda65 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/before_encoder.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 from ..modular_pipeline import ModularPipelineBlocks, PipelineState
 from ..modular_pipeline_utils import ComponentSpec, ConfigSpec, InputParam, OutputParam
 from .modular_pipeline import (
-    MINIMAX_H3_FPS,
     MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline,
     align_num_frames,
     resolve_canvas_size,
@@ -274,7 +273,13 @@ def intermediate_outputs(self) -> list[OutputParam]:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _normalize_video_condition(
-        frames, fps: float, num_frames: int, canvas_multiple: int, canvas_short_edge: int, canvas_max_pixels: int
+        frames,
+        fps: float,
+        num_frames: int,
+        canvas_multiple: int,
+        canvas_short_edge: int,
+        canvas_max_pixels: int,
+        target_fps: float,
     ) -> np.ndarray:
         r"""
         Normalize a video reference's frames: any accepted layout, onto `uint8` at 24 fps, truncated to the generated
@@ -296,6 +301,7 @@ def _normalize_video_condition(
             canvas_short_edge (`int`), canvas_max_pixels (`int`):
                 The canvas rule the reference is put on, i.e. `components.config.canvas_short_edge` and
                 `components.config.canvas_max_pixels` — the same one the generated video follows.
+            target_fps (`float`): The rate the frames are resampled onto, i.e. `components.fps`.
 
         Returns:
             `np.ndarray` of shape `(num_frames, height, width, 3)`: the normalized `uint8` RGB frames.
@@ -318,8 +324,8 @@ def _normalize_video_condition(
         # the slot the stream's end rounds to.
         if fps <= 0:
             raise ValueError(f"A reference video must have a positive frame rate, got {fps}.")
-        if fps != MINIMAX_H3_FPS:
-            scale = MINIMAX_H3_FPS / fps
+        if fps != target_fps:
+            scale = target_fps / fps
             slots = np.floor(np.arange(frames.shape[0]) * scale + 0.5).astype(np.int64)
             frames = np.repeat(frames, np.diff(slots, append=math.floor(frames.shape[0] * scale + 0.5)), axis=0)
 
@@ -497,6 +503,7 @@ def __call__(self, components: MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline, state: PipelineState) -
                             multiple,
                             components.config.canvas_short_edge,
                             components.config.canvas_max_pixels,
+                            float(components.fps),
                         ),
                         fps=float(components.fps),
                         audio=waveform,
diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
index 04d7913dbc88..d39c84b7e3b3 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/modular_pipeline.py
@@ -39,7 +39,13 @@
 
 
 def resolve_canvas_size(
-    aspect_width: float, aspect_height: float, canvas_multiple: int, short_edge: int, max_pixels: int
+    aspect_width: float,
+    aspect_height: float,
+    canvas_multiple: int,
+    short_edge: int,
+    max_pixels: int,
+    min_aspect_ratio: float = MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO,
+    max_aspect_ratio: float = MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO,
 ) -> tuple[int, int]:
     r"""
     Resolve a display aspect ratio into a MiniMax-H3 canvas.
@@ -57,6 +63,8 @@ def resolve_canvas_size(
             The short edge to aim for, i.e. `components.config.canvas_short_edge` — 768 for the released checkpoint.
         max_pixels (`int`):
             The area budget, i.e. `components.config.canvas_max_pixels` — `768 * 1344` for the released checkpoint.
+        min_aspect_ratio (`float`, defaults to 1/4), max_aspect_ratio (`float`, defaults to 4):
+            The ratios the released checkpoint was trained over, which the requested one has to fall between.
 
     Returns:
         `tuple[int, int]`: the `(height, width)` of the canvas.
@@ -65,9 +73,10 @@ def resolve_canvas_size(
         raise ValueError(f"The aspect ratio must be positive, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height}.")
 
     ratio = aspect_width / aspect_height
-    if not MINIMAX_H3_MIN_ASPECT_RATIO <= ratio <= MINIMAX_H3_MAX_ASPECT_RATIO:
+    if not min_aspect_ratio <= ratio <= max_aspect_ratio:
         raise ValueError(
-            f"MiniMax-H3 supports aspect ratios from 1:4 to 4:1, got {aspect_width}:{aspect_height} ({ratio:g})."
+            f"MiniMax-H3 supports aspect ratios from 1:{1 / min_aspect_ratio:g} to {max_aspect_ratio:g}:1, got "
+            f"{aspect_width}:{aspect_height} ({ratio:g})."
         )
 
     if ratio >= 1.0:
@@ -120,17 +129,21 @@ def video_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int, frames_per_chunk: int, latents_per_
     return (num_frames - latents_per_chunk) // frames_per_chunk * latents_per_chunk + 2
 
 
-def audio_latent_num_frames(num_frames: int) -> int:
+def audio_latent_num_frames(
+    num_frames: int, fps: float = MINIMAX_H3_FPS, latents_per_second: int = MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND
+) -> int:
     r"""
-    The number of audio latents that covers a video of `num_frames` frames at 24 fps.
+    The number of audio latents that covers a video of `num_frames` frames.
 
     Args:
         num_frames (`int`): The number of video frames.
+        fps (`float`, defaults to 24): The rate those frames run at, i.e. `components.fps`.
+        latents_per_second (`int`, defaults to 40): The audio VAE's latent rate.
 
     Returns:
-        `int`: The number of audio latents, rounded at the 40 Hz latent grid.
+        `int`: The number of audio latents, rounded at the latent grid.
     """
-    return int(round(num_frames / MINIMAX_H3_FPS * MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_LATENTS_PER_SECOND))
+    return int(round(num_frames / fps * latents_per_second))
 
 
 class MiniMaxH3ModularPipeline(ModularPipeline):
@@ -290,3 +303,8 @@ def text_tag(self):
     def video_tag(self):
         r"""The modality tag of a video row of the packed sequence, which a vision block's rows also carry."""
         return MINIMAX_H3_VIDEO_TAG
+
+    @property
+    def audio_tag(self):
+        r"""The modality tag of an audio row of the packed sequence."""
+        return MINIMAX_H3_AUDIO_TAG
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index 3256085ce724..c4c10265290c 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -827,7 +827,12 @@ def test_video_reference_resampled_to_the_model_frame_rate(self):
         # makes the resize pass a no-op and lets the 24 fps route return the input without a copy.
         size = 64
         frames = np.arange(30, dtype="uint8").reshape(-1, 1, 1, 1) * np.ones((1, size, size, 3), dtype="uint8")
-        canvas = {"canvas_multiple": 32, "canvas_short_edge": 64, "canvas_max_pixels": 64**2 * 2}
+        canvas = {
+            "canvas_multiple": 32,
+            "canvas_short_edge": 64,
+            "canvas_max_pixels": 64**2 * 2,
+            "target_fps": float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS),
+        }
 
         resampled = MiniMaxH3Ref2VASetupStep._normalize_video_condition(frames, fps=30.0, num_frames=124, **canvas)
 

From 5ee9ad0dc8077d8e47645781a7229da4b1453493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 08:20:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 19/21] Reject a reference video too short for the conditioner
 to read
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The conditioner reads a reference video at 2 fps and Qwen3-VL merges the sampled
frames in groups of two, so anything under 13 frames at 24 fps samples down to a
single frame and dies inside transformers:

    image_processing_glm4v.py
    ValueError: t:1 must be larger than temporal_factor:2

which names neither the reference nor the rate that produced it, and only fires
on the versions carrying that check — it passed locally and failed on CI.
`_sample_video_condition_frames` now rejects it where the sampling happens, with
the bound derived from the rates rather than hardcoded: "must run at least 13
frames at 24 fps (0.54 seconds), got 4".

`test_reference_media_layouts` was building exactly such a reference, four
frames, which is what surfaced this. It uses a second of video now, like
`test_reference_combinations` already did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py  |  7 +++++++
 .../test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py       | 20 +++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
index 282b5468593b..8ed4d548e9d1 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/encoders.py
@@ -466,6 +466,13 @@ def _sample_video_condition_frames(
             if not indices or round(cursor) > indices[-1]:
                 indices.append(round(cursor))
             cursor += stride
+        if len(indices) < temporal_patch:
+            minimum = round((temporal_patch - 1) * stride) + 1
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"A reference video is read at {sample_fps:g} fps and its sampled frames are merged in groups of "
+                f"{temporal_patch}, so it must run at least {minimum} frames at {fps:g} fps "
+                f"({minimum / fps:.2g} seconds), got {frames.shape[0]}."
+            )
 
         timestamps = [index / sample_fps for index in range(len(indices))]
         timestamps += [timestamps[-1]] * (-len(timestamps) % temporal_patch)
diff --git a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
index c4c10265290c..366cb366b220 100644
--- a/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/modular_pipelines/minimax_h3/test_modular_pipeline_minimax_h3.py
@@ -639,7 +639,9 @@ def test_reference_media_layouts(self, media_type):
         VAE untouched.
         """
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()
-        pixels = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((4, 64, 64, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
+        # A second of video: the conditioner reads a reference at 2 fps, so anything shorter than 13 frames samples
+        # down to a single one, which Qwen3-VL's video processor rejects against its temporal patch of 2.
+        pixels = (np.random.default_rng(0).random((MINIMAX_H3_FPS, 64, 64, 3)) * 255).astype("uint8")
         if media_type == "pil":
             image, frames = Image.fromarray(pixels[0]), [Image.fromarray(frame) for frame in pixels]
         elif media_type == "np":
@@ -712,8 +714,22 @@ def test_reference_sample_rate_override_resamples(self):
                 [MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=np.zeros((32, 32), dtype="uint8"))],
                 r"must be `\(height, width, 3\)` RGB pixels",
             ),
+            (
+                [
+                    MiniMaxH3ImageReference(image=Image.new("RGB", (32, 32))),
+                    MiniMaxH3VideoReference(frames=np.zeros((4, 32, 32, 3), dtype="uint8"), fps=float(MINIMAX_H3_FPS)),
+                ],
+                "must run at least 13 frames",
+            ),
+        ],
+        ids=[
+            "not_a_reference",
+            "too_many_videos",
+            "audio_only",
+            "image_aspect_ratio",
+            "image_not_rgb",
+            "video_too_short",
         ],
-        ids=["not_a_reference", "too_many_videos", "audio_only", "image_aspect_ratio", "image_not_rgb"],
     )
     def test_check_inputs_references(self, references, message):
         pipe = self.get_pipeline()

From 245d78fb48f1c87dfb560a94bea6e191c9f9f1c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yiyixuxu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 09:06:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 20/21] Drop the padded-layout attention mask
MIME-Version: 1.0
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`forward` built a boolean attention mask whenever a row carried a negative
modality tag, reproducing the reference implementation's `cu_seqlens = [0, used,
S]` split of the padding tail it adds for FlashAttention. Nothing in this port
ever produces such a row: both packers partition `[0, sequence_length)` and write
only the text, audio and video tags, so the branch was unreachable and the mask
was never built. The `clamp(min=0)` that kept a `-1` from indexing the AdaLN
table backwards goes with it.

Removing it is not only dead-code removal. `if bool(is_pad.any())` is a
data-dependent branch, which has no fullgraph representation, and it was the
reason whole-model `fullgraph=True` compilation and `torch.export` were skipped:

    4 passed, 1 skipped     tests -k "compile or export or aot"

Both now run. The model tests go from 40 passed / 4 skipped to 41 passed /
2 skipped, against the same 8 pre-existing memory-offload failures.

`attention_mask` stays on the processor, attention and block signatures — it is
the signature every other processor in diffusers has, and a custom one may want
it — but the model itself never passes anything but `None`, so attention runs
unmasked over the one document and every backend stays available.

Two of the four documentation examples have been re-run against this and come
back bit-identical, frames and audio: `t2va` at the full 768x1344 canvas and
`fl2va`. The two `ref2va` ones are still to run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py    | 37 ++++-------
 .../test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py     | 65 ++-----------------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
index 1b4a553ced46..02d45e7350cf 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/transformers/transformer_minimax_h3.py
@@ -187,10 +187,9 @@ def __call__(
             query = _apply_rotary_emb(query, *rotary_emb)
             key = _apply_rotary_emb(key, *rotary_emb)
 
-        # Without padding rows the packed sequence is a single attention document and no mask is needed (passing an
-        # all-zero float mask here would hard-fail the flash / sage backends). When padding rows are present, the
-        # caller supplies a boolean mask that keeps them in their own attention document, mirroring the reference's
-        # `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]` split; masked backends (SDPA & co.) are required in that case.
+        # MiniMax-H3 packs one request into a single attention document, so the model passes no mask and every
+        # attention backend stays available; `attention_mask` is here because it is the processor signature every
+        # other one in diffusers has, and a custom processor may need it.
         hidden_states = dispatch_attention_fn(
             query,
             key,
@@ -381,10 +380,10 @@ class MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel(ModelMixin, ConfigMixin, AttentionMixin, PeftA
     only from the two input patch projections, the per-row AdaLN modality tag, and the two output heads.
 
     The caller is responsible for building the packed layout: patchifying the video latents, ordering the rows, and
-    producing the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags and the per-row timestep indices. Padding rows
-    (tag `-1`) are kept in a separate attention document, matching the reference implementation, which pads to a
-    multiple of 64 for FlashAttention with `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`. Prefer dropping them — a padless sequence needs
-    no attention mask, keeping the unmasked attention backends available.
+    producing the `(t, h, w)` position grid, the per-row modality tags and the per-row timestep indices. The sequence
+    carries no padding — the reference implementation pads it to a multiple of 64 for FlashAttention and splits the
+    tail off with `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`, which this port has no use for — so attention runs unmasked over one
+    document and every attention backend stays available.
 
     The batch axis is a pure replication axis: the structural arguments (`timestep`, `timestep_indices`, `token_tags`,
     `position_ids` and the three index tensors) describe one packed layout that every batch item shares, and each item
@@ -557,8 +556,7 @@ def forward(
             timestep_indices (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(seq_len,)`):
                 For every row of the packed sequence, the index of its timestep in `timestep`.
             token_tags (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(seq_len,)`):
-                For every row of the packed sequence, its modality: `0` video, `1` text, `2` audio, `-1` padding.
-                Padding rows form their own attention document and never reach the outputs.
+                For every row of the packed sequence, its modality: `0` video, `1` text, `2` audio.
             position_ids (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(seq_len, 3)`):
                 The `(t, h, w)` rotary coordinates of every row of the packed sequence.
             video_indices (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(num_video_tokens,)`):
@@ -610,27 +608,16 @@ def forward(
         temb = self.time_proj(timestep)
         temb = self.time_embedder(temb.to(self.time_embedder.linear_1.weight.dtype))
 
-        # 3. Row -> AdaLN table row. `clamp(min=0)` mirrors the reference, where padding rows carry the tag `-1`; the
-        # clamp keeps the `-1` from indexing backwards (padding rows never reach the outputs, which are selected by
-        # `video_indices` / `audio_indices`).
-        adaln_indices = timestep_indices * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM + token_tags.clamp(min=0)
-
-        # 4. Padding rows (tag `-1`) must not exchange attention with live rows: the reference keeps the padding tail
-        # as a separate attention document (`cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`). A boolean mask that pairs live rows with live
-        # rows and padding rows with padding rows reproduces that split exactly. Padless sequences keep `None` so the
-        # unmasked fast paths (flash & co.) stay available.
-        attention_mask = None
-        is_pad = token_tags < 0
-        if bool(is_pad.any()):
-            attention_mask = is_pad[None, :] == is_pad[:, None]
+        # 3. Row -> AdaLN table row.
+        adaln_indices = timestep_indices * MINIMAX_H3_MODALITY_NUM + token_tags
 
         for block in self.transformer_blocks:
             if torch.is_grad_enabled() and self.gradient_checkpointing:
                 hidden_states = self._gradient_checkpointing_func(
-                    block, hidden_states, temb, adaln_indices, rotary_emb, attention_mask
+                    block, hidden_states, temb, adaln_indices, rotary_emb
                 )
             else:
-                hidden_states = block(hidden_states, temb, adaln_indices, rotary_emb, attention_mask)
+                hidden_states = block(hidden_states, temb, adaln_indices, rotary_emb)
 
         # 5. Both heads run over every row, then the rows of each modality are selected. The heads are listed in
         # `_keep_in_fp32_modules`, so they stay float32 while the block stack runs in the requested `torch_dtype`;
diff --git a/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py b/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
index f7a5b1d6f65d..87098764d8a6 100644
--- a/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
+++ b/tests/models/transformers/test_models_transformer_minimax_h3.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-import pytest
 import torch
 
 from diffusers import MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
@@ -34,8 +33,8 @@
 enable_full_determinism()
 
 
-# The packed layout the dummy inputs describe: a text block, then the audio rows, then the target video rows. It is
-# the layout `MiniMaxH3Blocks` builds, minus the padding tail the blocks never emit.
+# The packed layout the dummy inputs describe: a text block, then the audio rows, then the target video rows, which
+# is the layout `MiniMaxH3Blocks` builds.
 NUM_TEXT_TOKENS = 4
 NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS = 6
 NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS = 8
@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ def get_packed_layout(self, num_video_tokens: int = NUM_VIDEO_TOKENS) -> dict:
         The transformer does not build the layout itself: the caller orders the rows, tags every row with its
         modality and its noise level, and hands over the `(t, h, w)` grid plus the three index tensors. The layout
         here mirrors what the pipelines pack, with two distinct timesteps so the `(timestep, modality)` AdaLN table
-        is addressed on more than one row, and without a padding tail so attention needs no mask.
+        is addressed on more than one row.
         """
         sequence_length = NUM_TEXT_TOKENS + NUM_AUDIO_TOKENS + num_video_tokens
         text_indices = torch.arange(NUM_TEXT_TOKENS, device=torch_device)
@@ -161,41 +160,6 @@ def test_output_format(self):
         torch.testing.assert_close(output.sample, output_tuple[0])
         torch.testing.assert_close(output.audio_sample, output_tuple[1])
 
-    @torch.no_grad()
-    def test_padding_rows_form_their_own_attention_document(self):
-        r"""
-        A padding tail (tag `-1`) must not change the live rows.
-
-        The reference pads the packed sequence to a multiple of 64 for FlashAttention and splits it with
-        `cu_seqlens = [0, used, S]`; the port reproduces that split with a boolean mask. Appending padding rows to a
-        layout therefore has to leave the video and audio predictions of the live rows untouched.
-        """
-        model = self.model_class(**self.get_init_dict()).to(torch_device).eval()
-        inputs = self.get_dummy_inputs()
-        padless_output = model(**inputs, return_dict=False)
-
-        num_padding_rows = 3
-        sequence_length = inputs["position_ids"].shape[0]
-        padded = dict(inputs)
-        padded["token_tags"] = torch.cat(
-            [inputs["token_tags"], torch.full((num_padding_rows,), -1, dtype=torch.long, device=torch_device)]
-        )
-        padded["timestep_indices"] = torch.cat(
-            [inputs["timestep_indices"], torch.zeros(num_padding_rows, dtype=torch.long, device=torch_device)]
-        )
-        padded["position_ids"] = torch.cat(
-            [
-                inputs["position_ids"],
-                torch.arange(
-                    sequence_length, sequence_length + num_padding_rows, dtype=torch.float32, device=torch_device
-                )[:, None].repeat(1, 3),
-            ]
-        )
-        padded_output = model(**padded, return_dict=False)
-
-        for padless, padded_ in zip(padless_output, padded_output):
-            torch.testing.assert_close(padless, padded_, atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-5)
-
 
 class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerMemory(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, MemoryTesterMixin):
     """Memory optimization tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer."""
@@ -215,25 +179,4 @@ class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerAttention(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, Attent
 
 
 class TestMiniMaxH3TransformerTorchCompile(MiniMaxH3TransformerTesterConfig, TorchCompileTesterMixin):
-    """Torch compile tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer.
-
-    Regional compilation (`compile_repeated_blocks`) and full-model compilation with graph breaks allowed both work.
-    Whole-model `fullgraph=True` and `torch.export` do not: `forward` decides whether the packed sequence needs an
-    attention mask with `if bool(is_pad.any())`, reading the padding tag out of `token_tags`, and a data-dependent
-    branch has no fullgraph representation. Dropping the branch is not an option, because a padless sequence has to
-    keep `attention_mask=None` so the unmasked flash and sage backends stay available.
-    """
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "`forward` branches on `bool(is_pad.any())` to decide whether the packed sequence needs an attention mask, "
-        "which `fullgraph=True` cannot trace. Regional compilation is covered by "
-        "`test_torch_compile_repeated_blocks`."
-    )
-    def test_torch_compile_recompilation_and_graph_break(self):
-        pass
-
-    @pytest.mark.skip(
-        "`torch.export` hits the same data-dependent `bool(is_pad.any())` branch as `fullgraph=True` compilation."
-    )
-    def test_compile_works_with_aot(self, tmp_path):
-        pass
+    """Torch compile tests for the MiniMax-H3 transformer."""

From f37ab93e621d5ce206c9662e8291ca8b67d9c555 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: YiYi Xu <yixu310@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 06:36:03 -1000
Subject: [PATCH 21/21] Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Steven Liu <59462357+stevhliu@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md | 2 +-
 docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md | 2 +-
 docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md            | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md
index 2fc7f4a07a69..97220ee8c04c 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoderkl_minimax_h3.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
 
 # AutoencoderKLMiniMaxH3
 
-The video variational autoencoder (VAE) model with KL loss used in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) by MiniMax. It pairs a causal 3D CNN encoder with a non-causal ViT decoder and compresses 16x spatially and 4x temporally.
+The video variational autoencoder (VAE) model with KL loss used in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3) by MiniMax. It pairs a causal 3D CNN encoder with a non-causal ViT decoder and compresses 16x spatially and 4x temporally.
 
 Three things set it apart from most autoencoders in the library:
 
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md b/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
index b027a6ed0f0c..423e8fdc5837 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/models/minimax_h3_transformer3d.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
 
 # MiniMaxH3Transformer3DModel
 
-A Diffusion Transformer model for joint video and audio generation, introduced in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) by MiniMax.
+A Diffusion Transformer model for joint video and audio generation, introduced in [MiniMax-H3](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3) by MiniMax.
 
 MiniMax-H3 runs a single stack of blocks over **one packed 1-D sequence** that holds the text conditioning, the conditioning image and video rows, the audio rows and the target video rows at once. Attention is full self-attention over that sequence, so there is no cross-attention and no per-modality block weights. Modality-specific behaviour comes only from the two input patch projections, the per-row modality tag that selects the AdaLN modulation parameters, and the two output heads.
 
diff --git a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
index a99f14703b3f..5e027004b825 100644
--- a/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
+++ b/docs/source/en/api/pipelines/minimax_h3.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
 > `pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers.git@refs/pull/14355/head`
 
 
-MiniMax-H3 generates video and its soundtrack **jointly**. One transformer denoises a single packed sequence that holds the text conditioning, the conditioning image, video and audio rows, the target audio rows and the target video rows at once, with full self-attention over all of it. There is no separate vocoder and no audio post-hoc pass: video and audio come out of the same denoising loop.
+MiniMax-H3 generates video and its soundtrack together. A single transformer denoises one packed sequence containing the text conditioning, conditioning media, and target video and audio latents. There is no separate vocoder and no audio post-hoc pass: video and audio come out of the same denoising loop.
 
 You can find the original MiniMax-H3 checkpoints under the [MiniMaxAI](https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI) organization.