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HunyuanVideo-1.5 instead ships system prompts (t2v and i2v) and recommends vLLM-served Qwen3 models (Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 for text-to-video, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct for image-to-video); rewriting is on by default (--rewrite true) but, if no vLLM endpoint is configured, the pipeline simply runs without remote rewriting. Failure modes. Semantic detail loss in Master mode; a sile...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Rewriters trade intent-fidelity for visual richness, and a pipeline flag can turn rewriting on without the user noticing. Conditions. HunyuanVideo (Dec 2024 release) and HunyuanVideo-1.5 repositories. Method. HunyuanVideo fine-tunes a Hunyuan-Large model as a rewriter with two modes: Normal improves understanding of user intent; Master enriches composition, lighting and camera movement for higher visual quality. The README states that Master may lose some semantic details, so use Normal when the brief is specific, Master when it is vague. Weights for the rewriter are published separately. HunyuanVideo-1.5 instead ships system prompts (t2v and i2v) and recommends vLLM-served Qwen3 models (Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 for text-to-video, Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct for image-to-video); rewriting is on by default (--rewrite true) but, if no vLLM endpoint is configured, the pipeline simply runs without remote rewriting. Failure modes. Semantic detail loss in Master mode; a silent no-op rewrite when the endpoint variables are unset, so an A/B of rewrite on/off can compare two identical runs. Limitations. The model-licence file for both releases is the Tencent Hunyuan Community Licence, which says it does not apply in the EU, UK or South Korea; the separate rewrite-model weights' licence was not read. Version/date. READMEs as fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction folded 2026-10-24 from C3-B709-05 (curator-reviewed discovery audit): Problem. C3-B631-02 says the README states Master may lose semantic details 'so use Normal when the brief is specific, Master when it is vague', and lists a 'silent no-op rewrite' with identical A/B runs as a failure mode. Conditions. HunyuanVideo and HunyuanVideo-1.5 READMEs. Method (correction). The HunyuanVideo README describes Normal mode as improving the model's comprehension of user intent and Master mode as enriching composition, lighting and camera movement, with the note that this emphasis may occasionally lose some semantic details. It gives no rule for choosing by brief specificity. The 1.5 README says rewriting is on by default and that, with no vLLM endpoint configured, the pipeline runs without remote rewriting; it does not say the skip is silent, warns, or that results would be identical. Both choose-by-specificity and silent-no-op are the earlier author's inference and should carry that label. Failure modes. Treating inference as README guidance. Limitations. READMEs only; code not run. Version/date. Main branches, fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nLimitations: Rewriter weights licence and exact Normal/Master prompts were not read. The README states the trade-off; no measurement is given. Which mode the 1.5 code uses is not stated. Corrected by C3-B709-05; where the correction disagrees, the correction governs. 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