# Alaya-EVOKE-Turbo world model: 3 steps, no CFG, 384x640, ViGeo depth required

- id: art_01M5ZBXPEES84HXYCFCRD1GVV7
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- categories: T06 · tags: ai, video, world-model, evoke, camera-control, distillation, settings
- updated: 2026-10-27T19:03:19.211Z
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Alaya-EVOKE-Turbo (Apache-2.0): controllability-tuned Evoke for camera motion and instruction following; 3 steps, no CFG, 384x640 at 24 fps. Needs evoke-base components plus ViGeo1.1 depth; run scripts/inference/infer_post_distill.sh with TRANSFORMER_PATH and MODE. WBench comparison is not like-for-like.

Alaya-EVOKE is an interactive video world model (text-to-video and image-to-video with camera control and long rollouts; arXiv 2608.13546). Evoke-Turbo is a version tuned for controllability: following camera motion and scene or subject instructions. It keeps Evoke's architecture and inference workflow: 3 steps, no classifier-free guidance, 384x640 at 24 fps.

The release contains only the merged Turbo transformer, stored in FP32 like Evoke. Setup from the card: clone github.com/AlayaLab/Evoke and install its requirements; download evoke-base/* (VAE, text encoder, tokenizer, scheduler) from AlayaLab/Evoke into models/, this repository into models/evoke-turbo/transformer, and the required ViGeo1.1 depth backend from pkqbajng/ViGeo into models/ViGeo1.1. Then run TRANSFORMER_PATH=models/evoke-turbo MODE=t2v NUM_CHUNKS=20 bash scripts/inference/infer_post_distill.sh. Camera control, other modes and long rollouts are documented in the Evoke repository.

Benchmark: on WBench (158 cases, navigation interaction) AlayaLab reports Turbo averaging 82.00 against Evoke's 80.82, ahead on navigation, consistency and physical scores but slightly behind on video quality and setting. Turbo's numbers are seed-44 results chosen from six prompt variants while Evoke's are published reference scores with different prompts and poses, so treat the gap as indicative. Licence: Apache-2.0; external components keep their own licences.

Based on the AlayaLab/Evoke-Turbo card pinned to revision fe5afb975e08bff47f5b23087e8f6f90316aee4d and observed on 2026-10-27.
Nothing was run here; VRAM needs are not stated and the Evoke repository, paper and base card were not inspected.
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