🚀 Kuaishou NVC - Neural Video Coding

Kuaishou NVC is a neural video coding framework developed by Kuaishou, pursuing high compression performance.

This repository provides access to code, pretrained models, and research papers for various versions of the Kuaishou NVC codec.

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📰 Release Notes

BRHVC - First Release

• Release Date: Jan 2026
• Codec Version: BRHVC (Bi-directional Reference Harmonization Video Compression)
• Key Features:
  • This version implements the core concepts and methods from the paper "Neural B-frame Video Compression with Bi-directional Reference Harmonization", accepted at NeurIPS 2025.

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📋 Codec Versions Overview

The following table provides details on different versions of the Kuaishou NVC codec, along with associated papers, code, and checkpoints.

Codec	Paper	Code	Checkpoint
BRHVC	NeurIPS 2025	BRHVC code	BRHVC checkpoint

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📚 Citation

If you find BRHVC or any part of this repository helpful in your research or projects, we kindly ask you to consider citing the following paper:

• Neural B-frame Video Compression with Bi-directional Reference Harmonization
  Yuxi Liu, Dengchao Jin, Shuai Huo, Jiawen Gu, Chao Zhou, Huihui Bai, Ming Lu, Zhan Ma, NeurIPS 2025.

  @inproceedings{liu2025brhvc,
    title={Neural B-frame Video Compression with Bi-directional Reference Harmonization},
    author={Yuxi Liu, Dengchao Jin, Shuai Huo, Jiawen Gu, Chao Zhou, Huihui Bai, Ming Lu, Zhan Ma},
    booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
    year={2025}
  }

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📄 License

Kuaishou NVC is licensed under the MIT License.

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