LPM: Industrial-Scale Generative Video Restoration

Jul 16, 2026

Kuaishou's Large Processing Model (LPM) is a diffusion-based generative framework for photorealistic video restoration, designed to handle diverse, real-world degradations in user-generated content. LPM is reportedly the first generative video restoration model deployed at industrial scale, processing videos that account for about 45% of total viewing time on Kuaishou. The system achieves a 20% bitrate reduction compared to Kuaishou's in-house codec, resulting in substantial annual bandwidth cost savings.

Why it matters: This work demonstrates the first industrial-scale deployment of generative video restoration, showing that such models can deliver practical, scalable, and cost-effective improvements in large-scale video processing.

Full story at: arXiv Computer Vision ↗