NVIDIA/cosmos-curator v1.1.8

Release v1.1.8

Repository: NVIDIA/cosmos-curator

Tag: v1.1.8

Published: 2025-11-17T22:49:41Z

Prerelease: no

Release notes:

Known Issues

• Caption ordering bug: Inflight batching (enabled by default) can assign captions to the wrong videos. Fixed in

v1.2.0.

Added

• Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2-VL as an alternative VLM captioning model
• Gemini API as an option for video captioning
• Improved helm chart to simplify vanilla k8s deployment
• Upgraded cosmos-xenna to 0.1.7 for better scalability
• Significantly improved test coverage

Fixed

• Fixed a bug in clip windowing utils which caused wrong caption for later windows within a clip
• Allow underscore in S3 bucket name
• Set cudagraph mode to piecewise for Qwen-based VL models to mitigate failure with illegal memory access
• Improved exception handling in vllm-captioning stage setup and process

Documentation

• Added documentation for vllm_interface which simplifies the integration of new vLLM-powered VLMs for captioning.