As someone currently working on their own VAE, you reasoning for why you went with WAN 2.1 and your learnings for what you think you did wrong really resonated with me, specifically:

> Looking back, we should have just filtered out these samples from the dataset and moved on.

I hadn't even considered to look and see if poor data quality was resulting in an inability to recreate. This is a good gotchya to look out for. Appreciate the deep dive here!