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Support Tiny VAE (taeh3.safetensors) for high-quality latent previews using MiniMax H3

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Description

### Feature Idea

Add support for the MiniMax H3 Tiny VAE (taeh3.safetensors) to enable high-quality previews of MiniMax H3 latents during sampling.

Currently, previewing MiniMax H3 latents without the Tiny VAE results in poor-quality or unusable previews. The Tiny VAE provides a lightweight way to decode intermediate latents into meaningful video previews.

**Expected behavior:**
Detect/load taeh3.safetensors from ComfyUI/models/vae_approx
Display substantially higher-quality previews during sampling.

taeh3.safetensors link:
https://github.com/madebyollin/taehv/blob/main/safetensors/taeh3.safetensors

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Research direction

Start by tracing how ComfyUI discovers and loads files in ComfyUI/models/vae_approx, using the existing approximate-VAE preview handling as the comparison point. Confirm that taeh3.safetensors is detected and loaded for MiniMax H3 latents, then verify that sampling previews are substantially higher quality than without it.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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