LoopVAE introduces a recurrent depth architecture that reuses a scale‑ and loop‑conditioned core across different spatial scales while keeping resolution‑changing transitions separate. The four‑block core applies 28 block operations per encoder or decoder, enabling a 29M‑parameter convolutional model to achieve 0.28 rFID and 32.54 dB PSNR on ImageNet‑256 with roughly 65% fewer parameters than comparable VAEs. Experiments with both convolutional and Transformer operators, as well as ablations on parameter sharing, demonstrate competitive image quality metrics and reveal how targeted loop interventions and truncation affect reconstruction quality and computational trade‑offs.
arXiv:2606. 01503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual understanding and visual generation within a single autoregressive backbone, but their joint training is computationally expensive and largely overlooked from an efficiency perspective.
The paper introduces Gated Recurrent Transformers, a depth‑sharing architecture that brackets a single shared core with fixed prelude and coda blocks and uses a lightweight projection and element‑wise update gate to modulate recurrent updates. This design allows functional specialization across recurrences while reducing memory footprint. Experiments show that, under equal FLOPs or parameter budgets, the recurrent model matches or surpasses deeper GPT‑2 Small baselines, achieving similar or better accuracy with fewer parameters and lower peak decoding memory.
arXiv:2608. 15062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency.
arXiv:2607. 26596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities by integrating visual and textual understanding within a unified transformer architecture.
arXiv:2608.15062v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling transformer language models creates an inherent tension between expressivity and memory efficiency. While unique weights across layer...
arXiv:2607. 25527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unifying visual understanding and generation in one model holds immense promise, but remains challenging and expensive due to heavy compute and data demands and conflicts between the visual features needed for these two capabilities.
PACE introduces a training‑free Condense‑and‑Extract framework that speeds up Vision‑Language Model inference by first adaptively downsampling visual inputs before encoding and then selectively retaining essential tokens during decoding. The Adaptive Pixel Compressor (APC) reduces encoder workload while preserving global context, and the Dynamic Dual‑Attention Extractor (DDAE) keeps task‑critical details by fusing visual and language signals. Applied to Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, PACE maintains 93.8% of performance using only 10% of visual tokens, achieving a 3.1× speedup in time to first token.
arXiv:2609.05916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) achieve strong multimodal understanding, but the hundreds to thousands of visual tokens they process impose subs...
CrossMambaTuning is a new framework that adapts pretrained learned image compression models to machine vision tasks with minimal retraining. It combines State Space Models with cross‑layer interaction, featuring a Mamba adapter that uses task‑specific prompts and multi‑scale branching, and a Scale‑Invariant Cross‑Layer Adapter (SICA) that shares parameters across scales to reduce redundancy. Experiments show that this approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance while cutting parameter overhead by 72% compared to existing methods.
Modern computer vision pipelines remain fragmented, with tasks such as text-to-image generation, editing, restoration, and classical perception handled by separate models. We study Unified Visual Generation (UVG), where a single model produces diverse image-valued outputs through a unified multimodal interface.
Vision-language models commonly project all tokens produced by a pretrained vision encoder into a large language model. However, final-layer features can discard text, local attributes, and spatial relationships, while high-resolution inputs substantially increase context length and inference latency.
arXiv:2608. 09369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual object tracking requires effective temporal integration, yet most Transformer trackers still rely on predominantly feed-forward feature extraction.