Built on pretrained vision foundation models (VFMs), representation autoencoders (RAEs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for constructing semantically rich latent spaces for image generation. However, their reconstruction quality often remains suboptimal, largely because deep VFM representations do not preserve sufficient fine-grained visual detail.
arXiv:2609.37775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained visual representations support image generation, but may not fully preserve the fine-grained details needed for faithful reconstruction. M...
arXiv:2607.14088v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video generation models typically rely on 3D-VAEs trained for pixel-level reconstruction, whose latent spaces may underrepresent semantic structure...
arXiv:2609.36756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One-dimensional (1D) variable-length visual tokenizers enable adaptive compression by varying the number of tokens, allowing downstream autoregressiv...
One-dimensional (1D) variable-length visual tokenizers enable adaptive compression by varying the number of tokens, allowing downstream autoregressive (AR) models to flexibly trade off generation qual...
Latent video generation relies on autoencoders to define a compact space in which generative models operate. Although video autoencoder architectures have evolved substantially, their latent spaces are still optimized primarily for pixel-level reconstruction and provide limited high-level semantic organization.
arXiv:2602.20731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Discrete image tokenizers provide a sequential interface for vision and multimodal models, but are typically optimized for reconstruction or...
UVU is a vision-language unified autoregressive framework that integrates visual supervision directly into the pre-training stage of multimodal large language models. By using continuous visual encoding and a large-scale iterative hierarchical clustering algorithm to build a pixel-level visual codebook, UVU enables lossless representation of visual inputs and autoregressive generation of pixel-level image tokens alongside textual tokens. This approach synergizes pixel-level visual perception with semantic-level visual understanding, allowing models to internalize visual reconstruction capabilities and improve multimodal understanding performance.
arXiv:2509. 05441v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Latent generative models compress images into learned embeddings prior to synthesis, and the generation quality critically depends on how faithfully these embeddings preserve visual detail.
arXiv:2605. 26089v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Channel-wise Vector Quantization (CVQ), a novel image tokenization paradigm that replaces patch-wise tokens with channel-wise tokens.
arXiv:2610.01942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the future evolution of a scene is a fundamental capability for world modeling. Recent work has shown that operating in the feature space of...
arXiv:2609.10292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data augmentation is fundamental to training modern deep vision and multimodal models. While individual methods, such as RandAug, CutMix, Mixup, RandEr...
arXiv:2609.31620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representation autoencoders (RAEs) reuse features from a pretrained visual encoder as reconstruction and diffusion latents, integrating strong visual r...