arXiv Computer Vision

VideoRAE: Taming Video Foundation Models for Generative Modeling via Representation Autoencoders

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

V-RAE: Rethinking Video Latent Spaces for Generation

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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

MilliVid: Hierarchical Latents for Long-Range Consistency in Video Generation

arXiv:2606. 09056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generative models have become increasingly powerful, but long-range consistency remains challenging to achieve because even a few dozen frames require impractically long transformer sequence lengths.

By Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya, David Charatan, Basile Van Hoorick, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Phillip Isola, Vincent Sitzmann
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 9

IDEAL: In-DEpth ALignment Makes A Discrete Representation AutoEncoder

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 Computer Vision
Oct 1

Rethinking Generative Image Compression at Extremely Low Bitrates

The paper introduces RAE-CoD, a diffusion-based compression method that operates in a representation autoencoder space to preserve recognizable content even at extremely low bitrates. It addresses the problem of semantic collapse observed in existing codecs when the bitrate approaches zero, showing that reconstruction losses conflict with semantic objectives and that VAE diffusion models lose efficiency in preserving semantics. Experiments on MSCOCO-30K demonstrate that RAE-CoD outperforms competitors, reducing VFM feature MSE and Fréchet Distance ratios by at least 25.7% and 69.1% at 0.001–0.008 bpp while maintaining stable recognizability and quality.

By Tianyu Zhang, Zhaoyang Jia, Houqiang Li, Dong Liu