arXiv AI
2d ago

V-Co: A Closer Look at Visual Representation Alignment via Co-Denoising

V-Co investigates visual co-denoising for pixel-space diffusion models, using a unified JiT-based framework to isolate key design choices. The study identifies two essential components: a dual-stream architecture with flexible cross-stream interaction and a perceptual-drifting hybrid loss combined with RMS-based feature rescaling for stronger semantic supervision. Experiments on ImageNet-256 demonstrate that V-Co surpasses baseline pixel-space diffusion and strong prior pixel-diffusion methods at comparable model sizes while requiring fewer training epochs.

By Han Lin, Xichen Pan, Zun Wang, Yue Zhang, Chu Wang, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Token-Oriented Semantic Communication with Pretrained Vision Transformers

The paper introduces a token‑oriented semantic communication framework that transmits only task‑relevant image latents instead of full token embeddings, reducing communication cost and improving interoperability. It leverages a spatial alignment between vision transformer patch tokens and learned image compression latents, enabling token‑level relevance estimation and selective transmission. Experiments on ImageNet demonstrate a superior rate–accuracy trade‑off compared to existing semantic communication methods and hand‑crafted codecs.

By Jiwoong Im, Minwoo Kim, Jaeho Lee, Yo-Seb Jeon, Yongjune Kim
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Efficient Training with Foresight: Multi-Token Auxiliary Supervision for Autoregressive Image Generation

The paper introduces MTAR, a training framework for autoregressive image generation that enhances performance through multi-token prediction, token-level contrastive regularization, and semantic dropping. These components address sparse supervision, improve representation discriminability, and accelerate training without affecting inference. On ImageNet, MTAR outperforms LlamaGen with lower FID and faster training, achieving comparable results in only a third of the iterations.

By Guo Niu, Xiongfei Yao, Teng Wang, Nannan Zhu