arXiv Machine Learning By Andrey Shutkin, Denis Parkhomenko, Ivan Kirillov, Kirill Chernyshev, Kirill Malakhov, Ilia Vasiliev, Ilia Trushkin, Valeriya Kobenko, David Chikovani, Alexander Ivanov, Azat Saginbaev, Egor Silvestrov, Ivan Mikheev, Konstantin Zakharov

KVAE: Family of Tokenizers for Multimodal Generative Models

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arXiv:2608. 05798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent diffusion modeling (LDM), a prominent paradigm, utilizes tokenizers to map input signal to compressed representation.

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