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Recent advances in latent diffusion models have demonstrated their effectiveness for high-resolution image synthesis. However, the properties of the latent space from tokenizer for better learning and generation of diffusion models remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hao Chen , Yujin Han , Fangyi Chen , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Ze Wang , Zicheng Liu , Difan Zou , Bhiksha Raj

Image tokenization, the process of transforming raw image pixels into a compact low-dimensional latent representation, has proven crucial for scalable and efficient image generation. However, mainstream image tokenization methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kaiwen Zha , Lijun Yu , Alireza Fathi , David A. Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Dina Katabi , Xiuye Gu

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveraging their potential for real-world content creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Sandra Zhang Ding , Jiafeng Mao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Vision tokenizers have gained a lot of attraction due to their scalability and compactness; previous works depend on old-school GAN-based hyperparameters, biased comparisons, and a lack of comprehensive analysis of the scaling behaviours.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jiangtao Wang , Zhen Qin , Yifan Zhang , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer , Rania Briq , Stefan Kesselheim

Visual tokenizers play a central role in latent image generation by bridging high-dimensional images and tractable generative modeling. However, most existing tokenizers are still trained with reconstruction-dominated objectives, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Qingfeng Li , Haoxian Zhang , Xu He , Songlin Tang , Zhixue Fang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan Guoqi Li

Autoregressive transformers have revolutionized high-fidelity image generation. One crucial ingredient lies in the tokenizer, which compresses high-resolution image patches into manageable discrete tokens with a scanning or hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinzhi Zhang , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu

We introduce a new metric to assess the quality of generated images that is more reliable, data-efficient, compute-efficient, and adaptable to new domains than the previous metrics, such as Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID). The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Pranav Jeevan , Neeraj Nixon , Amit Sethi

In this study, we focus on sampling from the latent space of generative models built upon autoencoders so as the reconstructed samples are lifelike images. To do to, we introduce a novel post-training sampling algorithm rooted in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Aymene Mohammed Bouayed , Adrian Iaccovelli , David Naccache

Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques have the promise to revolutionize the field of digital pathology. However, these models demand considerable amounts of data, while the availability of unbiased training data is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Nati Daniel , Eliel Aknin , Ariel Larey , Yoni Peretz , Guy Sela , Yael Fisher , Yonatan Savir

With the ability to generate high-quality images, text-to-image (T2I) models can be exploited for creating inappropriate content. To prevent misuse, existing safety measures are either based on text blacklists, which can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Runtao Liu , Ashkan Khakzar , Jindong Gu , Qifeng Chen , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati

Visual generative and understanding models typically rely on distinct tokenizers to process images, presenting a key challenge for unifying them within a single framework. Recent studies attempt to address this by connecting the training of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chuofan Ma , Yi Jiang , Junfeng Wu , Jihan Yang , Xin Yu , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Xiaojuan Qi

There is an emerging trend to leverage noisy image datasets in many visual recognition tasks. However, the label noise among the datasets severely degenerates the \mbox{performance of deep} learning approaches. Recently, one mainstream is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Jiangchao Yao , Jiajie Wang , Ivor Tsang , Ya Zhang , Jun Sun , Chengqi Zhang , Rui Zhang

Image tokenization has significantly advanced visual generation and multimodal modeling, particularly when paired with autoregressive models. However, current methods face challenges in balancing efficiency and fidelity: high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qingsong Xie , Zhao Zhang , Zhe Huang , Yanhao Zhang , Haonan Lu , Zhenyu Yang

Scaling up autoregressive models in vision has not proven as beneficial as in large language models. In this work, we investigate this scaling problem in the context of text-to-image generation, focusing on two critical factors: whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Lijie Fan , Tianhong Li , Siyang Qin , Yuanzhen Li , Chen Sun , Michael Rubinstein , Deqing Sun , Kaiming He , Yonglong Tian

Current image generation methods are based on a two-stage training approach. In stage 1, an auto-encoder is trained to compress an image into a latent space; in stage 2, a generative model is trained to learn a distribution over that latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Vivek Ramanujan , Kushal Tirumala , Armen Aghajanyan , Luke Zettlemoyer , Ali Farhadi

Normalizing Flows (NFs) learn invertible mappings between the data and a Gaussian distribution. Prior works usually suffer from two limitations. First, they add random noise to training samples or VAE latents as data augmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Qinyu Zhao , Guangting Zheng , Tao Yang , Rui Zhu , Xingjian Leng , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jaeyoung Yoo , Hojun Lee , Nojun Kwak

Tokenizers are a key component of state-of-the-art generative image models, extracting the most important features from the signal while reducing data dimension and redundancy. Most current tokenizers are based on KL-regularized variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Théophane Vallaeys , Jakob Verbeek , Matthieu Cord

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but their practical application is often hindered by the slow sampling speed. Prior efforts of improving efficiency primarily focus on compressing models or reducing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiuyi Xu , Qing Jin , Meida Chen , Andrew Feng , Yang Sui , Yangming Shi

Latent variable generative models have emerged as powerful tools for generative tasks including image and video synthesis. These models are enabled by pretrained autoencoders that map high resolution data into a compressed lower dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohammed Suhail , Carlos Esteves , Leonid Sigal , Ameesh Makadia