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The quality of the latent space in visual tokenizers (e.g., VAEs) is crucial for modern generative models. However, the standard reconstruction-based training paradigm produces a latent space that is biased towards low-level information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jingfeng Yao , Yuda Song , Yucong Zhou , Xinggang Wang

Visual tokens consume substantial computational resources in multi-modal large models (MLLMs), significantly compromising their efficiency. Recent works have attempted to improve efficiency by compressing visual tokens during training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zichen Wen , Shaobo Wang , Yufa Zhou , Junyuan Zhang , Qintong Zhang , Yifeng Gao , Zhaorun Chen , Bin Wang , Weijia Li , Conghui He , Linfeng Zhang

Video tokenizers are essential for latent video diffusion models, converting raw video data into spatiotemporally compressed latent spaces for efficient training. However, extending state-of-the-art video tokenizers to achieve a temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Aniruddha Mahapatra , Long Mai , David Bourgin , Yitian Zhang , Feng Liu

As an increasing amount of image and video content will be analyzed by machines, there is demand for a new codec paradigm that is capable of compressing visual input primarily for the purpose of computer vision inference, while secondarily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape

In an unpaired setting, lacking sufficient content constraints for image-to-image translation (I2I) tasks, GAN-based approaches are usually prone to model collapse. Current solutions can be divided into two categories, reconstruction-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xiuding Cai , Yaoyao Zhu , Dong Miao , Linjie Fu , Yu Yao

Current image tokenization methods require a large number of tokens to capture the information contained within images. Although the amount of information varies across images, most image tokenizers only support fixed-length tokenization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Keita Miwa , Kento Sasaki , Hidehisa Arai , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yu Yamaguchi

Transformer has been widely used for self-supervised pre-training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and achieved great success. However, it has not been fully explored in visual self-supervised learning. Meanwhile, previous methods only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhaowen Li , Zhiyang Chen , Fan Yang , Wei Li , Yousong Zhu , Chaoyang Zhao , Rui Deng , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Identifying layers within text-to-image models which control visual attributes can facilitate efficient model editing through closed-form updates. Recent work, leveraging causal tracing show that early Stable-Diffusion variants confine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Samyadeep Basu , Keivan Rezaei , Priyatham Kattakinda , Ryan Rossi , Cherry Zhao , Vlad Morariu , Varun Manjunatha , Soheil Feizi

Computer vision tasks such as object detection and semantic/instance segmentation rely on the painstaking annotation of large training datasets. In this paper, we propose LocTex that takes advantage of the low-cost localized textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Zhijian Liu , Simon Stent , Jie Li , John Gideon , Song Han

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in vision understanding and reasoning. However, the autoregressive Transformer architecture used by MLLMs requries tokenization on input images, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiangxuan Ren , Zhongdao Wang , Liping Hou , Pin Tang , Guoqing Wang , Chao Ma

Tokenizer is an essential component for large language models (LLMs), and a tokenizer with a high compression rate can improve the model's representation and processing efficiency. However, the tokenizer cannot ensure high compression rate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shuhao Gu , Mengdi Zhao , Bowen Zhang , Liangdong Wang , Jijie Li , Guang Liu

Stable Diffusion has achieved remarkable success in the field of text-to-image generation, with its powerful generative capabilities and diverse generation results making a lasting impact. However, its iterative denoising introduces high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Evelyn Zhang , Bang Xiao , Jiayi Tang , Qianli Ma , Chang Zou , Xuefei Ning , Xuming Hu , Linfeng Zhang

Text-guided image inpainting aims to inpaint masked image regions based on a textual prompt while preserving the background. Although diffusion-based methods have become dominant, their property of modeling the entire image in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Longtao Jiang , Jie Huang , Mingfei Han , Lei Chen , Yongqiang Yu , Feng Zhao , Xiaojun Chang , Zhihui Li

Encoding video content into compact latent tokens has become a fundamental step in video generation and understanding, driven by the need to address the inherent redundancy in pixel-level representations. Consequently, there is a growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Anni Tang , Tianyu He , Junliang Guo , Xinle Cheng , Li Song , Jiang Bian

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have reached an unprecedented level in generating high-quality images. However, their exclusive reliance on textual prompts often falls short in precise control of image compositions. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Peiang Zhao , Han Li , Ruiyang Jin , S. Kevin Zhou

Reasoning goes beyond language; the real world requires reasoning about space, time, affordances, and much more that words alone cannot convey. Existing multimodal models exploring the potential of reasoning with images are brittle and do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Arijit Ray , Ahmed Abdelkader , Chengzhi Mao , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko , Ranjay Krishna , Leonidas Guibas , Wen-Sheng Chu

Recently, token-based generation have demonstrated their effectiveness in image synthesis. As a representative example, non-autoregressive Transformers (NATs) can generate decent-quality images in a few steps. NATs perform generation in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Yizeng Han , Jiayi Guo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang

Recent multimodal models for instruction-based face editing enable semantic manipulation but still struggle with precise attribute control and identity preservation. Structural facial representations such as landmarks are effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhenghao Zhang , Ziying Zhang , Junchao Liao , Xiangyu Meng , Qiang Hu , Siyu Zhu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Long Qin , Weizhi Wang

Tokenizing images into compact visual representations is a key step in learning efficient and high-quality image generative models. We present a simple diffusion tokenizer (DiTo) that learns compact visual representations for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yinbo Chen , Rohit Girdhar , Xiaolong Wang , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra