NanoGen unifies DiT training on ImageNet and T2I, reveals negative Pearson correlations (-0.377 to -0.580) in method rankings across metrics from 21 models, and motivates DiffusionBench for holistic evaluation.
Both semantics and reconstruction matter: Making representation encoders ready for text-to-image generation and editing
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ForensicConcept extracts and transfers forensic concepts from AIGI detectors via Transformer attribution, concept codebooks, CleanDIFT references, and CKNNA alignment to improve detection on unseen generators.
Spatial Gram Alignment aligns internal self-similarities of LDM features with foundation priors to reconcile global structure and fine details in ultra-high-resolution text-to-image synthesis.
RAE v2 reaches gFID 1.06 on ImageNet-256 in 80 epochs by combining multi-layer encoder sums, complementary REPA targets, and free guidance via output reparameterization.
A learned 32-channel semantic compression lets a normalizing flow reach gFID 1.65 on ImageNet 256×256, the best FID reported for flow-based image generation.
Prior-Aligned AutoEncoders shape latent manifolds with spatial coherence, local continuity, and global semantics to improve latent diffusion, achieving SOTA gFID 1.03 on ImageNet 256x256 with up to 13x faster convergence.
SPAR introduces a semantic-pixel self-alignment tokenizer and dynamic token routing to create a unified multimodal model that performs both understanding and generation at claimed state-of-the-art levels.
Lens is a 3.8B-parameter text-to-image model that reaches competitive or superior performance to >6B-parameter systems using 19.3% of the training compute of Z-Image through a densely captioned 800M dataset, multi-resolution batching, semantic VAE, strong language encoder, RL fine-tuning, and 4-step
Semantic latent spaces from pretrained encoders outperform reconstruction-based spaces for robotic world models on planning and downstream policy performance.
PV-VAE improves video latent spaces for generation by unifying reconstruction with future-frame prediction, reporting 52% faster convergence and 34.42 FVD gain over Wan2.2 VAE on UCF101.
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DiffusionBench: On Holistic Evaluation of Diffusion Transformers
NanoGen unifies DiT training on ImageNet and T2I, reveals negative Pearson correlations (-0.377 to -0.580) in method rankings across metrics from 21 models, and motivates DiffusionBench for holistic evaluation.
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ForensicConcept: Transferable Forensic Concepts for AIGI Detection
ForensicConcept extracts and transfers forensic concepts from AIGI detectors via Transformer attribution, concept codebooks, CleanDIFT references, and CKNNA alignment to improve detection on unseen generators.
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Spatial Gram Alignment for Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis
Spatial Gram Alignment aligns internal self-similarities of LDM features with foundation priors to reconcile global structure and fine details in ultra-high-resolution text-to-image synthesis.
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Improved Baselines with Representation Autoencoders
RAE v2 reaches gFID 1.06 on ImageNet-256 in 80 epochs by combining multi-layer encoder sums, complementary REPA targets, and free guidance via output reparameterization.
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SRC-Flow: Compact Semantic Representations Enable Normalizing Flows for Image Generation
A learned 32-channel semantic compression lets a normalizing flow reach gFID 1.65 on ImageNet 256×256, the best FID reported for flow-based image generation.
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What Matters for Diffusion-Friendly Latent Manifold? Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion
Prior-Aligned AutoEncoders shape latent manifolds with spatial coherence, local continuity, and global semantics to improve latent diffusion, achieving SOTA gFID 1.03 on ImageNet 256x256 with up to 13x faster convergence.
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SPAR: Semantic-Pixel Self-Alignment and Adaptive Routing for Unified Multimodal Models
SPAR introduces a semantic-pixel self-alignment tokenizer and dynamic token routing to create a unified multimodal model that performs both understanding and generation at claimed state-of-the-art levels.
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Lens: Rethinking Training Efficiency for Foundational Text-to-Image Models
Lens is a 3.8B-parameter text-to-image model that reaches competitive or superior performance to >6B-parameter systems using 19.3% of the training compute of Z-Image through a densely captioned 800M dataset, multi-resolution batching, semantic VAE, strong language encoder, RL fine-tuning, and 4-step
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Reconstruction or Semantics? What Makes a Latent Space Useful for Robotic World Models
Semantic latent spaces from pretrained encoders outperform reconstruction-based spaces for robotic world models on planning and downstream policy performance.
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Video Generation with Predictive Latents
PV-VAE improves video latent spaces for generation by unifying reconstruction with future-frame prediction, reporting 52% faster convergence and 34.42 FVD gain over Wan2.2 VAE on UCF101.