PairAlign learns compact audio token sequences via self-alignment of paired content views using an autoregressive decoder, achieving strong cross-view consistency and edit-distance preservation while reducing token count by 55% on TIMIT.
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Language Model Beats Diffusion -- Tokenizer is Key to Visual Generation
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While Large Language Models (LLMs) are the dominant models for generative tasks in language, they do not perform as well as diffusion models on image and video generation. To effectively use LLMs for visual generation, one crucial component is the visual tokenizer that maps pixel-space inputs to discrete tokens appropriate for LLM learning. In this paper, we introduce MAGVIT-v2, a video tokenizer designed to generate concise and expressive tokens for both videos and images using a common token vocabulary. Equipped with this new tokenizer, we show that LLMs outperform diffusion models on standard image and video generation benchmarks including ImageNet and Kinetics. In addition, we demonstrate that our tokenizer surpasses the previously top-performing video tokenizer on two more tasks: (1) video compression comparable to the next-generation video codec (VCC) according to human evaluations, and (2) learning effective representations for action recognition tasks.
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CogVideoX generates coherent 10-second text-to-video outputs at high resolution using a 3D VAE, expert adaptive LayerNorm transformer, progressive training, and a custom data pipeline, claiming state-of-the-art results.
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Open-Sora releases an open-source video generation model based on a Spatial-Temporal Diffusion Transformer that decouples spatial and temporal attention, supporting text-to-video, image-to-video, and text-to-image tasks with claimed high fidelity.
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