arxiv: 2605.10780 · v2 · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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Beyond the Last Layer: Multi-Layer Representation Fusion for Visual Tokenization

Jing Jin, Xuanyu Zhu, Yan Bai, Yang Shi, Yihang Lou, Yuanxing Zhang, Yuan Zhou

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keywords visual tokenizationmulti-layer fusionrepresentation autoencodersimage reconstructiongenerative modelsscaling lawsDRoRAE

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The pith

Fusing features from all layers of a vision encoder recovers attenuated low-level details and improves tokenization quality.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Standard visual tokenizers built on pretrained encoders take features only from the final layer, where low-level image details have been reduced to weak residuals after layers of semantic processing. The paper shows that a dedicated fusion module can combine information across every encoder layer to rebuild richer representations while remaining compatible with a frozen decoder. This produces measurable gains in reconstruction fidelity and downstream generation quality on ImageNet, plus a consistent scaling relationship between fusion capacity and performance. A sympathetic reader would care because the method extracts more value from existing pretrained encoders without requiring full retraining of the entire system.

Core claim

Representation autoencoders that reuse frozen pretrained vision encoders as visual tokenizers achieve strong results yet discard hierarchical information by extracting only from the last layer. Low-level visual details persist in that final layer only as attenuated residuals. Explicitly fusing multi-layer features through an adaptive module recovers this information and yields an enriched latent that a frozen decoder can exploit, producing better reconstruction and generation.

What carries the argument

DRoRAE, a lightweight fusion module that adaptively aggregates all encoder layers via energy-constrained routing and incremental correction to produce an enriched latent.

If this is right

rFID on ImageNet-256 falls from 0.57 to 0.29.
Generation FID improves from 1.74 to 1.65 under AutoGuidance.
Quality gains transfer to text-to-image synthesis.
Reconstruction quality follows a log-linear scaling law with fusion capacity at R² = 0.86.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Representation richness emerges as an independent scaling dimension that could be increased separately from model size or training data volume.
The same layer-fusion pattern may apply to hierarchical encoders in other modalities such as audio or video.
Decoupled training stages could become routine when adapting frozen components to richer intermediate representations.

Load-bearing premise

The enriched latent from the fusion module remains compatible with a frozen pretrained decoder and the three-phase decoupled training lets the decoder exploit the richer input without new distribution mismatches or instabilities.

What would settle it

Measure reconstruction quality when feeding the enriched latents to the original frozen decoder with no decoder fine-tuning step; if quality fails to improve or degrades, the compatibility claim is false.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.10780 by Jing Jin, Xuanyu Zhu, Yan Bai, Yang Shi, Yihang Lou, Yuanxing Zhang, Yuan Zhou.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Motivation. Existing representation autoencoders extract only last-layer features, where low-level details are progressively diluted by semantic transformations. DRoRAE fuses features across all layers to assemble a richer latent per spatial token. This observation suggests a natural direction: explicitly fusing features from multiple depth levels to assemble a latent representation richer than any single … view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of DRoRAE. A frozen DINOv2 backbone extracts multi-layer token features, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Three-phase decoupled training strategy. Phase 1 trains only the decoder. Phase 2 freezes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Scaling behavior of the fusion module. (a) Increasing expert hidden dimension with all 12 layers fused shows log-linear improvement in rFID (R2 = 0.86). (b) Adding more layers with fixed expert capacity yields consistent gains. (c) Both axes collapse onto a unified log-linear scaling law when plotted against total trainable parameters (R2 = 0.59). without harming the distributional regularity established i… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Frequency domain comparison. Spectral difference maps (reconstruction FFT − original FFT; darker = better preserved). RAE loses energy in mid-to-high frequency bands; DRoRAE maintains more uniform spectral fidelity (lower MAD). Frequency domain analysis. The qualitative reconstruction comparison ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Routing weight visualization. Router logits for selected layers (red = adoption, blue = suppression). The router discovers texture-selective shallow activation, antagonistic mid-deep substitution pairs, and produces a fused representation structurally distinct from the last-layer output. We further identified a log-linear scaling law between fusion capacity and reconstruction quality, establishing represen… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Class-conditional generation samples. Selected ImageNet-256 samples generated by DiTDH-XL with DRoRAE tokenizer and AutoGuidance (scale=1.5). The samples demonstrate high visual fidelity with sharp textures and coherent structures across diverse categories. Input Grad L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 L9 L10 L11 L12 -0.223 cos(zfuse, zbase) ||zfuse -zbase|| zbase (PCA) zfuse (PCA) -0.209 -0.223 -0.236 [PITH_FULL_IM… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Full 12-layer routing weight visualization. L1–L12 routing weights, cos(zfuse, zbase), ∥zfuse − zbase∥, and PCA projections. Weights evolve from mild shallow adoption (L1–L3) through strong mid-layer suppression (L6–L7) to antagonistic activation (L8–L9), producing a complementary fused representation. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_9.png] view at source ↗

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Representation autoencoders that reuse frozen pretrained vision encoders as visual tokenizers have achieved strong reconstruction and generation quality. However, existing methods universally extract features from only the last encoder layer, discarding the rich hierarchical information distributed across intermediate layers. We show that low-level visual details survive in the last layer merely as attenuated residuals after multiple layers of semantic abstraction, and that explicitly fusing multi-layer features can substantially recover this lost information. We propose DRoRAE (Depth-Routed Representation AutoEncoder), a lightweight fusion module that adaptively aggregates all encoder layers via energy-constrained routing and incremental correction, producing an enriched latent compatible with a frozen pretrained decoder. A three-phase decoupled training strategy first learns the fusion under the implicit distributional constraint of the frozen decoder, then fine-tunes the decoder to fully exploit the enriched representation. On ImageNet-256, DRoRAE reduces rFID from 0.57 to 0.29 and improves generation FID from 1.74 to 1.65 (with AutoGuidance), with gains also transferring to text-to-image synthesis. Furthermore, we uncover a log-linear scaling law ($R^2{=}0.86$) between fusion capacity and reconstruction quality, identifying \textit{representation richness} as a new, predictably scalable dimension for visual tokenizers analogous to vocabulary size in NLP.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

DRoRAE gets real reconstruction gains by fusing intermediate layers instead of just the last one, but the three-phase setup blurs how much credit goes to the fusion alone versus decoder adaptation.

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The paper's main result is that a lightweight fusion module pulling from all encoder layers cuts rFID from 0.57 to 0.29 on ImageNet-256 and edges generation FID down to 1.65, with a log-linear scaling law (R²=0.86) between fusion capacity and quality. That scaling observation is the cleanest new piece: it treats representation richness as a tunable knob similar to vocab size in language models. The depth-routed energy-constrained routing plus incremental correction looks like a practical way to aggregate without exploding parameters or compute, and the claim that low-level details survive as attenuated residuals in the last layer is backed by the empirical lift. The three-phase training is a reasonable attempt to keep the pretrained decoder stable while learning the fusion first. Those elements are worth taking seriously for anyone building visual tokenizers. The soft spot is exactly the one the stress test flags. All the headline numbers come after phase 3 decoder fine-tuning, so we cannot tell whether the enriched latent stays close enough to the original distribution for a truly frozen decoder to use it, or whether the decoder is simply learning to handle a shifted input. No intermediate rFID after phase 1 or latent-space distance metric is mentioned, which leaves the central compatibility claim under-supported. The abstract also skips error bars, ablation tables for the routing choices, and clear baseline comparisons, so the strength of the gains is still provisional. This is useful reading for people working on VAE-style tokenizers or multi-layer feature reuse in generation pipelines. It has enough concrete numbers and a plausible scaling relation to deserve referee time, though the authors will need to add the missing controls and phase-wise metrics before it lands cleanly.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes DRoRAE, a lightweight depth-routed fusion module that aggregates hierarchical features from all layers of a frozen pretrained vision encoder via energy-constrained routing and incremental correction. It introduces a three-phase decoupled training strategy (fusion learning under frozen decoder constraint, followed by decoder fine-tuning) and reports that this recovers low-level details lost in last-layer extraction, yielding rFID reduction from 0.57 to 0.29 and generation FID improvement from 1.74 to 1.65 on ImageNet-256, plus a log-linear scaling law (R²=0.86) between fusion capacity and reconstruction quality, with gains transferring to text-to-image synthesis.

Significance. If the central claim holds, the work establishes representation richness (via explicit multi-layer fusion) as a new, predictably scalable axis for visual tokenizers, analogous to vocabulary size in language models. The reported scaling law and quantitative gains on both reconstruction and generation metrics would strengthen the case for hierarchical feature exploitation in frozen-encoder autoencoders, provided the enriched latents remain decoder-compatible without requiring full decoder retraining.

major comments (2)

[§3.2] §3.2 (three-phase training): the central claim that DRoRAE produces an enriched latent 'compatible with a frozen pretrained decoder' is load-bearing, yet all reported metrics (rFID=0.29, FID=1.65) are measured only after phase 3 decoder fine-tuning. No intermediate results (e.g., rFID or latent KL after phase 1 only) are provided to isolate whether gains arise from recovered information or from the decoder adapting to a shifted distribution.
[§4.1] §4.1 (experimental setup): the abstract and results cite specific improvements over a baseline rFID of 0.57, but the manuscript provides no details on the exact baseline architecture, training hyperparameters, data splits, or whether the baseline also used multi-layer features; this makes the magnitude of the fusion contribution difficult to assess.

minor comments (2)

[§4.3] The scaling law is presented with R²=0.86 but without the number of data points, confidence intervals, or the precise definition of 'fusion capacity' (e.g., number of parameters or routing dimensions), which should be clarified for reproducibility.
[Figure 4] Figure captions and axis labels for the scaling plot should explicitly state the range of fusion capacities tested and whether error bars reflect multiple random seeds.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help strengthen the clarity of our training procedure and experimental details. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (three-phase training): the central claim that DRoRAE produces an enriched latent 'compatible with a frozen pretrained decoder' is load-bearing, yet all reported metrics (rFID=0.29, FID=1.65) are measured only after phase 3 decoder fine-tuning. No intermediate results (e.g., rFID or latent KL after phase 1 only) are provided to isolate whether gains arise from recovered information or from the decoder adapting to a shifted distribution.

Authors: We agree that isolating the contribution of the fusion module is important. Phase 1 trains the fusion module with the decoder frozen, so the enriched latent is produced under the distributional constraint of the pretrained decoder by design; phase 3 then allows the decoder to better exploit the richer input. To address the concern directly, we will add phase-1-only metrics (rFID, latent KL divergence) in the revised §3.2 and §4, confirming that the majority of the reconstruction gain is already present before decoder fine-tuning. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.1] §4.1 (experimental setup): the abstract and results cite specific improvements over a baseline rFID of 0.57, but the manuscript provides no details on the exact baseline architecture, training hyperparameters, data splits, or whether the baseline also used multi-layer features; this makes the magnitude of the fusion contribution difficult to assess.

Authors: We apologize for the lack of detail. The baseline uses exactly the same pretrained vision encoder and extracts features only from its final layer, with identical data splits, optimizer settings, batch size, and training schedule as DRoRAE; no multi-layer fusion is applied. We will expand §4.1 with a full description of the baseline architecture, a hyperparameter table, and explicit confirmation that the baseline follows the standard last-layer protocol. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical architecture and metrics

full rationale

The paper advances an architectural proposal (DRoRAE fusion module with energy-constrained routing) trained via a three-phase procedure and evaluates it with direct benchmark metrics (rFID, FID) plus an observed scaling relation (log-linear fit with R²=0.86). No equations or claims reduce the reported gains to fitted parameters or self-citations by construction; the scaling law is presented as an empirical discovery rather than a predictive input. The derivation chain consists of standard model design and decoupled optimization steps whose outputs are measured externally, leaving the central claims independent of any self-referential loop.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that hierarchical low-level details persist as attenuated residuals in the final encoder layer and that a lightweight fusion module can be trained to recover them without breaking compatibility with a frozen decoder; the new DRoRAE module itself is an invented component whose parameters are learned during the described training phases.

free parameters (1)

fusion capacity parameters
Routing weights and correction increments in the DRoRAE module are learned from data during the three-phase training.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Pretrained vision encoders distribute hierarchical visual information across layers with low-level details surviving as attenuated residuals in the final layer
Invoked in the abstract to justify multi-layer fusion over last-layer extraction.

invented entities (1)

DRoRAE fusion module no independent evidence
purpose: Adaptively aggregate all encoder layers via energy-constrained routing and incremental correction
New module introduced to produce an enriched latent compatible with a frozen decoder

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IndisputableMonolith/Cost/FunctionalEquation.lean washburn_uniqueness_aczel unclear
energy-constrained routing ... zfuse = LN_bb (∑ wk·hk / √(∑ wk² + ϵ)) ... incremental correction zfinal = LN_bb(zbase + β·(zfuse − zbase)) ... log-linear scaling law (R²=0.86) between fusion capacity and reconstruction quality
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three-phase decoupled training ... Phase 2 freezes both backbone and decoder, training only the fusion module

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