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Main Authors: Shen, Junhong, Tirumala, Kushal, Yasunaga, Michihiro, Misra, Ishan, Zettlemoyer, Luke, Yu, Lili, Zhou, Chunting
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03120
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  • Most existing image tokenizers encode images into a fixed number of tokens or patches, overlooking the inherent variability in image complexity. To address this, we introduce Content-Adaptive Tokenizer (CAT), which dynamically adjusts representation capacity based on the image content and encodes simpler images into fewer tokens. We design a caption-based evaluation system that leverages large language models (LLMs) to predict content complexity and determine the optimal compression ratio for a given image, taking into account factors critical to human perception. Trained on images with diverse compression ratios, CAT demonstrates robust performance in image reconstruction. We also utilize its variable-length latent representations to train Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for ImageNet generation. By optimizing token allocation, CAT improves the FID score over fixed-ratio baselines trained with the same flops and boosts the inference throughput by 18.5%.