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  1. SemanTok: Predictable Semantic Tokens for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation

    Sep 30, 2026Mikhail Dereviannykh, Vikram Voleti, Simon Donne +3Visual TokenizersAutoregressive Video Generation

    Stability AI · Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie

  2. NesTok: Nested Self-Aligned 1D Tokenizer for Autoregressive Image Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Jiawei Zhang, Shuhao Liu, Rong Huang +4Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    North China Electric Power University · University of Science and Technology of China · Stanford University

  3. What Makes a Good Medical Image Tokenizer? Rethinking Reconstruction and Generation in Medical Image Tokenization

    Sep 21, 2026Niklas Bubeck, Yundi Zhang, Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa +4Medical Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Technical University of Munich, Germany · School of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany +3

  4. VideoTok4D: A 4D-Aware Video Tokenizer for Compact World Representation

    Sep 14, 2026Xinyi Chen, Hanxin Zhu, Xijun Wang +4Visual TokenizersVideo Diffusion Models

    University of Science and Technology of China

  5. LoopVAE: Recurrent Depth Across Scales for Visual Tokenization

    Sep 11, 2026Zhiying LuVisual TokenizersImagenet

    University of Science and Technology of China

  6. V-RAE: Rethinking Video Latent Spaces for Generation

    Aug 13, 2026Minghui Guo, Shengqiong Wu, Hao FeiAutoregressive Video GenerationStar-Vae

    National University of Singapore · University of Oxford

  7. Tokenizer-Generator Coupling in Medical Image Generation

    Aug 7, 2026Liam ChalcroftMedical Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    University College London London, United Kingdom

  8. KVAE: Family of Tokenizers for Multimodal Generative Models

    Aug 6, 2026Andrey Shutkin, Denis Parkhomenko, Ivan Kirillov +11Visual TokenizersStar-Vae

    Kandinsky Lab

  9. MOSAIK: Multi-Patch Content-Aware Spatial Allocation of Image Tokens for Efficient Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Mohammadreza Hami, Mohammadreza Samadi, Chao Gao +1Visual TokenizersIterative Denoising Methods

    Huawei Technologies Canada

  10. Token Radius Attention for Efficient Video Generation

    Aug 3, 2026Jiayu Chen, Zhikun Jiang, Maoliang Li +6Spatio-Temporal AttentionVisual Tokenizers

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University +2

  11. VQ-Transplant: Efficient VQ-Module Integration for Pre-trained Visual Tokenizers

    Jul 21, 2026Xianghong Fang, Yuan Yuan, Dehan Kong +1Residual Vector QuantizationVisual Tokenizers

    University of Toronto · 2Boston College · 3Vijil

  12. Pixel-Space Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 20, 2026Renye Yan, Jikang Cheng, You Wu +8Diffusion TransformersVisual Tokenizers

    Peking University, China · Nanjing University, China · Stanford University, USA +3

  13. Test-Time Registers as Global Priors for Tokenized Image Generation

    Jul 18, 2026Cheng-Yao Hong, Yifan Wang, Yuewei Lin +1Visual TokenizersSingle-Cell Foundation Models

    Stony Brook University · Brookhaven National Laboratory

  14. SVF-CR: Synchronized Visual-Facial Cross-Refinement for Multimodal Ambivalence and Hesitancy Recognition

    Jul 10, 2026Hyein Park, Namho Kim, Junhwa KimFacial Expression RecognitionAttitude

    Dept. of AI Software Convergence, Konyang University · Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)

  15. Subtoken Vision Transformer for Fine-grained Recognition

    Jul 10, 2026Jie Zhu, Ivy Zhang, Minchul Kim +1Self-Supervised Vision TransformersVisual Tokenizers

    Michigan State University · Cranbrook Kingswood School · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  16. VocaDet: Sample-Driven Open-Vocabulary Object Detection and Segmentation via Visual Tokenization and Vector Database Retrieval

    Jul 9, 2026ZhiXin SunOpen-Vocabulary Object DetectionSemantic Segmentation

    PowerChina Zhongnan Engineering Corporation Limited

  17. SpiralFovea: Input-Adaptive Foveated Tokenization as a Third Lever of Resource-Adaptive Inference

    Jul 1, 2026Kyan Mahajan, Mohammad SaqlainParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning MethodsWireless Foundation Models

    Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

  18. Steal the Patch Size: Adversarially Manipulate Vision-Language Models

    Jun 30, 2026Kai Hu, Akash Bharadwaj, Weichen Yu +1Visual TokenizersPreprocessing

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

  19. Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image: Advancing Masked Discrete Diffusion for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

    Jun 29, 2026Shufan Li, Greg Heinrich, Hanrong Ye +4Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Models

    NVIDIA

  20. TaskTok: Delving into Task Tokens for Task-driven Image Restoration

    Jun 25, 2026Hongjae Lee, Sojung Kang, Jaeseong Yu +1Image RestorationVisual Tokenizers

    Korea University

  21. Structural Assessment for Understanding and Guiding Dataset Distillation in Discrete Token Space

    Jun 19, 2026Yue Cao, Jianyang Gu, Vyacheslav Kungurtsev +4Diffusion-Based Dataset DistillationDataset Distillation

    The University of British Columbia · The Ohio State University · Czech Technical University in Prague +1

  22. Variable-Length Tokenization via Learnable Global Merging for Diffusion Transformers

    Jun 18, 2026Dong Hoon Lee, Seunghoon HongDiffusion TransformersVisual Tokenizers

    Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea · School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea

  23. Unified Multimodal Autoregressive Modeling with Shared Context-Visual Tokenizer is Key to Unification

    Jun 16, 2026Wujian Peng, Lingchen Meng, Yuxuan Cai +7Visual TokenizersAutoregressive Language Models

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc.

  24. TivTok: Broadcasting Time-Invariant Tokens for Scalable Video Tokenization

    Jun 16, 2026Weiliang Chen, Yuanhui Huang, Xuebo Wang +1Visual TokenizersVideo Compression

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, China

  25. RepWAM: World Action Modeling with Representation Visual-Action Tokenizers

    Jun 11, 2026Junke Wang, Qihang Zhang, Shuai Yang +5Efficient World-Action ModelDiscrete Action Tokenizers

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · 2Robbyant, Ant Group · 3Hongkong University of Science and Technology

  26. HYDRA-X: Native Unified Multimodal Models with Holistic Visual Tokenizers

    Jun 11, 2026Guozhen Zhang, Xuerui Qiu, Yutao Cui +11Visual TokenizersFine-Grained Video Understanding

    Nanjing University · Work done during internship at Tencent Hunyuan. · CASIA +3

  27. AdaTok: Self-Budgeting Image Tokenization with Quality-Preserving Dynamic Tokens

    Jun 5, 2026Xiaocheng Lu, Yuxi Chen, Jie Zhang +5Visual TokenizersLong Visual-Token Sequences

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  28. Adaptive Tokenisation Via Temporal Redundancy Masking And Latent Inpainting

    Jun 4, 2026Kevin Dave, Sai Aditya Patkuri, Chhaya Kumar Das +3Visual TokenizersSpatio-Temporal Attention

    Phronetic AI · IISc Bangalore · IIT Bombay

  29. Balancing Image Compression and Generation with Bootstrapped Tokenization

    Jun 4, 2026Haozhe Chi, Jinghan Li, Hao Jiang +4Visual TokenizersAutoregressive Image Generation

    1Peking University · 2Central Media Technology Institute, Huawei

  30. ChannelTok: Efficient Flexible-Length Vision Tokenization

    Jun 3, 2026Sukriti Paul, Arpit Bansal, Tom GoldsteinVisual TokenizersCnn-Transformer Tradeoff

    University of Maryland, College Park

  31. Diffusing in the Right Space: A Systematic Study of Latent Diffusability

    Jun 2, 2026Tianxiong Zhong, Xingye Tian, Xuebo Wang +2Visual TokenizersDiffusion Dynamics

    Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology

  32. FocusDiT: Masking Queries in Diffusion Transformers for Fine-grained Image Generation

    Jun 1, 2026Xueji Fang, Liyuan Ma, Jianhao Zeng +3Diffusion TransformersVisual Tokenizers

    Zhejiang University · Westlake University · Hangzhou, China

  33. Unified Driving Tokens: Representation- and Geometry-Guided Discrete Tokenizer for Driving World Models and Planning

    Jun 1, 2026Ziyang Yao, Zeyu Zhu, YunCheng Jiang +2Visual TokenizersAutonomous Driving

    Peking University · Xiaomi EV

  34. Residual Decoder Adapter: ID-Preserving Tokenizer Adaption for Autoregressive Text Rendering

    Jun 1, 2026Dongxing Mao, Jinpeng Wang, Jiahao Tang +6Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    Central South University · University of Oxford · Microsoft Research

  35. HiTokSR: A Coarse-to-Fine Tokenizer with Hierarchical Codebooks for High-Fidelity Real-World Image Super-Resolution

    May 31, 2026Mingxi LiReal-World Image Super-ResolutionVisual Tokenizers

  36. Boundary-Protection W8A8 HiFloat8 Quantization for Large-Scale Text-to-Video Diffusion Transformers

    May 31, 2026Yiming ZhaoText-To-Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Diffusion Models

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China

  37. MergeTok: Unified Continuous and Discrete Visual Tokenization via Token Merging

    May 29, 2026Luyuan Zhang, Siyuan Li, Zedong Wang +7Visual TokenizersVisual Generation

    1Tsinghua University · 2Westlake University · 3Zhejiang University +3

  38. Structure over Pixels: Learning Variable-Length Visual Programs

    May 26, 2026Piotr Wyrwiński, Kacper Dobek, Krzysztof KrawiecVisual TokenizersSemantic Scene Understanding

    Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

  39. Channel-wise Vector Quantization

    May 25, 2026Wei Song, Tianhang Wang, Yitong Chen +5Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · Westlake University · Zhejiang University +2

  40. RankE: End-to-End Post-Training for Discrete Text-to-Image Generation with Decoder Co-Evolution

    May 20, 2026Siyong Jian, Siyuan Li, Luyuan Zhang +5Text-To-ImageVisual Tokenizers

    1Westlake University · 2Zhejiang University · 3Tsinghua University +2

  41. Vision Foundation Models as Generalist Tokenizers for Image Generation

    May 18, 2026Anlin Zheng, Qi Han, Xin Wen +5Visual TokenizersVision Foundation Models

    University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong · StepFun

  42. WinTok: A Win-Win Hybrid Tokenizer via Decomposing Visual Understanding and Generation with Transferable Tokens

    May 18, 2026Yiwei Guo, Shaobin Zhuang, Zhipeng Huang +4Visual Tokenizers

    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · WeChat Vision, Tencent Inc. · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  43. A More Word-like Image Tokenization for MLLMs

    May 18, 2026Hyun Lee, Hyemin Jeong, Yejin Kim +4Long Visual-Token SequencesVisual Tokenizers

    Seoul National University · Ewha Womans University

  44. Hierarchical Image Tokenization for Multi-Scale Image Super Resolution

    May 14, 2026Isma Hadji, Enrique Sanchez, Adrian Bulat +2Generative Super-ResolutionVisual Tokenizers

    Samsung AI Center Cambridge, UK · Technical University of Iasi, Romania · Queen Mary University of London, UK

  45. Spectral Vision Transformer for Efficient Tokenization with Limited Data

    May 12, 2026Alexandra G. Roberts, Maneesh John, Jinwei Zhang +10Self-Supervised Vision TransformersVision Transformer

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

    May 11, 2026Xuanyu Zhu, Yan Bai, Yang Shi +4Visual TokenizersVision Encoders

    Peking University · Meituan Inc · Tsinghua University +1

  47. Mutual Enhancement Between Global Tokens and Patch Tokens: From Theory to Practice

    May 11, 2026Xiusheng Huang, Xin Jiang, Jun Zhao +2Visual TokenizersTokan

    The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  48. GEM: Generating LiDAR World Model via Deformable Mamba

    May 8, 2026Yang Wu, Zhaojiang Liu, Qiang Meng +5LidarLatent World Models

    SJTU · FDU · NTU +1

  49. Taming the Entropy Cliff: Variable Codebook Size Quantization for Autoregressive Visual Generation

    May 7, 2026Bowen Zheng, Weijian Luo, Guang Yang +2CodebooksAutoregressive Image Generation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · hi-Lab, Xiaohongshu Inc

  50. Learning Discrete Autoregressive Priors with Wasserstein Gradient Flow

    May 7, 2026Bowen Zheng, Yihong Luo, Tianyang HuVisual TokenizersAutoregressive Image Generation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  51. MUSE: Resolving Manifold Misalignment in Visual Tokenization via Topological Orthogonality

    May 7, 2026Panqi Yang, Haodong Jing, Jiahao Chao +5Visual TokenizersSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence,National Engineering Research Center of Visual Information and Applications,and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiao Tong University · Xiaohongshu Inc.

  52. ViTok-v2: Scaling Native Resolution Auto-Encoders to 5 Billion Parameters

    May 6, 2026Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Jiahui Chen, Vivek Ramanujan +9Visual TokenizersVision Transformer

    University of Texas, Austin · University of Washington · 3Stanford University +3

  53. Taming Outlier Tokens in Diffusion Transformers

    May 6, 2026Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Wang, Tsu-Jui Fu +3Diffusion TransformersVisual Tokenizers

    Rice University · Apple

  54. End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer

    May 1, 2026Wenda Chu, Bingliang Zhang, Jiaqi Han +4Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    ByteDance Seed · California Institute of Technology · Stanford University

  55. YOSE: You Only Select Essential Tokens for Efficient DiT-based Video Object Removal

    Apr 30, 2026Chenyang Wu, Lina Lei, Fan Li +6Video Object RemovalVideo Object Segmentation

    1VCIP, CS, Nankai University · 3NKIARI, Shenzhen Futian · 2Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  56. VibeToken: Scaling 1D Image Tokenizers and Autoregressive Models for Dynamic Resolution Generations

    Apr 27, 2026Maitreya Patel, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang +2Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Tokenizers

    Arizona State University · SonyAI · 3Work partially done while at SonyAI. Maitreya is now at Adobe.

  57. E2E-WAVE: End-to-End Learned Waveform Generation for Underwater Video Multicasting

    Apr 18, 2026Khizar Anjum, Tingcong Jiang, Dario PompiliWaveformsVideo Coding

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, NJ, USA

  58. (1D) Ordered Tokens Enable Efficient Test-Time Search

    Apr 16, 2026Zhitong Gao, Parham Rezaei, Ali Cy +7Autoregressive Image GenerationAutoregressive Generation

    1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) · 2Apple

  59. COMiT: Learning Structured Visual Tokens through Sequential Communication

    Feb 24, 2026Aram Davtyan, Yusuf Sahin, Yasaman Haghighi +4Visual TokenizersSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Computer Vision Group, University of Bern, Switzerland · VITA Lab, EPFL, Switzerland

  60. LGQ: Learnable Geometric Quantization for Image Tokenization

    Feb 17, 2026Idil Bilge Altun, Mert Onur Cakiroglu, Elham Buxton +2CodebooksVisual Tokenizers

    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington · Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Springfield · College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar