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Read, Allocate, Route: Role-Coupled Tokenization for Pixel-Space Generative Transformers
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- SpecSlot, a pixel-space Transformer that separates low-frequency and high-frequency image components to reduce global attention cost while maintaining detail.
- Why it matters
- Relevant for engineers building efficient image generation models who need faster inference and lower computational cost without sacrificing output quality.
- Watch out
- Paper is under review at ICLR 2027 and not yet peer-reviewed; comparisons are against specific baselines and may not generalize to all model architectures.
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