dNaViT: Discrete Codes are General-Purpose Visual Representations
dNaViT: Discrete Codes are General-Purpose Visual Representations
dNaViT is a discrete native resolution vision Transformer that matches or exceeds specific baselines in visual understanding, generation, and editing tasks through grouped product quantization and dual-branch targets. It performs excellently on 12 visual understanding benchmarks, 4 generation benchmarks, and one image editing benchmark, proving that discrete vocabulary can be a universal visual representation
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Abstract
A discrete native-resolution vision transformer with grouped product quantization and a dual-branch objective acts as a versatile visual tokenizer, matching or exceeding task-specific baselines across visual understanding, generation, and editing tasks.
Discrete autoregressive modeling, notably through next-token prediction, has become a cornerstone of modern language models. Extending this paradigm to vision allows visual and language models to converge on a unified framework, thereby fostering shared methodology and infrastructure. This work investigates a central question: how far can a finite discrete vocabulary go in representing the richness of the visual world? We present dNaViT, a Discrete Native-resolution Vision Transformer that produces discrete visual primitives analogous to language tokens. Built upon a frozen pretrained encoder, dNaViT applies lightweight residual modulation with a dual-branch objective to inject reconstruction-aware cues into semantic features. By leveraging grouped product quantization, it scales discrete capacity without inflating spatial sequence lengths, while a balanced training recipe maintains both semantic and pixel-level information. Consequently, dNaViT functions as a versatile discrete visual tokenizer, enabling unified encoding across downstream tasks alongside high-fidelity image decoding. Extensive evaluations show that dNaViT matches or exceeds task-specific baselines across 12 visual understanding benchmarks, 4 generation benchmarks, and an image editing benchmark. These findings demonstrate that a compact discrete vocabulary can serve as a universal visual currency and unlock the full potential of fully unified, native multimodal methodology.
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