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One Layer Is Enough: Adapting Pretrained Visual Encoders for Image Generation research paper by Apple, 2025

Apple · Dec 8, 2025 · Multimodal and robotics · 24 citations · 25 upvotes · unverified

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FAE, a framework using a feature auto-encoder and dual decoders, adapts pre-trained visual representations for generative models, achieving high performance in image generation tasks.

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About this paper
Authors
Yuan Gao, Chen Chen, Tianrong Chen and 1 more
arXiv
2512.07829 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
24, 3 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
25 · Hugging Face
Lab
Apple · on Companies · on Quarterly · on Paydays · on TechConf

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Influential citationsfirst count: 3Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 24Sep 25, 2026
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