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Unified Latents (UL): How to train your latents research paper by Google, 2026

Google · Training and scaling · Feb 19, 2026 · 19 citations · 63 upvotes · unverified

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Unified Latents framework learns joint latent representations using diffusion prior regularization and diffusion model decoding, achieving competitive FID scores with reduced training compute.

By Jonathan Heek, Emiel Hoogeboom, Thomas Mensink and 1 more · arXiv 2602.17270 · PDF

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arXiv.org
Citations
19, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
63 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 9, 2026Influential citations fell from 3 to 2.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 18 to 19.
CitationsOct 12, 2026Influential citations rose from 2 to 3.
CitationsOct 12, 2026Citations rose from 17 to 18.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 2 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 17 citations.
New paperSep 25, 2026Found by the weekly Hugging Face scan; not yet checked by hand.