MASKBIT: EMBEDDING-FREE IMAGE GENERATION VIA BIT TOKENS

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This study introduces two key advancements in image generation: a modernized VQGAN model that enhances accessibility and performance and a novel embedding-free generation network using bit tokens. These improvements led to state-of-the-art results on the ImageNet benchmark, achieving an FID of 1.52 with a compact 305M parameter model.