REPRESENTATION AUTOENCODERS FOR DIFFUSION TRANSFORMERS

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Latent diffusion models get an upgrade with Representation Autoencoders (RAEs), which swap out the standard VAE for pretrained encoders like DINO, SigLIP, or MAE paired with learned decoders. These higher-dimensional latent spaces improve generation quality, and new methods allow Diffusion Transformers to handle them effectively.