arxivcs.CV2026-06-25
ViQ: Text-Aligned Visual Quantized Representations at Any Resolution
Xumin Yu, Zuyan Liu, Zhenyu Yang, Yuhao Dong, Shengsheng Qian, Jiwen Lu, et al.
A unified representation for text and vision is a natural pursuit, as it enables simpler multimodal modeling and more efficient training. However, representing images as discrete signals in the same way as text inevitably introduces severe information loss. Existing work struggle…