Vector Quantization (VQ) underpins modern discrete visual tokenization. However, training quantization modules for state-of-the-art VQ-based models requires significant computational resources which, in practice, all but prevents the development of novel, cutting-edge VQ techniqu…
The effectiveness of modern visual representation learning and autoregressive models critically depends on vector quantization (VQ), which discretizes continuous feature representations using a learnable codebook. Despite its widespread use, existing VQ methods often suffer from…
Evaluations of LLM personas via psychometric questionnaires typically rely on aggregate scores, discarding within-instance correlation structure. We test whether this geometric structure is intrinsic or frame-dependent. Constructing within-instance correlation matrices from IPIP-…
Existing autonomous research agents can support parts of the research process, but most systems still treat research as either an isolated assistant task or a closed workflow. Therefore, autonomous science needs a collaboration infrastructure that coordinates projects, agents, an…