arxivcs.CV2026-07-18
Test-Time Registers as Global Priors for Tokenized Image Generation
Cheng-Yao Hong, Yifan Wang, Yuewei Lin, Chenyu You
Attention-based models often develop attention sinks, where a small number of tokens repeatedly attract attention and accumulate unusually large activations. In vision transformers, these outliers are closely related to registers, which have been diagnostically linked to global,…