They finally fixed their VAE. It really held back their models over the last 2 years.

EDIT: It still produces artifacts it's better but unusable for production work. In midvalues you will see a slight dot pattern.

Ristovski 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> In midvalues you will see a slight dot pattern.

Is this not simply some sort of watermark instead of an artifact?

	▲	trentor 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, it's probably their rope implementation. They had a similar problem with the old qwen image but to be sure it needs some digging.

mdp2021 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> finally fixed their VAE

Can you share the sources?

	▲	trentor 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's right there in the hugging face link? latents go from 16ch @ 8x compression to 64ch @ 16x, so roughly the same total latent budget but much more channel heavy. It’s also deeper/wider, and the old 2x2 transformer patching is gone. On some images it still produces artifacts but can't say if it's the transformer or the VAE yet.