2026
Adapting Self-Supervised Representations as a Latent Space for Efficient Generation
Ming Gui, Johannes Schusterbauer, Timy Phan, Felix Krause, Joshua M. Susskind, Miguel Ángel Bautista +1
ICLR 2026poster
We introduce Representation Tokenizer (RepTok), a generative modeling framework that represents an image using a single continuous latent token obtained from self-supervised vision transformers. Building on a pre-trained SSL encoder, we fine-tune only the semantic token embedding and pair it with a…