Tingyan Xiang

MUSE: Resolving Manifold Misalignment in Visual Tokenization via Topological Orthogonality

Unified visual tokenization faces a fundamental trade-off: optimizing for high-fidelity pixel reconstruction (spatial equivariance) inherently conflicts with semantic abstraction (conceptual invariance). We identify the root cause as Manifold Misalignment, where naive joint optimization leads to con…