Semantic token prefixes let smaller autoregressive video models match larger ones

SemanTok injects frozen DINO features into a flexible video tokenizer so early tokens carry semantics and are cheaper for an autoregressive model to predict.

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Mikhail Dereviannykh · Vikram Voleti · Simon Donne · Mallikarjun Byrasandra Ramalinga Reddy · Shimon Vainer · Mark Boss

Stability AI · Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie

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The authors build on coarse-to-fine flexible tokenizers, where a video is encoded into an ordered token sequence and any prefix can be used.

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SemanTok, a flexible video tokenizer, achieves high semantic alignment and video fidelity, matching or beating models 3.4 times its size.

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