Introduction
REPA aligns intermediate denoising representations with pretrained visual encoders, investigating how visual representations can support diffusion and flow-transformer training.
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Yu, Sihyun; Kwak, Sangkyung; Jang, Huiwon; Jeong, Jongheon; Huang, Jonathan; Shin, Jinwoo; Xie, Saining · original paper / arXiv · Rights in the paper and depicted works remain with their holders. Research quotation does not establish an open licence; republication rights await independent review.
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REPA aligns intermediate denoising representations with pretrained visual encoders, investigating how visual representations can support diffusion and flow-transformer training.
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What the paper investigates
A regularisation term aligns projected hidden states for noisy inputs with external encoder representations of clean images. Experiments on architectures including DiT and SiT compare training efficiency and generation quality under this additional supervision.
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Its place in generative-art history
Editorial interpretation: visual understanding and image synthesis are not isolated technical traditions. This connection makes the borrowed encoder and its learned representations relevant to a history that might otherwise examine only the final generator.
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Reading limits and versions
Efficiency and quality claims depend on experimental settings; representation alignment does not establish understanding of cultural meaning.
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Continue with a comparative question
REPA: compare methods, control or evaluation conditions with DiT.
REPA: compare methods, control or evaluation conditions with Stable Diffusion 3 / Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis.
REPA: compare methods, control or evaluation conditions with PixArt-α.
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