SVG-T2I: Scaling Up Text-to-Image Latent Diffusion Model Without Variational Autoencoder

Shi Minglei, Haolin Wang, Borui Zhang, Wenzhao Zheng, Bohan Zeng, Ziyang Yuan, Xiaoshi Wu, Yuanxing Zhang, Huan Yang, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu

SVG-T2I: Scaling Up Text-to-Image Latent Diffusion Model Without Variational Autoencoder: 39 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #3 of 21 papers on 2025-12-15. Day-by-day upvote history.

Visual generation grounded in Visual Foundation Model (VFM) representations offers a highly promising unified pathway for integrating visual understanding, perception, and generation. Despite this potential, training large-scale text-to-image diffusion models entirely within the VFM representation space remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap, we scale the SVG (Self-supervised representations for Visual Generation) framework, proposing SVG-T2I to support high-quality text-to-image synthesis directly in the VFM feature domain. By leveraging a standard text-to-image diffusion pipeline, SVG-T2I achieves competitive performance, reaching 0.75 on GenEval and 85.78 on DPG-Bench. This performance validates the intrinsic representational power of VFMs for generative tasks. We fully open-source the project, including the autoencoder and generation model, together with their training, inference, evaluation pipelines, and pre-trained weights, to facilitate further research in representation-driven visual generation.

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