Summary of Multidimensional Byte Pair Encoding: Shortened Sequences For Improved Visual Data Generation, by Tim Elsner et al.
Multidimensional Byte Pair Encoding: Shortened Sequences for Improved Visual Data Generation
by Tim Elsner, Paula Usinger, Julius Nehring-Wirxel, Gregor Kobsik, Victor Czech, Yanjiang He, Isaak Lim, Leif Kobbelt
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a breakthrough in visual data tokenization, allowing transformers to better process images. By applying Byte Pair Encoding (BPEC) to multiple dimensions, not just 1D text, the authors create a lossless preprocessing step that condenses frequent constellations of tokens. This results in shorter sequences with more uniformly distributed information content, making it easier for transformers to train and infer on visual data. The authors demonstrate improved performance on large datasets like ImageNet using consumer hardware. They also introduce a clustering strategy to amplify this compression further. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to describe an image to a computer. You’d want to break it down into smaller pieces, or “tokens,” that the computer can understand. That’s what tokenization is all about! But, for images, we usually only consider regular grids and ignore global content awareness. This paper changes that by bringing BPEC from 1D text to multiple dimensions. It counts constellations of tokens and replaces the most frequent pair with a new one. This makes image processing easier and faster! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Clustering » Tokenization
