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Open-MAGVIT2: An Open-Source Project Toward Democratizing Auto-regressive Visual Generation

6 Sep 2024arXiv:2409.04410archive 2025-07-28

Zhuoyan Luo, Fengyuan Shi, Yixiao Ge, Yujiu Yang, LiMin Wang, Ying Shan

We present Open-MAGVIT2, a family of auto-regressive image generation models ranging from 300M to 1.5B. The Open-MAGVIT2 project produces an open-source replication of Google's MAGVIT-v2 tokenizer, a tokenizer with a super-large codebook (i.e., 2¹⁸ codes), and achieves the state-of-the-art reconstruction performance (1.17 rFID) on ImageNet 256 ×256. Furthermore, we explore its application in plain auto-regressive models and validate scalability properties. To assist auto-regressive models in predicting with a super-large vocabulary, we factorize it into two sub-vocabulary of different sizes by asymmetric token factorization, and further introduce "next sub-token prediction" to enhance sub-token interaction for better generation quality. We release all models and codes to foster innovation and creativity in the field of auto-regressive visual generation.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Generation ImageNet 256x256 Open-MAGVIT2-XL FID 2.33 #57 of 94 Archive leaderboard report
Image Reconstruction ImageNet Open-Magvit2 (16x16) FID 1.17 #8 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Image Reconstruction ImageNet Open-Magvit2 (16x16) PSNR 21.90 #8 of 15 Archive leaderboard report
Image Reconstruction Ultra-High Resolution Image Reconstruction Benchmark Open-Magvit2 (16x16) PSNR 23.91 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Image Reconstruction Ultra-High Resolution Image Reconstruction Benchmark Open-Magvit2 (16x16) rFID 4.18 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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