The 1D Visual Tokenization and Generation project from ByteDance introduces a novel “one-dimensional” tokenizer designed for images: instead of representing images with large grids of 2D tokens (as in many prior generative/image-modeling systems), it compresses images into as few as 32 discrete tokens (or more, optionally) — thereby achieving a very compact, efficient representation that drastically speeds up generation and reconstruction while retaining strong fidelity. This compact...