Analyzing Image Tokenizer Scaling via Multimodal Continual Pretraining
September 7, 2026
A controlled autoregressive testbed shows that image tokenizer performance varies significantly across text, T2I, and I2T tasks. Results indicate that loss analysis must be task-specific, as different tokenizers exhibit distinct scaling behaviors when modeling visual and text tokens jointly.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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researcherYou should evaluate tokenizers using task-specific validation losses rather than isolated unimodal metrics.