2 papers
cs.CV2026
What Visual Generators Need from Teachers: Rethinking Representation Alignment
Yongcong Wang, Hingchin Chen, Mingyu Fan +6
Representation alignment speeds up diffusion transformer training by pulling an intermediate block of the model (student) toward features of a frozen pretrained encoder (teacher).…
cs.CV2026
MoCRA: Mixture of Compositional Rank-1 Atoms for 4K All-in-One Video Restoration
Yongcong Wang, Pu Wang, Hingchin Chen +8
Real-world video arrives hazy, rainy, dark, or noisy, and a deployable restorer faces three demands at once: no degradation label, native 4K output, and stability in playback. Exis…