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Jun 22, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Dropping VAE and Private Data Boosts Text-to-Image Generation Performance

MiniT2I, a minimalist pixel-space text-to-image model that discards VAE, AdaLN, and private data, achieves 0.87 GenEval and 84.2 DPG-Bench scores with only 258 M parameters, demonstrating that a stripped-down architecture and public data can outperform larger, more complex systems.