Writing study: AToken: A Unified Tokenizer for Vision

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Jiasen Lu, Liangchen Song, Mingze Xu, Byeongjoo Ahn, Yanjun Wang, Chen Chen, Afshin Dehghan, Yinfei Yang · Official CVPR 2026 oral record

Observed writing choices, not acceptance rules. This study examines the inspected manuscript version. It does not establish why the paper was accepted or that its presentation choices should be copied unchanged.

Figure, table and section ledger

Editorial contribution type: Architecture & representation (primary).

Layout extraction, not a required paper template. Counts are distinct caption labels; a multi-panel figure counts once. Section spans are estimated from heading positions, including floats and whitespace. Method and limitations.

Canonical PDF

11 physical pages

Before references / appendix

≈ 8.05 page-equivalents

Main figures / tables

7 / 5

Attached appendix figures / tables

0 / 0

Attached appendix span

Separate file recorded below; not in this PDF total

Before references / appendix: ≈ 73.18%References / intervening material: ≈ 26.82%Estimated layout envelopes, not text/artwork area. Unresolved appendix boundaries remain within the undivided post-body material.

Extraction notes: No attached appendix boundary detected. Zero means no recognized caption, not independently verified absence.

Section-by-section lengths and source pages

The title/abstract/front matter precede the first numbered heading. A span ends at the next detected top-level heading, not at the last sentence; end-page whitespace is included. References and statements are listed separately. These are not measurements of text-only or artwork area.

Top-level heading	Starts on PDF page	Estimated span	Share of entire PDF
1. Introduction	1	≈ 1.06 pp.	9.64%
2. Background	2	≈ 0.45 pp.	4.09%
3. Model	2	≈ 3.42 pp.	31.09%
4. Results	6	≈ 2.53 pp.	23%
5. Discussion and Conclusion	8	≈ 0.24 pp.	2.18%
References	9	≈ 2.95 pp.	26.82%

All detected figure and table locations

Main text

• Figure 1 · p. 1
• Figure 2 · p. 3
• Figure 3 · p. 4
• Figure 4 · p. 5
• Figure 5 · p. 5
• Table 1 · p. 6
• Figure 6 · p. 7
• Figure 7 · p. 7
• Table 2 · p. 8
• Table 3 · p. 8
• Table 4 · p. 8
• Table 5 · p. 8

Attached appendix

No recognized caption labels.

Separate source files—excluded from canonical-PDF totals

A separate author version may repeat main text and references. Whole-file lengths and counts are not extra appendix material and are never added to the canonical PDF totals. Read the study's source scope for which sections received substantive reading versus layout inspection.

Additional source 1

Separate PDF (or ZIP containing it): whole-file layout of 18 physical pages; 8 detected figures and 10 tables. These may include overlapping main-text material.

Located appendix only: starts on physical p.1; ≈ 17.4 page-equivalents, 8 figure labels and 9 table labels. This interval is distinct from the whole file.

Detected heading	PDF page	Estimated span
A. Related Work	1	≈ 1.04 pp.
B. Model Details & Training Strategies	2	≈ 1.13 pp.
C. Additional Tokenizer Results	3	≈ 2.91 pp.
D. Additional Downstream Results	6	≈ 5.36 pp.
References	12	≈ 6.96 pp.

• Table 6 · p. 1
• Figure 8 · p. 2
• Table 7 · p. 3
• Table 8 · p. 4
• Table 9 · p. 4
• Table 10 · p. 5
• Table 11 · p. 5
• Figure 9 · p. 6
• Table 12 · p. 6
• Figure 10 · p. 7
• Figure 11 · p. 7
• Table 13 · p. 8
• Table 14 · p. 8
• Table 15 · p. 9
• Figure 12 · p. 10
• Figure 13 · p. 10
• Figure 14 · p. 11
• Figure 15 · p. 11

Argument and organization

1. Three obstacles to unification

   Separate task, architecture-stability and modality fragmentation before proposing one latent representation.

2. Representation, objective, curriculum, transfer

   Move from model design through staged training to modality-specific evaluation and downstream uses.

Problem, claim and contribution

The introduction organizes fragmentation into reconstruction-versus-semantics, scaling instability and modality coverage, making unification a set of testable demands.

Introduction · Main paper · Additional source 2

Argument and section order

Representation, architecture, training objectives and curriculum receive separate subsections before downstream generation/understanding evaluation.

Sections 3.1–3.5 and 4.1–4.4 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Figures, captions and visual explanation

Figure 3 links an adversarial-training failure curve, an rFID decomposition and a controlled Gram-loss curve in one left-to-right argument.

Figure 3, PDF p. 4 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Tables, comparisons and evidence

Figure 7 keeps Base/So400m encodings consistent across four panels and training stages, exposing smaller-model degradation instead of only reporting the final large-model score.

Figure 7, PDF p. 7 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Appendix and reproducibility

Additional comparisons specify shared evaluation scripts and reproduced settings, while representation visualizations show compression/semantic-separability trade-offs.

Supplement Tables 8–15 and Figure 9, pp. 4–9 · Main paper · Additional source 2

Clarity and writing conventions

Capability coverage and quality claims are separated: Table 1 encodes modality support, while later tables evaluate downstream performance within each setting.

Table 1, PDF p. 6; Tables 2–5, p. 8 · Main paper · Additional source 2

What to reuse—and what not to infer

Transferable lesson: For a unified model, distinguish coverage from competitiveness, and make the training curriculum a first-class artifact with stage-specific failures and metrics.

Boundary: A broad capability matrix does not mean dominance on every metric; Table 3's accompanying discussion notes specialized alternatives win some long-form video benchmarks.

Apply this lesson using the argument and evidence worksheet.

Inspection record and sources

Checked

2026-09-26

Reading status

Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected

Main text

Manuscript-wide writing scan of main PDF pp. 1–8: framing, section structure, method exposition, figure/table captions, evaluation organization and conclusions; not an exhaustive technical proof audit or reproduction.

Appendix / supplement

Separate supplement pp. 1–18 scanned: related-work capability table, 3D pipeline/training curriculum, standardized evaluations, downstream tables, reconstruction/generation galleries and references.

Visually inspected PDF pages

4, 7

This is a writing-focused scan of the manuscript and the stated supplementary scope: framing, organization, visual explanation, evidence presentation and wording. It is not a line-by-line proof audit, reproduction of results or exhaustive scientific review.

• Official CVPR 2026 CVF proceedings PDF; retrieved 2026-09-26 · 11 pages
• Official CVPR 2026 separate supplementary PDF; retrieved 2026-09-26 · 18 pages