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New paper! We ask: How important is VQ for neural discrete representation learning? 🤔 I always felt it should be possible to “absorb” the VQ on top of a deep net into the net and use a simple grid-based quantization instead, without sacrificing much expressivity. Summary 🧵👇 https://t.co/YbzZ7T8ejc
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