Qwen team ships Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0 with high-compression VAEs

Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-VAE-2.0, a suite of high-compression Variational Autoencoders aimed at improving generative image quality by fixing the compression layer. The technical report appeared on arXiv May 13 and Hugging Face Papers May 14, detailing Global Skip Connections and semantic alignment.