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SenseNova-U1.5 Technical Report: VAE-free Native 4K Generation with Spatial Patch Reconstruction

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SenseNova has released the technical report for SenseNova-U1.5, an 8B native unified model for image understanding, generation, and editing. The model does not rely on an external visual encoder or VAE. Images are mapped directly into visual tokens, with each token representing a 32×32-pixel region…

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  1. 2026-09-16 13:09 · r/StableDiffusion
    SenseNova-U1.5 Technical Report: VAE-free Native 4K Generation with Spatial Patch Reconstruction

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