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Tree-Structured Vector Quantization For Efficient And Progressive Image Compression

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Vector-quantization based image compression has achieved strong rate--distortion performance, yet most of them still produce a separate compressed representation for each target bitrate. Such variable-rate behavior allows one model to operate at multiple rates, but it does not necessarily provide a progressive bitstream whose prefixes are themselves decodable and can be refined by appending additional bits. We propose \textbf{Tree-VQ}, a progressive tree-structured vector quantization framework for learned image compression. Tree-VQ organizes discrete codewords as a hierarchical binary tree an

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