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Why does the conditioning image only go through VAE and not ViT

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Description

I noticed that in Generator Mode, the conditioning image is only passed through the VAE and is not fed through the ViT for high-level semantic understanding. I’m curious about the reasoning behind this design choice. Were any ablation studies conducted to validate it? Thank you!

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No file or test is identified in the issue. Inspect the Generator Mode conditioning path and any existing documentation or ablation records for the VAE and ViT choices; done means documenting the design rationale and reporting whether ablation studies were conducted.

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Tech stack
python
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machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
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5/5
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Over a week
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Needs clarification
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