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# AutoencoderRAE

The Representation Autoencoder (RAE) model introduced in [Diffusion Transformers with Representation Autoencoders](https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.11690) by Boyang Zheng, Nanye Ma, Shengbang Tong, Saining Xie from NYU VISIONx.

RAE combines a frozen pretrained vision encoder (DINOv2, SigLIP2, or MAE) with a trainable ViT-MAE-style decoder. In the two-stage RAE training recipe, the autoencoder is trained in stage 1 (reconstruction), and then a diffusion model is trained on the resulting latent space in stage 2 (generation).

The following RAE models are released and supported in Diffusers:

| Model | Encoder | Latent shape (224px input) |
|:------|:--------|:---------------------------|
| [`nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08`](https://huggingface.co/nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08) | DINOv2-base | 768 x 16 x 16 |
| [`nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08-i512`](https://huggingface.co/nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08-i512) | DINOv2-base (512px) | 768 x 32 x 32 |
| [`nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-small-ViTXL-n08`](https://huggingface.co/nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-small-ViTXL-n08) | DINOv2-small | 384 x 16 x 16 |
| [`nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-large-ViTXL-n08`](https://huggingface.co/nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-large-ViTXL-n08) | DINOv2-large | 1024 x 16 x 16 |
| [`nyu-visionx/RAE-siglip2-base-p16-i256-ViTXL-n08`](https://huggingface.co/nyu-visionx/RAE-siglip2-base-p16-i256-ViTXL-n08) | SigLIP2-base | 768 x 16 x 16 |
| [`nyu-visionx/RAE-mae-base-p16-ViTXL-n08`](https://huggingface.co/nyu-visionx/RAE-mae-base-p16-ViTXL-n08) | MAE-base | 768 x 16 x 16 |

## Loading a pretrained model

```python
from diffusers import AutoencoderRAE

model = AutoencoderRAE.from_pretrained(
    "nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08"
).to("cuda").eval()
```

## Encoding and decoding a real image

```python
import torch
from diffusers import AutoencoderRAE
from diffusers.utils import load_image
from torchvision.transforms.functional import to_tensor, to_pil_image

model = AutoencoderRAE.from_pretrained(
    "nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08"
).to("cuda").eval()

image = load_image("https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/diffusers/cat.png")
image = image.convert("RGB").resize((224, 224))
x = to_tensor(image).unsqueeze(0).to("cuda")  # (1, 3, 224, 224), values in [0, 1]

with torch.no_grad():
    latents = model.encode(x).latent        # (1, 768, 16, 16)
    recon = model.decode(latents).sample     # (1, 3, 256, 256)

recon_image = to_pil_image(recon[0].clamp(0, 1).cpu())
recon_image.save("recon.png")
```

## Latent normalization

Some pretrained checkpoints include per-channel `latents_mean` and `latents_std` statistics for normalizing the latent space. When present, `encode` and `decode` automatically apply the normalization and denormalization, respectively.

```python
model = AutoencoderRAE.from_pretrained(
    "nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-base-ViTXL-n08"
).to("cuda").eval()

# Latent normalization is handled automatically inside encode/decode
# when the checkpoint config includes latents_mean/latents_std.
with torch.no_grad():
    latents = model.encode(x).latent   # normalized latents
    recon = model.decode(latents).sample
```

## AutoencoderRAE

[[autodoc]] AutoencoderRAE
  - encode
  - decode
  - all

## DecoderOutput

[[autodoc]] models.autoencoders.vae.DecoderOutput