diffusers/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoder_rae.md

AutoencoderRAE

The Representation Autoencoder (RAE) model introduced in Diffusion Transformers with Representation Autoencoders 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	DINOv2-base	768 x 16 x 16
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	DINOv2-small	384 x 16 x 16
nyu-visionx/RAE-dinov2-wReg-large-ViTXL-n08	DINOv2-large	1024 x 16 x 16
nyu-visionx/RAE-siglip2-base-p16-i256-ViTXL-n08	SigLIP2-base	768 x 16 x 16
nyu-visionx/RAE-mae-base-p16-ViTXL-n08	MAE-base	768 x 16 x 16

Loading a pretrained model

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

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.

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