PULSE: Unlocking Practical Image Compression on Single-Thread CPU

arXiv:2609.18602 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Code: https://github.com/microsoft/GenCodec

Terminology

Entropy Model — 11× in this paper
Quantization — 9× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
Benchmark — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Decode — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Redundancy — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Fidelity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adversarial Training — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
BQP — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Edge Devices — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Nash Equilibrium — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Perceptual Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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