Users report VAE improvements but remaining artifacts limit production use
4 Sep 20 10:18 AM · 6d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 4 of 7
Commenter trentor noted that Qwen-Image-2.1 finally improved the VAE that had constrained prior models, but visual artifacts including dot patterns remain visible enough to make the model unsuitable for production work.
“They finally fixed their VAE. It really held back their models over the last 2 years.”
trentorAlibaba Qwen Team Developer
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They finally fixed their VAE. It really held back their models over the last 2 years.EDIT: It still produces artifacts it's better but still unusable for production work. In midvalues you will see a slight dot pattern it's not as bad the older ones but still extremely visible.
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Its happy to see a new open image model from qwen. But the license is a let down. And it dosent even beat their closed qwen3 image wich is already a bit old.
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