F3's biggest letdown: VAE is identical to F2, no retraining done

ZootAllures9111 · reddit · 2026-10-17

A user points out F3's biggest disappointment: its VAE is exactly the same as F2's — no new or further improved VAE was trained at all.

The author had expected a significantly improved VAE as in past model transitions, which other models could also adopt, but no such work was done.

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