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Pixel-Level Predictions with Embedded Lookup Tables

June 17, 2025

Marius Aasan, Adín Ramírez Rivera

Paper abstract

Pixel-level prediction tasks inherently face constraints imposed by image resolution and the number of prediction classes. As image resolutions and dimensionalities increase, these constraints lead to significant memory bottlenecks when explicitly modeling high-dimensional embeddings for each individual pixel. Addressing these bottlenecks requires the development of alternative, more efficient representations to facilitate continued progress in the field. In this work, we discuss Embedded Lookup Tables (ELUTs) with indexed segmentation maps as an alternative data structure for more memory efficient representations in image processing. We show that ELUTs are inherently compatible with cost functionals and metrics for pixel-level prediction tasks with a significant reduction in memory overhead.