@article{largescalecodecavatarstheunreasonableeff,
  title = {Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining},
  author = {Junxuan Li and Rawal Khirodkar and Chengan He and Zhongshi Jiang and Giljoo Nam and Lingchen Yang and Jihyun Lee and Egor Zakharov and Zhaoen Su and Rinat Abdrashitov and Yuan Dong and Julieta Martinez and Kai Li and Qingyang Tan and Takaaki Shiratori and Matthew Hu and Peihong Guo and Xuhua Huang and Ariyan Zarei and Marco Pesavento and Yichen Xu and He Wen and Teng Deng and Wyatt Borsos and Anjali Thakrar and Jean-Charles Bazin and Carsten Stoll and Ginés Hidalgo and James Booth and Lucy Wang and Xiaowen Ma and Yu Rong and Sairanjith Thalanki and Chen Cao and Christian Häne and Abhishek Kar and Sofien Bouaziz and Jason Saragih and Yaser Sheikh and Shunsuke Saito},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2604.02320},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02320},
}