PULSE is an asymmetric, variable-rate neural image codec for practical compression on resource-constrained hardware. It combines ultra-low-complexity decoding, bit-exact entropy coding, and MSE or perceptual optimization. provide deterministic entropy transport, with a content-adaptive Meta Prior. levels each, including face/text-aware perceptual fine-tuning. decompression, and optimized CPU, H100 GPU, and mobile NPU deployment tools. Each bundle contains config.json, model.pt and entropycontrolint.pt. Eight QPs (0–7) are supported. Keep the matching files together. manifest.json and SHA256SUMS record all inference-file checksums. Install the PULSE code following its installation guide…