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HOFAR: High-Order Augmentation of Flow Autoregressive Transformers

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-03-12 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Flow Matching and Transformer architectures have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation tasks, with recent work FlowAR [Ren et al., 2024] synergistically integrating both paradigms to advance synthesis fidelity. However, current FlowAR implementations remain constrained by first-order trajectory modeling during the generation process. This paper introduces a novel framework that systematically enhances flow autoregressive transformers through high-order supervision. We provide theoretical analysis and empirical evaluation showing that our High-Order FlowAR (HOFAR) demonstrates measurable improvements in generation quality compared to baseline models. The proposed approach advances the understanding of flow-based autoregressive modeling by introducing a systematic framework for analyzing trajectory dynamics through high-order expansion.

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@article{arxiv.2503.08032,
  title  = {HOFAR: High-Order Augmentation of Flow Autoregressive Transformers},
  author = {Yingyu Liang and Zhizhou Sha and Zhenmei Shi and Zhao Song and Mingda Wan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08032},
  year   = {2025}
}
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