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Autoregressive models have demonstrated great performance in natural language processing (NLP) with impressive scalability, adaptability and generalizability. Inspired by their notable success in NLP field, autoregressive models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Kai Jiang , Jiaxing Huang

Recent neural network models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder adopts a recursive sequence decoding way. However, such autoregressive decoding may result in sequential error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Zheng-cong Fei

Autoregressive generation is a powerful approach for high-fidelity image synthesis, but it remains computationally demanding and slow even on the most advanced accelerators. While speculative decoding has been explored to mitigate this…

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Personalized image synthesis has emerged as a pivotal application in text-to-image generation, enabling the creation of images featuring specific subjects in diverse contexts. While diffusion models have dominated this domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kaiyue Sun , Xian Liu , Yao Teng , Xihui Liu

A key challenge in autoregressive image generation is to efficiently sample independent locations in parallel, while still modeling mutual dependencies with serial conditioning. Some recent works have addressed this by conditioning between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 David Eigen

As deep learning technology continues to evolve, the images yielded by generative models are becoming more and more realistic, triggering people to question the authenticity of images. Existing generated image detection methods detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Fan Yang , Bin Xiao , Weisheng Li , Gao Huang , Pamela C. Cosman

Autoregressive generative models consistently achieve the best results in density estimation tasks involving high dimensional data, such as images or audio. They pose density estimation as a sequence modeling task, where a recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Xi Chen , Nikhil Mishra , Mostafa Rohaninejad , Pieter Abbeel

The accelerating advancement of generative models has introduced new challenges for detecting AI-generated images, especially in real-world scenarios where novel generation techniques emerge rapidly. Existing learning paradigms are likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Qinghui He , Haifeng Zhang , Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Chi-Man Pun , Bin Xiao

Deep autoregressive models have shown state-of-the-art performance in density estimation for natural images on large-scale datasets such as ImageNet. However, such models require many thousands of gradient-based weight updates and unique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Scott Reed , Yutian Chen , Thomas Paine , Aäron van den Oord , S. M. Ali Eslami , Danilo Rezende , Oriol Vinyals , Nando de Freitas

Image AutoRegressive (IAR) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in speed and quality of generated images. However, they also raise concerns about memorization of their training data and its implications for privacy. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Aditya Kasliwal , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

While autoregressive models excel at image compression, their sample quality is often lacking. Although not realistic, generated images often have high likelihood according to the model, resembling the case of adversarial examples. Inspired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chenlin Meng , Jiaming Song , Yang Song , Shengjia Zhao , Stefano Ermon

Autoregressive (AR) image generation models are capable of producing high-fidelity images but often suffer from slow inference due to their inherently sequential, token-by-token decoding process. Speculative decoding, which employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhi-Kai Chen , Jun-Peng Jiang , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan

Deep generative models have demonstrated great performance in image synthesis. However, results deteriorate in case of spatial deformations, since they generate images of objects directly, rather than modeling the intricate interplay of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Patrick Esser , Ekaterina Sutter , Björn Ommer

Autoregressive (AR) models have garnered significant attention in image generation for their ability to effectively capture both local and global structures within visual data. However, prevalent AR models predominantly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Hui Deng , Xuyang Shen , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

We introduce a framework for learning robust visual representations that generalize to new viewpoints, backgrounds, and scene contexts. Discriminative models often learn naturally occurring spurious correlations, which cause them to fail on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chengzhi Mao , Augustine Cha , Amogh Gupta , Hao Wang , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick

Autoregressive models and their sequential factorization of the data likelihood have recently demonstrated great potential for image representation and synthesis. Nevertheless, they incorporate image context in a linear 1D order by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Björn Ommer

Recent work has shown that learned image compression strategies can outperform standard hand-crafted compression algorithms that have been developed over decades of intensive research on the rate-distortion trade-off. With growing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Felipe Codevilla , Jean Gabriel Simard , Ross Goroshin , Chris Pal

Continuous visual autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated promising performance in image generation. However, the heavy autoregressive inference burden imposes significant overhead. In Large Language Models (LLMs), speculative decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zili Wang , Robert Zhang , Kun Ding , Qi Yang , Fei Li , Shiming Xiang

Autoregressive neural network models have been used successfully for sequence generation, feature extraction, and hypothesis scoring. This paper presents yet another use for these models: allocating more computation to more difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Loren Lugosch , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Brett H. Meyer

Autoregressive language models have demonstrated a remarkable ability to extract latent structure from text. The embeddings from large language models have been shown to capture aspects of the syntax and semantics of language. But what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Liyi Zhang , Michael Y. Li , R. Thomas McCoy , Theodore R. Sumers , Jian-Qiao Zhu , Thomas L. Griffiths