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Class-conditional generative models have emerged as accurate and robust classifiers, with diffusion models demonstrating clear advantages over other visual generative paradigms, including autoregressive (AR) models. In this work, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ilia Sudakov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

We introduce a new class of adaptive non-linear autoregressive (Nlar) models incorporating the concept of momentum, which dynamically estimate both the learning rates and momentum as the number of iterations increases. In our method, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ramin Okhrati

Autoregressive models (ARMs) have become the workhorse for sequence generation tasks, since many problems can be modeled as next-token prediction. While there appears to be a natural ordering for text (i.e., left-to-right), for many data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhe Wang , Jiaxin Shi , Nicolas Heess , Arthur Gretton , Michalis K. Titsias

Unsupervised learning of generative models has seen tremendous progress over recent years, in particular due to generative adversarial networks (GANs), variational autoencoders, and flow-based models. GANs have dramatically improved sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Thomas Lucas , Konstantin Shmelkov , Karteek Alahari , Cordelia Schmid , Jakob Verbeek

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 (AR) models remain widely used in time series analysis due to their interpretability, but convencional parameter estimation methods can be computationally expensive and prone to convergence issues. This paper proposes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-20 Anaísa Lucena , Ana Martins , Armando J. Pinho , Sónia Gouveia

We present a method for feature interpretation that makes use of recent advances in autoregressive density estimation models to invert model representations. We train generative inversion models to express a distribution over input features…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-03 Charlie Nash , Nate Kushman , Christopher K. I. Williams

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models simultaneously generate multiple outputs in a sequence, which significantly reduces the inference speed at the cost of accuracy drop compared to autoregressive baselines. Showing great potential for real-time…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Yosuke Higuchi , Nanxin Chen , Yuya Fujita , Hirofumi Inaguma , Tatsuya Komatsu , Jaesong Lee , Jumon Nozaki , Tianzi Wang , Shinji Watanabe

We introduce a new paradigm for AutoRegressive (AR) image generation, termed Set AutoRegressive Modeling (SAR). SAR generalizes the conventional AR to the next-set setting, i.e., splitting the sequence into arbitrary sets containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenze Liu , Le Zhuo , Yi Xin , Sheng Xia , Peng Gao , Xiangyu Yue

Autoregressive models are often employed to learn distributions of image data by decomposing the $D$-dimensional density function into a product of one-dimensional conditional distributions. Each conditional depends on preceding variables…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Ambrose Emmett-Iwaniw , Nathan Kirk

Non-autoregressive (NAR) generation, which is first proposed in neural machine translation (NMT) to speed up inference, has attracted much attention in both machine learning and natural language processing communities. While NAR generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yisheng Xiao , Lijun Wu , Junliang Guo , Juntao Li , Min Zhang , Tao Qin , Tie-yan Liu

Rapid learning requires flexible representations to quickly adopt to new evidence. We develop a novel class of models called Attentive Recurrent Comparators (ARCs) that form representations of objects by cycling through them and making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Pranav Shyam , Shubham Gupta , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Regression problems are pervasive in real-world applications. Generally a substantial amount of labeled samples are needed to build a regression model with good generalization ability. However, many times it is relatively easy to collect a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Dongrui Wu , Chin-Teng Lin , Jian Huang

Non-autoregressive (NAR) machine translation has recently achieved significant improvements, and now outperforms autoregressive (AR) models on some benchmarks, providing an efficient alternative to AR inference. However, while AR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Sweta Agrawal , Julia Kreutzer , Colin Cherry

Autoregressive models are a class of generative model that probabilistically predict the next output of a sequence based on previous inputs. The autoregressive sequence is by definition one-dimensional (1D), which is natural for language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yi Hong Teoh , Roger G. Melko

We introduce Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs), a model class encompassing and generalizing order-agnostic autoregressive models (Uria et al., 2014) and absorbing discrete diffusion (Austin et al., 2021), which we show are special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Emiel Hoogeboom , Alexey A. Gritsenko , Jasmijn Bastings , Ben Poole , Rianne van den Berg , Tim Salimans

We present TraDE, a self-attention-based architecture for auto-regressive density estimation with continuous and discrete valued data. Our model is trained using a penalized maximum likelihood objective, which ensures that samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Rasool Fakoor , Pratik Chaudhari , Jonas Mueller , Alexander J. Smola

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) generative models have produced increasingly powerful systems for media synthesis. Among them, next-scale prediction has emerged as a popular paradigm, where models generate images in a coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gengze Zhou , Chongjian Ge , Hao Tan , Feng Liu , Yicong Hong

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

Standard autoregressive language models perform only polynomial-time computation to compute the probability of the next symbol. While this is attractive, it means they cannot model distributions whose next-symbol probability is hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chu-Cheng Lin , Aaron Jaech , Xin Li , Matthew R. Gormley , Jason Eisner