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Autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated significant success in the realm of text-to-image generation. However, they usually face two major challenges. Firstly, the generated images may not always meet the quality standards expected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Kai Dong , Tingting Bai

The success of autoregressive (AR) language models in text generation has inspired the computer vision community to adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) for image generation. However, considering the essential differences between text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xuantong Liu , Shaozhe Hao , Xianbiao Qi , Tianyang Hu , Jun Wang , Rong Xiao , Yuan Yao

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) become increasingly sophisticated and widely used, it becomes more and more crucial to understand their decision-making process. Traditional explainability methods, designed for classification tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Walid Bousselham , Angie Boggust , Hendrik Strobelt , Hilde Kuehne

Diffusion language models hold the promise of fast parallel generation, while autoregressive (AR) models typically excel in quality due to their causal structure aligning naturally with language modeling. This raises a fundamental question:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jingyu Liu , Xin Dong , Zhifan Ye , Rishabh Mehta , Yonggan Fu , Vartika Singh , Jan Kautz , Ce Zhang , Pavlo Molchanov

Autoregressive (AR) diffusion offers a promising framework for generating videos of theoretically infinite length. However, a major challenge is maintaining temporal continuity while preventing the progressive quality degradation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zou , Dian Zheng , Hongbo Liu , Tiankai Hang , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

Current text-to-image models struggle to provide precise camera control using natural language alone. In this work, we present a framework for precise camera control with global scene understanding in text-to-image generation by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xinxuan Lu , Charless Fowlkes , Alexander C. Berg

We introduce DC-AR, a novel masked autoregressive (AR) text-to-image generation framework that delivers superior image generation quality with exceptional computational efficiency. Due to the tokenizers' limitations, prior masked AR models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yecheng Wu , Junyu Chen , Zhuoyang Zhang , Enze Xie , Jincheng Yu , Junsong Chen , Jinyi Hu , Yao Lu , Song Han , Han Cai

Autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as powerful solutions for zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, capable of generating natural speech from a few seconds of audio prompts. However, conventional AR-based TTS systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Chun Yat Wu , Jiajun Deng , Guinan Li , Qiuqiang Kong , Simon Lui

Existing methods for image alignment struggle in cases involving feature-sparse regions, extreme scale and field-of-view differences, and large deformations, often resulting in suboptimal accuracy. Robustness to these challenges can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kanggeon Lee , Soochahn Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

Text-to-Image diffusion models have made tremendous progress over the past two years, enabling the generation of highly realistic images based on open-domain text descriptions. However, despite their success, text descriptions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shihao Zhao , Dongdong Chen , Yen-Chun Chen , Jianmin Bao , Shaozhe Hao , Lu Yuan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

We propose a weakly-supervised approach for conditional image generation of complex scenes where a user has fine control over objects appearing in the scene. We exploit sparse semantic maps to control object shapes and classes, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Dario Pavllo , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Diffusion models have become the dominant approach for visual generation. They are trained by denoising a Markovian process which gradually adds noise to the input. We argue that the Markovian property limits the model's ability to fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiatao Gu , Yuyang Wang , Yizhe Zhang , Qihang Zhang , Dinghuai Zhang , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Auto-Regressive (AR) models have achieved impressive results in 2D image generation by modeling joint distributions in the grid space. While this approach has been extended to the 3D domain for powerful shape generation, it still has two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Simian Luo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Yinda Zhang , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Xiangyang Xue

Masked autoregressive models (MAR) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for image and video generation, combining the flexibility of masked modeling with the expressiveness of continuous tokenizers. However, when sampling individual frames,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zian Li , Muhan Zhang

We present Condition-Aware Neural Network (CAN), a new method for adding control to image generative models. In parallel to prior conditional control methods, CAN controls the image generation process by dynamically manipulating the weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Han Cai , Muyang Li , Zhuoyang Zhang , Qinsheng Zhang , Ming-Yu Liu , Song Han

Autoregressive models have shown remarkable success in image generation by adapting sequential prediction techniques from language modeling. However, applying these approaches to images requires discretizing continuous pixel data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ziyao Guo , Kaipeng Zhang , Michael Qizhe Shieh

Recent advances in text-to-image generative models have enabled numerous practical applications, including subject-driven generation, which fine-tunes pretrained models to capture subject semantics from only a few examples. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Hyunjun Kim , Eunseo Koh , MinKyu Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Region-level captioning is challenged by the caption degeneration issue, which refers to that pre-trained multimodal models tend to predict the most frequent captions but miss the less frequent ones. In this study, we propose a controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yuzhong Zhao , Yue Liu , Zonghao Guo , Weijia Wu , Chen Gong , Fang Wan , Qixiang Ye

Autoregressive pre-trained models combined with decoding methods have achieved impressive performance on complex reasoning tasks. While mainstream decoding strategies such as beam search can generate plausible candidate sets, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yuzhu Chen , Yingjie Wang , Shunyu Liu , Yongcheng Jing , Dacheng Tao

Real-time motion-controllable video generation remains challenging due to the inherent latency of bidirectional diffusion models and the lack of effective autoregressive (AR) approaches. Existing AR video diffusion models are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kesen Zhao , Jiaxin Shi , Beier Zhu , Junbao Zhou , Xiaolong Shen , Yuan Zhou , Qianru Sun , Hanwang Zhang