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Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yogesh Balaji , Seungjun Nah , Xun Huang , Arash Vahdat , Jiaming Song , Qinsheng Zhang , Karsten Kreis , Miika Aittala , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Bryan Catanzaro , Tero Karras , Ming-Yu Liu

We introduce Heptapod, an image autoregressive model that adheres to the foundational principles of language modeling. Heptapod employs \textbf{causal attention}, \textbf{eliminates reliance on CFG}, and \textbf{eschews the trend of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yongxin Zhu , Jiawei Chen , Yuanzhe Chen , Zhuo Chen , Dongya Jia , Jian Cong , Xiaobin Zhuang , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models, such as Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, have shown remarkable proficiency in producing high-quality, realistic, and natural images from textual descriptions. However, these models sometimes fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Arash Marioriyad , Parham Rezaei , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Autoregressive (AR) image generators offer a language-model-friendly approach to image generation by predicting discrete image tokens in a causal sequence. However, unlike diffusion models, AR models lack a mechanism to refine previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Cheng Cheng , Lin Song , Di An , Yicheng Xiao , Xuchong Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Ying Shan

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Recent advances in multimodal models highlight the pivotal role of image tokenization in high-resolution image generation. By compressing images into compact latent representations, tokenizers enable generative models to operate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihang Rao , Borui Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In this letter, we explored generative image steganography based on autoregressive models. We proposed Pixel-Stega, which implements pixel-level information hiding with autoregressive models and arithmetic coding algorithm. Firstly, one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Siyu Zhang , Zhongliang Yang , Haoqin Tu , Jinshuai Yang , Yongfeng Huang

Visual autoregressive models typically adhere to a raster-order ``next-token prediction" paradigm, which overlooks the spatial and temporal locality inherent in visual content. Specifically, visual tokens exhibit significantly stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yefei He , Yuanyu He , Shaoxuan He , Feng Chen , Hong Zhou , Kaipeng Zhang , Bohan Zhuang

Text-to-image (T2I) generation aims at producing realistic images corresponding to text descriptions. Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has proven to be successful in this task. Typical T2I GANs are 2 phase methods that first pretrain an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yibin Liu , Jianyu Zhang , Li Zhang , Shijian Li , Gang Pan

Image geolocalization, the task of determining an image's geographic origin, poses significant challenges, largely due to visual similarities across disparate locations and the large search space. To address these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Narges Ghasemi , Amir Ziashahabi , Salman Avestimehr , Cyrus Shahabi

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has seen significant progress with diffusion models, enabling generation of photo-realistic images from text prompts. Despite this progress, existing methods still face challenges in following complex text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ashish Goswami , Satyam Kumar Modi , Santhosh Rishi Deshineni , Harman Singh , Prathosh A. P , Parag Singla

Existing text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, but face significant efficiency challenges when scaled to high resolutions, like 4K image generation. While previous research accelerates diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wenkun He , Yuchao Gu , Junyu Chen , Dongyun Zou , Yujun Lin , Zhekai Zhang , Haocheng Xi , Muyang Li , Ligeng Zhu , Jincheng Yu , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Song Han , Han Cai

Diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating photorealistic and semantically rich images. However, when the target concepts lie in low-density regions of the training distribution, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kwanyoung Lee , SeungJu Cha , Yebin Ahn , Hyunwoo Oh , Sungho Koh , Dong-Jin Kim

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have achieved impressive results, yet existing models still struggle with prompts that require rich world knowledge and implicit reasoning: both of which are critical for producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Daoan Zhang , Che Jiang , Ruoshi Xu , Biaoxiang Chen , Zijian Jin , Yutian Lu , Jianguo Zhang , Liang Yong , Jiebo Luo , Shengda Luo

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capability in generating high-quality images for simple prompts. However, when confronted with complex prompts involving multiple objects and hierarchical structures, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Hongji Yang , Yucheng Zhou , Wencheng Han , Runzhou Tao , Zhongying Qiu , Jianfei Yang , Jianbing Shen

This paper presents DetailFlow, a coarse-to-fine 1D autoregressive (AR) image generation method that models images through a novel next-detail prediction strategy. By learning a resolution-aware token sequence supervised with progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yiheng Liu , Liao Qu , Huichao Zhang , Xu Wang , Yi Jiang , Yiming Gao , Hu Ye , Xian Li , Shuai Wang , Daniel K. Du , Fangmin Chen , Zehuan Yuan , Xinglong Wu

Generating images from textual descriptions has recently attracted a lot of interest. While current models can generate photo-realistic images of individual objects such as birds and human faces, synthesising images with multiple objects is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Stanislav Frolov , Shailza Jolly , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

This paper explores feature prediction as a stand-alone objective for unsupervised learning from video and introduces V-JEPA, a collection of vision models trained solely using a feature prediction objective, without the use of pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Adrien Bardes , Quentin Garrido , Jean Ponce , Xinlei Chen , Michael Rabbat , Yann LeCun , Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas

Autoregressive visual generation models typically rely on tokenizers to compress images into tokens that can be predicted sequentially. A fundamental dilemma exists in token representation: discrete tokens enable straightforward modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yuqing Wang , Zhijie Lin , Yao Teng , Yuanzhi Zhu , Shuhuai Ren , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

Attention mechanism has been crucial for image diffusion models, however, their quadratic computational complexity limits the sizes of images we can process within reasonable time and memory constraints. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Ethan Smith , Nayan Saxena , Aninda Saha