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Autoregressive (AR) modeling has recently emerged as a promising new paradigm in visual generation, but its practical adoption is severely constrained by the slow inference speed of per-token generation, which often requires thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Junhyuk So , Hyunho Kook , Chaeyeon Jang , Eunhyeok Park

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

Auto-regressive (AR) models, initially successful in language generation, have recently shown promise in visual generation tasks due to their superior sampling efficiency. Unlike image generation, video generation requires a substantially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuan Shen , Weize Ma , Yufa Zhou , Enhao Tang , Yanyue Xie , Zhengang Li , Yifan Gong , Quanyi Wang , Henghui Ding , Yiwei Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Pu Zhao , Jun Lin , Jiuxiang Gu

Autoregressive (AR) approaches, which represent images as sequences of discrete tokens from a finite codebook, have achieved remarkable success in image generation. However, the quantization process and the limited codebook size inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jinyuan Hu , Jiayou Zhang , Shaobo Cui , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

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 models have emerged as a powerful generative paradigm for visual generation. The current de-facto standard of next token prediction commonly operates over a single-scale sequence of dense image tokens, and is incapable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Guangting Zheng , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Jiajun Deng , Ting Yao , Yanyong Zhang , Tao Mei

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

Autoregressive (AR) visual generators model images as sequences of discrete tokens and are trained with a next-token likelihood objective. This strict causal supervision optimizes each step based only on the immediate next token, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yonghao Yu , Lang Huang , Zerun Wang , Runyi Li , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Recently, autoregressive (AR) image models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, positioning themselves as a compelling alternative to diffusion models. However, their sequential nature leads to long inference times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junhyuk So , Juncheol Shin , Hyunho Kook , Eunhyeok Park

Autoregressive models, built based on the Next Token Prediction (NTP) paradigm, show great potential in developing a unified framework that integrates both language and vision tasks. Pioneering works introduce NTP to autoregressive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yatian Pang , Peng Jin , Shuo Yang , Bin Lin , Bin Zhu , Zhenyu Tang , Liuhan Chen , Francis E. H. Tay , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang , Li Yuan

Object detection applied to LiDAR point clouds is a relevant task in robotics, and particularly in autonomous driving. Single frame methods, predominant in the field, exploit information from individual sensor scans. Recent approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Ernesto Lozano Calvo , Bernardo Taveira , Fredrik Kahl , Niklas Gustafsson , Jonathan Larsson , Adam Tonderski

Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image given a reference image and a relative text, without relying on costly triplet annotations. Existing CLIP-based methods face two core challenges: (1) union-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqi Xiao , Yingying Zhu

Autoregressive transformers have recently shown impressive image generation quality and efficiency on par with state-of-the-art diffusion models. Unlike diffusion architectures, autoregressive models can naturally incorporate arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yixiao Chen , Zhiyuan Ma , Guoli Jia , Che Jiang , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

In autoregressive (AR) image generation, visual tokenizers compress images into compact discrete latent tokens, enabling efficient training of downstream autoregressive models for visual generation via next-token prediction. While scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianwei Xiong , Jun Hao Liew , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

In this paper, we investigate the underexplored challenge of sample diversity in autoregressive (AR) generative models with bitwise visual tokenizers. We first analyze the factors that limit diversity in bitwise AR models and identify two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ying Yang , Zhengyao Lv , Tianlin Pan , Haofan Wang , Binxin Yang , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Chenyang Si

We present a cross-modal Transformer-based framework, which jointly encodes video data and text labels for zero-shot action recognition (ZSAR). Our model employs a conceptually new pipeline by which visual representations are learned in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chung-Ching Lin , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

Visual Auto-Regressive modeling (VAR) has shown promise in bridging the speed and quality gap between autoregressive image models and diffusion models. VAR reformulates autoregressive modeling by decomposing an image into successive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hermann Kumbong , Xian Liu , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Xihui Liu , Ziwei Liu , Daniel Y. Fu , Christopher Ré , David W. Romero

There exists recent work in computer vision, named VAR, that proposes a new autoregressive paradigm for image generation. Diverging from the vanilla next-token prediction, VAR structurally reformulates the image generation into a coarse to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Sucheng Ren , Yaodong Yu , Nataniel Ruiz , Feng Wang , Alan Yuille , Cihang Xie

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize the novel object categories using the semantic representation of categories, and the key idea is to explore the knowledge of how the novel class is semantically related to the familiar classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Ying Shi , Wei Wei , Zhiming Zheng

We introduce BiGR, a novel conditional image generation model using compact binary latent codes for generative training, focusing on enhancing both generation and representation capabilities. BiGR is the first conditional generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shaozhe Hao , Xuantong Liu , Xianbiao Qi , Shihao Zhao , Bojia Zi , Rong Xiao , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong