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Controllable generation, which enables fine-grained control over generated outputs, has emerged as a critical focus in visual generative models. Currently, there are two primary technical approaches in visual generation: diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ziyu Yao , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Yuexian Zou , Lei Li

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

Recent mesh generation approaches typically tokenize triangle meshes into sequences of tokens and train autoregressive models to generate these tokens sequentially. Despite substantial progress, such token sequences inevitably reuse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jeonghwan Kim , Yushi Lan , Armando Fortes , Yongwei Chen , Xingang Pan

Autoregressive (AR) visual generation has emerged as a powerful paradigm for image and multimodal synthesis, owing to its scalability and generality. However, existing AR image generation suffers from severe memory bottlenecks due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ziran Qin , Youru Lv , Mingbao Lin , Zeren Zhang , Chanfan Gan , Tieyuan Chen , Weiyao Lin

Conventional wisdom holds that autoregressive models for image generation are typically accompanied by vector-quantized tokens. We observe that while a discrete-valued space can facilitate representing a categorical distribution, it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tianhong Li , Yonglong Tian , He Li , Mingyang Deng , Kaiming He

Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes reconstruction and generation, enabling direct supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenda Chu , Bingliang Zhang , Jiaqi Han , Yizhuo Li , Linjie Yang , Yisong Yue , Qiushan Guo

Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) models with continuous tokens for image generation show promising results by eliminating the need for discrete tokenization. However, these models face efficiency challenges due to their sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Hanling Zhang , Tongcheng Fang , Rui Xie , Bingxin Xu , Yan Yan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Autoregressive models have demonstrated remarkable success in sequential data generation, particularly in NLP, but their extension to continuous-domain image generation presents significant challenges. Recent work, the masked autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Tiankai Hang , Jianmin Bao , Fangyun Wei , Dong Chen

Masked-based autoregressive models have demonstrated promising image generation capability in continuous space. However, their potential for video generation remains under-explored. In this paper, we propose \textbf{VideoMAR}, a concise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hu Yu , Biao Gong , Hangjie Yuan , DanDan Zheng , Weilong Chai , Jingdong Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Feng Zhao

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

Recent advances in image and video generation have raised significant interest from both academia and industry. A key challenge in this field is improving inference efficiency, as model size and the number of inference steps directly impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Victor Besnier , David Hurych , Andrei Bursuc , Eduardo Valle

Masked Autoregressive (MAR) models promise better efficiency in visual generation than autoregressive (AR) models for the ability of parallel generation, yet their acceleration potential remains constrained by the modeling complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Feihong Yan , Peiru Wang , Yao Zhu , Kaiyu Pang , Qingyan Wei , Huiqi Li , Linfeng Zhang

As the basis of generative AI, an autoregressive model requires the generation of a new token depending on all the previously generated tokens, which brings high quality but also restricts the model to generate tokens one by one, forming a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zixian Huang , Chenxu Niu , Yu Gu , Gengyang Xiao , Xinwei Huang , Gong Cheng

Existing autoregressive (AR) image generative models use a token-by-token generation schema. That is, they predict a per-token probability distribution and sample the next token from that distribution. The main challenge is how to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qinyu Zhao , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

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

While most prior work in video generation relies on bidirectional architectures, recent efforts have sought to adapt these models into autoregressive variants to support near real-time generation. However, such adaptations often depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jingran Zhang , Ning Li , Yuanhao Ban , Andrew Bai , Justin Cui

Autoregressive and diffusion models drive the recent breakthroughs on text-to-image generation. Despite their huge success of generating high-realistic images, a common shortcoming of these models is their high inference latency -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhangyin Feng , Runyi Hu , Liangxin Liu , Fan Zhang , Duyu Tang , Yong Dai , Xiaocheng Feng , Jiwei Li , Bing Qin , Shuming Shi

In this paper, we propose ZipAR, a training-free, plug-and-play parallel decoding framework for accelerating auto-regressive (AR) visual generation. The motivation stems from the observation that images exhibit local structures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yefei He , Feng Chen , Yuanyu He , Shaoxuan He , Hong Zhou , Kaipeng Zhang , Bohan Zhuang

Sequence-to-sequence vision-language models are showing promise, but their applicability is limited by their inference latency due to their autoregressive way of generating predictions. We propose a parallel decoding sequence-to-sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kunyu Shi , Qi Dong , Luis Goncalves , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Soatto