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Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia-Nan Li , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Chongxuan Li

Autoregressive (AR) models have been the dominating approach to conditional sequence generation, but are suffering from the issue of high inference latency. Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have been recently proposed to reduce the latency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Zhiqing Sun , Yiming Yang

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology is revolutionizing the computing industry. Not only its applications have broadened to various sectors but also poses new system design and optimization opportunities. The technology is…

Masked discrete diffusion models (MDMs) are a promising new approach to generative modelling, offering the ability for parallel token generation and therefore greater efficiency than autoregressive counterparts. However, achieving an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 David Fox , Sam Bowyer , Song Liu , Laurence Aitchison , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Mengyue Yang

Visual autoregressive models achieve remarkable generation quality through next-scale predictions across multi-scale token pyramids. However, the conventional method uses uniform scale downsampling to build these pyramids, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaofan Li , Chenming Wu , Yanpeng Sun , Jiaming Zhou , Delin Qu , Yansong Qu , Weihao Bo , Haibao Yu , Dingkang Liang

Autoregressive networks can achieve promising performance in many sequence modeling tasks with short-range dependence. However, when handling high-dimensional inputs and outputs, the huge amount of parameters in the network lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Di Wang , Feiqing Huang , Jingyu Zhao , Guodong Li , Guangjian Tian

Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of high-quality visual representations in image generation and have highlighted the limitations of generative models in image understanding. As a generative paradigm originally designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Yuqing Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xihui Liu , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines. However, their core attention layers become a major bottleneck at inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dvir Samuel , Issar Tzachor , Matan Levy , Micahel Green , Gal Chechik , Rami Ben-Ari

Auto-regressive (AR) models have recently made notable progress in image generation, achieving performance comparable to diffusion-based approaches. However, their computational intensity and sequential nature impede on-device deployment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Keming Ye , Zhou Zhao , Fan Wu , Shengyu Zhang

Autoregressive (AR) visual generation relies on tokenizers to map images to and from discrete sequences. However, tokenizers are trained to reconstruct clean images from ground-truth tokens, while AR generators are optimized only for token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xinyao Liao , Qiyuan He , Kai Xu , Xiaoye Qu , Yicong Li , Wei Wei , Angela Yao

Autoregressive video diffusion models support real-time synthesis but suffer from error accumulation and context loss over long horizons. We discover that attention heads in AR video diffusion transformers serve functionally distinct roles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiahao Tian , Yiwei Wang , Gang Yu , Chi Zhang

This paper presents a novel approach that enables autoregressive video generation with high efficiency. We propose to reformulate the video generation problem as a non-quantized autoregressive modeling of temporal frame-by-frame prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoge Deng , Ting Pan , Haiwen Diao , Zhengxiong Luo , Yufeng Cui , Huchuan Lu , Shiguang Shan , Yonggang Qi , Xinlong Wang

We introduce RandAR, a decoder-only visual autoregressive (AR) model capable of generating images in arbitrary token orders. Unlike previous decoder-only AR models that rely on a predefined generation order, RandAR removes this inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ziqi Pang , Tianyuan Zhang , Fujun Luan , Yunze Man , Hao Tan , Kai Zhang , William T. Freeman , Yu-Xiong Wang

Autoregressive (AR) models have reformulated image generation as next-token prediction, demonstrating remarkable potential and emerging as strong competitors to diffusion models. However, control-to-image generation, akin to ControlNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zongming Li , Tianheng Cheng , Shoufa Chen , Peize Sun , Haocheng Shen , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

This work presents SimpleAR, a vanilla autoregressive visual generation framework without complex architecure modifications. Through careful exploration of training and inference optimization, we demonstrate that: 1) with only 0.5B…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Junke Wang , Zhi Tian , Xun Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Weilin Huang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Autoregressive models have shown superior performance and efficiency in image generation, but remain constrained by high computational costs and prolonged training times in video generation. In this study, we explore methods to accelerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yucheng Zhou , Jianbing Shen

Autoregressive (AR) image models have recently demonstrated remarkable generative capability, but their sequential nature results in significant inference latency. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically verify tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhehao Yu , Baoquan Zhang , Bingqi Shan , Xinhao Liu , Dongliang Zhou , Guotao Liang , Guangming Ye , Yunming Ye

As a new paradigm of visual content generation, autoregressive text-to-image models suffer from slow inference due to their sequential token-by-token decoding process, often requiring thousands of model forward passes to generate a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yao Teng , Fuyun Wang , Xian Liu , Zhekai Chen , Han Shi , Yu Wang , Zhenguo Li , Weiyang Liu , Difan Zou , Xihui Liu