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Scaling up autoregressive models in vision has not proven as beneficial as in large language models. In this work, we investigate this scaling problem in the context of text-to-image generation, focusing on two critical factors: whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Lijie Fan , Tianhong Li , Siyang Qin , Yuanzhen Li , Chen Sun , Michael Rubinstein , Deqing Sun , Kaiming He , Yonglong Tian

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

PixelCNN achieves state-of-the-art results in density estimation for natural images. Although training is fast, inference is costly, requiring one network evaluation per pixel; O(N) for N pixels. This can be sped up by caching activations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Scott Reed , Aäron van den Oord , Nal Kalchbrenner , Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo , Ziyu Wang , Dan Belov , Nando de Freitas

This paper argues that generating output tokens is more effective than using pooled representations for prediction tasks because token-level generation retains more mutual information. Since LLMs are trained on massive text corpora using…

The current conditional autoregressive image generation methods have shown promising results, yet their potential remains largely unexplored in the practical unsupervised image translation domain, which operates without explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yi Liu , Shengqian Li , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Si Liu

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

Most large language models are autoregressive: they generate tokens one at a time. Discrete diffusion language models can generate multiple tokens in parallel, but sampling from them requires a denoising order: a strategy for deciding which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Daniel Israel , Tian Jin , Ellie Cheng , Guy Van den Broeck , Aditya Grover , Suvinay Subramanian , Michael Carbin

Autoregressive conditional image generation algorithms are capable of generating photorealistic images that are consistent with given textual or image conditions, and have great potential for a wide range of applications. Nevertheless, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Qiaoying Qu , Shiyu Shen

Flexible image tokenizers aim to represent an image using an ordered 1D variable-length token sequence. This flexible tokenization is typically achieved through nested dropout, where a portion of trailing tokens is randomly truncated during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zixuan Fu , Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Binbin Song , Ding Liu , Bihan Wen

This work presents a generative modeling approach based on successive subspace learning (SSL). Unlike most generative models in the literature, our method does not utilize neural networks to analyze the underlying source distribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zohreh Azizi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

In this work, we address the task of unconditional head motion generation to animate still human faces in a low-dimensional semantic space from a single reference pose. Different from traditional audio-conditioned talking head generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Louis Airale , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Stéphane Lathuilière , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Sequential models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, have long suffered from slow training due to their inherent sequential nature. For many years this bottleneck has persisted, as many thought…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Heng Lim , Qi Zhu , Joshua Selfridge , Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim

We present significant extensions to diffusion-based sequence generation models, blurring the line with autoregressive language models. We introduce hyperschedules, which assign distinct noise schedules to individual token positions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Nima Fathi , Torsten Scholak , Pierre-André Noël

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

Generative approaches have been recently shown to be effective for both Entity Disambiguation and Entity Linking (i.e., joint mention detection and disambiguation). However, the previously proposed autoregressive formulation for EL suffers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Nicola De Cao , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

Some text generation tasks, such as Attribute Value Extraction (AVE), require decoding multiple independent sequences from the same document context. While standard autoregressive decoding is slow due to its sequential nature, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Theodore Glavas , Nikhita Vedula , Dushyanta Dhyani , Yilun Zhu , Shervin Malmasi

Video generation has seen remarkable progress thanks to advancements in generative deep learning. However, generating long sequences remains a significant challenge. Generated videos should not only display coherent and continuous movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jingbo Yang , Adrian G. Bors

Existing large language models have to run K times to generate a sequence of K tokens. In this paper, we present RecycleGPT, a generative language model with fast decoding speed by recycling pre-generated model states without running the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yufan Jiang , Qiaozhi He , Xiaomin Zhuang , Zhihua Wu , Kunpeng Wang , Wenlai Zhao , Guangwen Yang

Autoregressive (AR) models have garnered significant attention in image generation for their ability to effectively capture both local and global structures within visual data. However, prevalent AR models predominantly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Hui Deng , Xuyang Shen , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai