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In autoregressive (AR) image generation, models based on the 'next-token prediction' paradigm of LLMs have shown comparable performance to diffusion models by reducing inductive biases. However, directly applying LLMs to complex image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Miaomiao Cai , Guanjie Wang , Wei Li , Zhijun Tu , Hanting Chen , Shaohui Lin , Jie Hu

As an essential task in autonomous driving (AD), motion prediction aims to predict the future states of surround objects for navigation. One natural solution is to estimate the position of other agents in a step-by-step manner where each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Xiaosong Jia , Shaoshuai Shi , Zijun Chen , Li Jiang , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Junchi Yan

Autoregressive models excel in sequential modeling and have proven to be effective for vision-language data. However, the spatial nature of visual signals conflicts with the sequential dependencies of next-token prediction, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiamian Wang , Ziqi Zhou , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Sohail Dianat , Majid Rabbani , Raghuveer Rao , Chen Qiu , Zhiqiang Tao

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

In this paper, we propose the generative patch prior (GPP) that defines a generative prior for compressive image recovery, based on patch-manifold models. Unlike learned, image-level priors that are restricted to the range space of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Rushil Anirudh , Suhas Lohit , Pavan Turaga

Autoregressive models have shown remarkable success in image generation by adapting sequential prediction techniques from language modeling. However, applying these approaches to images requires discretizing continuous pixel data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ziyao Guo , Kaipeng Zhang , Michael Qizhe Shieh

Autoregressive decoding in language models is inherently slow, generating only one token per forward pass. We propose Parallel Token Prediction (PTP), a general-purpose framework for predicting multiple tokens in a single model call. PTP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Felix Draxler , Justus Will , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Theofanis Karaletsos , Sameer Singh , Stephan Mandt

Recent unified models for joint understanding and generation have significantly advanced visual generation capabilities. However, their focus on conventional tasks like text-to-video generation has left the temporal reasoning potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xinjie Li , Zhimin Chen , Rui Zhao , Florian Schiffers , Zhenyu Liao , Vimal Bhat

We present SketchGPT, a flexible framework that employs a sequence-to-sequence autoregressive model for sketch generation, and completion, and an interpretation case study for sketch recognition. By mapping complex sketches into simplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Adarsh Tiwari , Sanket Biswas , Josep Lladós

In this work, we present VARGPT-v1.1, an advanced unified visual autoregressive model that builds upon our previous framework VARGPT. The model preserves the dual paradigm of next-token prediction for visual understanding and next-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xianwei Zhuang , Yuxin Xie , Yufan Deng , Dongchao Yang , Liming Liang , Jinghan Ru , Yuguo Yin , Yuexian Zou

The next-token prediction (NTP) objective trains language models to predict a single token at each step, even though many continuations can express the same meaning. For example, in the sentence ``this sticker can be placed here'',…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Christine Zhang , Dan Jurafsky , Chen Shani

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

Test-time scaling (TTS) has demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing large language models, yet its application to next-token prediction (NTP) autoregressive (AR) image generation remains largely uncharted. Existing TTS approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Harold Haodong Chen , Xianfeng Wu , Wen-Jie Shu , Rongjin Guo , Disen Lan , Harry Yang , Ying-Cong Chen

Although chain-of-thought reasoning and reinforcement learning (RL) have driven breakthroughs in NLP, their integration into generative vision models remains underexplored. We introduce ReasonGen-R1, a two-stage framework that first imbues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yu Zhang , Yunqi Li , Yifan Yang , Rui Wang , Yuqing Yang , Dai Qi , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Chong Luo , Lili Qiu

With the rapid progress of multimodal foundation models and predictive pre-training, an important open question is how to equip 3D point clouds with a pre-training paradigm that is better aligned with next-token and next-embedding learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yumeng Yao , Jingzhi Dong , Haowen Gu , Tao Chen , Zonghan Wu , Xiaoshui Huang , Yazhou Yao

Inspired by the remarkable success of autoregressive models in language modeling, this paradigm has been widely adopted in visual generation. However, the sequential token-by-token decoding mechanism inherent in traditional autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Siyang Wang , Hanting Li , Wei Li , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen , Feng Zhao

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

Standard next-token prediction (NTP) supervises language models solely through discrete labels in the output logit space. We argue that this sparse one-hot supervision leaves the latent representation space under-constrained, allowing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xiangdong Zhang , Debing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xiaohan Qin , Yu Cheng , Junchi Yan

The quality of the latent space in visual tokenizers (e.g., VAEs) is crucial for modern generative models. However, the standard reconstruction-based training paradigm produces a latent space that is biased towards low-level information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jingfeng Yao , Yuda Song , Yucong Zhou , Xinggang Wang

We introduce Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation (AR-RAG), a novel paradigm that enhances image generation by autoregressively incorporating knearest neighbor retrievals at the patch level. Unlike prior methods that perform a single,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jingyuan Qi , Zhiyang Xu , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang