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Visual autoregressive (VAR) modeling has marked a paradigm shift in image generation from next-token prediction to next-scale prediction. VAR predicts a set of tokens at each step from coarse to fine scale, leading to better image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Renjie Wei , Songqiang Xu , Qingyu Guo , Meng Li

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

We propose a monocular depth estimation method based on visual autoregressive (VAR) priors, offering an alternative to diffusion-based approaches. Our method adapts a large-scale text-to-image VAR model and introduces a scale-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amir El-Ghoussani , André Kaup , Nassir Navab , Gustavo Carneiro , Vasileios Belagiannis

Conventional wisdom suggests that autoregressive models are used to process discrete data. When applied to continuous modalities such as visual data, Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) typically resorts to quantization-based approaches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chenze Shao , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

With the success of autoregressive learning in large language models, it has become a dominant approach for text-to-image generation, offering high efficiency and visual quality. However, invisible watermarking for visual autoregressive…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ziyi Wang , Songbai Tan , Gang Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Hongbin Xu , Xin Meng , Ming Li , Fei Richard Yu

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

We introduce TransDiff, the first image generation model that marries Autoregressive (AR) Transformer with diffusion models. In this joint modeling framework, TransDiff encodes labels and images into high-level semantic features and employs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dingcheng Zhen , Qian Qiao , Xu Zheng , Tan Yu , Kangxi Wu , Ziwei Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Shunshun Yin , Ming Tao

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling inefficiently applies a fixed computational depth to each position when generating high-resolution images. While existing methods accelerate inference by pruning tokens using frequency maps, their binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chunliang Li , Tianze Cao , Sanyuan Zhao

Essential to visual generation is efficient modeling of visual data priors. Conventional next-token prediction methods define the process as learning the conditional probability distribution of successive tokens. Recently, next-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jinhua Zhang , Wei Long , Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Shuhang Gu

Generating flexible-view 3D scenes, including 360{\deg} rotation and zooming, from single images is challenging due to a lack of 3D data. To this end, we introduce FlexWorld, a novel framework consisting of two key components: (1) a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Luxi Chen , Zihan Zhou , Min Zhao , Yikai Wang , Ge Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Hao Sun , Ji-Rong Wen , Chongxuan Li

Autoregressive models recently achieved comparable results versus state-of-the-art Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) with the help of Vector Quantized Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE). However, autoregressive models have several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Kenan E. Ak , Ning Xu , Zhe Lin , Yilin Wang

Generative models trained on extensive high-quality datasets effectively capture the structural and statistical properties of clean images, rendering them powerful priors for transforming degraded features into clean ones in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Siyang Wang , Feng Zhao

The field of image synthesis is currently flourishing due to the advancements in diffusion models. While diffusion models have been successful, their computational intensity has prompted the pursuit of more efficient alternatives. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Jiayi Guo , Jinyi Hu , Zhiyuan Liu , Shiji Song , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang

Text-to-image generation with visual autoregressive~(VAR) models has recently achieved impressive advances in generation fidelity and inference efficiency. While control mechanisms have been explored for diffusion models, enabling precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Keli Liu , Zhendong Wang , Wengang Zhou , Shaodong Xu , Ruixiao Dong , Houqiang Li

We build on the Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR) framework and formulate style transfer as conditional discrete sequence modeling in a learned latent space. Images are decomposed into multi-scale representations and tokenized into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Liqi Jing , Dingming Zhang , Peinian Li , Lichen Zhu , Yang Xu , Hanyu Xing

Image tokenization has enabled major advances in autoregressive image generation by providing compressed, discrete representations that are more efficient to process than raw pixels. While traditional approaches use 2D grid tokenization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Roman Bachmann , Jesse Allardice , David Mizrahi , Enrico Fini , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Elmira Amirloo , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Amir Zamir , Afshin Dehghan

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

Visual autoregressive models (VAR) have recently emerged as a promising class of generative models, achieving performance comparable to diffusion models in text-to-image generation tasks. While conditional generation has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Quan Dao , Xiaoxiao He , Ligong Han , Ngan Hoai Nguyen , Amin Heyrani Nobar , Faez Ahmed , Han Zhang , Viet Anh Nguyen , Dimitris Metaxas

We investigate the fundamental limits of transformer-based foundation models, extending our analysis to include Visual Autoregressive (VAR) transformers. VAR represents a big step toward generating images using a novel, scalable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yifang Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Vision AutoRegressive model (VAR) was recently introduced as an alternative to Diffusion Models (DMs) in image generation domain. In this work we focus on its adaptations, which aim to fine-tune pre-trained models to perform specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaif Shaikh , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic