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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

Tokenization is a key component of autoregressive (AR) generative models, converting raw data into more manageable units for modeling. Commonly, tokens describe local information, such as regions of pixels in images or word pieces in text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zhitong Gao , Parham Rezaei , Ali Cy , Mingqiao Ye , Nataša Jovanović , Jesse Allardice , Afshin Dehghan , Amir Zamir , Roman Bachmann , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar

Autoregressive (AR) modeling has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing by enabling models to generate text with coherence and contextual understanding through next token prediction. Recently, in image generation, VAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Audio generation has achieved remarkable progress with the advance of sophisticated generative models, such as diffusion models (DMs) and autoregressive (AR) models. However, due to the naturally significant sequence length of audio, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Hao Chen , Jie Sun , Jinglu Wang , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides , Bhiksha Raj

We introduce a new paradigm for AutoRegressive (AR) image generation, termed Set AutoRegressive Modeling (SAR). SAR generalizes the conventional AR to the next-set setting, i.e., splitting the sequence into arbitrary sets containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenze Liu , Le Zhuo , Yi Xin , Sheng Xia , Peng Gao , Xiangyu Yue

Recent advances in video generation have been dominated by diffusion and flow-matching models, which produce high-quality results but remain computationally intensive and difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce VideoAR, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Longbin Ji , Xiaoxiong Liu , Junyuan Shang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have spurred interests in encoding images as discrete tokens and leveraging autoregressive (AR) frameworks for visual generation. However, the quantization process in AR-based visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Peng Zheng , Junke Wang , Yi Chang , Yizhou Yu , Rui Ma , Zuxuan Wu

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

Recently, Vector Quantized AutoRegressive (VQ-AR) models have shown remarkable results in text-to-image synthesis by equally predicting discrete image tokens from the top left to bottom right in the latent space. Although the simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Li Zhu , Junshi Huang

Existing 1D visual tokenizers for autoregressive (AR) generation largely follow the design principles of language modeling, as they are built directly upon transformers whose priors originate in language, yielding single-hierarchy latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xu Zhang , Cheng Da , Huan Yang , Kun Gai , Ming Lu , Zhan Ma

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

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

Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR) based on next-scale prediction achieves strong generation quality, but their explicit deep stacks fix the amount of computation per scale and inflate memory at high resolutions. We introduce Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pengfei Jiang , Jixiang Luo , Luxi Lin , Zhaohong Huang , Xuelong Li

Recently, autoregressive (AR) language models have emerged as a dominant approach in speech synthesis, offering expressive generation and scalable training. However, conventional AR speech synthesis models relying on the next-token…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Bohan Li , Zhihan Li , Haoran Wang , Hanglei Zhang , Yiwei Guo , Hankun Wang , Xie Chen , Kai Yu

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

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

Autoregressive (AR) models offer stable and efficient training, but standard next-token prediction is not well aligned with the temporal structure required for text-conditioned motion generation. We introduce MoScale, a next-scale AR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiwei Zheng , Shibo Jin , Lingjie Liu , Mingmin Zhao

Next-Token Prediction (NTP) is a de facto approach for autoregressive (AR) video generation, but it suffers from suboptimal unidirectional dependencies and slow inference speed. In this work, we propose a semi-autoregressive (semi-AR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shuhuai Ren , Shuming Ma , Xu Sun , Furu Wei

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

We present an approach to pose object recognition as next token prediction. The idea is to apply a language decoder that auto-regressively predicts the text tokens from image embeddings to form labels. To ground this prediction process in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Kaiyu Yue , Bor-Chun Chen , Jonas Geiping , Hengduo Li , Tom Goldstein , Ser-Nam Lim