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We propose a new paradigm to automatically generate training data with accurate labels at scale using the text-to-image synthesis frameworks (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc.). The proposed approach1 decouples training data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yunhao Ge , Jiashu Xu , Brian Nlong Zhao , Neel Joshi , Laurent Itti , Vibhav Vineet

In Transformer architectures, tokens\textemdash discrete units derived from raw data\textemdash are formed by segmenting inputs into fixed-length chunks. Each token is then mapped to an embedding, enabling parallel attention computations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhenglun Kong , Yize Li , Fanhu Zeng , Lei Xin , Shvat Messica , Xue Lin , Pu Zhao , Manolis Kellis , Hao Tang , Marinka Zitnik

Nearly every recent image synthesis approach, including diffusion, masked-token prediction, and next-token prediction, uses a Transformer network architecture. Despite this common backbone, there has been no direct, compute controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Maciej Kilian , Varun Jampani , Luke Zettlemoyer

Masked-based autoregressive models have demonstrated promising image generation capability in continuous space. However, their potential for video generation remains under-explored. In this paper, we propose \textbf{VideoMAR}, a concise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hu Yu , Biao Gong , Hangjie Yuan , DanDan Zheng , Weilong Chai , Jingdong Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Feng Zhao

The rapid advancement in large language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced their ability to generate coherent and contextually relevant text, raising concerns about the misuse of AI-generated content and making it critical to detect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Pablo Miralles-González , Javier Huertas-Tato , Alejandro Martín , David Camacho

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

We study the named entity recognition (NER) problem under the extremely weak supervision (XWS) setting, where only one example entity per type is given in a context-free way. While one can see that XWS is lighter than one-shot in terms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Letian Peng , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang

Visual tokenization remains a core challenge in unifying visual understanding and generation within the autoregressive paradigm. Existing methods typically employ tokenizers in discrete latent spaces to align with the tokens from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziyuan Huang , DanDan Zheng , Cheng Zou , Rui Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Kaixiang Ji , Weilong Chai , Jianxin Sun , Libin Wang , Yongjie Lv , Taozhi Huang , Jiajia Liu , Qingpei Guo , Ming Yang , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

In the domain of image generation, latent-based generative models occupy a dominant status; however, these models rely heavily on image tokenizer. To meet modeling requirements, autoregressive models possessing the characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Panpan Wang , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Feature selection aims to identify the optimal feature subset for enhancing downstream models. Effective feature selection can remove redundant features, save computational resources, accelerate the model learning process, and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

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

We propose a novel Auto-Regressive (AR) image generation approach that models images as hierarchical compositions of interpretable visual layers. While AR models have achieved transformative success in language modeling, replicating this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Siddharth Roheda , Rohit Chowdhury , Aniruddha Bala , Rohan Jaiswal

This paper presents Diffusion Forcing, a new training paradigm where a diffusion model is trained to denoise a set of tokens with independent per-token noise levels. We apply Diffusion Forcing to sequence generative modeling by training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Boyuan Chen , Diego Marti Monso , Yilun Du , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake , Vincent Sitzmann

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

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

We introduce the \emph{Arrow Language Model}, a neural architecture derived from an intuitionistic-logic interpretation of next-token prediction. Instead of representing tokens as additive embeddings mixed by attention, we encode a prefix…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Paul Tarau

Since the emergence of Vision Transformer (ViT), it has been widely used in generative language model and generative visual model. Especially in the current state-of-art open source multimodal models, ViT obtained by CLIP or SigLIP method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haun Leung , ZiNan Wang

Recent attempts to interleave autoregressive (AR) sketchers with diffusion-based refiners over continuous speech representations have shown promise, but they remain brittle under distribution shift and offer limited levers for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Yakun Song , Xiaobin Zhuang , Jiawei Chen , Zhikang Niu , Guanrou Yang , Chenpeng Du , Dongya Jia , Zhuo Chen , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Xie Chen

Visual Auto-Regressive modeling (VAR) has shown promise in bridging the speed and quality gap between autoregressive image models and diffusion models. VAR reformulates autoregressive modeling by decomposing an image into successive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hermann Kumbong , Xian Liu , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Xihui Liu , Ziwei Liu , Daniel Y. Fu , Christopher Ré , David W. Romero

Autoregressive (AR) Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant success across numerous tasks. However, the AR modeling paradigm presents certain limitations; for instance, contemporary autoregressive LLMs are trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Justin Deschenaux , Caglar Gulcehre