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While most prior work in video generation relies on bidirectional architectures, recent efforts have sought to adapt these models into autoregressive variants to support near real-time generation. However, such adaptations often depend…

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Contemporary recommendation systems are designed to meet users' needs by delivering tailored lists of items that align with their specific demands or interests. In a multi-stage recommendation system, reranking plays a crucial role by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yuxin Ren , Qiya Yang , Yichun Wu , Wei Xu , Yalong Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models for automatic speech recognition (ASR) aim to achieve high accuracy and fast inference by simplifying the autoregressive (AR) generation process of conventional models. Connectionist temporal classification…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Yuya Fujita , Shinji Watanabe , Xuankai Chang , Takashi Maekaku

Time series models aim for accurate predictions of the future given the past, where the forecasts are used for important downstream tasks like business decision making. In practice, deep learning based time series models come in many forms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Kashif Rasul , Young-Jin Park , Max Nihlén Ramström , Kyung-Min Kim

We study the text generation task under the approach of pre-trained language models (PLMs). Typically, an auto-regressive (AR) method is adopted for generating texts in a token-by-token manner. Despite many advantages of AR generation, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Junyi Li , Tianyi Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

Brain aging synthesis is a critical task with broad applications in clinical and computational neuroscience. The ability to predict the future structural evolution of a subject's brain from an earlier MRI scan provides valuable insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ridvan Yesiloglu , Wei Peng , Md Tauhidul Islam , Ehsan Adeli

Autoregressive models can generate high-quality 3D meshes by sequentially producing vertices and faces, but their token-by-token decoding results in slow inference, limiting practical use in interactive and large-scale applications. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Tingrui Shen , Yiheng Zhang , Chen Tang , Chuan Ping , Zixing Zhao , Le Wan , Yuwang Wang , Ronggang Wang , Shengfeng He

Recently, Visual Autoregressive ($\mathsf{VAR}$) Models introduced a groundbreaking advancement in the field of image generation, offering a scalable approach through a coarse-to-fine ``next-scale prediction'' paradigm. Suppose that $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yekun Ke , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

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

In the rapidly advancing field of image generation, Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling has garnered considerable attention for its innovative next-scale prediction approach. This paradigm offers substantial improvements in efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zigeng Chen , Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are often advertised as enabling parallel token generation, yet practical fast DLMs frequently converge to left-to-right, autoregressive (AR)-like decoding dynamics. In contrast, genuinely non-AR generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Pengxiang Li , Dilxat Muhtar , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Shiwei Liu

Existing captioning models often adopt the encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder uses autoregressive decoding to generate captions, such that each token is generated sequentially given the preceding generated tokens. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Junlong Gao , Xi Meng , Shiqi Wang , Xia Li , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Autoregressive (AR) image models have recently demonstrated remarkable generative capability, but their sequential nature results in significant inference latency. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically verify tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhehao Yu , Baoquan Zhang , Bingqi Shan , Xinhao Liu , Dongliang Zhou , Guotao Liang , Guangming Ye , Yunming Ye

The prevailing Next-Token Prediction (NTP) paradigm has driven the success of large language models through discrete autoregressive modeling. However, contemporary multimodal systems remain language-centric, often treating non-linguistic…

Non-autoregressive (NAR) text generation has attracted much attention in the field of natural language processing, which greatly reduces the inference latency but has to sacrifice the generation accuracy. Recently, diffusion models, a class…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yifan Li , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

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

Conditional visual generation has witnessed remarkable progress with the advent of diffusion models (DMs), especially in tasks like control-to-image generation. However, challenges such as expensive computational cost, high inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Inspired by the success of generative pretraining in natural language, we ask whether the same principles can yield strong self-supervised visual learners. Instead of training models to output features for downstream use, we train them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sihan Xu , Ziqiao Ma , Wenhao Chai , Xuweiyi Chen , Weiyang Jin , Joyce Chai , Saining Xie , Stella X. Yu

Autoregressive (AR) and Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have their own superiority on the performance and latency, combining them into one model may take advantage of both. Current combination frameworks focus more on the integration of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Minghan Wang , Jiaxin Guo , Yuxia Wang , Daimeng Wei , Hengchao Shang , Chang Su , Yimeng Chen , Yinglu Li , Min Zhang , Shimin Tao , Hao Yang

State-of-the-art sequence-to-sequence models often require autoregressive decoding, which can be highly expensive. However, for some downstream tasks such as out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and resource allocation, the actual decoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yassir Fathullah , Puria Radmard , Adian Liusie , Mark J. F. Gales