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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…

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Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models adopt a next-scale prediction paradigm, offering high-quality content generation with substantially fewer decoding steps. However, existing VAR models suffer from significant attention complexity and…

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In this paper we tackle Image Super Resolution (ISR), using recent advances in Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling. VAR iteratively estimates the residual in latent space between gradually increasing image scales, a process referred to as…

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The use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) such as Stable Diffusion has significantly improved the perceptual quality of All-in-One image Restoration (AiOR) methods, while also enhancing their generalization capabilities. However, these…

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Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising alternative for image generation, offering stable training, non-iterative inference, and high-fidelity synthesis through next-scale prediction. This encourages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Cencen Liu , Dongyang Zhang , Wen Yin , Jielei Wang , Tianyu Li , Ji Guo , Wenbo Jiang , Guoqing Wang , Guoming Lu

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demand substantial computational resources during inference, largely due to the extensive visual input tokens for representing visual information. Previous studies have noted that visual tokens tend to receive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Cheng Yang , Yang Sui , Jinqi Xiao , Lingyi Huang , Yu Gong , Chendi Li , Jinghua Yan , Yu Bai , Ponnuswamy Sadayappan , Xia Hu , Bo Yuan

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential in complex scene understanding and action reasoning, leading to their increasing adoption in end-to-end autonomous driving systems. However, the long visual tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiajun Cao , Qizhe Zhang , Peidong Jia , Xuhui Zhao , Bo Lan , Xiaoan Zhang , Zhuo Li , Xiaobao Wei , Sixiang Chen , Liyun Li , Xianming Liu , Ming Lu , Yang Wang , Shanghang Zhang

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising family of generative models, enabling a wide range of downstream vision tasks such as text-guided image editing. By shifting the editing paradigm from noise…

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Transformer-based models have driven significant advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet their computational costs surge drastically when scaling resolution, training data, and model parameters. A key bottleneck stems…

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Foundation models for 3D vision have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in 3D perception. However, scaling these models to long-sequence image inputs remains a significant challenge due to inference-time inefficiency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 You Shen , Zhipeng Zhang , Yansong Qu , Xiawu Zheng , Jiayi Ji , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Recent studies on Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models have highlighted that high-frequency components, or later steps, in the generation process contribute disproportionately to inference latency. However, the underlying computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jiajun Li , Yue Ma , Xinyu Zhang , Qingyan Wei , Songhua Liu , Linfeng Zhang

Text-guided image editing is an essential task that enables users to modify images through natural language descriptions. Recent advances in diffusion models and rectified flows have significantly improved editing quality, primarily relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yufei Wang , Lanqing Guo , Zhihao Li , Jiaxing Huang , Pichao Wang , Bihan Wen , Jian Wang

Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) suffers from substantial computational cost due to the massive token count involved. Failing to account for the continuous evolution of modeling dynamics, existing VAR token reduction methods face three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Zhang , Jingyi Liu , Feng Liu , Duoqian Miao , Qi Zhang , Kexue Fu , Changwei Wang , Longbing Cao

Recent advances in subject-driven image generation using diffusion models have attracted considerable attention for their remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images. Nevertheless, the potential of Visual Autoregressive (VAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xin Jiang , Jingwen Chen , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Kezhou Chen , Zechao Li , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on various computer vision tasks. However, their high computational complexity prevents them from being applied to many real-world applications. Weight and token pruning are…

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Masked Autoregressive (MAR) models have emerged as a promising approach in image generation, expected to surpass traditional autoregressive models in computational efficiency by leveraging the capability of parallel decoding. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Feihong Yan , Qingyan Wei , Jiayi Tang , Jiajun Li , Yulin Wang , Xuming Hu , Huiqi Li , Linfeng Zhang

While inference-time scaling has significantly enhanced generative quality in large language and diffusion models, its application to vector-quantized (VQ) visual autoregressive modeling (VAR) remains unexplored. We introduce VAR-Scaling,…

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Recent advances in text-to-image generative models have enabled numerous practical applications, including subject-driven generation, which fine-tunes pretrained models to capture subject semantics from only a few examples. While…

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