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Autoregressive (AR) diffusion offers a promising framework for generating videos of theoretically infinite length. However, a major challenge is maintaining temporal continuity while preventing the progressive quality degradation caused by…

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Graph generation is a fundamental problem in various domains, including chemistry and social networks. Recent work has shown that molecular graph generation using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is advantageous compared to traditional…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Edo Cohen-Karlik , Eyal Rozenberg , Daniel Freedman

Recent visual autoregressive (AR) models have shown promising capabilities in text-to-image generation, operating in a manner similar to large language models. While test-time computation scaling has brought remarkable success in enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Joonhyung Park , Hyeongwon Jang , Joowon Kim , Eunho Yang

Flow Matching and Transformer architectures have demonstrated remarkable performance in image generation tasks, with recent work FlowAR [Ren et al., 2024] synergistically integrating both paradigms to advance synthesis fidelity. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Mingda Wan

Diffusion language models enable any-order generation and bidirectional conditioning, offering appealing flexibility for tasks such as infilling, rewriting, and self-correction. However, their formulation-predicting one part of a sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tianqi Du , Lizhe Fang , Weijie Yang , Chenheng Zhang , Zeming Wei , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

We introduce ARPG, a novel visual Autoregressive model that enables Randomized Parallel Generation, addressing the inherent limitations of conventional raster-order approaches, which hinder inference efficiency and zero-shot generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haopeng Li , Jinyue Yang , Guoqi Li , Huan Wang

Large pretrained diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos, and yet their use in real-time streaming remains limited. Autoregressive models offer a natural framework for sequential frame synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinxiu Liu , Xuanming Liu , Kangfu Mei , Yandong Wen , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weiyang Liu

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 DetailFlow, a coarse-to-fine 1D autoregressive (AR) image generation method that models images through a novel next-detail prediction strategy. By learning a resolution-aware token sequence supervised with progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yiheng Liu , Liao Qu , Huichao Zhang , Xu Wang , Yi Jiang , Yiming Gao , Hu Ye , Xian Li , Shuai Wang , Daniel K. Du , Fangmin Chen , Zehuan Yuan , Xinglong Wu

Healthcare providers are increasingly using machine learning to predict patient outcomes to make meaningful interventions. However, despite innovations in this area, deep learning models often struggle to match performance of shallow linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Rohan S. Kodialam , Rebecca Boiarsky , Justin Lim , Neil Dixit , Aditya Sai , David Sontag

We present Spanning Tree Autoregressive (STAR) modeling, which can incorporate prior knowledge of images, such as center bias and locality, to maintain sampling performance while also providing sufficiently flexible sequence orders to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Sangkyu Lee , Changho Lee , Janghoon Han , Hosung Song , Tackgeun You , Hwasup Lim , Stanley Jungkyu Choi , Honglak Lee , Youngjae Yu

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

Flow models are effective at progressively generating realistic images, but they generally struggle to capture long-range dependencies during the generation process as they compress all the information from previous time steps into a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mude Hui , Rui-Jie Zhu , Songlin Yang , Yu Zhang , Zirui Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Jason Eshraghian , Cihang Xie

We introduce Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs), a model class encompassing and generalizing order-agnostic autoregressive models (Uria et al., 2014) and absorbing discrete diffusion (Austin et al., 2021), which we show are special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Emiel Hoogeboom , Alexey A. Gritsenko , Jasmijn Bastings , Ben Poole , Rianne van den Berg , Tim Salimans

Inspired by the remarkable success of autoregressive models in language modeling, this paradigm has been widely adopted in visual generation. However, the sequential token-by-token decoding mechanism inherent in traditional autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Siyang Wang , Hanting Li , Wei Li , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen , Feng Zhao

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

Autoregressive models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual content creation, but often overlook the intrinsic structural properties of visual data. Our prior work, IAR, initiated a direction to address this by reorganizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ran Yi , Teng Hu , Zihan Su , Jiangning Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

Autoregressive models are widely used for tasks such as image and audio generation. The sampling process of these models, however, does not allow interruptions and cannot adapt to real-time computational resources. This challenge impedes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yilun Xu , Yang Song , Sahaj Garg , Linyuan Gong , Rui Shu , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

The task of video generation requires synthesizing visually realistic and temporally coherent video frames. Existing methods primarily use asynchronous auto-regressive models or synchronous diffusion models to address this challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Gen Li , Jiawei Liu , Jiahui Sun , Wanquan Feng , Shanshan Lao , SiYu Zhou , Qian He , Jing Liu

We introduce Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation (AR-RAG), a novel paradigm that enhances image generation by autoregressively incorporating knearest neighbor retrievals at the patch level. Unlike prior methods that perform a single,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jingyuan Qi , Zhiyang Xu , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang