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Masked autoregressive (MAR) models unify the strengths of masked and autoregressive generation by predicting tokens in a fixed order using bidirectional attention for image generation. While effective, MAR models suffer from significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chaoyi Jiang , Sungwoo Kim , Lei Gao , Hossein Entezari Zarch , Won Woo Ro , Murali Annavaram

Visual autoregressive models typically adhere to a raster-order ``next-token prediction" paradigm, which overlooks the spatial and temporal locality inherent in visual content. Specifically, visual tokens exhibit significantly stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yefei He , Yuanyu He , Shaoxuan He , Feng Chen , Hong Zhou , Kaipeng Zhang , Bohan Zhuang

Autoregressive (AR) transformers have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual generation, largely due to their scalability, computational efficiency and unified architecture with language and vision. Among them, next scale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amandeep Kumar , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

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

We introduce MarDini, a new family of video diffusion models that integrate the advantages of masked auto-regression (MAR) into a unified diffusion model (DM) framework. Here, MAR handles temporal planning, while DM focuses on spatial…

Directly modeling the explicit likelihood of the raw data distribution is key topic in the machine learning area, which achieves the scaling successes in Large Language Models by autoregressive modeling. However, continuous AR modeling over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Guangting Zheng , Qinyu Zhao , Tao Yang , Fei Xiao , Zhijie Lin , Jie Wu , Jiajun Deng , Yanyong Zhang , Rui Zhu

We study reasoning tasks through a framework that integrates auto-regressive (AR) and non-autoregressive (NAR) language models. AR models, which generate text sequentially, excel at producing coherent outputs but often suffer from slow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qihang Ai , Haiyun Jiang

Conventional wisdom suggests that autoregressive models are used to process discrete data. When applied to continuous modalities such as visual data, Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) typically resorts to quantization-based approaches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chenze Shao , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Masked autoregressive models (MAR) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for image and video generation, combining the flexibility of masked modeling with the expressiveness of continuous tokenizers. However, when sampling individual frames,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zian Li , Muhan Zhang

Recent advances in auto-regressive transformers have revolutionized generative modeling across different domains, from language processing to visual generation, demonstrating remarkable capabilities. However, applying these advances to 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jinnan Chen , Lingting Zhu , Zeyu Hu , Shengju Qian , Yugang Chen , Xin Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Autoregressive neural vocoders have achieved outstanding performance in speech synthesis tasks such as text-to-speech and voice conversion. An autoregressive vocoder predicts a sample at some time step conditioned on those at previous time…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Po-chun Hsu , Da-rong Liu , Andy T. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Autoregressive (AR) language models generate text one token at a time, even when consecutive tokens are highly predictable given earlier context. We introduce MARS (Mask AutoRegreSsion), a lightweight fine-tuning method that teaches an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziqi Jin , Lei Wang , Ziwei Luo , Aixin Sun

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Auto-regressive (AR) models, initially successful in language generation, have recently shown promise in visual generation tasks due to their superior sampling efficiency. Unlike image generation, video generation requires a substantially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuan Shen , Weize Ma , Yufa Zhou , Enhao Tang , Yanyue Xie , Zhengang Li , Yifan Gong , Quanyi Wang , Henghui Ding , Yiwei Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Pu Zhao , Jun Lin , Jiuxiang Gu

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

In this work, we propose Causal Autoregressive Diffusion (CARD), a novel framework that unifies the training efficiency of ARMs with the high-throughput inference of diffusion models. CARD reformulates the diffusion process within a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Junhao Ruan , Bei Li , Yongjing Yin , Pengcheng Huang , Xin Chen , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Tong Xiao , JingBo Zhu

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising approach for language modeling, yet they face a performance gap compared to autoregressive models (ARMs) and require more training iterations. In this work, we present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mahdi Karami , Ali Ghodsi

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

Recent progress in panoramic image generation has underscored two critical limitations in existing approaches. First, most methods are built upon diffusion models, which are inherently ill-suited for equirectangular projection (ERP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chaoyang Wang , Xiangtai Li , Lu Qi , Xiaofan Lin , Jinbin Bai , Qianyu Zhou , Yunhai Tong

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