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Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved remarkable success in natural language and image generation, but their application to 3D shape modeling remains largely unexplored. Unlike diffusion models, AR models enable more efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tejaswini Medi , Arianna Rampini , Pradyumna Reddy , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Margret Keuper

This dissertation attempts to drive innovation in the field of generative modeling for computer vision, by exploring novel formulations of conditional generative models, and innovative applications in images, 3D animations, and video. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Vikram Voleti

An increasing number of autoregressive models, such as MAR, FlowAR, xAR, and Harmon adopt diffusion sampling to improve the quality of image generation. However, this strategy leads to low inference efficiency, because it usually takes 50…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qinyu Zhao , Jaskirat Singh , Ming Xu , Akshay Asthana , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

The interest of the deep learning community in image synthesis has grown massively in recent years. Nowadays, deep generative methods, and especially Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), are leading to state-of-the-art performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Roy Ganz , Michael Elad

Existing methods for image alignment struggle in cases involving feature-sparse regions, extreme scale and field-of-view differences, and large deformations, often resulting in suboptimal accuracy. Robustness to these challenges can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kanggeon Lee , Soochahn Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

Deep learning-based image generation has undergone a paradigm shift since 2021, marked by fundamental architectural breakthroughs and computational innovations. Through reviewing architectural innovations and empirical results, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Benji Peng , Chia Xin Liang , Ziqian Bi , Ming Liu , Yichao Zhang , Tianyang Wang , Keyu Chen , Xinyuan Song , Pohsun Feng

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been indicated their superiority in usage of the real-time speech synthesis. Nevertheless, most of them make use of deep convolutional layers as their backbone, which may cause the absence of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Zhenxing Lu , Mengnan He , Ruixiong Zhang , Caixia Gong

The latent space of generative modeling is long dominated by the VAE encoder. The latents from the pretrained representation encoders (e.g., DINO, SigLIP, MAE) are previously considered inappropriate for generative modeling. Recently, RAE…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hu Yu , Hang Xu , Jie Huang , Zeyue Xue , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Feng Zhao

Autoregressive (AR) visual generation relies on tokenizers to map images to and from discrete sequences. However, tokenizers are trained to reconstruct clean images from ground-truth tokens, while AR generators are optimized only for token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xinyao Liao , Qiyuan He , Kai Xu , Xiaoye Qu , Yicong Li , Wei Wei , Angela Yao

Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. While advances in language models have leveraged strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuwei Sun , Yuxuan Yao , Hui Li , Siyu Zhu

Large-scale autoregressive models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image generation. However, their sequential raster-scan decoding relies on strictly next-token prediction, making inference prohibitively expensive. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Junkang Zhou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Weijie Wang , Bohan Zhuang

Recently, autoregressive (AR) models have shown strong potential in image generation, offering better scalability and easier integration with unified multi-modal systems compared to diffusion-based methods. However, extending AR models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dongyang Jin , Ryan Xu , Jianhao Zeng , Rui Lan , Yancheng Bai , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Real-world image super-resolution (RWSR) is a long-standing problem as low-quality (LQ) images often have complex and unidentified degradations. Existing methods such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or continuous diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Chaofeng Chen , Shangchen Zhou , Liang Liao , Haoning Wu , Wenxiu Sun , Qiong Yan , Weisi Lin

In recent years, Generative Adversarial Networks have become ubiquitous in both research and public perception, but how GANs convert an unstructured latent code to a high quality output is still an open question. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Lucy Chai , Jonas Wulff , Phillip Isola

Personalized image generation aims to integrate user-provided concepts into text-to-image models, enabling the generation of customized content based on a given prompt. Recent zero-shot approaches, particularly those leveraging diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yiheng Lin , Shifang Zhao , Ting Liu , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Proposed are alternative generator architectures for Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Networks, motivated by Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training. It disentangles the need for a noise-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Alex Nasser

Autoregressive (AR) models remain the standard for natural language generation but still suffer from high latency due to strictly sequential decoding. Recent diffusion-inspired approaches, such as LlaDA and Dream, mitigate this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Qinglin Zhu , Yizhen Yao , Runcong Zhao , Yanzheng Xiang , Amrutha Saseendran , Chen Jin , Philip Teare , Bin Liang , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Autoregressive models (ARMs) currently hold state-of-the-art performance in likelihood-based modeling of image and audio data. Generally, neural network based ARMs are designed to allow fast inference, but sampling from these models is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Auke Wiggers , Emiel Hoogeboom

Despite significant progress in text-to-image generation, aligning outputs with complex prompts remains challenging, particularly for fine-grained semantics and spatial relations. This difficulty stems from the feed-forward nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yinyi Luo , Hrishikesh Gokhale , Marios Savvides , Jindong Wang , Shengfeng He

Recently, diffusion models have emerged as promising newcomers in the field of generative models, shining brightly in image generation. However, when employed for object removal tasks, they still encounter issues such as generating random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenhao Sun , Benlei Cui , Xue-Mei Dong , Jingqun Tang