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Autoregressive (AR) visual generators model images as sequences of discrete tokens and are trained with a next-token likelihood objective. This strict causal supervision optimizes each step based only on the immediate next token, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yonghao Yu , Lang Huang , Zerun Wang , Runyi Li , Toshihiko Yamasaki

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

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

Recent advances in large language models have shown that autoregressive modeling can generate complex and novel sequences that have many real-world applications. However, these models must generate outputs autoregressively, which becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Asier Mujika

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) become increasingly sophisticated and widely used, it becomes more and more crucial to understand their decision-making process. Traditional explainability methods, designed for classification tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Walid Bousselham , Angie Boggust , Hendrik Strobelt , Hilde Kuehne

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

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

In the context of recommendation systems, addressing multi-behavioral user interactions has become vital for understanding the evolving user behavior. Recent models utilize techniques like graph neural networks and attention mechanisms for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Shereen Elsayed , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

We introduce a multi-scale Image Super Resolution (ISR) method building on recent advances in Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling. VAR models break image tokenization into additive, gradually increasing scales, using Residual Quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Isma Hadji , Enrique Sanchez , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Autoregressive (AR) models, long dominant in language generation, are increasingly applied to image synthesis but are often considered less competitive than Diffusion-based models. A primary limitation is the substantial number of image…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ziran Qin , Youru Lv , Mingbao Lin , Zeren Zhang , Chanfan Gan , Tieyuan Chen , Weiyao Lin

Existing autoregressive (AR) image generative models use a token-by-token generation schema. That is, they predict a per-token probability distribution and sample the next token from that distribution. The main challenge is how to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qinyu Zhao , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

Visual autoregressive models achieve remarkable generation quality through next-scale predictions across multi-scale token pyramids. However, the conventional method uses uniform scale downsampling to build these pyramids, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaofan Li , Chenming Wu , Yanpeng Sun , Jiaming Zhou , Delin Qu , Yansong Qu , Weihao Bo , Haibao Yu , Dingkang Liang

This paper addresses a practical task: High-Resolution Image Anomaly Detection (HRIAD). In comparison to conventional image anomaly detection for low-resolution images, HRIAD imposes a heavier computational burden and necessitates superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yunkang Cao , Haiming Yao , Wei Luo , Weiming Shen

Text-guided image inpainting aims to inpaint masked image regions based on a textual prompt while preserving the background. Although diffusion-based methods have become dominant, their property of modeling the entire image in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Longtao Jiang , Jie Huang , Mingfei Han , Lei Chen , Yongqiang Yu , Feng Zhao , Xiaojun Chang , Zhihui Li

Autoregressive visual generation models typically rely on tokenizers to compress images into tokens that can be predicted sequentially. A fundamental dilemma exists in token representation: discrete tokens enable straightforward modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yuqing Wang , Zhijie Lin , Yao Teng , Yuanzhi Zhu , Shuhuai Ren , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

While visual autoregressive modeling (VAR) strategies have shed light on image generation with the autoregressive models, their potential for segmentation, a task that requires precise low-level spatial perception, remains unexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

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

Class-conditional generative models have emerged as accurate and robust classifiers, with diffusion models demonstrating clear advantages over other visual generative paradigms, including autoregressive (AR) models. In this work, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ilia Sudakov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Recent models for learned image compression are based on autoencoders, learning approximately invertible mappings from pixels to a quantized latent representation. These are combined with an entropy model, a prior on the latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 David Minnen , Johannes Ballé , George Toderici