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Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models have recently garnered significant attention for their innovative next-scale prediction paradigm, offering notable advantages in both inference efficiency and image quality compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tong Wang , Guanyu Yang , Nian Liu , Kai Wang , Yaxing Wang , Abdelrahman M Shaker , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Senmao Li

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

This work challenges the residual prediction paradigm in visual autoregressive modeling and presents FlexVAR, a new Flexible Visual AutoRegressive image generation paradigm. FlexVAR facilitates autoregressive learning with ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Siyu Jiao , Gengwei Zhang , Yinlong Qian , Jiancheng Huang , Yao Zhao , Humphrey Shi , Lin Ma , Yunchao Wei , Zequn Jie

Scaling visual generation models is essential for real-world content creation, yet requires substantial training and computational expenses. Alternatively, test-time scaling has garnered growing attention due to resource efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhekai Chen , Ruihang Chu , Yukang Chen , Shiwei Zhang , Yujie Wei , Yingya Zhang , Xihui Liu

Recent advancements in visual autoregressive models (VAR) have demonstrated their effectiveness in image generation, highlighting their potential for real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, adapting VAR for ISR presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yixuan Zhu , Shilin Ma , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Yanzhe Jing , Yansong Tang , Lei Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

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

Most recent real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods employ pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to synthesize the high-quality image either from random Gaussian noise, which yields realistic results but is slow due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiangtao Kong , Rongyuan Wu , Shuaizheng Liu , Lingchen Sun , Lei 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

This paper challenges the dominance of continuous pipelines in visual generation. We systematically investigate the performance gap between discrete and continuous methods. Contrary to the belief that discrete tokenizers are intrinsically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qihang Yu , Qihao Liu , Ju He , Xinyang Zhang , Yang Liu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Xi Chen

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

Displaying high-quality images on edge devices, such as augmented reality devices, is essential for enhancing the user experience. However, these devices often face power consumption and computing resource limitations, making it challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Xiang Liu , Jiahong Chen , Bin Chen , Zimo Liu , Baoyi An , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

Image restoration aims to recover a high-quality clean image from its degraded version. Recent progress in image restoration has demonstrated the effectiveness of All-in-One image restoration models in addressing various unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jin Cao , Yi Cao , Li Pang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) has emerged as a promising approach in image generation, offering competitive potential and performance comparable to diffusion-based models. However, current AR-based visual generation models require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Rui Xie , Tianchen Zhao , Zhihang Yuan , Rui Wan , Wenxi Gao , Zhenhua Zhu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

We introduce DC-AR, a novel masked autoregressive (AR) text-to-image generation framework that delivers superior image generation quality with exceptional computational efficiency. Due to the tokenizers' limitations, prior masked AR models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yecheng Wu , Junyu Chen , Zhuoyang Zhang , Enze Xie , Jincheng Yu , Junsong Chen , Jinyi Hu , Yao Lu , Song Han , Han Cai

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) generative models have produced increasingly powerful systems for media synthesis. Among them, next-scale prediction has emerged as a popular paradigm, where models generate images in a coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gengze Zhou , Chongjian Ge , Hao Tan , Feng Liu , Yicong Hong

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

We propose a multiscale approach to time series autoregression, in which linear regressors for the process in question include features of its own path that live on multiple timescales. We take these multiscale features to be the recent…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-17 Rafal Baranowski , Yining Chen , Piotr Fryzlewicz

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Hyunjun Kim , Eunseo Koh , MinKyu Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

AutoRegressive (AR) models have demonstrated competitive performance in image generation, achieving results comparable to those of diffusion models. However, their token-by-token image generation mechanism remains computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hongyu Wu , Xuhui Fan , Zhangkai Wu , Longbing Cao

The reduced-rank vector autoregressive (VAR) model can be interpreted as a supervised factor model, where two factor modelings are simultaneously applied to response and predictor spaces. This article introduces a new model, called vector…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-16 Di Wang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Guodong Li , Ruey Tsay