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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

Current image-to-image translation methods formulate the task with conditional generation models, leading to learning only the recolorization or regional changes as being constrained by the rich structural information provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yu-Jie Chen , Shin-I Cheng , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

Autoregressive (AR) modeling has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing by enabling models to generate text with coherence and contextual understanding through next token prediction. Recently, in image generation, VAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

We introduce a diffusion-based cross-domain image translator in the absence of paired training data. Unlike GAN-based methods, our approach integrates diffusion models to learn the image translation process, allowing for more coverable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shilong Zou , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

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 present Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR), a new generation paradigm that redefines the autoregressive learning on images as coarse-to-fine "next-scale prediction" or "next-resolution prediction", diverging from the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Keyu Tian , Yi Jiang , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Liwei Wang

Recent advances in video generation have been dominated by diffusion and flow-matching models, which produce high-quality results but remain computationally intensive and difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce VideoAR, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Longbin Ji , Xiaoxiong Liu , Junyuan Shang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Autoregressive models and their sequential factorization of the data likelihood have recently demonstrated great potential for image representation and synthesis. Nevertheless, they incorporate image context in a linear 1D order by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Björn Ommer

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising family of generative models, enabling a wide range of downstream vision tasks such as text-guided image editing. By shifting the editing paradigm from noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tao Xia , Jiawei Liu , Yukun Zhang , Ting Liu , Wei Wang , Lei Zhang

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

Text-guided image editing is an essential task that enables users to modify images through natural language descriptions. Recent advances in diffusion models and rectified flows have significantly improved editing quality, primarily relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yufei Wang , Lanqing Guo , Zhihao Li , Jiaxing Huang , Pichao Wang , Bihan Wen , Jian Wang

We consider the single image super-resolution problem in a more general case that the low-/high-resolution pairs and the down-sampling process are unavailable. Different from traditional super-resolution formulation, the low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Yuan Yuan , Siyuan Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Yongbing Zhang , Chao Dong , Liang Lin

Single-image-to-3D models typically follow a sequential generation and reconstruction workflow. However, intermediate multi-view images synthesized by pre-trained generation models often lack cross-view consistency (CVC), significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xinyue Liang , Zhiyuan Ma , Lingchen Sun , Yanjun Guo , Lei Zhang

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

Current generative models, such as autoregressive and diffusion approaches, decompose high-dimensional data distribution learning into a series of simpler subtasks. However, inherent conflicts arise during the joint optimization of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruixiao Dong , Mengde Xu , Zigang Geng , Li Li , Han Hu , Shuyang Gu

In autoregressive (AR) image generation, visual tokenizers compress images into compact discrete latent tokens, enabling efficient training of downstream autoregressive models for visual generation via next-token prediction. While scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianwei Xiong , Jun Hao Liew , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

Camera control has been actively studied in text or image conditioned video generation tasks. However, altering camera trajectories of a given video remains under-explored, despite its importance in the field of video creation. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jianhong Bai , Menghan Xia , Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Lianrui Mu , Jinwen Cao , Zuozhu Liu , Haoji Hu , Xiang Bai , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

Rectified Flow (RF) models have advanced high-quality image and video synthesis via optimal transport theory. However, when applied to image-to-image translation, they still depend on costly multi-step denoising, hindering real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shengqian Li , Ming Gao , Yi Liu , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Feng Dai

Recently, Vector Quantized AutoRegressive (VQ-AR) models have shown remarkable results in text-to-image synthesis by equally predicting discrete image tokens from the top left to bottom right in the latent space. Although the simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Li Zhu , Junshi Huang

This paper presents Randomized AutoRegressive modeling (RAR) for visual generation, which sets a new state-of-the-art performance on the image generation task while maintaining full compatibility with language modeling frameworks. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xueqing Deng , Xiaohui Shen , Liang-Chieh Chen