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Autoregressive (AR) models are promising for image generation, yet continuous-token AR variants often trail latent diffusion and masked-generation models. The core issue is heterogeneous variance in VAE latents, which is amplified during AR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Guolin Ke , Hui Xue

Binary grid mask representation is broadly used in instance segmentation. A representative instantiation is Mask R-CNN which predicts masks on a $28\times 28$ binary grid. Generally, a low-resolution grid is not sufficient to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Xing Shen , Jirui Yang , Chunbo Wei , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xiansheng Hua , Xiaoliang Cheng , Kewei Liang

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

Commonly used image tokenizers produce a 2D grid of spatially arranged tokens. In contrast, so-called 1D image tokenizers represent images as highly compressed one-dimensional sequences of as few as 32 discrete tokens. We find that the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 L. Lao Beyer , T. Li , X. Chen , S. Karaman , K. He

Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia-Nan Li , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Chongxuan Li

Recent advancements in the field of Diffusion Transformers have substantially improved the generation of high-quality 2D images, 3D videos, and 3D shapes. However, the effectiveness of the Transformer architecture in the domain of co-speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhengkai Jiang , Qilin Wang , Chencan Fu , Jiangning Zhang , Jiafu Wu , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Wei Li , Mingmin Chi

While the efficacy of deep learning models heavily relies on data, gathering and annotating data for specific tasks, particularly when addressing novel or sensitive subjects lacking relevant datasets, poses significant time and resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Quang-Binh Nguyen , Trong-Vu Hoang , Ngoc-Do Tran , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

Image tokenization, the process of transforming raw image pixels into a compact low-dimensional latent representation, has proven crucial for scalable and efficient image generation. However, mainstream image tokenization methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kaiwen Zha , Lijun Yu , Alireza Fathi , David A. Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Dina Katabi , Xiuye Gu

In this paper, we focus on generating realistic images from text descriptions. Current methods first generate an initial image with rough shape and color, and then refine the initial image to a high-resolution one. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Minfeng Zhu , Pingbo Pan , Wei Chen , Yi Yang

Recent studies have explored using pretrained Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) such as DINO for generative autoencoders, showing strong generative performance. Unfortunately, existing approaches often suffer from limited reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hun Chang , Byunghee Cha , Jong Chul Ye

Text-to-motion generation has attracted increasing attention in the research community recently, with potential applications in animation, virtual reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction. Diffusion and autoregressive models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kang Ding , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui , Liang Wang

In many learning situations, resources at inference time are significantly more constrained than resources at training time. This paper studies a general paradigm, called Differentiable ARchitecture Compression (DARC), that combines model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Shashank Singh , Ashish Khetan , Zohar Karnin

Text and faces are among the most perceptually salient and practically important patterns in visual generation, yet they remain challenging for autoregressive generators built on discrete tokenization. A central bottleneck is the tokenizer:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yang Yue , Fangyun Wei , Tianyu He , Jinjing Zhao , Zanlin Ni , Zeyu Liu , Jiayi Guo , Lei Shi , Yue Dong , Li Chen , Ji Li , Gao Huang , Dong Chen

While diffusion models dominate the field of visual generation, they are computationally inefficient, applying a uniform computational effort regardless of different complexity. In contrast, autoregressive (AR) models are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jian Han , Jinlai Liu , Jiahuan Wang , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

High dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut (WCG) technologies significantly improve color reproduction compared to standard dynamic range (SDR) and standard color gamuts, resulting in more accurate, richer, and more immersive images.…

Image tokenizers map images to sequences of discrete tokens, and are a crucial component of autoregressive transformer-based image generation. The tokens are typically associated with spatial locations in the input image, arranged in raster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Carlos Esteves , Mohammed Suhail , Ameesh Makadia

Diffusion models are emerging as powerful solutions for generating high-fidelity and diverse images, often surpassing GANs under many circumstances. However, their slow inference speed hinders their potential for real-time applications. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Luan Thanh Trinh , Tomoki Hamagami

This paper presents innovative enhancements to diffusion models by integrating a novel multi-resolution network and time-dependent layer normalization. Diffusion models have gained prominence for their effectiveness in high-fidelity image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Qihao Liu , Zhanpeng Zeng , Ju He , Qihang Yu , Xiaohui Shen , Liang-Chieh Chen

We present a novel generative modeling framework,Wavelet-Fourier-Diffusion, which adapts the diffusion paradigm to hybrid frequency representations in order to synthesize high-quality, high-fidelity images with improved spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andrew Kiruluta , Andreas Lemos

Recent advances in multimodal models highlight the pivotal role of image tokenization in high-resolution image generation. By compressing images into compact latent representations, tokenizers enable generative models to operate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihang Rao , Borui Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu