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In this paper we tackle Image Super Resolution (ISR), using recent advances in Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling. VAR iteratively estimates the residual in latent space between gradually increasing image scales, a process referred to as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Enrique Sanchez , Isma Hadji , Adrian Bulat , Christos Tzelepis , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

While large-scale datasets have driven significant progress in Text-to-Video (T2V) generative models, these models remain highly sensitive to input prompts, demonstrating that prompt design is critical to generation quality. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zillur Rahman , Alex Sheng , Cristian Meo

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

Visual Autoregressive modeling (VAR) has emerged as a highly efficient alternative to diffusion-based frameworks, achieving comparable synthesis quality. However, as this paradigm extends to Spacetime Autoregressive modeling (STAR) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungwoong Yune , Suheon Jeong , Joo-Young Kim

Achieving precise alignment between user intent and generated visuals remains a central challenge in text-to-visual generation, as a single attempt often fails to produce the desired output. To handle this, prior approaches mainly scale the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Subin Kim , Sangwoo Mo , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Yiran Xu , Difan Liu , Jinwoo Shin , Tobias Hinz

Recently, Visual Autoregressive ($\mathsf{VAR}$) Models introduced a groundbreaking advancement in the field of image generation, offering a scalable approach through a coarse-to-fine ``next-scale prediction'' paradigm. Suppose that $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yekun Ke , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Recent advances in auto-regressive transformers have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling. However, text-to-3D generation remains challenging, primarily due to bottlenecks in learning discrete 3D representations. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongcheng Han , Dongyan Cao , Haoran Sun , Yu Hong

The efficient Test-Time Scaling (TTS) paradigm offers a promising perspective for enhancing the generation performance of diffusion models. However, current solutions are limited to a static, pre-defined noise pool and suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gang Dai , Yining Huang , Yiming Xia , Guohao Chen , Shuaicheng Niu

Visual autoregressive (AR) generation offers a promising path toward unifying vision and language models, yet its performance remains suboptimal against diffusion models. Prior work often attributes this gap to tokenizer limitations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qiyuan He , Yicong Li , Haotian Ye , Jinghao Wang , Xinyao Liao , Pheng-Ann Heng , Stefano Ermon , James Zou , Angela Yao

Inference-time scaling offers a versatile paradigm for aligning visual generative models with downstream objectives without parameter updates. However, existing approaches that optimize the high-dimensional initial noise suffer from severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jinyan Ye , Zhongjie Duan , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Yingda Chen

Test-time Scaling (TTS) has been demonstrated to significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) during the inference phase without altering model parameters. However, existing TTS methods are largely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guibin Zhang , Fanci Meng , Guancheng Wan , Zherui Li , Kun Wang , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Shuicheng Yan

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) improves the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by allocating additional compute during inference. We conduct a structured survey of TTS methods and categorize them into sampling-based,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ho-Lam Chung , Teng-Yun Hsiao , Hsiao-Ying Huang , Chunerh Cho , Jian-Ren Lin , Zhang Ziwei , Yun-Nung Chen

Test-time scaling (TTS) improves large language models (LLMs) by allocating additional compute at inference time. In practice, TTS is often achieved through parallel scaling: generating multiple candidate responses and selecting the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Divya Shyamal , Marta Knežević , Lan Tran , Chanakya Ekbote , Vijay Lingam , Paul Pu Liang

Disentangling content and style from a single image, known as content-style decomposition (CSD), enables recontextualization of extracted content and stylization of extracted styles, offering greater creative flexibility in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Quang-Binh Nguyen , Minh Luu , Quang Nguyen , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

Auto-regressive (AR) models, initially successful in language generation, have recently shown promise in visual generation tasks due to their superior sampling efficiency. Unlike image generation, video generation requires a substantially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuan Shen , Weize Ma , Yufa Zhou , Enhao Tang , Yanyue Xie , Zhengang Li , Yifan Gong , Quanyi Wang , Henghui Ding , Yiwei Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Pu Zhao , Jun Lin , Jiuxiang Gu

The development of generalizable Novel View Synthesis (NVS) models is critically limited by the scarcity of large-scale training data featuring diverse and precise camera trajectories. While real-world captures are photorealistic, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chenhan Jiang , Yu Chen , Qingwen Zhang , Jifei Song , Songcen Xu , Dit-Yan Yeung , Jiankang Deng

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

We improve upon the two-stage sparse vector autoregression (sVAR) method in Davis et al. (2016) by proposing an alternative two-stage modified sVAR method which relies on time series graphical lasso to estimate sparse inverse spectral…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-06 Aramayis Dallakyan , Rakheon Kim , Mohsen Pourahmadi

Recent language models can generate interesting and grammatically correct text in story generation but often lack plot development and long-term coherence. This paper experiments with a latent vector planning approach based on a TD-VAE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 David Wilmot , Frank Keller

Token-based masked generative models are gaining popularity for their fast inference time with parallel decoding. While recent token-based approaches achieve competitive performance to diffusion-based models, their generation performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jaewoong Lee , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Yunji Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Sung Ju Hwang