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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

Existing vector quantization (VQ) based autoregressive models follow a two-stage generation paradigm that first learns a codebook to encode images as discrete codes, and then completes generation based on the learned codebook. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mengqi Huang , Zhendong Mao , Zhuowei Chen , Yongdong Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel variational generator framework for conditional GANs to catch semantic details for improving the generation quality and diversity. Traditional generators in conditional GANs simply concatenate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mingqi Hu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He

This work presents a generative modeling approach based on successive subspace learning (SSL). Unlike most generative models in the literature, our method does not utilize neural networks to analyze the underlying source distribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zohreh Azizi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

We introduce RandAR, a decoder-only visual autoregressive (AR) model capable of generating images in arbitrary token orders. Unlike previous decoder-only AR models that rely on a predefined generation order, RandAR removes this inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ziqi Pang , Tianyuan Zhang , Fujun Luan , Yunze Man , Hao Tan , Kai Zhang , William T. Freeman , Yu-Xiong Wang

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

We introduce a new paradigm for AutoRegressive (AR) image generation, termed Set AutoRegressive Modeling (SAR). SAR generalizes the conventional AR to the next-set setting, i.e., splitting the sequence into arbitrary sets containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenze Liu , Le Zhuo , Yi Xin , Sheng Xia , Peng Gao , Xiangyu Yue

Autoregressive models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual content creation, but often overlook the intrinsic structural properties of visual data. Our prior work, IAR, initiated a direction to address this by reorganizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ran Yi , Teng Hu , Zihan Su , Jiangning Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

Continuous visual autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated promising performance in image generation. However, the heavy autoregressive inference burden imposes significant overhead. In Large Language Models (LLMs), speculative decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zili Wang , Robert Zhang , Kun Ding , Qi Yang , Fei Li , Shiming Xiang

Generating images from semantic visual knowledge is a challenging task, that can be useful to condition the synthesis process in complex, subtle, and unambiguous ways, compared to alternatives such as class labels or text descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Renato Sortino , Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato

We propose VISION-SLS, a method for nonlinear output-feedback control from high-resolution RGB images which provides robust constraint satisfaction guarantees under calibrated uncertainty bounds despite partial observability, sensor noise,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Antoine P. Leeman , Shuyu Zhan , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Glen Chou

Employing LLMs for visual generation has recently become a research focus. However, the existing methods primarily transfer the LLM architecture to visual generation but rarely investigate the fundamental differences between language and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Jieyu Weng , Yabiao Wang , Xianfang Zeng , Zhucun Xue , Lizhuang Ma

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

In this work, we introduce SCALAR-NeRF, a novel framework tailored for scalable large-scale neural scene reconstruction. We structure the neural representation as an encoder-decoder architecture, where the encoder processes 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yu Chen , Gim Hee Lee

There has been exciting progress in generating images from natural language or layout conditions. However, these methods struggle to faithfully reproduce complex scenes due to the insufficient modeling of multiple objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yunnan Wang , Ziqiang Li , Zequn Zhang , Wenyao Zhang , Baao Xie , Xihui Liu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

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

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) models with continuous tokens for image generation show promising results by eliminating the need for discrete tokenization. However, these models face efficiency challenges due to their sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Hanling Zhang , Tongcheng Fang , Rui Xie , Bingxin Xu , Yan Yan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have brought remarkable visual fidelity to instruction-guided image editing. However, their global denoising process inherently entangles the edited region with the entire image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qingyang Mao , Qi Cai , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Mingyue Cheng , Ting Yao , Qi Liu , Tao Mei

We propose a weakly-supervised approach for conditional image generation of complex scenes where a user has fine control over objects appearing in the scene. We exploit sparse semantic maps to control object shapes and classes, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Dario Pavllo , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Image generation has raised tremendous attention in both academic and industrial areas, especially for the conditional and target-oriented image generation, such as criminal portrait and fashion design. Although the current studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Songyao Jiang , Hongfu Liu , Yue Wu , Yun Fu