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Recently, the growing capabilities of deep generative models have underscored their potential in enhancing image classification accuracy. However, existing methods often demand the generation of a disproportionately large number of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Tao Huang , Jiaqi Liu , Shan You , Chang Xu

Recent advances in image tokenizers, such as VQ-VAE, have enabled text-to-image generation using auto-regressive methods, similar to language modeling. However, these methods have yet to leverage pre-trained language models, despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yuhui Zhang , Brandon McKinzie , Zhe Gan , Vaishaal Shankar , Alexander Toshev

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in transforming textual prompts into coherent images, yet the computational cost of their inference remains a persistent challenge. To address this issue, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yanwu Xu , Yang Zhao , Zhisheng Xiao , Tingbo Hou

We introduce ResGen, an efficient Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ)-based generative model for high-fidelity generation with fast sampling. RVQ improves data fidelity by increasing the number of quantization steps, referred to as depth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jaehyeon Kim , Taehong Moon , Keon Lee , Jaewoong Cho

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) has recently received attention from the computer vision and document analysis communities, which have developed several solutions, either GAN- or diffusion-based, that achieved promising results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Vittorio Pippi , Fabio Quattrini , Silvia Cascianelli , Alessio Tonioni , Rita Cucchiara

While recent text-to-image models can generate photorealistic images from text prompts that reflect detailed instructions, they still face significant challenges in accurately rendering words in the image. In this paper, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Wataru Shimoda , Naoto Inoue , Daichi Haraguchi , Hayato Mitani , Seiichi Uchida , Kota Yamaguchi

Visual AutoRegressive (VAR) models based on next-scale prediction enable efficient hierarchical generation, yet the inference cost grows quadratically at high resolutions. We observe that the computationally intensive later scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Keli Liu , Zhendong Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content (AIGC) has made significant strides, with high-resolution text-to-image (T2I) generation becoming increasingly critical for improving users' Quality of Experience (QoE). Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chongbin Yi , Yuxin Liang , Ziqi Zhou , Peng Yang

Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen have made significant progress in generating high-resolution images based on text descriptions. However, many generated images still suffer from issues such as…

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

Decoder-only autoregressive image generation typically relies on fixed-length tokenization schemes whose token counts grow quadratically with resolution, substantially increasing the computational and memory demands of attention. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Divyansh Srivastava , Akshay Mehra , Pranav Maneriker , Debopam Sanyal , Vishnu Raj , Vijay Kamarshi , Fan Du , Joshua Kimball

Training general-purpose vision models on purely sequential visual data, eschewing linguistic inputs, has heralded a new frontier in visual understanding. These models are intended to not only comprehend but also seamlessly transit to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jianyuan Guo , Zhiwei Hao , Chengcheng Wang , Yehui Tang , Han Wu , Han Hu , Kai Han , Chang Xu

Most existing text-to-image synthesis tasks are static single-turn generation, based on pre-defined textual descriptions of images. To explore more practical and interactive real-life applications, we introduce a new task - Interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Yitong Li , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

The current large auto-regressive models can generate high-quality, high-resolution images, but these models require hundreds or even thousands of steps of next-token prediction during inference, resulting in substantial time consumption.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yao Teng , Han Shi , Xian Liu , Xuefei Ning , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang , Zhenguo Li , Xihui Liu

Motivated by discrete diffusion's success in language-vision modeling, we explore its potential for multi-view generation, a task dominated by continuous approaches. We introduce ViewMask-1-to-3, formulating multi-view synthesis as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ruishu Zhu , Zhihao Huang , Jiacheng Sun , Ping Luo , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Test-time scaling (TTS) has demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing large language models, yet its application to next-token prediction (NTP) autoregressive (AR) image generation remains largely uncharted. Existing TTS approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Harold Haodong Chen , Xianfeng Wu , Wen-Jie Shu , Rongjin Guo , Disen Lan , Harry Yang , Ying-Cong Chen

Video prediction is an important yet challenging problem; burdened with the tasks of generating future frames and learning environment dynamics. Recently, autoregressive latent video models have proved to be a powerful video prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Younggyo Seo , Kimin Lee , Fangchen Liu , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

We introduce STAR, a text-to-image model that employs a scale-wise auto-regressive paradigm. Unlike VAR, which is constrained to class-conditioned synthesis for images up to 256$\times$256, STAR enables text-driven image generation up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Xiaoxiao Ma , Mohan Zhou , Tao Liang , Yalong Bai , Tiejun Zhao , Biye Li , Huaian Chen , Yi Jin

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

Recent neural network models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder architecture, where the decoder adopts a recursive sequence decoding way. However, such autoregressive decoding may result in sequential error accumulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Zheng-cong Fei