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Remote sensing change detection aims to localize and characterize scene changes between two time points and is central to applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. Meanwhile, visual autoregressive models (VARs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Vishal M. Patel

Currently, instruction-based image editing methods have made significant progress by leveraging the powerful cross-modal understanding capabilities of vision language models (VLMs). However, they still face challenges in three key areas: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jun Zhou , Jiahao Li , Zunnan Xu , Hanhui Li , Yiji Cheng , Fa-Ting Hong , Qin Lin , Qinglin Lu , Xiaodan Liang

Visual-prompt-guided edit transfer aims to learn image transformations directly from example pairs, offering more precise and controllable editing than purely text-driven approaches. However, existing diffusion transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yiren Song , Yuchao Gu , Siwei Ma

The rapid progress of visual autoregressive (VAR) models has brought new opportunities for text-to-image generation, but also heightened safety concerns. Existing concept erasure techniques, primarily designed for diffusion models, fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinhao Zhong , Yimin Zhou , Zhiqi Zhang , Junhao Li , Yi Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Xuan Wang , Ke Xu

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

We introduce DiverseVAR, a framework that enhances the diversity of text-conditioned visual autoregressive models (VAR) at test time without requiring retraining, fine-tuning, or substantial computational overhead. While VAR models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mingue Park , Prin Phunyaphibarn , Phillip Y. Lee , Minhyuk Sung

Monocular depth estimation has seen significant advances through discriminative approaches, yet their performance remains constrained by the limitations of training datasets. While generative approaches have addressed this challenge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Bulat Gabdullin , Nina Konovalova , Nikolay Patakin , Dmitry Senushkin , Anton Konushin

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

The use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) such as Stable Diffusion has significantly improved the perceptual quality of All-in-One image Restoration (AiOR) methods, while also enhancing their generalization capabilities. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Kartik Narayan , Vishal M. Patel

Autoregressive models have recently shown great promise in visual generation by leveraging discrete token sequences akin to language modeling. However, existing approaches often suffer from inefficiency, either due to token-by-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ruiqing Yang , Kaixin Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Shan You , Tao Huang

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

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling inefficiently applies a fixed computational depth to each position when generating high-resolution images. While existing methods accelerate inference by pruning tokens using frequency maps, their binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chunliang Li , Tianze Cao , Sanyuan Zhao

Visual Auto-Regressive modeling (VAR) has shown promise in bridging the speed and quality gap between autoregressive image models and diffusion models. VAR reformulates autoregressive modeling by decomposing an image into successive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hermann Kumbong , Xian Liu , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Xihui Liu , Ziwei Liu , Daniel Y. Fu , Christopher Ré , David W. Romero

Conditional visual generation has witnessed remarkable progress with the advent of diffusion models (DMs), especially in tasks like control-to-image generation. However, challenges such as expensive computational cost, high inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Zhe Lin , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

Autoregressive (AR) transformers have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual generation, largely due to their scalability, computational efficiency and unified architecture with language and vision. Among them, next scale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amandeep Kumar , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising alternative for image generation, offering stable training, non-iterative inference, and high-fidelity synthesis through next-scale prediction. This encourages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Cencen Liu , Dongyang Zhang , Wen Yin , Jielei Wang , Tianyu Li , Ji Guo , Wenbo Jiang , Guoqing Wang , Guoming Lu

While latent diffusion models achieve impressive image editing results, their application to iterative editing of the same image is severely restricted. When trying to apply consecutive edit operations using current models, they accumulate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Gal Almog , Ariel Shamir , Ohad Fried

Visual autoregressive models typically adhere to a raster-order ``next-token prediction" paradigm, which overlooks the spatial and temporal locality inherent in visual content. Specifically, visual tokens exhibit significantly stronger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yefei He , Yuanyu He , Shaoxuan He , Feng Chen , Hong Zhou , Kaipeng Zhang , Bohan Zhuang

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

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