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Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models empower users to edit images through text guidance. However, existing methods often over-align with target prompts while inadequately preserving source image semantics. Such approaches generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jianda Mao , Kaibo Wang , Yang Xiang , Kani Chen

Controllable generation, which enables fine-grained control over generated outputs, has emerged as a critical focus in visual generative models. Currently, there are two primary technical approaches in visual generation: diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ziyu Yao , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Yuexian Zou , Lei Li

Diffusion models (DMs) can generate realistic images with text guidance using large-scale datasets. However, they demonstrate limited controllability in the output space of the generated images. We propose a novel learning method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Rumeysa Bodur , Erhan Gundogdu , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim , Michael Donoser , Loris Bazzani

Autoregressive (AR) modeling has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing by enabling models to generate text with coherence and contextual understanding through next token prediction. Recently, in image generation, VAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra

This paper addresses a practical task: High-Resolution Image Anomaly Detection (HRIAD). In comparison to conventional image anomaly detection for low-resolution images, HRIAD imposes a heavier computational burden and necessitates superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yunkang Cao , Haiming Yao , Wei Luo , Weiming Shen

We investigate the fundamental limits of transformer-based foundation models, extending our analysis to include Visual Autoregressive (VAR) transformers. VAR represents a big step toward generating images using a novel, scalable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yifang Chen , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, with their impressive generative capabilities, have been adopted for image editing tasks, demonstrating remarkable efficacy. However, due to attention leakage and collision between the cross-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xingxi Yin , Zhi Li , Jingfeng Zhang , Chenglin Li , Yin Zhang

Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) models significantly reduce inference steps through the "next-scale" prediction paradigm. However, progressive multi-scale generation incurs substantial memory overhead due to cumulative KV caching, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xiaoyue Chen , Yuling Shi , Kaiyuan Li , Huandong Wang , Yong Li , Xiaodong Gu , Xinlei Chen , Mingbao Lin

Autoregressive models and their sequential factorization of the data likelihood have recently demonstrated great potential for image representation and synthesis. Nevertheless, they incorporate image context in a linear 1D order by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Björn Ommer

Text-to-image generation with visual autoregressive~(VAR) models has recently achieved impressive advances in generation fidelity and inference efficiency. While control mechanisms have been explored for diffusion models, enabling precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Keli Liu , Zhendong Wang , Wengang Zhou , Shaodong Xu , Ruixiao Dong , Houqiang Li

VAR is a new generation paradigm that employs 'next-scale prediction' as opposed to 'next-token prediction'. This innovative transformation enables auto-regressive (AR) transformers to rapidly learn visual distributions and achieve robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Qian Zhang , Xiangzi Dai , Ninghua Yang , Xiang An , Ziyong Feng , Xingyu Ren

Inversion-based image editing in flow matching models has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training-free, text-guided image manipulation. A central challenge in this paradigm is the injection dilemma: injecting source features during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Guandong Li , Zhaobin Chu

Vision AutoRegressive model (VAR) was recently introduced as an alternative to Diffusion Models (DMs) in image generation domain. In this work we focus on its adaptations, which aim to fine-tune pre-trained models to perform specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaif Shaikh , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

Class-conditional generative models have emerged as accurate and robust classifiers, with diffusion models demonstrating clear advantages over other visual generative paradigms, including autoregressive (AR) models. In this work, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ilia Sudakov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

While visual autoregressive modeling (VAR) strategies have shed light on image generation with the autoregressive models, their potential for segmentation, a task that requires precise low-level spatial perception, remains unexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rongkun Zheng , Lu Qi , Xi Chen , Yi Wang , Kun Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

The use of denoising diffusion models is becoming increasingly popular in the field of image editing. However, current approaches often rely on either image-guided methods, which provide a visual reference but lack control over semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhanbo Feng , Zenan Ling , Xinyu Lu , Ci Gong , Feng Zhou , Wugedele Bao , Jie Li , Fan Yang , Robert C. Qiu

Recent works have explored text-guided image editing using diffusion models and generated edited images based on text prompts. However, the models struggle to accurately locate the regions to be edited and faithfully perform precise edits.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qian Wang , Biao Zhang , Michael Birsak , Peter Wonka

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled high-quality image generation, leading to increasing demand for post-generation editing that modifies local regions while preserving global structure. Achieving such flexible and precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hanyi Wang , Han Fang , Zheng Wang , Shilin Wang , Ee-Chien Chang

Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) based on next-scale prediction has revitalized autoregressive visual generation. Although its full-context dependency, i.e., modeling all previous scales for next-scale prediction, facilitates more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yu Zhang , Jingyi Liu , Yiwei Shi , Qi Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Changwei Wang , Longbing Cao