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Instruction-based image editing is among the fastest developing areas in generative AI. Over the past year, the field has reached a new level, with dozens of open-source models released alongside highly capable commercial systems. However,…

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) generative models have produced increasingly powerful systems for media synthesis. Among them, next-scale prediction has emerged as a popular paradigm, where models generate images in a coarse-to-fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gengze Zhou , Chongjian Ge , Hao Tan , Feng Liu , Yicong Hong

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models generate images through next-scale prediction, naturally achieving coarse-to-fine, fast, high-fidelity synthesis mirroring human perception. In practice, this hierarchy can drift at inference time, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Youngwoo Shin , Jiwan Hur , Junmo Kim

Autoregressive generative models of images tend to be biased towards capturing local structure, and as a result they often produce samples which are lacking in terms of large-scale coherence. To address this, we propose two methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jeffrey De Fauw , Sander Dieleman , Karen Simonyan

Multi-view diffusion models have shown promise in 3D novel view synthesis, but most existing methods adopt a non-autoregressive formulation. This limits their applicability in world modeling, as they only support a fixed number of views and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xin Kong , Daniel Watson , Yannick Strümpler , Michael Niemeyer , Federico Tombari

We introduce InstructVid2Vid, an end-to-end diffusion-based methodology for video editing guided by human language instructions. Our approach empowers video manipulation guided by natural language directives, eliminating the need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Bosheng Qin , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

Autoregressive (AR) visual generators model images as sequences of discrete tokens and are trained with a next-token likelihood objective. This strict causal supervision optimizes each step based only on the immediate next token, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yonghao Yu , Lang Huang , Zerun Wang , Runyi Li , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Conventional Text-guided single-image editing approaches require a two-step process, including fine-tuning the target text embedding for over 1K iterations and the generative model for another 1.5K iterations. Although it ensures that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhi Chen , Zecheng Zhao , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Real-world dark images commonly exhibit not only low visibility and contrast but also complex noise and blur, posing significant restoration challenges. Existing methods often rely on paired data or fail to model dynamic illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Junwei Lin , Jun Chen

Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

The current conditional autoregressive image generation methods have shown promising results, yet their potential remains largely unexplored in the practical unsupervised image translation domain, which operates without explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yi Liu , Shengqian Li , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Si Liu

Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative image editing have sparked a profound revolution, reshaping the landscape of image outpainting and inpainting tasks. Despite these strides, the field grapples with inherent challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yuxi Ren , Jie Wu , Yanzuo Lu , Huafeng Kuang , Xin Xia , Xionghui Wang , Qianqian Wang , Yixing Zhu , Pan Xie , Shiyin Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Yitong Wang , Min Zheng , Lean Fu

Autoregressive models have emerged as a powerful generative paradigm for visual generation. The current de-facto standard of next token prediction commonly operates over a single-scale sequence of dense image tokens, and is incapable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Guangting Zheng , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Jiajun Deng , Ting Yao , Yanyong Zhang , Tao Mei

With the great success of text-conditioned diffusion models in creative text-to-image generation, various text-driven image editing approaches have attracted the attentions of many researchers. However, previous works mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhiyuan Ma , Guoli Jia , Bowen Zhou

While diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation, they encounter significant challenges with instruction-driven image editing. Our research highlights a key challenge: these models particularly struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yujia Hu , Songhua Liu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xingyi Yang , Xinchao Wang

Recent advancements in text-guided image editing have achieved notable success by leveraging natural language prompts for fine-grained semantic control. However, certain editing semantics are challenging to specify precisely using textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haoguang Lu , Jiacheng Chen , Zhenguo Yang , Aurele Tohokantche Gnanha , Fu Lee Wang , Li Qing , Xudong Mao

We present the first text-based image editing approach for object parts based on pre-trained diffusion models. Diffusion-based image editing approaches capitalized on the deep understanding of diffusion models of image semantics to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aleksandar Cvejic , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Peter Wonka

Diffusion models have become the dominant approach for visual generation. They are trained by denoising a Markovian process which gradually adds noise to the input. We argue that the Markovian property limits the model's ability to fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiatao Gu , Yuyang Wang , Yizhe Zhang , Qihang Zhang , Dinghuai Zhang , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Prevailing autoregressive (AR) models for text-to-image generation either rely on heavy, computationally-intensive diffusion models to process continuous image tokens, or employ vector quantization (VQ) to obtain discrete tokens with…

Autoregressive models excel in modeling sequential dependencies by enforcing causal constraints, yet they struggle to capture complex bidirectional patterns due to their unidirectional nature. In contrast, mask-based models leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 S. Rohollah Hosseyni , Ali Ahmad Rahmani , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Sanaz Seyedin , Arash Mohammadi