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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

Autoregressive models have shown remarkable success in image generation by adapting sequential prediction techniques from language modeling. However, applying these approaches to images requires discretizing continuous pixel data through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Ziyao Guo , Kaipeng Zhang , Michael Qizhe Shieh

Vision-language fine-tuning has emerged as an efficient paradigm for constructing multimodal foundation models. While textual context often highlights semantic relationships within an image, existing fine-tuning methods typically overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiangyang Wu , Liu Liu , Baosheng Yu , Jiayan Qiu , Zhenwei Shi

Recent advances in text-to-image generative models have enabled numerous practical applications, including subject-driven generation, which fine-tunes pretrained models to capture subject semantics from only a few examples. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Hyunjun Kim , Eunseo Koh , MinKyu Lee , Jae-Pil Heo

Large Language Models (LLMs), benefiting from the auto-regressive modelling approach performed on massive unannotated texts corpora, demonstrates powerful perceptual and reasoning capabilities. However, as for extending auto-regressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tianshuo Peng , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang , Hai Zhao , Ping Wang , Bo Du

CLIP exhibits strong visual-textual alignment but struggle with open-vocabulary segmentation due to poor localization. Prior methods enhance spatial coherence by modifying intermediate attention. But, this coherence isn't consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhixiang Chi , Yanan Wu , Li Gu , Huan Liu , Ziqiang Wang , Yang Zhang , Yang Wang , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

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

Autoregressive language modeling (ALM) have been successfully used in self-supervised pre-training in Natural language processing (NLP). However, this paradigm has not achieved comparable results with other self-supervised approach in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yu Qi , Fan Yang , Yousong Zhu , Yufei Liu , Liwei Wu , Rui Zhao , Wei Li

Autoregressive (AR) image generators offer a language-model-friendly approach to image generation by predicting discrete image tokens in a causal sequence. However, unlike diffusion models, AR models lack a mechanism to refine previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Cheng Cheng , Lin Song , Di An , Yicheng Xiao , Xuchong Zhang , Hongbin Sun , Ying Shan

Non-autoregressive models greatly improve decoding speed over typical sequence-to-sequence models, but suffer from degraded performance. Infilling and iterative refinement models make up some of this gap by editing the outputs of a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Ethan A. Chi , Julian Salazar , Katrin Kirchhoff

Sequence-to-sequence vision-language models are showing promise, but their applicability is limited by their inference latency due to their autoregressive way of generating predictions. We propose a parallel decoding sequence-to-sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kunyu Shi , Qi Dong , Luis Goncalves , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Soatto

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

Autoregressive models, built based on the Next Token Prediction (NTP) paradigm, show great potential in developing a unified framework that integrates both language and vision tasks. Pioneering works introduce NTP to autoregressive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yatian Pang , Peng Jin , Shuo Yang , Bin Lin , Bin Zhu , Zhenyu Tang , Liuhan Chen , Francis E. H. Tay , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang , Li Yuan

This work studies the problem of modeling visual processes by leveraging deep generative architectures for learning linear, Gaussian representations from observed sequences. We propose a joint learning framework, combining a vector…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Alexander Sagel , Hao Shen

The autoregressive decoding for text generation in large language models (LLMs), while widely used, is inherently suboptimal due to the lack of a built-in mechanism to perform refinement and/or correction of the generated content. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zeyu Tang , Zhenhao Chen , Xiangchen Song , Loka Li , Yunlong Deng , Yifan Shen , Guangyi Chen , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

Autoregressive visual generation has garnered increasing attention due to its scalability and compatibility with other modalities compared with diffusion models. Most existing methods construct visual sequences as spatial patches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuanhui Huang , Weiliang Chen , Wenzhao Zheng , Yueqi Duan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

We present a new method for large language models to solve compositional tasks. Although they have shown strong performance on traditional language understanding tasks, large language models struggle to solve compositional tasks, where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Eric Pasewark , Kyle Montgomery , Kefei Duan , Dawn Song , Chenguang Wang

Scaling up autoregressive models in vision has not proven as beneficial as in large language models. In this work, we investigate this scaling problem in the context of text-to-image generation, focusing on two critical factors: whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Lijie Fan , Tianhong Li , Siyang Qin , Yuanzhen Li , Chen Sun , Michael Rubinstein , Deqing Sun , Kaiming He , Yonglong Tian

Autoregressive video diffusion models (AR-VDMs) show strong promise as scalable alternatives to bidirectional VDMs, enabling real-time and interactive applications. Yet there remains room for improvement in their sample fidelity. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhengyang Yu , Akio Hayakawa , Masato Ishii , Qingtao Yu , Takashi Shibuya , Jing Zhang , Yuki Mitsufuji

In speech processing pipelines, improving the quality and intelligibility of real-world recordings is crucial. While supervised regression is the primary method for speech enhancement, audio tokenization is emerging as a promising…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Luca Della Libera , Cem Subakan , Mirco Ravanelli