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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

While inference-time scaling through search has revolutionized Large Language Models, translating these gains to image generation has proven difficult. Recent attempts to apply search strategies to continuous diffusion models show limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Erik Riise , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Recent advancements in autoregressive and diffusion models have led to strong performance in image generation with short scene text words. However, generating coherent, long-form text in images, such as paragraphs in slides or documents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Alex Jinpeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Lijuan Wang , Min Li

Autoregressive conditional image generation models have emerged as a dominant paradigm in text-to-image synthesis. These methods typically convert images into one-dimensional token sequences and leverage the self-attention mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xunzhi Xiang , Qi Fan

Domain-specific image generation aims to produce high-quality visual content for specialized fields while ensuring semantic accuracy and detail fidelity. However, existing methods exhibit two critical limitations: First, current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Suoxiang Zhang , Xiaxi Li , Hongrui Chang , Zhuoyan Hou , Guoxin Wu , Ronghua Ji

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models recently have achieve significant improvement in image generation capability, yet a large gap remains in instruction following and detail preservation compared to systems that tightly…

Transformer-based autoregressive models have emerged as a unifying paradigm across modalities such as text and images, but their extension to 3D molecule generation remains underexplored. The gap stems from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haorui Li , Weitao Du , Yuqiang Li , Hongyu Guo , Shengchao Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have brought remarkable visual fidelity to instruction-guided image editing. However, their global denoising process inherently entangles the edited region with the entire image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qingyang Mao , Qi Cai , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Mingyue Cheng , Ting Yao , Qi Liu , Tao Mei

We study lossless acceleration for seq2seq generation with a novel decoding algorithm -- Aggressive Decoding. Unlike the previous efforts (e.g., non-autoregressive decoding) speeding up seq2seq generation at the cost of quality loss, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Tao Ge , Heming Xia , Xin Sun , Si-Qing Chen , Furu Wei

High-fidelity text-to-music generation typically relies on massive proprietary datasets and immense computational resources. Existing models often struggle to generate coherent pure musical accompaniments and lack precise, localized…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Huakang Chen , Wenkai Cheng , Guobin Ma , Chunbo Hao , Yuxuan Xia , Mengqi Wei , Zhixian Zhao , Pengcheng Zhu , Hanbing Zhang , Lei Xie

In this work, we first revisit the sampling issues in current autoregressive (AR) image generation models and identify that image tokens, unlike text tokens, exhibit lower information density and non-uniform spatial distribution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaoxiao Ma , Feng Zhao , Pengyang Ling , Haibo Qiu , Zhixiang Wei , Hu Yu , Jie Huang , Zhixiong Zeng , Lin Ma

Autoregressive (AR) image models have recently demonstrated remarkable generative capability, but their sequential nature results in significant inference latency. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically verify tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhehao Yu , Baoquan Zhang , Bingqi Shan , Xinhao Liu , Dongliang Zhou , Guotao Liang , Guangming Ye , Yunming Ye

Recent advances in autoregressive (AR) models with continuous tokens for image generation show promising results by eliminating the need for discrete tokenization. However, these models face efficiency challenges due to their sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Hanling Zhang , Tongcheng Fang , Rui Xie , Bingxin Xu , Yan Yan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Despite data augmentation being a de facto technique for boosting the performance of deep neural networks, little attention has been paid to developing augmentation strategies for generative adversarial networks (GANs). To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva

Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion is a powerful paradigm for streaming and interactive video generation. However, its reliance on softmax self-attention leads to quadratic compute complexity in sequence length and memory usage due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kunyang Li , Mubarak Shah , Yuzhang Shang

Autoregressive generation is a powerful approach for high-fidelity image synthesis, but it remains computationally demanding and slow even on the most advanced accelerators. While speculative decoding has been explored to mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Selin Yildirim , Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Vikram Appia , Deming Chen

Multimodal autoregressive (AR) models, based on next-token prediction and transformer architecture, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various multimodal tasks including text-to-image (T2I) generation. Despite their strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yi Wu , Shengju Qian , Lingting Zhu , Lei Liu , Wandi Qiao , Ziqiang Li , Lequan Yu , Bin Li

Face-to-face communication, as a common human activity, motivates the research on interactive head generation. A virtual agent can generate motion responses with both listening and speaking capabilities based on the audio or motion signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Ying Guo , Xi Liu , Cheng Zhen , Pengfei Yan , Xiaoming Wei

Advancements in text-to-image generative AI with large multimodal models are spreading into the field of image compression, creating high-quality representation of images at extremely low bit rates. This work introduces novel components to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Cheng-Lin Wu , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

State-of-the-art text-to-image models excel at photorealistic rendering but often struggle to capture the layout and object relationships implied by complex prompts. Scene graphs provide a natural structural prior, yet previous graph-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Thanh-Nhan Vo , Trong-Thuan Nguyen , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran