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Autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated significant success in the realm of text-to-image generation. However, they usually face two major challenges. Firstly, the generated images may not always meet the quality standards expected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Kai Dong , Tingting Bai

Decoder-only autoregressive image generation typically relies on fixed-length tokenization schemes whose token counts grow quadratically with resolution, substantially increasing the computational and memory demands of attention. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Divyansh Srivastava , Akshay Mehra , Pranav Maneriker , Debopam Sanyal , Vishnu Raj , Vijay Kamarshi , Fan Du , Joshua Kimball

Autoregressive models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual content creation, but often overlook the intrinsic structural properties of visual data. Our prior work, IAR, initiated a direction to address this by reorganizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ran Yi , Teng Hu , Zihan Su , Jiangning Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

Graph-based Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a widely studied approach for improving the reasoning, accuracy, and factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, many existing graph-based RAG systems overlook the high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qiao Xiao , Hong Ting Tsang , Jiaxin Bai

Auto-Regressive (AR) models have recently gained prominence in image generation, often matching or even surpassing the performance of diffusion models. However, one major limitation of AR models is their sequential nature, which processes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Doohyuk Jang , Sihwan Park , June Yong Yang , Yeonsung Jung , Jihun Yun , Souvik Kundu , Sung-Yub Kim , Eunho Yang

Recently, token-based generation have demonstrated their effectiveness in image synthesis. As a representative example, non-autoregressive Transformers (NATs) can generate decent-quality images in a few steps. NATs perform generation in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Yizeng Han , Jiayi Guo , Zhiyuan Liu , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang

Magnetic Resonance (MR) Fingerprinting is an emerging multi-parametric quantitative MR imaging technique, for which image reconstruction methods utilizing low-rank and subspace constraints have achieved state-of-the-art performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Hengfa Lu , Huihui Ye , Lawrence L. Wald , Bo Zhao

Flexible image tokenizers aim to represent an image using an ordered 1D variable-length token sequence. This flexible tokenization is typically achieved through nested dropout, where a portion of trailing tokens is randomly truncated during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zixuan Fu , Lanqing Guo , Chong Wang , Binbin Song , Ding Liu , Bihan Wen

Generative modeling offers a promising solution to data scarcity and privacy challenges in time series analysis. However, the structural complexity of time series, characterized by multi-scale temporal patterns and heterogeneous components,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xiangyu Xu , Qingsong Zhong , Jilin Hu

This work presents a generative modeling approach based on successive subspace learning (SSL). Unlike most generative models in the literature, our method does not utilize neural networks to analyze the underlying source distribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Zohreh Azizi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Visual Autoregressive(VAR) models enhance generation quality but face a critical efficiency bottleneck in later stages. In this paper, we present a novel optimization framework for VAR models that fundamentally differs from prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiayu Chen , Ruoyu Lin , Zihao Zheng , Jingxin Li , Maoliang Li , Guojie Luo , Xiang Chen

Feature transformation plays a critical role in enhancing machine learning model performance by optimizing data representations. Recent state-of-the-art approaches address this task as a continuous embedding optimization problem, converting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yang Gao , Dongjie Wang , Scott Piersall , Ye Zhang , Liqiang Wang

Autoregressive Model (AR) has shown remarkable success in conditional image generation. However, these approaches for multiple reference generation struggle with decoupling different reference identities. In this work, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haiyue Sun , Qingdong He , Jinlong Peng , Peng Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Shuicheng Yan

Diffusion-based Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) achieves impressive perceptual quality but suffers from high computational costs due to iterative sampling. While recent distillation approaches leveraging large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Chengyan Deng , Zhangquan Chen , Li Yu , Kai Zhang , Xue Zhou , Wang Zhang

Image tokenizers are crucial for visual generative models, e.g., diffusion models (DMs) and autoregressive (AR) models, as they construct the latent representation for modeling. Increasing token length is a common approach to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin

Current Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems concatenate and process numerous retrieved document chunks for prefill which requires a large volume of computation, therefore leading to significant latency in time-to-first-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Songshuo Lu , Hua Wang , Yutian Rong , Zhi Chen , Yaohua Tang

Modern deep learning methods typically treat image sequences as large tensors of sequentially stacked frames. However, is this straightforward representation ideal given the current state-of-the-art (SoTA)? In this work, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Snehal Singh Tomar , Alexandros Graikos , Arjun Krishna , Dimitris Samaras , Klaus Mueller

We study the problem of single-image 3D object reconstruction. Recent works have diverged into two directions: regression-based modeling and generative modeling. Regression methods efficiently infer visible surfaces, but struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zixuan Huang , Mark Boss , Aaryaman Vasishta , James M. Rehg , Varun Jampani

Generative transformers have shown their superiority in synthesizing high-fidelity and high-resolution images, such as good diversity and training stability. However, they suffer from the problem of slow generation since they need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jiacheng Li , Longhui Wei , ZongYuan Zhan , Xin He , Siliang Tang , Qi Tian , Yueting Zhuang

Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion models enable long-form video generation but remain expensive due to repeated multi-step denoising. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on binary cache-or-recompute decisions, overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Zhi Yao , Fanshuai Meng , Weijia Jia , Wei Zhao