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Autoregressive (AR) models for image generation typically adopt a two-stage paradigm of vector quantization and raster-scan ``next-token prediction", inspired by its great success in language modeling. However, due to the huge modality gap,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Hu Yu , Hao Luo , Hangjie Yuan , Yu Rong , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

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

We introduce nested diffusion models, an efficient and powerful hierarchical generative framework that substantially enhances the generation quality of diffusion models, particularly for images of complex scenes. Our approach employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Zhang , Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett , Michael Maire

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

Directly generating 3D meshes, the default representation for 3D shapes in the graphics industry, using auto-regressive (AR) models has become popular these days, thanks to their sharpness, compactness in the generated results, and ability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiabao Lei , Kewei Shi , Zhihao Liang , Kui Jia

The autoregressive (AR) models, such as attention-based encoder-decoder models and RNN-Transducer, have achieved great success in speech recognition. They predict the output sequence conditioned on the previous tokens and acoustic encoded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Zhengkun Tian , Jiangyan Yi , Jianhua Tao , Ye Bai , Shuai Zhang , Zhengqi Wen , Xuefei Liu

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

We introduce STAR, a text-to-image model that employs a scale-wise auto-regressive paradigm. Unlike VAR, which is constrained to class-conditioned synthesis for images up to 256$\times$256, STAR enables text-driven image generation up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Xiaoxiao Ma , Mohan Zhou , Tao Liang , Yalong Bai , Tiejun Zhao , Biye Li , Huaian Chen , Yi Jin

Autoregressive (AR) models have reformulated image generation as next-token prediction, demonstrating remarkable potential and emerging as strong competitors to diffusion models. However, control-to-image generation, akin to ControlNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zongming Li , Tianheng Cheng , Shoufa Chen , Peize Sun , Haocheng Shen , Longjin Ran , Xiaoxin Chen , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Autoregressive models have emerged as a powerful approach for visual generation but suffer from slow inference speed due to their sequential token-by-token prediction process. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yuqing Wang , Shuhuai Ren , Zhijie Lin , Yujin Han , Haoyuan Guo , Zhenheng Yang , Difan Zou , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

Auto-regressive models have achieved impressive results in 2D image generation by modeling joint distributions in grid space. In this paper, we extend auto-regressive models to 3D domains, and seek a stronger ability of 3D shape generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Xuelin Qian , Yu Wang , Simian Luo , Yinda Zhang , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Xiangyang Xue , Bo Zhao , Tiejun Huang , Yunsheng Wu , Yanwei Fu

Recent progress in controllable image generation and editing is largely driven by diffusion-based methods. Although diffusion models perform exceptionally well in specific tasks with tailored designs, establishing a unified model is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jiteng Mu , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang

Autoregressive (AR) approaches, which represent images as sequences of discrete tokens from a finite codebook, have achieved remarkable success in image generation. However, the quantization process and the limited codebook size inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jinyuan Hu , Jiayou Zhang , Shaobo Cui , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

Visual autoregressive (AR) generation offers a promising path toward unifying vision and language models, yet its performance remains suboptimal against diffusion models. Prior work often attributes this gap to tokenizer limitations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qiyuan He , Yicong Li , Haotian Ye , Jinghao Wang , Xinyao Liao , Pheng-Ann Heng , Stefano Ermon , James Zou , Angela Yao

Diffusion models have gained significant attention in the realm of image generation due to their exceptional performance. Their success has been recently expanded to text generation via generating all tokens within a sequence concurrently.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Tong Wu , Zhihao Fan , Xiao Liu , Yeyun Gong , Yelong Shen , Jian Jiao , Hai-Tao Zheng , Juntao Li , Zhongyu Wei , Jian Guo , Nan Duan , Weizhu Chen

Autoregressive (AR) models remain widely used in time series analysis due to their interpretability, but convencional parameter estimation methods can be computationally expensive and prone to convergence issues. This paper proposes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-20 Anaísa Lucena , Ana Martins , Armando J. Pinho , Sónia Gouveia

Autoregressive (AR) models offer stable and efficient training, but standard next-token prediction is not well aligned with the temporal structure required for text-conditioned motion generation. We introduce MoScale, a next-scale AR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiwei Zheng , Shibo Jin , Lingjie Liu , Mingmin Zhao

Autoregressive (AR) models have garnered significant attention in image generation for their ability to effectively capture both local and global structures within visual data. However, prevalent AR models predominantly rely on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Hui Deng , Xuyang Shen , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

Visual AutoRegressive (VAR) models based on next-scale prediction enable efficient hierarchical generation, yet the inference cost grows quadratically at high resolutions. We observe that the computationally intensive later scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Keli Liu , Zhendong Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

The field of image synthesis is currently flourishing due to the advancements in diffusion models. While diffusion models have been successful, their computational intensity has prompted the pursuit of more efficient alternatives. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Jiayi Guo , Jinyi Hu , Zhiyuan Liu , Shiji Song , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang