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We propose a scalable framework for the learning of high-dimensional parametric maps via adaptively constructed residual network (ResNet) maps between reduced bases of the inputs and outputs. When just few training data are available, it is…

Recently, autoregressive (AR) models have shown strong potential in image generation, offering better scalability and easier integration with unified multi-modal systems compared to diffusion-based methods. However, extending AR models to…

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Driven by significant improvements in architectural design and training pipelines, computer vision has recently experienced dramatic progress in terms of accuracy on classic benchmarks such as ImageNet. These highly-accurate models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Denis Kuznedelev , Eldar Kurtic , Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh

We introduce \textbf{AAC} (Architecturally Admissible Compressor), a differentiable landmark-selection module for ALT (A*, Landmarks, and Triangle inequality) shortest-path heuristics whose outputs are admissible by construction: each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 An T. Le , Vien Ngo

We introduce Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation (AR-RAG), a novel paradigm that enhances image generation by autoregressively incorporating knearest neighbor retrievals at the patch level. Unlike prior methods that perform a single,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jingyuan Qi , Zhiyang Xu , Qifan Wang , Lifu Huang

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

The application of the context-adaptive entropy model significantly improves the rate-distortion (R-D) performance, in which hyperpriors and autoregressive models are jointly utilized to effectively capture the spatial redundancy of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Haisheng Fu , Feng Liang

Autoregressive (AR) visual generation has emerged as a powerful paradigm for image and multimodal synthesis, owing to its scalability and generality. However, existing AR image generation suffers from severe memory bottlenecks due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ziran Qin , Youru Lv , Mingbao Lin , Zeren Zhang , Chanfan Gan , Tieyuan Chen , Weiyao Lin

How to model fine-grained spatial-temporal dynamics in videos has been a challenging problem for action recognition. It requires learning deep and rich features with superior distinctiveness for the subtle and abstract motions. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Hanxi Lin , Xinxiao Wu , Jiebo Luo

Inspired by the remarkable success of autoregressive models in language modeling, this paradigm has been widely adopted in visual generation. However, the sequential token-by-token decoding mechanism inherent in traditional autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Siyang Wang , Hanting Li , Wei Li , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen , Feng Zhao

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 (AR) models have shown great promise in image generation, yet they face a fundamental inefficiency stemming from their core component: a vast, unstructured vocabulary of visual tokens. This conventional approach treats tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lixuan He , Shikang Zheng , Linfeng Zhang

Learned image compression methods generally optimize a rate-distortion loss, trading off improvements in visual distortion for added bitrate. Increasingly, however, compressed imagery is used as an input to deep learning networks for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Maxime Kawawa-Beaudan , Ryan Roggenkemper , Avideh Zakhor

Multivariate network time series are ubiquitous in modern systems, yet existing network autoregressive models typically treat nodes as scalar processes, ignoring cross-variable spillovers. To capture these complex interactions without the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-06 Qi Lyu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Guodong Li , Di Wang

Lossless image compression is an essential research field in image compression. Recently, learning-based image compression methods achieved impressive performance compared with traditional lossless methods, such as WebP, JPEG2000, and FLIF.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Ran Wang , Jinming Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto

We introduce Autoregressive Diffusion Models (ARDMs), a model class encompassing and generalizing order-agnostic autoregressive models (Uria et al., 2014) and absorbing discrete diffusion (Austin et al., 2021), which we show are special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Emiel Hoogeboom , Alexey A. Gritsenko , Jasmijn Bastings , Ben Poole , Rianne van den Berg , Tim Salimans

Data compression often subtracts prediction and encodes the difference (residue) e.g. assuming Laplace distribution, for example for images, videos, audio, or numerical data. Its performance is strongly dependent on the proper choice of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Jarek Duda

Generative modeling of high-dimensional data is a key problem in machine learning. Successful approaches include latent variable models and autoregressive models. The complementary strengths of these approaches, to model global and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Thomas Lucas , Jakob Verbeek

The primary challenge in accelerating image super-resolution lies in reducing computation while maintaining performance and adaptability. Motivated by the observation that high-frequency regions (e.g., edges and textures) are most critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Wei Shang , Dongwei Ren , Wanying Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Wangmeng Zuo

In this paper, we propose a deep hierarchical attention context model for lossless attribute compression of point clouds, leveraging a multi-resolution spatial structure and residual learning. A simple and effective Level of Detail (LoD)…

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