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Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) based on next-scale prediction has revitalized autoregressive visual generation. Although its full-context dependency, i.e., modeling all previous scales for next-scale prediction, facilitates more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yu Zhang , Jingyi Liu , Yiwei Shi , Qi Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Changwei Wang , Longbing Cao

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

High-dimensional vector autoregressive (VAR) models have numerous applications in fields such as econometrics, biology, climatology, among others. While prior research has mainly focused on linear VAR models, these approaches can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Yuefeng Han , Likai Chen , Wei Biao Wu

Diffusion models deliver high-fidelity synthesis but remain slow due to iterative sampling. We empirically observe there exists feature invariance in deterministic sampling, and present InvarDiff, a training-free acceleration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zihao Wu

Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) models significantly reduce inference steps through the "next-scale" prediction paradigm. However, progressive multi-scale generation incurs substantial memory overhead due to cumulative KV caching, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xiaoyue Chen , Yuling Shi , Kaiyuan Li , Huandong Wang , Yong Li , Xiaodong Gu , Xinlei Chen , Mingbao Lin

The vector autoregressive (VAR) model has been used to describe the dependence within and across multiple time series. This is a model for stationary time series which can be extended to allow the presence of a deterministic trend in each…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-14 Xixi Li , Jingsong Yuan

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

With the success of autoregressive learning in large language models, it has become a dominant approach for text-to-image generation, offering high efficiency and visual quality. However, invisible watermarking for visual autoregressive…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ziyi Wang , Songbai Tan , Gang Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Hongbin Xu , Xin Meng , Ming Li , Fei Richard Yu

Visual Auto-Regressive modeling (VAR) has shown promise in bridging the speed and quality gap between autoregressive image models and diffusion models. VAR reformulates autoregressive modeling by decomposing an image into successive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hermann Kumbong , Xian Liu , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Yu Liu , Xihui Liu , Ziwei Liu , Daniel Y. Fu , Christopher Ré , David W. Romero

Visual AutoRegressive (VAR) modeling has garnered significant attention for its innovative next-scale prediction paradigm. However, mainstream VAR paradigms attend to all tokens across historical scales at each autoregressive step. As the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zekun Li , Ning Wang , Tongxin Bai , Changwang Mei , Peisong Wang , Shuang Qiu , Jian Cheng

Autoregressive models have demonstrated remarkable success in sequential data generation, particularly in NLP, but their extension to continuous-domain image generation presents significant challenges. Recent work, the masked autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Tiankai Hang , Jianmin Bao , Fangyun Wei , Dong Chen

High-dimensional vector autoregressive (VAR) models are important tools for the analysis of multivariate time series. This paper focuses on high-dimensional time series and on the different regularized estimation procedures proposed for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Jonas Krampe , Efstathios Paparoditis

Real-world dark images commonly exhibit not only low visibility and contrast but also complex noise and blur, posing significant restoration challenges. Existing methods often rely on paired data or fail to model dynamic illumination and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wei Dong , Han Zhou , Junwei Lin , Jun Chen

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as an efficient paradigm for text-to-image generation. Despite their strong generative capability, existing VAR-based personalization methods remain limited to static settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Junhao Li , Xinhao Zhong , Yi sun , Yuxia Qiao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Yaowei Wang

Text-to-image generation with visual autoregressive~(VAR) models has recently achieved impressive advances in generation fidelity and inference efficiency. While control mechanisms have been explored for diffusion models, enabling precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Keli Liu , Zhendong Wang , Wengang Zhou , Shaodong Xu , Ruixiao Dong , Houqiang Li

The reduced-rank vector autoregressive (VAR) model can be interpreted as a supervised factor model, where two factor modelings are simultaneously applied to response and predictor spaces. This article introduces a new model, called vector…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-16 Di Wang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Guodong Li , Ruey Tsay

As evidenced by various recent and significant papers within the frequentist literature, along with numerous applications in macroeconomics, genomics, and neuroscience, there continues to be substantial interest to understand the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-13 Jonathan P Williams , Yuying Xie , Jan Hannig

Vector autoregressive (VAR) models assume linearity between the endogenous variables and their lags. This assumption might be overly restrictive and could have a deleterious impact on forecasting accuracy. As a solution, we propose…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-03-10 Florian Huber , Luca Rossini

The rapid progress of visual autoregressive (VAR) models has brought new opportunities for text-to-image generation, but also heightened safety concerns. Existing concept erasure techniques, primarily designed for diffusion models, fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinhao Zhong , Yimin Zhou , Zhiqi Zhang , Junhao Li , Yi Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Xuan Wang , Ke Xu

Generative methods now produce outputs nearly indistinguishable from real data but often fail to fully capture the data distribution. Unlike quality issues, diversity limitations in generative models are hard to detect visually, requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Mischa Dombrowski , Weitong Zhang , Sarah Cechnicka , Hadrien Reynaud , Bernhard Kainz