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Text-to-image generative models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have revolutionized visual content creation across various applications, including advertising, personalized media, and design prototyping. However, crafting effective textual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Donghoon Kim , Minji Bae , Kyuhong Shim , Byonghyo Shim

Autoregressive (AR) visual generators model images as sequences of discrete tokens and are trained with a next-token likelihood objective. This strict causal supervision optimizes each step based only on the immediate next token, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yonghao Yu , Lang Huang , Zerun Wang , Runyi Li , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Recent text-to-image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating visually realistic and semantically coherent images. However, they still suffer from randomness and inconsistency with the given prompts, particularly when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kaishen Wang , Ruibo Chen , Tong Zheng , Heng 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

Autoregressive models are widely used for tasks such as image and audio generation. The sampling process of these models, however, does not allow interruptions and cannot adapt to real-time computational resources. This challenge impedes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yilun Xu , Yang Song , Sahaj Garg , Linyuan Gong , Rui Shu , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

Existing autoregressive (AR) image generative models use a token-by-token generation schema. That is, they predict a per-token probability distribution and sample the next token from that distribution. The main challenge is how to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qinyu Zhao , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng

State-of-the-art text-to-image models produce visually impressive results but often struggle with precise alignment to text prompts, leading to missing critical elements or unintended blending of distinct concepts. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Paul Grimal , Michaël Soumm , Hervé Le Borgne , Olivier Ferret , Akihiro Sugimoto

Text-to-image generative models have made significant advancements in recent years; however, accurately capturing intricate details in textual prompts-such as entity missing, attribute binding errors, and incorrect relationships remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Amir Mohammad Izadi , Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini , Soroush Vafaie Tabar , Ali Abdollahi , Armin Saghafian , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Recent text-to-image models produce high-quality results but still struggle with precise visual control, balancing multimodal inputs, and requiring extensive training for complex multimodal image generation. To address these limitations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haozhe Zhao , Zefan Cai , Shuzheng Si , Liang Chen , Jiuxiang Gu , Wen Xiao , Minjia Zhang , Junjie Hu

Large pre-trained language models for textual data have an unconstrained output space; at each decoding step, they can produce any of 10,000s of sub-word tokens. When fine-tuned to target constrained formal languages like SQL, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Torsten Scholak , Nathan Schucher , Dzmitry Bahdanau

Recent works have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can facilitate the grounding of instructions for robotic task planning. Despite this progress, most existing works have primarily focused on utilizing raw images to aid LLMs in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhe Ni , Xiaoxin Deng , Cong Tai , Xinyue Zhu , Qinghongbing Xie , Weihang Huang , Xiang Wu , Long Zeng

We introduce SUPIR (Scaling-UP Image Restoration), a groundbreaking image restoration method that harnesses generative prior and the power of model scaling up. Leveraging multi-modal techniques and advanced generative prior, SUPIR marks a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Fanghua Yu , Jinjin Gu , Zheyuan Li , Jinfan Hu , Xiangtao Kong , Xintao Wang , Jingwen He , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Recently, prompt learning has demonstrated remarkable success in adapting pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks such as image classification. However, its application to the downstream Image-Text Retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yifan Wang , Tao Wang , Chenwei Tang , Caiyang Yu , Zhengqing Zang , Mengmi Zhang , Shudong Huang , Jiancheng Lv

Current text-to-image (T2I) benchmarks evaluate models on rigid prompts, potentially underestimating true generative capabilities due to prompt sensitivity and creating biases that favor certain models while disadvantaging others. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haosheng Gan , Berk Tinaz , Mohammad Shahab Sepehri , Zalan Fabian , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Generative recommendation (GR) typically encodes behavioral or semantic aspects of item information into discrete tokens, leveraging the standard autoregressive (AR) generation paradigm to make predictions. However, existing methods tend to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yifan Wang , Weinan Gan , Longtao Xiao , Jieming Zhu , Heng Chang , Haozhao Wang , Rui Zhang , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Ruixuan Li

Despite significant progress in text-to-image generation, aligning outputs with complex prompts remains challenging, particularly for fine-grained semantics and spatial relations. This difficulty stems from the feed-forward nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yinyi Luo , Hrishikesh Gokhale , Marios Savvides , Jindong Wang , Shengfeng He

Image Chain-of-Thought (Image-CoT) is a test-time scaling paradigm that improves image generation by extending inference time. Most Image-CoT methods focus on text-to-image (T2I) generation. Unlike T2I generation, image editing is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xiangyan Qu , Zhenlong Yuan , Jing Tang , Rui Chen , Datao Tang , Meng Yu , Lei Sun , Yancheng Bai , Xiangxiang Chu , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Yujun Cai

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

Text-to-image generative models often struggle with long prompts detailing complex scenes, diverse objects with distinct visual characteristics and spatial relationships. In this work, we propose SCoPE (Scheduled interpolation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Ketan Suhaas Saichandran , Xavier Thomas , Prakhar Kaushik , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for Large Language Models (LLMs) hold promise in knowledge-intensive tasks but face limitations in complex multi-step reasoning. While recent methods have integrated RAG with chain-of-thought…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zhongxiang Sun , Qipeng Wang , Weijie Yu , Xiaoxue Zang , Kai Zheng , Jun Xu , Xiao Zhang , Song Yang , Han Li