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This paper challenges the dominance of continuous pipelines in visual generation. We systematically investigate the performance gap between discrete and continuous methods. Contrary to the belief that discrete tokenizers are intrinsically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qihang Yu , Qihao Liu , Ju He , Xinyang Zhang , Yang Liu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Xi Chen

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

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising family of generative models, enabling a wide range of downstream vision tasks such as text-guided image editing. By shifting the editing paradigm from noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tao Xia , Jiawei Liu , Yukun Zhang , Ting Liu , Wei Wang , Lei Zhang

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved unified and strong performance across both visual understanding and image generation tasks. However, removing undesired concepts from AR models while maintaining overall generation quality remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Haipeng Fan , Shiyuan Zhang , Baohunesitu , Zihang Guo , Huaiwen Zhang

Autoregressive (AR) image models have recently demonstrated remarkable generative capability, but their sequential nature results in significant inference latency. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically verify tokens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhehao Yu , Baoquan Zhang , Bingqi Shan , Xinhao Liu , Dongliang Zhou , Guotao Liang , Guangming Ye , Yunming Ye

Current auto-regressive mesh generation methods suffer from issues such as incompleteness, insufficient detail, and poor generalization. In this paper, we propose an Auto-regressive Auto-encoder (ArAE) model capable of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jiaxiang Tang , Zhaoshuo Li , Zekun Hao , Xian Liu , Gang Zeng , Ming-Yu Liu , Qinsheng Zhang

As multi-object tracking (MOT) tasks continue to evolve toward more general and multi-modal scenarios, the rigid and task-specific architectures of existing MOT methods increasingly hinder their applicability across diverse tasks and limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lianjie Jia , Yuhan Wu , Binghao Ran , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

Autoregressive image generation aims to predict the next token based on previous ones. However, this process is challenged by the bidirectional dependencies inherent in conventional image tokenizations, which creates a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Pingyu Wu , Kai Zhu , Yu Liu , Longxiang Tang , Jian Yang , Yansong Peng , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Diffusion models have become the dominant paradigm for image generation and editing, with latent diffusion models shifting denoising to a compact latent space for efficiency and scalability. Recent attempts to leverage pretrained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yue Gong , Hongyu Li , Shanyuan Liu , Bo Cheng , Yuhang Ma , Liebucha Wu , Xiaoyu Wu , Manyuan Zhang , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Lijun Zhang

We present Locality-aware Parallel Decoding (LPD) to accelerate autoregressive image generation. Traditional autoregressive image generation relies on next-patch prediction, a memory-bound process that leads to high latency. Existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhuoyang Zhang , Luke J. Huang , Chengyue Wu , Shang Yang , Kelly Peng , Yao Lu , Song Han

Auto-Regressive (AR) models have achieved impressive results in 2D image generation by modeling joint distributions in the grid space. While this approach has been extended to the 3D domain for powerful shape generation, it still has two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Simian Luo , Xuelin Qian , Yanwei Fu , Yinda Zhang , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Xiangyang Xue

The success of autoregressive (AR) language models in text generation has inspired the computer vision community to adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) for image generation. However, considering the essential differences between text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xuantong Liu , Shaozhe Hao , Xianbiao Qi , Tianyang Hu , Jun Wang , Rong Xiao , Yuan Yao

Autoregressive Transformer models have demonstrated impressive performance in video generation, but their sequential token-by-token decoding process poses a major bottleneck, particularly for long videos represented by tens of thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yang Ye , Junliang Guo , Haoyu Wu , Tianyu He , Tim Pearce , Tabish Rashid , Katja Hofmann , Jiang Bian

Discrete image tokenizers are commonly trained in two stages: first for reconstruction, and then with a prior model fitted to the frozen token sequences. This decoupling leaves the tokenizer unaware of the model that will later generate its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bowen Zheng , Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu

This paper presents DetailFlow, a coarse-to-fine 1D autoregressive (AR) image generation method that models images through a novel next-detail prediction strategy. By learning a resolution-aware token sequence supervised with progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yiheng Liu , Liao Qu , Huichao Zhang , Xu Wang , Yi Jiang , Yiming Gao , Hu Ye , Xian Li , Shuai Wang , Daniel K. Du , Fangmin Chen , Zehuan Yuan , Xinglong Wu

While autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated remarkable success in image generation, extending them to layout-conditioned generation remains challenging due to the sparse nature of layout conditions and the risk of feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zirui Zheng , Takashi Isobe , Tong Shen , Xu Jia , Jianbin Zhao , Xiaomin Li , Mengmeng Ge , Baolu Li , Qinghe Wang , Dong Li , Dong Zhou , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , Emad Barsoum

Autoregressive (AR) diffusion offers a promising framework for generating videos of theoretically infinite length. However, a major challenge is maintaining temporal continuity while preventing the progressive quality degradation caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zou , Dian Zheng , Hongbo Liu , Tiankai Hang , Bin Liu , Nenghai Yu

Monocular depth estimation can benefit from autoregressive (AR) generation, but direct AR modeling is hindered by the modality gap between RGB and depth, inefficient pixel-wise generation, and instability in continuous depth prediction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jinchang Zhang , Xinrou Kang , Guoyu Lu

Recent advances in Generative AI (GenAI) have led to significant improvements in the quality of generated visual content. As AI-generated visual content becomes increasingly indistinguishable from real content, the challenge of detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Keerthi Veeramachaneni , Praveen Tirupattur , Amrit Singh Bedi , Mubarak Shah

Autoregressive (AR) image generators are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to produce high-quality images and their scalability. Typical AR models are locked onto a specific generation order, often a raster-scan from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Rishav Pramanik , Amin Sghaier , Masih Aminbeidokhti , Juan A. Rodriguez , Antoine Poupon , David Vazquez , Christopher Pal , Zhaozheng Yin , Marco Pedersoli