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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

Autoregressive video generation aims at real-time, open-ended synthesis. Yet, cinematic storytelling is not merely the endless extension of a single scene; it requires progressing through evolving events, viewpoint shifts, and discrete shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yihao Meng , Zichen Liu , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Yue Yu , Hanlin Wang , Haobo Li , Jiapeng Zhu , Yanhong Zeng , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen , Huamin Qu

Autoregressive (AR) image generation has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for image synthesis. Leveraging the generation principle of large language models, they allow for efficiently generating deceptively real-looking images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Simon Damm , Jonas Ricker , Henning Petzka , Asja Fischer

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

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

Vision-language large models are moving toward the unification of visual understanding and visual generation tasks. However, whether generation can enhance understanding is still under-explored on large data scale. In this work, we analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Fengjiao Chen , Minhao Jing , Weitao Lu , Yan Feng , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao

Tokenization is a key component of autoregressive (AR) generative models, converting raw data into more manageable units for modeling. Commonly, tokens describe local information, such as regions of pixels in images or word pieces in text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zhitong Gao , Parham Rezaei , Ali Cy , Mingqiao Ye , Nataša Jovanović , Jesse Allardice , Afshin Dehghan , Amir Zamir , Roman Bachmann , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar

By leveraging the generative priors from pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, significant progress has been made in real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR). However, these methods tend to generate inaccurate and unnatural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Hongyang Wei , Shuaizheng Liu , Chun Yuan , Lei Zhang

Recently, autoregressive models have demonstrated remarkable performance in class-conditional image generation. However, the application of next-token prediction to high-resolution text-to-image generation remains largely unexplored. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dengsheng Chen , Jie Hu , Tiezhu Yue , Xiaoming Wei , Enhua Wu

The rapid advancement of generative models has led to a growing prevalence of highly realistic AI-generated images, posing significant challenges for digital forensics and content authentication. Conventional detection methods mainly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dabbrata Das , Mahshar Yahan , Md Tareq Zaman , Md Rishadul Bayesh

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

Masked image generation (MIG) has demonstrated remarkable efficiency and high-fidelity images by enabling parallel token prediction. Existing methods typically rely solely on the model itself to learn semantic dependencies among visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Guotao Liang , Baoquan Zhang , Zhiyuan Wen , Zihao Han , Yunming Ye

Recent advancements in video generation have substantially improved visual quality and temporal coherence, making these models increasingly appealing for applications such as autonomous driving, particularly in the context of driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chun-Peng Chang , Chen-Yu Wang , Julian Schmidt , Holger Caesar , Alain Pagani

VILA-U is a Unified foundation model that integrates Video, Image, Language understanding and generation. Traditional visual language models (VLMs) use separate modules for understanding and generating visual content, which can lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yecheng Wu , Zhuoyang Zhang , Junyu Chen , Haotian Tang , Dacheng Li , Yunhao Fang , Ligeng Zhu , Enze Xie , Hongxu Yin , Li Yi , Song Han , Yao Lu

Historically, LLMs have been trained using either autoregressive (AR) or masked language modeling (MLM) objectives, with AR models gaining dominance in recent years. However, AR models are inherently incapable of masked infilling, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Daniel Israel , Aditya Grover , Guy Van den Broeck

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on text-to-image retrieval benchmarks. However, bridging this success to real-world applications remains a challenge. In practice, human search behavior is rarely a one-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Diji Yang , Minghao Liu , Chung-Hsiang Lo , Yi Zhang , James Davis

In the current research landscape, multimodal autoregressive (AR) models have shown exceptional capabilities across various domains, including visual understanding and generation. However, complex tasks such as style-aligned text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yi Wu , Lingting Zhu , Shengju Qian , Lei Liu , Wandi Qiao , Lequan Yu , Bin Li

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved remarkable success in natural language and image generation, but their application to 3D shape modeling remains largely unexplored. Unlike diffusion models, AR models enable more efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tejaswini Medi , Arianna Rampini , Pradyumna Reddy , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Margret Keuper

Brain aging synthesis is a critical task with broad applications in clinical and computational neuroscience. The ability to predict the future structural evolution of a subject's brain from an earlier MRI scan provides valuable insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ridvan Yesiloglu , Wei Peng , Md Tauhidul Islam , Ehsan Adeli

Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We report three findings that challenge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mohammad Asadi , Jack W. O'Sullivan , Fang Cao , Tahoura Nedaee , Kamyar Rajabalifardi , Fei-Fei Li , Ehsan Adeli , Euan Ashley