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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

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) has emerged as a promising approach in image generation, offering competitive potential and performance comparable to diffusion-based models. However, current AR-based visual generation models require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Rui Xie , Tianchen Zhao , Zhihang Yuan , Rui Wan , Wenxi Gao , Zhenhua Zhu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling inefficiently applies a fixed computational depth to each position when generating high-resolution images. While existing methods accelerate inference by pruning tokens using frequency maps, their binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chunliang Li , Tianze Cao , Sanyuan Zhao

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling departs from the next-token prediction paradigm of traditional Autoregressive (AR) models through next-scale prediction, enabling high-quality image generation. However, the VAR paradigm suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Senmao Li , Kai Wang , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Jian Yang , Yaxing Wang

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

Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) suffers from substantial computational cost due to the massive token count involved. Failing to account for the continuous evolution of modeling dynamics, existing VAR token reduction methods face three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Zhang , Jingyi Liu , Feng Liu , Duoqian Miao , Qi Zhang , Kexue Fu , Changwei Wang , Longbing Cao

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

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models enable efficient image generation via next-scale prediction but face escalating computational costs as sequence length grows. Existing static pruning methods degrade performance by permanently removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kaixin Zhang , Ruiqing Yang , Yuan Zhang , Shan You , Tao Huang

Visual Autoregressive modeling (VAR) has emerged as a highly efficient alternative to diffusion-based frameworks, achieving comparable synthesis quality. However, as this paradigm extends to Spacetime Autoregressive modeling (STAR) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungwoong Yune , Suheon Jeong , Joo-Young Kim

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling has gained popularity for its shift towards next-scale prediction. However, existing VAR paradigms process the entire token map at each scale step, leading to the complexity and runtime scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hang Guo , Yawei Li , Taolin Zhang , Jiangshan Wang , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia , Luca Benini

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

Recently, Visual Autoregressive ($\mathsf{VAR}$) Models introduced a groundbreaking advancement in the field of image generation, offering a scalable approach through a coarse-to-fine ``next-scale prediction'' paradigm. Suppose that $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yekun Ke , Xiaoyu Li , Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

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

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models have recently garnered significant attention for their innovative next-scale prediction paradigm, offering notable advantages in both inference efficiency and image quality compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tong Wang , Guanyu Yang , Nian Liu , Kai Wang , Yaxing Wang , Abdelrahman M Shaker , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Senmao Li

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models have emerged as a strong alternative to diffusion for image synthesis, yet their fixed training resolution prevents direct generation at higher resolutions. Naively transferring training-free extrapolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Feihong Yan , Shaoyu Liu , Haixuan Wang , Shuai Lu , Linfeng Zhang , Huiqi Li , Xiangyang Ji

Image Super-Resolution (ISR) has seen significant progress with the introduction of remarkable generative models. However, challenges such as the trade-off issues between fidelity and realism, as well as computational complexity, have also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Yunpeng Qu , Kun Yuan , Jinhua Hao , Kai Zhao , Qizhi Xie , Ming Sun , Chao Zhou

Scaling visual generation models is essential for real-world content creation, yet requires substantial training and computational expenses. Alternatively, test-time scaling has garnered growing attention due to resource efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhekai Chen , Ruihang Chu , Yukang Chen , Shiwei Zhang , Yujie Wei , Yingya Zhang , Xihui Liu

In this paper, we present a new approach for model acceleration by exploiting spatial sparsity in visual data. We observe that the final prediction in vision Transformers is only based on a subset of the most informative tokens, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Wenliang Zhao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling has garnered significant attention for its innovative next-scale prediction approach, which yields substantial improvements in efficiency, scalability, and zero-shot generalization. Nevertheless, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kunjun Li , Zigeng Chen , Cheng-Yen Yang , Jenq-Neng Hwang
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