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Recent advances in video generation have been dominated by diffusion and flow-matching models, which produce high-quality results but remain computationally intensive and difficult to scale. In this work, we introduce VideoAR, the first…

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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 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

Recent studies on Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models have highlighted that high-frequency components, or later steps, in the generation process contribute disproportionately to inference latency. However, the underlying computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jiajun Li , Yue Ma , Xinyu Zhang , Qingyan Wei , Songhua Liu , Linfeng Zhang

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

In the rapidly advancing field of image generation, Visual Auto-Regressive (VAR) modeling has garnered considerable attention for its innovative next-scale prediction approach. This paradigm offers substantial improvements in efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Zigeng Chen , Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

Essential to visual generation is efficient modeling of visual data priors. Conventional next-token prediction methods define the process as learning the conditional probability distribution of successive tokens. Recently, next-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jinhua Zhang , Wei Long , Minghao Han , Weiyi You , Shuhang Gu

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance on multimodal reasoning tasks such as visual question answering, image captioning and so on, but their inference cost remains a significant challenge due to the large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weichen Zhang , Zhui Zhu , Ningbo Li , Shilong Tao , Kebin Liu , Yunhao Liu

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

Vision transformer has emerged as a new paradigm in computer vision, showing excellent performance while accompanied by expensive computational cost. Image token pruning is one of the main approaches for ViT compression, due to the facts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xiangcheng Liu , Tianyi Wu , Guodong Guo

Predictive linear and nonlinear models based on kernel machines or deep neural networks have been used to discover dependencies among time series. This paper proposes an efficient nonlinear modeling approach for multiple time series, with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Kevin Roy , Luis Miguel Lopez-Ramos , Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

Text-guided image editing is an essential task that enables users to modify images through natural language descriptions. Recent advances in diffusion models and rectified flows have significantly improved editing quality, primarily relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yufei Wang , Lanqing Guo , Zhihao Li , Jiaxing Huang , Pichao Wang , Bihan Wen , Jian Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have brought remarkable visual fidelity to instruction-guided image editing. However, their global denoising process inherently entangles the edited region with the entire image context, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qingyang Mao , Qi Cai , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Mingyue Cheng , Ting Yao , Qi Liu , Tao Mei

Autoregressive models have recently shown great promise in visual generation by leveraging discrete token sequences akin to language modeling. However, existing approaches often suffer from inefficiency, either due to token-by-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ruiqing Yang , Kaixin Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Shan You , Tao Huang

The use of latent diffusion models (LDMs) such as Stable Diffusion has significantly improved the perceptual quality of All-in-One image Restoration (AiOR) methods, while also enhancing their generalization capabilities. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Kartik Narayan , Vishal M. Patel

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

We introduce DiverseVAR, a framework that enhances the diversity of text-conditioned visual autoregressive models (VAR) at test time without requiring retraining, fine-tuning, or substantial computational overhead. While VAR models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mingue Park , Prin Phunyaphibarn , Phillip Y. Lee , Minhyuk Sung

Recent advances in subject-driven image generation using diffusion models have attracted considerable attention for their remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images. Nevertheless, the potential of Visual Autoregressive (VAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xin Jiang , Jingwen Chen , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Kezhou Chen , Zechao Li , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Autoregressive (AR) transformers have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual generation, largely due to their scalability, computational efficiency and unified architecture with language and vision. Among them, next scale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amandeep Kumar , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel