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Autoregressive models for video generation typically operate frame-by-frame, extending next-token prediction from language to video's temporal dimension. We question that unlike word as token is universally agreed in language if frame is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sucheng Ren , Chen Chen , Zhenbang Wang , Liangchen Song , Xiangxin Zhu , Alan Yuille , Yinfei Yang , Jiasen Lu

Video generation models have demonstrated great capabilities of producing impressive monocular videos, however, the generation of 3D stereoscopic video remains under-explored. We propose a pose-free and training-free approach for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Peng Dai , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , David Futschik , Ruofei Du , Sean Fanello , Xiaojuan Qi , Yinda Zhang

Speculative Decoding has gained popularity as an effective technique for accelerating the auto-regressive inference process of Large Language Models. However, Speculative Decoding entirely relies on the availability of efficient draft…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ofir Zafrir , Igor Margulis , Dorin Shteyman , Shira Guskin , Guy Boudoukh

Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates large language model inference by employing a small draft model to generate predictions, which are then verified by a larger target model. The effectiveness of SD hinges on the alignment between these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuezhou Hu , Jiaxin Guo , Xinyu Feng , Tuo Zhao

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a leading backbone for video generation, yet their quadratic attention cost remains a major bottleneck. Sparse attention reduces this cost by computing only a subset of attention blocks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xuanyi Zhou , Qiuyang Mang , Shuo Yang , Haocheng Xi , Jintao Zhang , Huanzhi Mao , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Kurt Keutzer , Ion Stoica , Alvin Cheung

Prevailing autoregressive (AR) models for text-to-image generation either rely on heavy, computationally-intensive diffusion models to process continuous image tokens, or employ vector quantization (VQ) to obtain discrete tokens with…

Large language models achieve strong machine translation quality but incur high inference cost and latency, posing challenges for simultaneous translation. Re-translation provides a practical solution for off-the-shelf LLMs by repeatedly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Linxiao Zeng , Haoyun Deng , Kangyuan Shu , Shizhen Wang

Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates LLM inference by verifying draft tokens in parallel. However, this method presents a critical trade-off: it improves throughput in low-load, memory-bound systems but degrades performance in high-load,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Rui Li , Zhaoning Zhang , Libo Zhang , Huaimin Wang , Xiang Fu , Zhiquan Lai

Autoregressive (AR) image models achieve diffusion-level quality but suffer from sequential inference, requiring approximately 2,000 steps for a 576x576 image. Speculative decoding with draft trees accelerates LLMs yet underperforms on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Haodong Lei , Hongsong Wang , Xin Geng , Liang Wang , Pan Zhou

In this paper, we propose a new Transformer block for video future frames prediction based on an efficient local spatial-temporal separation attention mechanism. Based on this new Transformer block, a fully autoregressive video future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Xi Ye , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

In recent years, end-to-end learnt video codecs have demonstrated their potential to compete with conventional coding algorithms in term of compression efficiency. However, most learning-based video compression models are associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Tianhao Peng , Ge Gao , Heming Sun , Fan Zhang , David Bull

While inference-time scaling through search has revolutionized Large Language Models, translating these gains to image generation has proven difficult. Recent attempts to apply search strategies to continuous diffusion models show limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Erik Riise , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Nowadays, scene text recognition has attracted more and more attention due to its diverse applications. Most state-of-the-art methods adopt an encoder-decoder framework with the attention mechanism, autoregressively generating text from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaomeng Yang , Zhi Qiao , Yu Zhou

Autoregressive video diffusion models are capable of long rollouts that are stable and consistent with history, but they are unable to guide the current generation with conditioning from the future. In camera-guided video generation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chonghyuk Song , Michal Stary , Boyuan Chen , George Kopanas , Vincent Sitzmann

Diffusion models have been shown to implicitly generate visual content autoregressively in the frequency domain, where low-frequency components are generated earlier in the denoising process while high-frequency details emerge only in later…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Howard Xiao , Brian Chao , Lior Yariv , Gordon Wetzstein

Vision-language models (VLMs) predominantly rely on autoregressive decoding, which generates tokens one at a time and fundamentally limits inference throughput. This limitation is especially acute in physical AI scenarios such as robotics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chengyue Wu , Shiyi Lan , Yonggan Fu , Sensen Gao , Jin Wang , Jincheng Yu , Jose M. Alvarez , Pavlo Molchanov , Ping Luo , Song Han , Ligeng Zhu , Enze Xie

Large language models typically generate tokens autoregressively, using each token as input for the next. Recent work on Speculative Decoding has sought to accelerate this process by employing a smaller, faster draft model to more quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Bradley McDanel

Adapting large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning (RL) is often bottlenecked by the generation stage, which can consume over 75\% of the training time. Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates autoregressive generation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Qiaoling Chen , Zijun Liu , Peng Sun , Shenggui Li , Guoteng Wang , Ziming Liu , Yonggang Wen , Siyuan Feng , Tianwei Zhang

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer fast, parallel token generation, but their standalone use is plagued by an inherent efficiency-quality tradeoff. We show that, if carefully applied, the attributes of dLLMs can actually be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Rui Pan , Zhuofu Chen , Hongyi Liu , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Ravi Netravali

Videos are inherently temporal sequences by their very nature. In this work, we explore the potential of modeling videos in a chronological and scalable manner with autoregressive (AR) language models, inspired by their success in natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yizhuo Li , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Ping Luo