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This paper presents Diffusion via Autoregressive models (D-AR), a new paradigm recasting the image diffusion process as a vanilla autoregressive procedure in the standard next-token-prediction fashion. We start by designing the tokenizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ziteng Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

The Open-MAGVIT2 project produces an open-source replication of Google's MAGVIT-v2 tokenizer, a tokenizer with a super-large codebook (i.e., $2^{18}$ codes), and achieves the state-of-the-art reconstruction performance on ImageNet and UCF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhuoyan Luo , Fengyuan Shi , Yixiao Ge , Yujiu Yang , Limin Wang , Ying Shan

Watermarking the outputs of generative models has emerged as a promising approach for tracking their provenance. Despite significant interest in autoregressive image generation models and their potential for misuse, no prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nikola Jovanović , Ismail Labiad , Tomáš Souček , Martin Vechev , Pierre Fernandez

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

Since the advent of popular visual generation frameworks like VQGAN and latent diffusion models, state-of-the-art image generation systems have generally been two-stage systems that first tokenize or compress visual data into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Kyle Sargent , Kyle Hsu , Justin Johnson , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu

Autoregressive models are widely used for tasks such as image and audio generation. The sampling process of these models, however, does not allow interruptions and cannot adapt to real-time computational resources. This challenge impedes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yilun Xu , Yang Song , Sahaj Garg , Linyuan Gong , Rui Shu , Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

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

Neural rendering techniques promise efficient photo-realistic image synthesis while at the same time providing rich control over scene parameters by learning the physical image formation process. While several supervised methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Justus Thies , Varun Jampani , Matthias Nießner , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

In the recent years, there has been a significant improvement in the quality of samples produced by (deep) generative models such as variational auto-encoders and generative adversarial networks. However, the representation capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Shady Abu Hussein , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

Three-dimensional (3D) medical images, such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), are essential for clinical applications. However, the need for diverse and comprehensive representations is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Siwen Wang , Churan Wang , Fei Gao , Lixian Su , Fandong Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Yizhou Yu

Autoregressive visual generation has garnered increasing attention due to its scalability and compatibility with other modalities compared with diffusion models. Most existing methods construct visual sequences as spatial patches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuanhui Huang , Weiliang Chen , Wenzhao Zheng , Yueqi Duan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Existing vector quantization (VQ) based autoregressive models follow a two-stage generation paradigm that first learns a codebook to encode images as discrete codes, and then completes generation based on the learned codebook. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mengqi Huang , Zhendong Mao , Zhuowei Chen , Yongdong Zhang

Recent advances in multimodal models highlight the pivotal role of image tokenization in high-resolution image generation. By compressing images into compact latent representations, tokenizers enable generative models to operate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihang Rao , Borui Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Autoregressive modeling has driven major advances in multimodal AI, yet its application to medical imaging remains constrained by the absence of a unified image tokenizer that simultaneously preserves fine-grained anatomical structures and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Chenglong Ma , Yuanfeng Ji , Jin Ye , Zilong Li , Chenhui Wang , Junzhi Ning , Wei Li , Lihao Liu , Qiushan Guo , Tianbin Li , Junjun He , Hongming Shan

In this paper, we treat the image generation task using an autoencoder, a representative latent model. Unlike many studies regularizing the latent variable's distribution by assuming a manually specified prior, we approach the image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jaeyoung Yoo , Hojun Lee , Nojun Kwak

In this work, we address the task of unconditional head motion generation to animate still human faces in a low-dimensional semantic space from a single reference pose. Different from traditional audio-conditioned talking head generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Louis Airale , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Stéphane Lathuilière , Dominique Vaufreydaz

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

Masked-based autoregressive models have demonstrated promising image generation capability in continuous space. However, their potential for video generation remains under-explored. In this paper, we propose \textbf{VideoMAR}, a concise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hu Yu , Biao Gong , Hangjie Yuan , DanDan Zheng , Weilong Chai , Jingdong Chen , Kecheng Zheng , Feng Zhao

Recent advances in auto-regressive transformers have achieved remarkable success in generative modeling. However, text-to-3D generation remains challenging, primarily due to bottlenecks in learning discrete 3D representations. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongcheng Han , Dongyan Cao , Haoran Sun , Yu Hong

Autoregressive transformers have revolutionized high-fidelity image generation. One crucial ingredient lies in the tokenizer, which compresses high-resolution image patches into manageable discrete tokens with a scanning or hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinzhi Zhang , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu