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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have attracted a lot of popularity in recent years, due to their exceptional capabilities in modeling long-range spatial dependencies and scalability for large scale training. Although the training parallelism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Michael Ranzinger , Shiyi Lan , Jose M. Alvarez , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

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 (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) modeling has marked a paradigm shift in image generation from next-token prediction to next-scale prediction. VAR predicts a set of tokens at each step from coarse to fine scale, leading to better image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Renjie Wei , Songqiang Xu , Qingyu Guo , Meng Li

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

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

Visual autoregressive models (VAR) have recently emerged as a promising class of generative models, achieving performance comparable to diffusion models in text-to-image generation tasks. While conditional generation has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Quan Dao , Xiaoxiao He , Ligong Han , Ngan Hoai Nguyen , Amin Heyrani Nobar , Faez Ahmed , Han Zhang , Viet Anh Nguyen , Dimitris Metaxas

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

The most recent year has witnessed the success of applying the Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification. However, there are still evidences indicating that ViT often suffers following two aspects, i) the high computation and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Xian Wei , Bin Wang , Mingsong Chen , Ji Yuan , Hai Lan , Jiehuang Shi , Xuan Tang , Bo Jin , Guozhang Chen , Dongping Yang

Controllable image synthesis, which enables fine-grained control over generated outputs, has emerged as a key focus in visual generative modeling. However, controllable generation remains challenging for Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ryan Xu , Dongyang Jin , Yancheng Bai , Rui Lan , Xu Duan , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Visual Autoregressive(VAR) models enhance generation quality but face a critical efficiency bottleneck in later stages. In this paper, we present a novel optimization framework for VAR models that fundamentally differs from prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiayu Chen , Ruoyu Lin , Zihao Zheng , Jingxin Li , Maoliang Li , Guojie Luo , Xiang Chen

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

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

We introduce a new paradigm for AutoRegressive (AR) image generation, termed Set AutoRegressive Modeling (SAR). SAR generalizes the conventional AR to the next-set setting, i.e., splitting the sequence into arbitrary sets containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenze Liu , Le Zhuo , Yi Xin , Sheng Xia , Peng Gao , Xiangyu Yue

Visual Autoregressive Models (VAR) offer efficient and high-quality image generation but suffer from computational redundancy due to repeated Transformer calls at increasing resolutions. We introduce a dynamic Mixture-of-Experts router…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jort Vincenti , Metod Jazbec , Guoxuan Xia

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models generate images through next-scale prediction, naturally achieving coarse-to-fine, fast, high-fidelity synthesis mirroring human perception. In practice, this hierarchy can drift at inference time, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Youngwoo Shin , Jiwan Hur , Junmo Kim

For autoregressive (AR) modeling of high-resolution images, vector quantization (VQ) represents an image as a sequence of discrete codes. A short sequence length is important for an AR model to reduce its computational costs to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Doyup Lee , Chiheon Kim , Saehoon Kim , Minsu Cho , Wook-Shin Han

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

Visual autoregressive (AR) generation models have demonstrated strong potential for image generation, yet their next-token-prediction paradigm introduces considerable inference latency. Although speculative decoding (SD) has been proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haotian Dong , Ye Li , Rongwei Lu , Chen Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

MRI reconstruction is an inherently ill-posed inverse problem, since incomplete measurements admit many plausible solutions. This ambiguity becomes more severe under high acceleration, where pixel-domain continuous predictors tend to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Vishal M. Patel