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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…

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Diffusion models and flow-based methods have shown impressive generative capability, especially for images, but their sampling is expensive because it requires many iterative updates. We introduce W-Flow, a framework for training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiaqi Han , Puheng Li , Qiushan Guo , Renyuan Xu , Stefano Ermon , Emmanuel J. Candès

The growing sophistication of synthetic image and deepfake generation models has turned source attribution and authenticity verification into a critical challenge for modern computer vision systems. Recent studies suggest that diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Claudio Giusti , Luca Guarnera , Sebastiano Battiato

We introduce CompTok, a training framework for learning visual tokenizers whose tokens are enhanced for compositionality. CompTok uses a token-conditioned diffusion decoder. By employing an InfoGAN-style objective, where we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bingchen Zhao , Qiushan Guo , Ye Wang , Yixuan Huang , Zhonghua Zhai , Yu Tian

We introduce token-consistent stochastic layers in vision transformers, without causing any severe drop in performance. The added stochasticity improves network calibration, robustness and strengthens privacy. We use linear layers with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Nikola Popovic , Danda Pani Paudel , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

Autoregressive (AR) visual generators model images as sequences of discrete tokens and are trained with a next-token likelihood objective. This strict causal supervision optimizes each step based only on the immediate next token, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yonghao Yu , Lang Huang , Zerun Wang , Runyi Li , Toshihiko Yamasaki

As the quality of image generators continues to improve, deepfakes become a topic of considerable societal debate. Image watermarking allows responsible model owners to detect and label their AI-generated content, which can mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kasra Arabi , Benjamin Feuer , R. Teal Witter , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Autoregressive language models trained with next-token prediction generate text by sampling one discrete token at a time. Although very scalable, this objective forces the model to commit at every step, preventing it from exploring or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lorenzo Noci , Gregor Bachmann , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Moin Nabi

While deep feature learning has revolutionized techniques for static-image understanding, the same does not quite hold for video processing. Architectures and optimization techniques used for video are largely based off those for static…

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Fully test-time adaptation aims to adapt the network model based on sequential analysis of input samples during the inference stage to address the cross-domain performance degradation problem of deep neural networks. This work is based on…

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Transformer-based language models are trained on large datasets to predict the next token given an input sequence. Despite this simple training objective, they have led to revolutionary advances in natural language processing. Underlying…

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The performance of traditional compressive sensing-based MRI (CS-MRI) reconstruction is affected by its slow iterative procedure and noise-induced artefacts. Although many deep learning-based CS-MRI methods have been proposed to mitigate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Yifeng Guo , Chengjia Wang , Heye Zhang , Guang Yang

A convolutional encoder-decoder-based transformer model is proposed for autoregressively training on spatio-temporal data of turbulent flows. The prediction of future fluid flow fields is based on the previously predicted fluid flow field…

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Continual learning seeks to maintain stable adaptation under non-stationary environments, yet this problem becomes particularly challenging in object detection, where most existing methods implicitly assume relatively balanced visual…

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Learned image reconstruction techniques using deep neural networks have recently gained popularity, and have delivered promising empirical results. However, most approaches focus on one single recovery for each observation, and thus neglect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chen Zhang , Riccardo Barbano , Bangti Jin

Autoregressive Model (AR) has shown remarkable success in conditional image generation. However, these approaches for multiple reference generation struggle with decoupling different reference identities. In this work, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haiyue Sun , Qingdong He , Jinlong Peng , Peng Tang , Jiangning Zhang , Junwei Zhu , Xiaobin Hu , Shuicheng Yan

Contrastive learning has proven to be highly efficient and adaptable in shaping representation spaces across diverse modalities by pulling similar samples together and pushing dissimilar ones apart. However, two key limitations persist: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ziwen Wang , Jiajun Fan , Thao Nguyen , Heng Ji , Ge Liu

Deep image watermarking, which refers to enabling imperceptible watermark embedding and reliable extraction in cover images, has been shown to be effective for copyright protection of image assets. However, existing methods face limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ke Liu , Xuanhan Wang , Qilong Zhang , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song

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