arXiv Machine Learning

Shift-and-Sum Quantization for Visual Autoregressive Models

arXiv:2606. 16131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) enables efficient deployment of deep networks using a small set of data.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Channel-wise Vector Quantization

arXiv:2605. 26089v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Channel-wise Vector Quantization (CVQ), a novel image tokenization paradigm that replaces patch-wise tokens with channel-wise tokens.

By Wei Song, Tianhang Wang, Yitong Chen, Tong Zhang, Zuxuan Wu, Min Li, Jiaqi Wang, Kaicheng Yu
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

VQ-Transplant: Efficient VQ-Module Integration for Pre-trained Visual Tokenizers

VQ-Transplant is a framework that allows new vector‑quantization (VQ) modules to be inserted into frozen, pre‑trained visual tokenizers without retraining the entire model. By preserving all encoder‑decoder parameters and adding a lightweight decoder adaptation trained for only five epochs on ImageNet‑1k, the method mitigates decoder‑quantization mismatch. Experiments show that VQ-Transplant achieves near state‑of‑the‑art reconstruction fidelity for industry‑level models such as VAR while cutting training costs by 95%.

By Xianghong Fang, Yuan Yuan, Dehan Kong, Tim G. J. Rudner
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

UVU: Improving Multimodal Understanding via Vision-Language Unified Autoregressive Paradigm

UVU is a vision-language unified autoregressive framework that integrates visual supervision directly into the pre-training stage of multimodal large language models. By using continuous visual encoding and a large-scale iterative hierarchical clustering algorithm to build a pixel-level visual codebook, UVU enables lossless representation of visual inputs and autoregressive generation of pixel-level image tokens alongside textual tokens. This approach synergizes pixel-level visual perception with semantic-level visual understanding, allowing models to internalize visual reconstruction capabilities and improve multimodal understanding performance.

By Zhehan Kan, Xinghua Jiang, Yubo Zhu, Yanlin Liu, Xiaochen Yang, Zhixiang Wei, Shifeng Liu, Qingmin Liao, Wenming Yang, Xin Li, Yinsong Liu, Deqiang Jiang, Xing Sun
arXiv AI
Aug 28

PACE: A Unified Condense-and-Extract Paradigm for Fast VLM Inference

PACE introduces a training‑free Condense‑and‑Extract framework that speeds up Vision‑Language Model inference by first adaptively downsampling visual inputs before encoding and then selectively retaining essential tokens during decoding. The Adaptive Pixel Compressor (APC) reduces encoder workload while preserving global context, and the Dynamic Dual‑Attention Extractor (DDAE) keeps task‑critical details by fusing visual and language signals. Applied to Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, PACE maintains 93.8% of performance using only 10% of visual tokens, achieving a 3.1× speedup in time to first token.

By Junjie Liu, Shengyuan Ye, Xu Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Rethinking Visual Autoregressive Sampling with Information-Grounding Guidance

arXiv:2509. 23876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) models based on next-scale prediction have emerged as a powerful tool for image generation, but they face a critical weakness: information inconsistencies between patches across timesteps introduced by progressive resolution scaling.

By Ky Dan Nguyen, Hoang Lam Tran, Anh-Dung Dinh, Daochang Liu, Weidong Cai, Xiuying Wang, Chang Xu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Understanding and Exploiting Diagonal Attention Sparsity in Autoregressive Image Generation

The paper investigates how attention sparsity behaves in autoregressive image generation, finding a distinct diagonal sparsity pattern due to spatial locality of visual tokens. It introduces a diagonal‑aware sparse attention mechanism that skips KV entries along the diagonal within a recent window, achieving up to 3.1× higher throughput and 1.19× lower latency with less than 2% quality loss compared to dense inference.

By Daeun Kim, Junwha Hong, Changhun Oh, Yoonsung Kim, Yoonhyeong Lee, Jongse Park
arXiv AI
4d ago

LeapQuant: Efficient Linear Attention with Accurate Recurrent State Quantization

arXiv:2609.38166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent LLMs increasingly adopt hybrid designs that replace standard attention with linear attention, such as Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and Kimi Delta Atte...

By Yi Pan, Haocheng Xi, Kan Zhu, Xingyang Li, Yibo Wu, Mayank Mishra, Hongtao Zhang, William X. Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Song Han, Kurt Keutzer, Rishabh Iyer, Ion Stoica