arXiv:2607. 00371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual AutoRegressive modeling (VAR) has pioneered a coarse-to-fine multi-scale autoregressive generative paradigm, demonstrating strong capabilities in image generation.
By Nuoyan Zhou, Zhijun Tu, Lei Yu, Kun Cheng, Jie Hu, Nannan Wang, Xinghao Chen
VISTA is a gradient‑based test‑time alignment framework designed for next‑scale visual autoregressive (VAR) image generation. It optimizes intermediate representations within the frozen transformer to enforce compositional constraints, without altering model weights or requiring extra training. Experiments on two benchmarks and two model scales show that VISTA improves compositional accuracy by up to 20% on a 2B backbone and 6% on an 8B backbone, while preserving image quality and enabling a smaller model to outperform a larger one.
By Hossein Shahabadi, Niki Sepasian, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah
arXiv:2511.21415v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We introduce DiverseVAR, a framework that enhances the diversity of text-conditioned visual autoregressive models (VAR) at test time without requir...
By Mingue Park, Prin Phunyaphibarn, Phillip Y. Lee, Minhyuk Sung
Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have emerged as a fast, high-quality alternative to diffusion for text-to-image generation, but like diffusion models they exhibit persistent compositional failures,...
Unlike diffusion-based models that operate in continuous latent spaces, autoregressive unified multimodal models produce images by sequentially predicting discretized visual tokens. These tokens are derived from a codebook that maps embeddings to quantized visual patterns.
arXiv:2605.19750v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as an efficient paradigm for text-to-image generation, yet their personalization capabilit...
By Junhao Li, Xinhao Zhong, Yi sun, Yuxia Qiao, Bin Chen, Shu-Tao Xia, Yaowei Wang
arXiv:2506.02015v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled unified multimodal understanding and generation. However, they still strug...
By Yoonjin Oh, Yongjin Kim, Hyomin Kim, Donghwan Chi, Sungwoong Kim
Modern computer vision pipelines remain fragmented, with tasks such as text-to-image generation, editing, restoration, and classical perception handled by separate models. We study Unified Visual Generation (UVG), where a single model produces diverse image-valued outputs through a unified multimodal interface.
arXiv:2606. 27147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unlike diffusion-based models that operate in continuous latent spaces, autoregressive unified multimodal models produce images by sequentially predicting discretized visual tokens.
By Yunqi Xue, Zhijiang Li, Philip Torr, Jindong Gu
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:2607.14088v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video generation models typically rely on 3D-VAEs trained for pixel-level reconstruction, whose latent spaces may underrepresent semantic structure...
By Zhihao Xie, Junfeng Wu, Xinting Hu, Junchao Huang, Li Jiang
Intern Lumina U2 is a diffusion large language model that uses multi-codebook visual tokens in a fully discrete space, allowing each visual position to be represented by a group of complementary codes. The model concatenates embeddings at each position and employs a lightweight autoregressive head to predict codes sequentially while the diffusion backbone processes all positions in parallel. Built on the unified 4D representation of AToken, it supports image, video, and 3D inputs, achieves leading performance in visual understanding, image generation, and editing, and includes a cross‑platform training, inference, and evaluation system with a stability‑aware sampling strategy that speeds up image generation by 4.45×.
By Qian Yu, Zongyang Qiu, Juncheng Yan, Hongliang Li, Qi Qin, Keqi Wang, Siqi Luo, Junkui Ju, Yapeng Mi, Tiantian Lu, Tian Liu, Pengyu Xie, Chenhao Ji, Minghui Zhang, Yiang Zhao, Siyu Yan, Haiying Xu, Yanbo Wang, Jianghan Shen, Yuandong Pu, Jiayi Lei, Borui Zhang, Jinxin Shi, Bo Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Shenglong Ye, Lixin Gu, Hongjie Zhang, Linghan Liu, Xinyuan Chen, Yuewen Cao, Lihe Zhang, Xiaohong Liu, Junjun He, Qiangwei Liu, Qi Zhang, Yu Cheng, Tianfan Xue, Hui Xiong, Chang Xu, Yu Qiao, Yihao Liu, Bin Fu