One-dimensional (1D) variable-length visual tokenizers enable adaptive compression by varying the number of tokens, allowing downstream autoregressive (AR) models to flexibly trade off generation qual...
arXiv:2606. 05552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite progress in image tokenization, standard methods encode redundant information by mixing all granularities within each token, thus redundancy persists between tokens.
Built on pretrained vision foundation models (VFMs), representation autoencoders (RAEs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for constructing semantically rich latent spaces for image generation. However, their reconstruction quality often remains suboptimal, largely because deep VFM representations do not preserve sufficient fine-grained visual detail.
In video understanding, vision-language models (VLMs) must ingest massive numbers of visual tokens, causing the computational and memory cost of the prefill stage to rise sharply. Such visual sequences are highly redundant along the spatio-temporal dimension, yet a high compression ratio is often accompanied by the loss of critical details.
arXiv:2609.24485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual token pruning is a promising approach to reducing the inference cost of large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet aggressive token reduction oft...
arXiv:2609.35232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual-token compression is effective for improving the efficiency of vision-language models, but under extreme compression budgets, token pr...
arXiv:2610.00686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video-based world models pair the scalability of autoregressive (AR) prediction with the visual quality of diffusion models. The choice of scene...
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.
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.
arXiv:2609.37775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained visual representations support image generation, but may not fully preserve the fine-grained details needed for faithful reconstruction. M...
arXiv:2608.24293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent diffusion models have emerged as a dominant framework for high-fidelity image and video synthesis, operating in compact latent spaces with varia...
The paper introduces MTAR, a training framework for autoregressive image generation that enhances performance through multi-token prediction, token-level contrastive regularization, and semantic dropping. These components address sparse supervision, improve representation discriminability, and accelerate training without affecting inference. On ImageNet, MTAR outperforms LlamaGen with lower FID and faster training, achieving comparable results in only a third of the iterations.