arXiv Computer Vision

DiverseVAR: Balancing Diversity and Quality of Next-Scale Visual Autoregressive Models

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

VISTA: Test-Time Compositional Alignment for Visual Autoregressive Generation

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 Computer Vision
Oct 12

InstantFusion: A Shared Latent Interface for Heterogeneous Image Generators

InstantFusion introduces a lightweight shared latent interface that enables cross-model state translation between heterogeneous image generators. By training model-specific Latent AutoEncoders to project intermediate denoising states into a common latent space, the method aligns states from the same image at matched noise levels and synchronizes their local denoising velocities. This allows seamless denoising transitions across frozen generators, supporting applications such as acceleration, multi-preference composition, on-policy distillation, and cross-model composition.

By Xuanlang Dai, Jiazi Bu, Yujie Zhou, Yuhong Liu, Beichen Zhang, Penghui Yang, Ziyu Liu, Yuhang Zang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Diversifying Long Prompt Image Generation through Structured Prompt Embedding Space Sampling

The paper investigates how long, richly detailed prompts cause modern text-to-image models to lose diversity, even when many visual aspects are unspecified. It introduces PromptMoG, a training‑free method that samples prompt embeddings from a Mixture‑of‑Gaussians distribution to restore diversity while preserving semantic fidelity. The authors also present LPD‑Bench, a benchmark for evaluating fidelity and diversity under long, semantically dense prompts, and demonstrate PromptMoG’s effectiveness on four large diffusion models.

By Bo-Kai Ruan, Teng-Fang Hsiao, Ling Lo, Yi-Lun Wu, Hong-Han Shuai
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Repurposing Pre-trained LLMs as High Fidelity Continuous Text Autoencoders

The paper introduces LLMAE, a technique that transforms a pretrained decoder-only language model into a continuous text autoencoder by inserting a fixed-length latent bottleneck into its internal activations. Using a 270M Gemma 3 model with structured attention masks, LoRA adaptation, and KL regularization, LLMAE achieves near-perfect reconstruction of text sequences up to 1024 tokens. The authors further show that the resulting latent representation can be leveraged to train a latent text diffusion model for detailed image captioning, demonstrating downstream utility.

By Arkanath Pathak, Unnat Jain, Alexander C. Berg