FlashAR is a lightweight post‑training adaptation framework that converts a pre‑trained raster‑scan autoregressive image model into a highly parallel generator using two‑way next‑token prediction. It preserves the original training objective by keeping the horizontal head for row‑wise prediction and adding a lightweight vertical head for column‑wise prediction, with a learnable fusion gate to combine the two predictions. A two‑stage adaptation pipeline—first initializing the vertical head from the pre‑trained model and then jointly fine‑tuning—yields up to a 22.9× speedup for 512×512 image generation while using only 0.05% of the original training data.
By Junkang Zhou, Yefei He, Feng Chen, Weijie Wang, Bohan Zhuang
arXiv:2609.39222v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-compression tokenizers are essential for scaling latent image generative models. However, aggressive compression creates a fundamental tradeoff be...
By Xu Huang, Ye Huang, Zijun Liao, Yuwei Niu, Xiaojie Li, Menghan Zhou, De Wen Soh, Xiaotong Li, Daquan Zhou
arXiv:2608.30782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to preserve structures supported by the degraded observation while reconstructing perceptually realis...
By Bingtian Qiao, Yue Shi, Yong Guo, Wenjun Zhang, Jiezhang Cao
arXiv:2603.15132v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: While recent Flow Matching models avoid the reconstruction bottlenecks of latent autoencoders by operating directly in pixel space, the raw pixel m...
By Hainuo Wang, Mingjia Li, Xiaojie Guo
arXiv:2606. 16996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) provides a strong frozen backbone for concept-prompted segmentation, but applying it directly to open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) is inefficient: full-resolution decoding is typically run over the entire dataset vocabulary, whereas each image contains only a small active subset of classes.
By Tran Dinh Tien, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv:2607. 27372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages.
By Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du
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:2610.00600v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Representation alignment has become an effective way to accelerate diffusion training, but its benefits do not transfer reliably to pixel-space clean-i...
By Yuyao Zhang, Yuwei Hu, Ziyang Mai, Yu-Wing Tai
Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR). With tiled diffusion techniques, these models can produce high-resolution images that exceed their native-supported resolution.
arXiv:2609.24919v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in pixel-space diffusion models have narrowed the image quality gap with latent-space diffusion, but still converge more slowly and lag...
By Yongsheng Yu, Wei Xiong, Yichen Sheng, Shiqiu Liu, Jiebo Luo
arXiv:2609.36348v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Generative and representation learning remain asymmetrically connected: semantic representations are used to improve diffusion generation, whereas th...
By Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Wang, Chen Wei
arXiv:2606.16996v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) provides a strong frozen backbone for concept-prompted segmentation, but applying it directly to open-vocabu...
By Tran Dinh Tien, Zhiqiang Shen