arXiv Computer Vision October 28, 2026 By Ruihang Jiang, Zongyao Zhao, Zhaolin Wang, Yuanwei Liu, Xiatian Zhu

Visual Autoregressive Generation with Next Token Imagination

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The paper introduces Next Token Imagination (NTI), a technique for visual autoregressive generation that allows a model to predict beyond the ground-truth next token while staying within a defined visual distribution. By enabling the model to explore plausible but unseen visual realizations, NTI addresses the limitation of training only on observed data. Experiments on ImageNet demonstrate that NTI consistently improves image fidelity, approaching the performance of state‑of‑the‑art diffusion and autoregressive models with a smaller model and lower training cost.

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