Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction

Predict the next resolution, not the next token — autoregression that beats diffusion on ImageNet.

Tian et al. · NeurIPS 2024 · Model Architectures. Read the paper ↗

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What is Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction?

Predict the next resolution, not the next token — autoregression that beats diffusion on ImageNet.

Who published Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction, and where?

Tian et al. — NeurIPS 2024 (arXiv:2404.02905).

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