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most citedAutoregressive Image Generation without Vector Quantization

4 citations · 6 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Signal or Noise? Understanding Generative Models for Real-World Sensor Time Series

Zitao Shuai, Zongzhe Xu, Yuntian Wu +3

Generative models have changed how machine learning represents complex data distributions, especially in language and vision, yet many real-world systems are observed instead as co…

cs.CL2026

ELF: Embedded Language Flows

Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu, Yiyang Lu +5

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the de facto approaches for generating continuous data, e.g., in domains such as images and videos. Their success has attracted growing…

cs.CV2026

Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Xiaoke Huang +12

Unified multimodal models typically rely on pretrained vision encoders and use separate visual representations for understanding and generation, creating misalignment between the t…

cs.CV2026

Unifying Contrastive and Generative Objectives for Visual Understanding and Text-to-Image Generation

Chao Li, Tianhong Li, Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati +9

Unifying text-image contrastive learning and text-to-image (T2I) generation in a single end-to-end model is challenging because the two objectives demand opposing masking regimes:…

cs.LG2026

Generative Modeling via Drifting

Mingyang Deng, He Li, Tianhong Li +2

Generative modeling can be formulated as learning a mapping f such that its pushforward distribution matches the data distribution. The pushforward behavior can be carried out iter…

cs.CV2026★ 1 cited

One-step Latent-free Image Generation with Pixel Mean Flows

Yiyang Lu, Susie Lu, Qiao Sun +6

Modern diffusion/flow-based models for image generation typically exhibit two core characteristics: (i) using multi-step sampling, and (ii) operating in a latent space. Recent adva…

cs.CV2025

Latent Denoising Makes Good Tokenizers

Jiawei Yang, Tianhong Li, Lijie Fan +2

Despite their fundamental role, it remains unclear what properties could make tokenizers more effective for generative modeling. We observe that modern generative models share a co…

cs.CV2025

Unified Autoregressive Visual Generation and Understanding with Continuous Tokens

Lijie Fan, Luming Tang, Siyang Qin +11

We present UniFluid, a unified autoregressive framework for joint visual generation and understanding leveraging continuous visual tokens. Our unified autoregressive architecture p…

cs.LG2025

Fractal Generative Models

Tianhong Li, Qinyi Sun, Lijie Fan +1

Modularization is a cornerstone of computer science, abstracting complex functions into atomic building blocks. In this paper, we introduce a new level of modularization by abstrac…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Fluid: Scaling Autoregressive Text-to-image Generative Models with Continuous Tokens

Lijie Fan, Tianhong Li, Siyang Qin +6

Scaling up autoregressive models in vision has not proven as beneficial as in large language models. In this work, we investigate this scaling problem in the context of text-to-ima…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Autoregressive Image Generation without Vector Quantization

Tianhong Li, Yonglong Tian, He Li +2

Conventional wisdom holds that autoregressive models for image generation are typically accompanied by vector-quantized tokens. We observe that while a discrete-valued space can fa…