CART: Compositional Auto-Regressive Transformer for Image Generation

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Hauptverfasser: Roheda, Siddharth, Chowdhury, Rohit, Bala, Aniruddha, Jaiswal, Rohan
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author Roheda, Siddharth
Chowdhury, Rohit
Bala, Aniruddha
Jaiswal, Rohan
author_facet Roheda, Siddharth
Chowdhury, Rohit
Bala, Aniruddha
Jaiswal, Rohan
contents We propose a novel Auto-Regressive (AR) image generation approach that models images as hierarchical compositions of interpretable visual layers. While AR models have achieved transformative success in language modeling, replicating this success in vision tasks remains challenging due to inherent spatial dependencies in images. Addressing the unique challenges of vision tasks, our method (CART) adds image details iteratively via semantically meaningful decompositions. We demonstrate the flexibility and generality of CART by applying it across three distinct decomposition strategies: (i) Base-Detail Decomposition (Mumford-Shah smoothness), (ii) Intrinsic Decomposition (albedo/shading), and (iii) Specularity Decomposition (diffuse/specular). This next-detail strategy outperforms traditional next-token and next-scale approaches, improving controllability, semantic interpretability, and resolution scalability. Experiments show CART generates visually compelling results while enabling structured image manipulation, opening new directions for controllable generative modeling via physically or perceptually motivated image factorization.
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spellingShingle CART: Compositional Auto-Regressive Transformer for Image Generation
Roheda, Siddharth
Chowdhury, Rohit
Bala, Aniruddha
Jaiswal, Rohan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We propose a novel Auto-Regressive (AR) image generation approach that models images as hierarchical compositions of interpretable visual layers. While AR models have achieved transformative success in language modeling, replicating this success in vision tasks remains challenging due to inherent spatial dependencies in images. Addressing the unique challenges of vision tasks, our method (CART) adds image details iteratively via semantically meaningful decompositions. We demonstrate the flexibility and generality of CART by applying it across three distinct decomposition strategies: (i) Base-Detail Decomposition (Mumford-Shah smoothness), (ii) Intrinsic Decomposition (albedo/shading), and (iii) Specularity Decomposition (diffuse/specular). This next-detail strategy outperforms traditional next-token and next-scale approaches, improving controllability, semantic interpretability, and resolution scalability. Experiments show CART generates visually compelling results while enabling structured image manipulation, opening new directions for controllable generative modeling via physically or perceptually motivated image factorization.
title CART: Compositional Auto-Regressive Transformer for Image Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10180