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| author | Pang, Yatian Jin, Peng Yang, Shuo Lin, Bin Zhu, Bin Tang, Zhenyu Chen, Liuhan Tay, Francis E. H. Lim, Ser-Nam Yang, Harry Yuan, Li |
| author_facet | Pang, Yatian Jin, Peng Yang, Shuo Lin, Bin Zhu, Bin Tang, Zhenyu Chen, Liuhan Tay, Francis E. H. Lim, Ser-Nam Yang, Harry Yuan, Li |
| contents | Autoregressive models, built based on the Next Token Prediction (NTP) paradigm, show great potential in developing a unified framework that integrates both language and vision tasks. Pioneering works introduce NTP to autoregressive visual generation tasks. In this work, we rethink the NTP for autoregressive image generation and extend it to a novel Next Patch Prediction (NPP) paradigm. Our key idea is to group and aggregate image tokens into patch tokens with higher information density. By using patch tokens as a more compact input sequence, the autoregressive model is trained to predict the next patch, significantly reducing computational costs. To further exploit the natural hierarchical structure of image data, we propose a multi-scale coarse-to-fine patch grouping strategy. With this strategy, the training process begins with a large patch size and ends with vanilla NTP where the patch size is 1$\times$1, thus maintaining the original inference process without modifications. Extensive experiments across a diverse range of model sizes demonstrate that NPP could reduce the training cost to around 0.6 times while improving image generation quality by up to 1.0 FID score on the ImageNet 256x256 generation benchmark. Notably, our method retains the original autoregressive model architecture without introducing additional trainable parameters or specifically designing a custom image tokenizer, offering a flexible and plug-and-play solution for enhancing autoregressive visual generation. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Next Patch Prediction for Autoregressive Visual Generation Pang, Yatian Jin, Peng Yang, Shuo Lin, Bin Zhu, Bin Tang, Zhenyu Chen, Liuhan Tay, Francis E. H. Lim, Ser-Nam Yang, Harry Yuan, Li Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Autoregressive models, built based on the Next Token Prediction (NTP) paradigm, show great potential in developing a unified framework that integrates both language and vision tasks. Pioneering works introduce NTP to autoregressive visual generation tasks. In this work, we rethink the NTP for autoregressive image generation and extend it to a novel Next Patch Prediction (NPP) paradigm. Our key idea is to group and aggregate image tokens into patch tokens with higher information density. By using patch tokens as a more compact input sequence, the autoregressive model is trained to predict the next patch, significantly reducing computational costs. To further exploit the natural hierarchical structure of image data, we propose a multi-scale coarse-to-fine patch grouping strategy. With this strategy, the training process begins with a large patch size and ends with vanilla NTP where the patch size is 1$\times$1, thus maintaining the original inference process without modifications. Extensive experiments across a diverse range of model sizes demonstrate that NPP could reduce the training cost to around 0.6 times while improving image generation quality by up to 1.0 FID score on the ImageNet 256x256 generation benchmark. Notably, our method retains the original autoregressive model architecture without introducing additional trainable parameters or specifically designing a custom image tokenizer, offering a flexible and plug-and-play solution for enhancing autoregressive visual generation. |
| title | Next Patch Prediction for Autoregressive Visual Generation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15321 |