SpectralAR: Spectral Autoregressive Visual Generation

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Autori principali: Huang, Yuanhui, Chen, Weiliang, Zheng, Wenzhao, Duan, Yueqi, Zhou, Jie, Lu, Jiwen
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Huang, Yuanhui
Chen, Weiliang
Zheng, Wenzhao
Duan, Yueqi
Zhou, Jie
Lu, Jiwen
author_facet Huang, Yuanhui
Chen, Weiliang
Zheng, Wenzhao
Duan, Yueqi
Zhou, Jie
Lu, Jiwen
contents Autoregressive visual generation has garnered increasing attention due to its scalability and compatibility with other modalities compared with diffusion models. Most existing methods construct visual sequences as spatial patches for autoregressive generation. However, image patches are inherently parallel, contradicting the causal nature of autoregressive modeling. To address this, we propose a Spectral AutoRegressive (SpectralAR) visual generation framework, which realizes causality for visual sequences from the spectral perspective. Specifically, we first transform an image into ordered spectral tokens with Nested Spectral Tokenization, representing lower to higher frequency components. We then perform autoregressive generation in a coarse-to-fine manner with the sequences of spectral tokens. By considering different levels of detail in images, our SpectralAR achieves both sequence causality and token efficiency without bells and whistles. We conduct extensive experiments on ImageNet-1K for image reconstruction and autoregressive generation, and SpectralAR achieves 3.02 gFID with only 64 tokens and 310M parameters. Project page: https://huang-yh.github.io/spectralar/.
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spellingShingle SpectralAR: Spectral Autoregressive Visual Generation
Huang, Yuanhui
Chen, Weiliang
Zheng, Wenzhao
Duan, Yueqi
Zhou, Jie
Lu, Jiwen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Autoregressive visual generation has garnered increasing attention due to its scalability and compatibility with other modalities compared with diffusion models. Most existing methods construct visual sequences as spatial patches for autoregressive generation. However, image patches are inherently parallel, contradicting the causal nature of autoregressive modeling. To address this, we propose a Spectral AutoRegressive (SpectralAR) visual generation framework, which realizes causality for visual sequences from the spectral perspective. Specifically, we first transform an image into ordered spectral tokens with Nested Spectral Tokenization, representing lower to higher frequency components. We then perform autoregressive generation in a coarse-to-fine manner with the sequences of spectral tokens. By considering different levels of detail in images, our SpectralAR achieves both sequence causality and token efficiency without bells and whistles. We conduct extensive experiments on ImageNet-1K for image reconstruction and autoregressive generation, and SpectralAR achieves 3.02 gFID with only 64 tokens and 310M parameters. Project page: https://huang-yh.github.io/spectralar/.
title SpectralAR: Spectral Autoregressive Visual Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10962