End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer

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Autori principali: Chu, Wenda, Zhang, Bingliang, Han, Jiaqi, Li, Yizhuo, Yang, Linjie, Yue, Yisong, Guo, Qiushan
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author Chu, Wenda
Zhang, Bingliang
Han, Jiaqi
Li, Yizhuo
Yang, Linjie
Yue, Yisong
Guo, Qiushan
author_facet Chu, Wenda
Zhang, Bingliang
Han, Jiaqi
Li, Yizhuo
Yang, Linjie
Yue, Yisong
Guo, Qiushan
contents Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes reconstruction and generation, enabling direct supervision from generation results to the tokenizer. This contrasts with prior two-stage approaches that train tokenizers and generative models separately. We further investigate leveraging vision foundation models to improve 1D tokenizers for autoregressive modeling. Our autoregressive generative model achieves strong empirical results, including a state-of-the-art FID score of 1.48 without guidance on ImageNet 256x256 generation.
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spellingShingle End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer
Chu, Wenda
Zhang, Bingliang
Han, Jiaqi
Li, Yizhuo
Yang, Linjie
Yue, Yisong
Guo, Qiushan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes reconstruction and generation, enabling direct supervision from generation results to the tokenizer. This contrasts with prior two-stage approaches that train tokenizers and generative models separately. We further investigate leveraging vision foundation models to improve 1D tokenizers for autoregressive modeling. Our autoregressive generative model achieves strong empirical results, including a state-of-the-art FID score of 1.48 without guidance on ImageNet 256x256 generation.
title End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00503