2026
NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous Tokens at Scale
ICLR 2026oral
Prevailing autoregressive (AR) models for text-to-image generation either rely on heavy, computationally-intensive diffusion models to process continuous image tokens, or employ vector quantization (VQ) to obtain discrete tokens with quantization loss. In this paper, we push the autoregressive parad…