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End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer
Wenda Chu, Bingliang Zhang, Jiaqi Han, Yizhuo Li, Linjie Yang, Yisong Yue, Qiushan Guo
Abstract
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 256×256 generation.
VisionRetrieval
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
chu2026endtoend,
title={End-to-End Autoregressive Image Generation with 1D Semantic Tokenizer},
author={Wenda Chu and Bingliang Zhang and Jiaqi Han and Yizhuo Li and Linjie Yang and Yisong Yue and Qiushan Guo},
booktitle={Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=fSnxuRhWoC}
}