FoundationVision/VAR

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Official PyTorch implementation of Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR), a NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper-winning method for scalable image generation via next-scale prediction. It demonstrates GPT-style autoregressive models beating diffusion models on ImageNet generation with observed scaling laws.

Use cases

• generate images with autoregressive transformers
• train a GPT-style image generation model
• reproduce NeurIPS 2024 best paper results
• study scaling laws in visual generation
• compare autoregressive vs diffusion image generation
• fine-tune pretrained VAR checkpoints on custom datasets

When to choose

• you want state-of-the-art autoregressive image generation
• you're researching scaling laws for visual generation
• you need a simple, well-documented generative model codebase
• you want an alternative to diffusion models

When to avoid

• you need production text-to-image with complex prompt following out of the box
• you lack GPU resources for large transformer training or inference
• you need video or audio generation (see the authors' InfinityStar instead)

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machine-learning deep-learning image-processing transformers deep-learning computer-vision image-processing artificial-intelligence large-language-models python cross-platform autoregressive-model image-generation generative-models next-scale-prediction vision-transformer text-to-image scaling-laws neurips-2024 gpt-style research-code gpu linux

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