Summary of Zipar: Accelerating Auto-regressive Image Generation Through Spatial Locality, by Yefei He et al.
ZipAR: Accelerating Auto-regressive Image Generation through Spatial Locality
by Yefei He, Feng Chen, Yuanyu He, Shaoxuan He, Hong Zhou, Kaipeng Zhang, Bohan Zhuang
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A medium-difficulty summary of the abstract: The paper proposes ZipAR, a training-free parallel decoding framework for accelerating auto-regressive visual generation. It observes that images exhibit local structures and spatially distant regions tend to be minimally interdependent. This insight enables “next-set prediction” by decoding multiple tokens simultaneously in a single forward pass, reducing the number of passes required to generate an image and improving efficiency. The Emu3-Gen model demonstrates a 91% reduction in forward passes without retraining. ZipAR utilizes parallel decoding to accelerate auto-regressive visual generation, achieving significant improvements in generation efficiency. The proposed framework is training-free, plug-and-play, and can be used with existing models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary For curious high school students or non-technical adults: This paper talks about making computers generate images faster. They found that because images have local structures, they can process many parts of the image at the same time instead of one by one. This makes it much quicker to make an image. The new method is called ZipAR and it works with existing technology without needing any special training. |
