arxiveess.IVcs.AI2026-07-10
Next-Dense-Stride Prediction for Multimodal Autoregressive Visual Modeling
Chicago Y. Park, Jialin Mao, Xiaojian Xu, Taha Kass-Hout, Ulugbek S. Kamilov, Cao Xiao
We introduce DenseAR, a new generative paradigm that reformulates autoregressive image generation as coarse-to-fine next-dense-stride prediction using a compact single-scale tokenizer. Our key insight is that traversing a single-scale latent grid with progressively denser strides…