arxivcs.CV2026-06-30
GEAR: Guided End-to-End AutoRegression for Image Synthesis
Bin Lin, Zheyuan Liu, Chenguo Lin, Sixiang Chen, Yunyang Ge, Yunlong Lin, et al.
Visual generative models are typically trained in two stages. A tokenizer is first trained for reconstruction and then frozen, after which a generator is trained on its discrete indices or continuous latents. This decoupling leaves the tokenizer unaware of what the generator find…