Lumina-mGPT 2.0: Stand-Alone AutoRegressive Image Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17801v1
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:42:13 GMT
• Title: Lumina-mGPT 2.0: Stand-Alone AutoRegressive Image Modeling
• Authors: Yi Xin, Juncheng Yan, Qi Qin, Zhen Li, Dongyang Liu, Shicheng Li, Victor Shea-Jay Huang, Yupeng Zhou, Renrui Zhang, Le Zhuo, Tiancheng Han, Xiaoqing Sun, Siqi Luo, Mengmeng Wang, Bin Fu, Yuewen Cao, Hongsheng Li, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaohong Liu, Yu Qiao, Peng Gao,
• Abstract summary: Lumina-mGPT 2.0 is a stand-alone, decoder-only autoregressive model.<n>It is trained entirely from scratch, enabling unrestricted architectural design and licensing freedom.<n>It achieves generation quality on par with state-of-the-art diffusion models.
• Score: 80.30976039119236
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present Lumina-mGPT 2.0, a stand-alone, decoder-only autoregressive model that revisits and revitalizes the autoregressive paradigm for high-quality image generation and beyond. Unlike existing approaches that rely on pretrained components or hybrid architectures, Lumina-mGPT 2.0 is trained entirely from scratch, enabling unrestricted architectural design and licensing freedom. It achieves generation quality on par with state-of-the-art diffusion models such as DALL-E 3 and SANA, while preserving the inherent flexibility and compositionality of autoregressive modeling. Our unified tokenization scheme allows the model to seamlessly handle a wide spectrum of tasks-including subject-driven generation, image editing, controllable synthesis, and dense prediction-within a single generative framework. To further boost usability, we incorporate efficient decoding strategies like inference-time scaling and speculative Jacobi sampling to improve quality and speed, respectively. Extensive evaluations on standard text-to-image benchmarks (e.g., GenEval, DPG) demonstrate that Lumina-mGPT 2.0 not only matches but in some cases surpasses diffusion-based models. Moreover, we confirm its multi-task capabilities on the Graph200K benchmark, with the native Lumina-mGPT 2.0 performing exceptionally well. These results position Lumina-mGPT 2.0 as a strong, flexible foundation model for unified multimodal generation. We have released our training details, code, and models at https://github.com/Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-mGPT-2.0.

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