DiverseAR: Boosting Diversity in Bitwise Autoregressive Image Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02931v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:54:36 GMT
• Title: DiverseAR: Boosting Diversity in Bitwise Autoregressive Image Generation
• Authors: Ying Yang, Zhengyao Lv, Tianlin Pan, Haofan Wang, Binxin Yang, Hubery Yin, Chen Li, Chenyang Si,
• Abstract summary: We introduce DiverseAR, a principled and effective method that enhances image diversity without sacrificing visual quality.<n>Specifically, we introduce an adaptive logits distribution scaling mechanism that dynamically adjusts the sharpness of the binary output distribution during sampling.<n>To mitigate potential fidelity loss caused by distribution smoothing, we develop an energy-based generation path search algorithm that avoids sampling low-confidence tokens.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the underexplored challenge of sample diversity in autoregressive (AR) generative models with bitwise visual tokenizers. We first analyze the factors that limit diversity in bitwise AR models and identify two key issues: (1) the binary classification nature of bitwise modeling, which restricts the prediction space, and (2) the overly sharp logits distribution, which causes sampling collapse and reduces diversity. Building on these insights, we propose DiverseAR, a principled and effective method that enhances image diversity without sacrificing visual quality. Specifically, we introduce an adaptive logits distribution scaling mechanism that dynamically adjusts the sharpness of the binary output distribution during sampling, resulting in smoother predictions and greater diversity. To mitigate potential fidelity loss caused by distribution smoothing, we further develop an energy-based generation path search algorithm that avoids sampling low-confidence tokens, thereby preserving high visual quality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DiverseAR substantially improves sample diversity in bitwise autoregressive image generation.

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