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license: mit
datasets:
- imagenet-1k
language:
- en
- zh
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# Model Card for VAR (Visual AutoRegressive) Transformers 🔥

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[![arXiv](https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv%20papr-2404.02905-b31b1b.svg)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905)[![demo platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/Play%20with%20VAR%21-VAR%20demo%20platform-lightblue)](https://var.vision/demo)

VAR is a new visual generation framework that makes GPT-style models surpass diffusion models **for the first time**🚀, and exhibits clear power-law Scaling Laws📈 like large language models (LLMs).

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VAR redefines the autoregressive learning on images as coarse-to-fine "next-scale prediction" or "next-resolution prediction", diverging from the standard raster-scan "next-token prediction".

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<img src="https://github.com/FoundationVision/VAR/assets/39692511/3e12655c-37dc-4528-b923-ec6c4cfef178" width=93%>
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This repo is used for hosting VAR's checkpoints.

For more details or tutorials see https://github.com/FoundationVision/VAR.