Locality-aware Parallel Decoding for Efficient Autoregressive Image Generation

ICLROral2026

Authors
Zhuoyang Zhang, Luke J. Huang, Chengyue Wu, Shang Yang, Kelly Peng, Yao Lu, Song Han
Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

We present Locality-aware Parallel Decoding (LPD) to accelerate autoregressive image generation. Traditional autoregressive image generation relies on next-patch prediction, a memory-bound process that leads to high latency.

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Topics

image generation efficient memory

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