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An Empirical Study of Autoregressive Pre-training from Videos

T0 review · 4 major / 7 minor · reviewed 2026-08-10 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read Autoregressive next-token prediction over a trillion visual tokens yields visual representations competitive with self-supervised baselines across image, video, tracking, and robot tasks.

desk verdict A large, honest empirical study of autoregressive video pre-training with real scaling data, but the headline comparison is not controlled and the tokenizer table is misleading; still worth referee time. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.05453 v1 pith:AXLK4TV7 submitted 2025-01-09 cs.CV cs.AI

classification cs.CVcs.AI
keywords autoregressivepre-trainingvideorepresentationlearningnext-tokenpredictionvisualtokensself-supervisedscalinglawsactionrecognitionrobotmanipulation
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The reading

This paper attempts to establish that the language-model recipe—autoregressive next-token prediction over a long sequence of discrete tokens—transfers to vision when the tokens come from videos and images. The authors build a family of causal transformers, called Toto, train them on over one trillion visual tokens from ImageNet, Kinetics-600, Ego4D, and HowTo100M, and show the resulting features transfer to image classification, video action recognition, action forecasting, tracking, object-permanence reasoning, and robot manipulation with little or no task-specific design. If these results hold, video becomes a large, unlabeled data source that can be mined with the same scaling recipe that drove language models, rather than requiring handcrafted inductive biases or labels. The paper also claims a compute-scaling law for visual next-token prediction, $L(C)=7.32 \cdot C^{-0.0378}$, which increases with compute but at a slower rate than the GPT-3 language-model exponent.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the Toto model family: a causal transformer with LLaMA-style blocks—RMSNorm, SwiGLU activations, and RoPE positional embeddings—trained on sequences of 4096 discrete visual tokens produced by a fixed dVAE tokenizer with an 8K vocabulary. Videos (16 frames) and images (16 random images) are flattened into the same token sequence by raster-scanning each frame, with start and end tokens marking modality, and the training loss is the negative log-likelihood of each next token. This setup unifies image and video data, removes labels and almost all inductive bias, and makes the model a drop-in autoregressive learner. For evaluation, the paper uses attention pooling—a learned query token cross-attending to intermediate tokens—rather than average pooling, because causal attention gives later tokens more context; probing peaks at about half the model depth across tasks and model sizes.

What would settle it

Retrain the Toto-1b recipe on the same one-trillion-token mixture but shuffle the token order within each video, or replace causal next-token prediction with a bidirectional predictive objective, keeping compute fixed; if ImageNet and Kinetics-400 probe accuracies stay within one or two points, the temporal autoregressive order is not the source of the representations. Alternatively, train 3B- and 5B-parameter Toto models with the same mixture and check whether validation loss follows $L(C)=7.32 \cdot C^{-0.0378}$; a clear bend at larger compute would falsify the claimed scaling exponent.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central discovery is that a causal transformer trained solely to predict the next visual token, in raster-scan order over independently dVAE-tokenized frames, learns general visual representations. On ImageNet, attention-probing the middle layer of the 1.1B-parameter model reaches 75.3% top-1, the best reported for autoregressive generative pretraining at comparable size and above iGPT-XL's 72.0% despite using one-sixth of the parameters; on Kinetics-400 it reaches 74.4%, on DAVIS semi-supervised tracking the J&F score reaches 62.4% at 512 resolution, and on CATER object localization it beats task-specific baselines at both 16 and 32 temporal resolutions. The same frozen features make robot manipulation policies learn faster in simulation than MAE-pretrained baselines and reach 63% success on a real Franka cube-picking task. The authors interpret these results as evidence that minimal-inductive-bias next-token prediction is a competitive paradigm for visual representation learning, and that in decoder-only vision models the middle layers act as an implicit encoder while the later layers reconstruct token space.

Load-bearing premise

The central claim assumes the fixed dVAE tokenizer is a fair, label-free front end whose information loss does not determine the downstream gap; if the tokenizer—rather than the next-token objective—is what sets representation quality, the comparisons against masked and contrastive baselines would not isolate autoregressive pretraining.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Autoregressive pre-training over visual tokens is a viable label-free alternative to masked autoencoding and contrastive methods; at 1.1B parameters it outperforms much larger iGPT and comes within range of MAE and DINO on image benchmarks.
  • The unified image-and-video token-sequence format means one pretrained backbone can serve both image and video benchmarks, including egocentric forecasting, without separate video-specific pretraining.
  • Video-derived features are useful beyond recognition: frozen Toto representations support label propagation for tracking and accelerate reinforcement-learning policies, so generative video pretraining can feed control stacks.
  • Scaling behavior, while slower than language modeling, is monotone and predictable, so the practical bottleneck for these models is compute and tokenizer quality rather than the next-token objective itself.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The paper leaves implicit that its own limitation section—representation quality is bounded by the tokenizer—cuts against the strong reading that the next-token objective alone is responsible; a clean test is to repeat the same suite with an end-to-end learned tokenizer and see whether the gap to discriminative baselines closes.
  • The consistent middle-layer peak hints that decoder-only visual transformers organize themselves into an encoder-like first half and a reconstruction-oriented second half; practitioners could exploit this by attaching task heads at half depth, and a testable hypothesis is that this split sharpens with scale.
  • Because video frames are redundant, and the appendix's loss-per-token curve shows the first frame carries the bulk of the loss, removing redundancy through frame subsampling, adaptive token rates, or temporal compression might yield a steeper scaling exponent than the reported $L(C)=7.32 C^{-0.0378}$; that is an untested extension of the paper's own observation.
  • The robot results, obtained with a small frozen backbone, suggest physical priors emerge from generative video pretraining; if true, larger autoregressive video models should improve manipulation without any robot-specific data.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 7 minor

Summary. The paper presents Toto, a family of decoder-only transformers pre-trained autoregressively on discrete visual tokens from images and videos, with roughly one trillion tokens of mixed ImageNet/Kinetics/Ego4D/HowTo100M data. The authors study design choices (tokenizer, resolution, pooling, architecture) and evaluate the learned representations on image classification, video action recognition, action forecasting, DAVIS tracking, CATER object permanence, and robotic manipulation. They report that, despite minimal inductive biases, the models achieve competitive accuracy across tasks, and they fit a power-law relationship between validation loss and compute, claiming a slower scaling rate than GPT-3-style language modeling.

Significance. If the claims were fully supported, this would be a useful empirical data point for the field: it would show that large-scale autoregressive next-token prediction on video can yield transferable visual representations across a broad task suite, and it would characterize how such models scale. The paper is unusually broad in its evaluation and includes honest limitations (Section 5) and several controlled comparisons in the appendix, notably the linear-probe comparison with iGPT in A.4 and the same-protocol K400 comparison in A.7. These are genuine strengths. However, the central 'competitive across all benchmarks' claim is weakened by evaluation-protocol mismatches and by the informal scaling-law analysis, so the paper requires substantial additional experimentation or careful reframing before it can be accepted.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 4.2 / Table 7 / Appendix A.4] The ImageNet comparison is not controlled. The Toto numbers in Table 7 are obtained with attention pooling plus self-supervised next-token fine-tuning on ImageNet at 32x32 token resolution with retuned RoPE, while the cited baselines (MAE, DINOv2, iGPT) are mostly frozen-feature linear probes or their original supervised protocols. The paper's own controlled linear-probe experiment in Table 14 gives Toto-1b only 66.2%, which is 1.0 point above iGPT-L and far below the MAE/DINOv2 numbers quoted in Table 7. To support the claim that autoregressive video pre-training yields competitive ImageNet representations, the authors should either evaluate the baselines under the same fine-tuning/attention-pooling protocol or restrict the claim to the controlled comparison.
  2. [Section 4.5 / Table 10] The DAVIS tracking comparison confounds model quality with input resolution. Toto-large at 512/8 achieves 62.4 J&F, but the DINO and MAE baselines are shown only at 224 resolution. At a more comparable setting, Toto-large at 256/8 is 44.8, which is below DINO-base at 224/8 (54.3). The statement that 'at large resolution (512), it outperforms all methods' is therefore an artifact of the resolution difference rather than a demonstrated advantage of the learned representation. A same-resolution baseline should be added, or the claim should be qualified accordingly.
  3. [Section 4.9 / Figure 9 / Table 15] The scaling-law exponent is not sufficiently supported. The power law L(C) = 7.32 * C^-0.0378 is fit to six models trained on a single fixed data mixture with one learning rate, and no confidence intervals, fit residuals, or sensitivity analysis are reported. The comparison to the GPT-3 exponent is also informal because the two losses are on different tokenizers and data distributions. Please report the fitting procedure, the number of points, uncertainty estimates, and a check of whether the exponent is stable across data mixtures or learning rates; otherwise the result should be described as a qualitative trend, not a quantitative scaling law.
  4. [Section 4.6 / Table 11] The robotics result is presented as 'on-par' and 'comparable', but Table 11 reports 63% success for Toto-base versus 75% for MVP. With 16 trials, the difference is within binomial noise, but the wording overstates the evidence. The authors should either report confidence intervals or phrase this as 'within the resolution of this small trial count', and they should avoid using the word 'on-par' without statistical support.
minor comments (7)
  1. [Section 3] The phrase 'casual transformer' should be 'causal transformer'.
  2. [Section 2] 'Mamaba Gu & Dao (2023)' should be 'Mamba (Gu & Dao, 2023)'.
  3. [Section 4.7] The text says Toto-large achieves '62.8% and 70.9%' for 16 and 32 frames, but Table 12 reports 72.9% for 32 frames. The table and text should be reconciled.
  4. [Section 4.7] The unrendered reference 'Table??shows' should be replaced with the actual table number.
  5. [Section 3.4] 'per-trained' should be 'pre-trained'.
  6. [Section 4.1 / Table 3] It would be helpful to state explicitly which layer is used for the linear-probing comparison in Table 3, since the text says 'optimal intermediate layer' but does not give the layer number for each tokenizer.
  7. [Section 4.9 / Figure 9] The caption of Figure 9 says 'with optimal learning rates', but the text and Figure 11 state that a single optimal learning rate of 2^-7 is used for all widths. Please clarify whether the learning rate was per-model or shared.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the pretraining-to-evaluation chain is externally benchmarked, and the scaling curve is a fitted empirical summary rather than a derivation from its own inputs.

full rationale

The paper's claimed derivation is an empirical pipeline: minimize the next-token negative log-likelihood in Eq. (2) on tokenized image/video data, then transfer the learned representations to external benchmarks (ImageNet, Kinetics-400, Ego4D, DAVIS, CATER, robot manipulation). None of Tables 7-12 feeds a downstream result back into the pretraining objective, so there is no self-definitional or fitted-input-called-prediction step. The dVAE tokenizer is an upstream fixed preprocessing choice, but the paper does not define its target metric in terms of the tokenizer and explicitly lists the tokenizer bound as a limitation (Section 5); this is an external dependency, not circularity. The Section 4.9 scaling law L(C) = 7.32*C^-0.0378 is a power-law fit to the authors' own validation-loss-versus-compute data. It is presented as an observed empirical curve ('Toto shows a power law'), not as a prediction of an external quantity; fitting a curve to one's own measurements is not circular by this rubric. The self-citations (e.g., MVP protocols and robot demonstrations in Section 4.6) are used as baselines/protocol references, not as load-bearing justification for the central claim, and no uniqueness theorem is imported from the authors' prior work. The skeptic's point that Toto's ImageNet/K400 numbers use additional fine-tuning and attention pooling while some baselines use frozen linear probes is an evaluation-protocol validity concern, not a circularity of the derivation chain; it does not raise the circularity score.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The ledger contains two fitted quantities: the scaling-law exponent and the data mixture ratios. The axioms are standard domain assumptions for self-supervised vision pre-training. The paper introduces no new theoretical entities.

free parameters (2)
  • Scaling-law coefficient and exponent = 7.32 and -0.0378
    Fit to validation loss versus compute for six mu-Parametrized models in Figure 9. The exponent is the central quantitative claim of Section 4.9 and is presented without confidence intervals.
  • Data mixture ratios = 20% ImageNet, 10% Ego4D, 10% Kinetics, 60% HowTo100M
    Chosen by the authors without ablations over mixing ratios. The downstream results depend on this choice, and the paper does not test alternatives.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The dVAE tokenizer provides a faithful, label-free discretization of images and videos.
    The whole pre-training pipeline operates on dVAE tokens. The paper acknowledges in Section 5 that representation quality is bounded by the tokenizer, but the downstream comparisons assume the tokenizer is not the decisive factor.
  • domain assumption Validation loss on the pre-training mixture is a meaningful proxy for downstream representation quality.
    Section 4.9 uses validation loss to fit the scaling law and to compare with language models, but the paper does not show that this loss correlates with ImageNet or Kinetics accuracy across the six scaling models.
  • domain assumption Raster-scan ordering of patches is a reasonable way to impose a sequence on images and videos.
    The paper follows iGPT and PixelCNN in Section 3.1. The redundancy issues with this ordering are discussed in Appendix A.1.
  • domain assumption Attention pooling at a middle layer is a fair way to extract representations.
    Section 3.5 and Figure 4 justify this for decoder-only models, but the choice of probe layer is selected on the validation set for each task, which can inflate reported accuracy.

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We empirically study autoregressive pre-training from videos. To perform our study, we construct a series of autoregressive video models, called Toto. We treat videos as sequences of visual tokens and train transformer models to autoregressively predict future tokens. Our models are pre-trained on a diverse dataset of videos and images comprising over 1 trillion visual tokens. We explore different architectural, training, and inference design choices. We evaluate the learned visual representations on a range of downstream tasks including image recognition, video classification, object tracking, and robotics. Our results demonstrate that, despite minimal inductive biases, autoregressive pre-training leads to competitive performance across all benchmarks. Finally, we find that scaling our video models results in similar scaling curves to those seen in language models, albeit with a different rate. More details at https://brjathu.github.io/toto/

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