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arxiv: 2605.19354 · v2 · pith:4JYJIET6new · submitted 2026-05-19 · 📡 eess.IV · cs.CV

Next-Acceleration-Scale Prediction for Autoregressive MRI Reconstruction

Yilmaz Korkmaz , Vishal M. Patel This is my paper

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keywords MRI reconstructionautoregressive modelingdiscrete latent spacecodebook tokensprivileged information distillationacceleration scale predictionundersampled imagingfastMRI benchmark
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The pith

Moving MRI reconstruction to discrete multi-scale autoregressive prediction of next acceleration scales restricts outputs to codebook token sequences for sharp results from sparse measurements.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to overcome the blurring that occurs when continuous predictors average over many possible solutions in highly accelerated MRI scans. By shifting the task into a discrete latent space and framing it as autoregressive prediction across acceleration scales, the approach limits reconstructions to realistic sequences drawn from a learned codebook. This draws on discrete priors that have worked well in visual autoregressive models. A reader would care because it directly targets the loss of fine anatomical detail that currently limits how much MRI scan times can be shortened without sacrificing diagnostic value.

Core claim

Posing MRI reconstruction as autoregressive next-acceleration-scale prediction in discrete multi-scale latent space restricts the solution to compact sequences of codebook tokens. This enables sharp reconstructions even from extremely sparse measurements. The discrete formulation aligns with large language model post-training methods, which motivates the introduction of on-policy privileged information distillation: a teacher model trained only on full acquisitions supervises a student that learns from its own rollouts, producing consistent gains across sampling patterns on the fastMRI benchmark.

What carries the argument

Autoregressive next-acceleration-scale prediction of discrete codebook tokens in multi-scale latent space, augmented by on-policy privileged information distillation from fully sampled data.

If this is right

  • High-frequency anatomical details remain visible even when acceleration factors are pushed to extreme levels that defeat continuous methods.
  • The discrete token formulation permits direct use of post-training techniques developed for large language models.
  • On-policy privileged distillation yields measurable improvements by letting the model learn from its own inference-time rollouts.
  • Performance gains hold across multiple sampling patterns on the fastMRI dataset.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same discrete autoregressive structure could be tested on other ill-posed imaging inverse problems such as CT or ultrasound reconstruction.
  • Because the method produces token sequences, it opens the possibility of using larger pretrained visual autoregressive models as stronger priors without retraining from scratch.
  • The alignment with language-model training pipelines suggests that further scaling the underlying codebook or sequence length could yield additional gains in reconstruction fidelity.

Load-bearing premise

That sequences of discrete codebook tokens can faithfully encode the high-frequency anatomical structures required for accurate reconstruction without critical loss from quantization.

What would settle it

If side-by-side comparisons on the same extremely undersampled fastMRI cases show that the method produces the same degree of high-frequency blurring or loss of fine detail as standard continuous predictors, the advantage of the discrete autoregressive formulation would be refuted.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19354 by Vishal M. Patel, Yilmaz Korkmaz.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Left: VAR [41] constructs a residual latent pyramid by progressively downsam￾pling and quantizing the residual continuous latent of a single input image, generating content in a coarse-to-fine manner via next-resolution (next-scale) prediction. Right: In our method, the hierarchy is induced before encoding by applying MRI native Fourier undersampling at different acceleration factors (R), yielding a multi-… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed AQ-VAE architecture. Compared to the hard latent hierarchy used in VAR [41], which progresses from a single token to a 16 × 16 grid, we adopt a lighter hierarchy better suited to MRI reconstruction. Specifically, we begin with an 11 × 11 token grid for the 32× accelerated latent and increase the spatial resolution by 1 × 1 at each subsequent level until reaching a 16 × 16 grid for … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) Overview of the proposed cross-attentive transformer for next-acceleration￾scale prediction. (b) The network contains 16 transformer blocks and receives encoder features at resolutions 64×64, 32×32, and 16×16 via cross-attention, while preserving the original VAR self-attention and feed-forward components. 4.3 On-Policy Privileged Information Distillation After training the base model, we perform an on… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: On-Policy Privileged Information Distillation scheme is illustrated. which in our case is the fully sampled MR image, and provides a target token distribution at each scale of generation. The distillation objective minimizes the discrepancy between the student and teacher distributions, while gradients are applied only to the student (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Distilled vs. Base model reconstructions under ES Cartesian-X undersampling. Although the overall reconstruction quality remains limited in this severe undersam￾pling setting, Reverse KL reduces hallucinated and over-predicted details by discour￾aging anatomically implausible predictions. confident teacher-supported predictions: \mathcal {L}(\theta ) = \mathbb {E}_{\hat {Q}\sim p_{\theta }} \left [ \frac {… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison under ES Cartesian-Y undersampling. Per-image met￾rics are reported, and zoomed-in regions are shown below each method. tissue boundaries and better preserved fine structures. This is particularly evi￾dent in Figures 7 and 6, where several competing methods obtain higher per￾image PSNR or SSIM but still exhibit noticeable smoothing and loss of high￾frequency detail, whereas our recon… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison under Gaussian-VD undersampling. Per-image metrics are reported, and zoomed-in regions are shown below each method. largely stable, with small improvements in several cases and only minor regres￾sions in others. Overall, these results indicate that distillation improves rollout robustness and reduces anatomically implausible token predictions without ma￾terially degrading perceptual … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative comparison under ES Cartesian-X undersampling. Per-image met￾rics are reported, and zoomed-in regions are shown below each method. 6.2 Component Ablations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

MRI reconstruction is an inherently ill-posed inverse problem, since incomplete measurements admit many plausible solutions. This ambiguity becomes more severe under high acceleration, where pixel-domain continuous predictors tend to average over feasible reconstructions and suppress high-frequency anatomy. We address this limitation by moving reconstruction to discrete multi-scale latent space and posing it as autoregressive next-acceleration-scale prediction. Leveraging discrete priors proven effective in visual autoregressive modeling, our method restricts the solution to compact sequences of codebook tokens, enabling sharp reconstructions even from extremely sparse measurements. This discrete autoregressive formulation also aligns naturally with modern large language model post-training techniques. Building on this observation, we introduce on-policy privileged information distillation for visual autoregressive modeling, where a teacher is provided training only privileged context that is unavailable at inference, in our case fully sampled acquisitions, and supervises a student trained on its own rollouts, leading to consistent reconstruction gains. Through extensive experiments on the fastMRI benchmark, we show that our approach delivers improved reconstruction performance across diverse sampling patterns under extreme undersampling. Project website is \href{https://yilmazkorkmaz1.github.io/discrete-mri-reconstruction-opd/}{here}.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes shifting MRI reconstruction from continuous pixel-domain prediction to a discrete multi-scale latent space formulated as autoregressive next-acceleration-scale token prediction. It leverages codebook priors from visual autoregressive models to restrict solutions to compact sequences of discrete tokens, aiming to avoid averaging and preserve high-frequency anatomy under extreme undersampling. The work further introduces on-policy privileged information distillation, in which a teacher model trained with fully sampled acquisitions supervises a student on its own rollouts, and reports improved reconstruction performance on the fastMRI benchmark across diverse sampling patterns.

Significance. If the discrete priors successfully encode MRI-specific high-frequency structures rather than generic image statistics, the approach could meaningfully reduce hallucinated or smoothed details in highly accelerated scans and align reconstruction with scalable LLM-style training pipelines. The privileged-distillation component is a standard teacher-student setup that could be broadly applicable. However, the central transfer of visual AR codebooks to diagnostic MRI content remains unverified in the provided description, limiting the immediate impact until quantitative validation of anatomical fidelity is shown.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: The claim of 'improved reconstruction performance across diverse sampling patterns under extreme undersampling' is presented without any quantitative metrics, error bars, ablation studies, or baseline comparisons. This absence makes the magnitude and reliability of the gains impossible to evaluate and places the central empirical claim on unshown results.
  2. [Method] Method description: The assertion that restricting solutions to codebook tokens 'avoids the averaging behavior of continuous predictors' and yields 'anatomically faithful high-frequency details' lacks supporting analysis. No latent-space reconstruction error, frequency-domain power spectrum comparison, or k-space consistency check is reported to confirm that the inherited visual codebook preserves fine vessel boundaries and tissue interfaces rather than imposing natural-image statistics.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The project website link is provided but the manuscript does not indicate whether code or pretrained models will be released, which would strengthen reproducibility.
  2. [Method] Notation for acceleration scales and token sequences could be clarified with a small diagram or explicit definition of the multi-scale hierarchy.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the presentation while preserving the core contributions of discrete autoregressive modeling and on-policy privileged information distillation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: The claim of 'improved reconstruction performance across diverse sampling patterns under extreme undersampling' is presented without any quantitative metrics, error bars, ablation studies, or baseline comparisons. This absence makes the magnitude and reliability of the gains impossible to evaluate and places the central empirical claim on unshown results.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting the need for greater transparency in the high-level claims. The Experiments section contains quantitative evaluations on the fastMRI benchmark, including PSNR and SSIM metrics with standard deviations across sampling patterns and acceleration factors, along with ablations isolating the distillation component and comparisons to continuous-domain baselines. To directly address the concern, we will revise the abstract to incorporate key numerical results and error bars summarizing the observed gains. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method description: The assertion that restricting solutions to codebook tokens 'avoids the averaging behavior of continuous predictors' and yields 'anatomically faithful high-frequency details' lacks supporting analysis. No latent-space reconstruction error, frequency-domain power spectrum comparison, or k-space consistency check is reported to confirm that the inherited visual codebook preserves fine vessel boundaries and tissue interfaces rather than imposing natural-image statistics.

    Authors: We agree that explicit supporting analyses would strengthen the methodological claims. The current argument rests on the empirical reconstruction improvements and the discrete token restriction, which inherently limits averaging compared to continuous regression. In the revised manuscript we will add frequency-domain power spectrum comparisons between reconstructions and ground truth as well as k-space consistency checks. We note that the on-policy distillation trains the student exclusively on MRI data with privileged full-sample context, which adapts the codebook usage to anatomical content; we will expand the discussion to clarify this domain adaptation while acknowledging that further codebook visualization could be explored. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on external priors and standard distillation

full rationale

The paper's core modeling decision—recasting MRI reconstruction as next-acceleration-scale autoregressive prediction over discrete codebook tokens—is presented as an architectural choice that imports discrete priors from visual autoregressive literature rather than deriving them from the target MRI data itself. The on-policy privileged distillation step uses fully sampled acquisitions exclusively during training to supervise student rollouts, which is a conventional teacher-student setup and does not make the inference-time reconstruction equivalent to its training inputs by construction. No equation or claim reduces a prediction to a fitted parameter or self-citation chain; the method's claimed advantage in high-frequency fidelity is framed as an empirical outcome on fastMRI benchmarks, not a definitional necessity. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The approach relies on the existence of effective discrete priors from visual autoregressive modeling and the utility of codebook tokens for MRI anatomy.

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