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arxiv: 2605.30317 · v1 · pith:XFEBDAYKnew · submitted 2026-05-28 · 💻 cs.CV

VPG: Visual Prefix Guidance for Autoregressive Image and Video Generation

Xinyao Liao , Qiyuan He , Yicong Li , Jiayin Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Wei Wei , Angela Yao This is my paper

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keywords visual prefix guidanceautoregressive image generationautoregressive video generationinference-time guidanceexposure biasprefix drifttext-to-imagetext-to-video
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Visual Prefix Guidance improves autoregressive image and video generation by steering next predictions toward stronger support for the generated prefix.

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Autoregressive generators for images and videos train on teacher-forced histories yet must use their own outputs at inference, which creates exposure bias and prefix drift. VPG addresses this by comparing the model's next-token distribution when conditioned on the actual generated prefix against the distribution obtained from a corrupted version of that prefix. It then shifts the logits to favor tokens that increase the posterior probability of the original prefix. If the contrast works as intended, generation quality rises on existing models without any retraining. The method was tested on class-conditional image generation with VAR, text-to-image with Infinity, and text-to-video with InfinityStar.

Core claim

VPG improves next-step prediction by contrasting the model's output under the generated prefix with its output under a corrupted prefix, then extrapolating logits toward candidates that strengthen the posterior support of the generated prefix. Across class-conditional image generation with VAR, text-to-image generation with Infinity, and text-to-video generation with InfinityStar, VPG improves generation quality without retraining the base model, reducing FID on VAR by 0.36 on average and improving benchmark performance on both image and video generation.

What carries the argument

Visual Prefix Guidance (VPG), which contrasts model outputs on the generated prefix versus a corrupted prefix and extrapolates logits to favor stronger posterior support for the prefix.

If this is right

  • Reduces average FID by 0.36 on class-conditional image generation using the VAR model.
  • Raises benchmark scores for text-to-image generation using the Infinity model.
  • Raises benchmark scores for text-to-video generation using the InfinityStar model.
  • Delivers these gains at inference time without any modification to the base model's training.
  • Targets internal prefix consistency rather than external conditioning signals such as class labels or text prompts.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same contrast-and-extrapolate pattern could be tested on autoregressive models for other sequential data such as audio waveforms.
  • VPG might be stacked with existing classifier-free guidance or classifier guidance to obtain combined effects.
  • If the corrupted-prefix construction proves robust, it could serve as a general template for self-consistency checks in other sampling-time correction methods.

Load-bearing premise

Contrasting the model's outputs under the generated prefix versus a corrupted prefix reliably identifies and strengthens predictions that genuinely support the prefix rather than introducing new artifacts.

What would settle it

Running the same generation benchmarks with and without VPG and finding that FID scores and other quality metrics show no improvement or become worse when VPG is applied.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.30317 by Angela Yao, Jiayin Zhu, Qiyuan He, Wei Wei, Xiaoye Qu, Xinyao Liao, Yicong Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Visual Prefix Guidance (VPG) sharpens dependence on the generated visual prefix, complementing CFG along an axis a frozen model cannot reach. Left: same-prompt, same-seed comparisons w/o vs. w/ VPG; the first two columns use Infinity [12] prompts for a “VPG” wax seal and an owl among shattered mirrors, the third uses VAR-d30 [40] for “macaw”, and the last two rows use InfinityStar [28] for a moss-covered m… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Visual Prefix Guidance (VPG) framework. VPG contrasts logits from the generated prefix r<k and same-scale corrupted prefix r˜<k using the same frozen transformer and condition c. The resulting direction is extrapolated before sampling the next token map rˆk. This offers a training-free way to target prefix drift. Instead of modifying the model or revising the prefix, VPG augments the next-step conditional … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: GenEval qualitative comparison for Infinity vs. Infinity + VPG. VPG corrects failures in counting, two-object binding, and spatial position. best score in the table and achieving the strongest performance among autoregressive models. On DPG-Bench, VPG improves Infinity from 83.46 to 83.80. Text-to-video generation Tab. 4 compares the released InfinityStar checkpoint with and without VPG under the † protoco… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: VPG sweeps on class-conditional VAR (ImageNet 256×256). Left: guidance strength λ with fixed corruption fraction np=0.1, across four VAR capacities. Right: the same λ sweep on VAR-d16 with the corruption fraction varied over np ∈ {0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25}; larger np amplifies the FID/IS response to λ while small np remains close to the baseline. 5.4 Ablations We ablate VPG on class-conditional VAR bec… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Illustration of Visual Prefix Guidance. Corrupted-prefix surrogate for the prefix￾marginalized predictive. The prefix￾marginalized predictive distribution pθ(rk | c) is not directly accessible from a frozen visual AR model. In principle, it requires marginalizing over all possible prefixes, which is intractable. This is analogous to CFG, where the unconditional branch cannot be obtained from a conditional … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: FID/IS curves for corrupted-prefix replacement variants on VAR-d16. Settings: VAR-d16 ImageNet sampling with np=0.1 and guidance-strength sweeps for random codebook, same-scale token, same-scale position, and same-scale full-embedding replacement. Same-scale full-embedding replacement is the only variant that improves FID over the unguided baseline, while incomplete or off-manifold corruptions degrade rapi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: VAR-d30 qualitative comparison for golden retriever. Settings: matched ImageNet class sampling with six samples per row; rows show VAR-d30, +CFG, and +VPG with np=0.1, λ=1.0. VPG improves object coherence. 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: VAR-d30 qualitative comparison for tabby cat. Settings: matched ImageNet class sampling with six samples per row; rows show VAR-d30, +CFG, and +VPG with np=0.1, λ=1.0. VPG yields more recognizable object structure [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: VAR-d30 qualitative comparison for cheeseburger. Settings: matched ImageNet class sampling with six samples per row; rows show VAR-d30, +CFG, and +VPG with np=0.1, λ=1.0. VPG produces more stable food layouts. E.3 InfinityStar qualitative study Figs. 10–12 provide matched text-to-video comparisons on InfinityStar. Each row shows five uniformly sampled frames from the generated clip; the VPG row uses semant… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: InfinityStar qualitative comparison for the train-library prompt. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: InfinityStar qualitative comparison for the subway-greenhouse prompt. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: InfinityStar qualitative comparison for the origami-whale prompt. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: DPG-Bench qualitative comparison for a surveillance-camera prompt. Settings: matched Infinity baseline and Infinity + VPG generations under the same checkpoint, sampler, and seeds. VPG recovers the small cameras dropped by the baseline. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: DPG-Bench qualitative comparison for a lunar multi-entity prompt. Settings: matched Infinity baseline and Infinity + VPG generations under the same checkpoint, sampler, and seeds. VPG better preserves distinct entities and relative positions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: DPG-Bench qualitative comparison for a two-food prompt. Settings: matched Infinity baseline and Infinity + VPG generations under the same checkpoint, sampler, and seeds. VPG renders both food groups side by side [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: DPG-Bench qualitative comparison for an owl-and-mirror prompt. Settings: matched Infinity baseline and Infinity + VPG generations under the same checkpoint, sampler, and seeds. VPG produces clearer mirror fragments. Across all four prompts, the qualitative trend matches Tab. 3: VPG helps when the unguided model omits or merges minor entities under a strong scene prior. 22 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fi… view at source ↗
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Autoregressive image and video generators are trained with teacher-forced histories but must sample from their own generated prefixes at inference time, making them vulnerable to exposure bias and prefix drift. Existing remedies either modify training or apply sampling-time guidance aimed primarily at external semantic conditions, such as class labels or text prompts, rather than testing whether a next-step prediction provides strong posterior support for the generated prefix itself. We propose Visual Prefix Guidance (VPG), a training-free inference-time guidance method for autoregressive image and video generation. VPG improves next-step prediction by contrasting the model's output under the generated prefix with its output under a corrupted prefix, then extrapolating logits toward candidates that strengthen the posterior support of the generated prefix. Across class-conditional image generation with VAR, text-to-image generation with Infinity, and text-to-video generation with InfinityStar, VPG improves generation quality without retraining the base model, reducing FID on VAR by 0.36 on average and improving benchmark performance on both image and video generation.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes Visual Prefix Guidance (VPG), a training-free inference-time method for autoregressive image and video generators. VPG contrasts the model's output logits under the generated prefix with those under a corrupted prefix to identify and amplify next-token predictions that increase the posterior probability of the generated prefix, thereby reducing exposure bias. The method is evaluated on class-conditional image generation using VAR, text-to-image using Infinity, and text-to-video using InfinityStar, reporting an average FID reduction of 0.36 on VAR and improved benchmark performance without retraining the base models.

Significance. If the reported improvements are shown to be robust, VPG offers a practical contribution by providing a model-agnostic, training-free approach to mitigating exposure bias and prefix drift specifically in autoregressive vision models. The focus on internal prefix support rather than external conditions, combined with applicability across multiple base models, strengthens its potential utility.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] The central mechanism relies on the contrast between generated and corrupted prefixes to identify genuine posterior support, but the manuscript provides insufficient detail on the corruption procedure (e.g., masking ratio, noise schedule, or selection of corrupted tokens) in the method section; this is load-bearing because an arbitrary corruption could introduce biases rather than isolate prefix support, undermining the claim that the extrapolation strengthens the true posterior.
  2. [Table 1, §4.2] Table 1 and §4.2 report an average FID reduction of 0.36 on VAR without accompanying standard deviations across multiple runs, ablation on the guidance scale, or comparison to simple baselines such as temperature scaling; this weakens the ability to attribute gains specifically to the prefix-contrast mechanism rather than generic logit adjustment.
minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract states quantitative gains but the main text should include a dedicated limitations paragraph discussing potential failure modes when the corrupted prefix contrast fails to correlate with true posterior support.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We respond point-by-point to the major comments below.

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  1. Referee: [§3] The central mechanism relies on the contrast between generated and corrupted prefixes to identify genuine posterior support, but the manuscript provides insufficient detail on the corruption procedure (e.g., masking ratio, noise schedule, or selection of corrupted tokens) in the method section; this is load-bearing because an arbitrary corruption could introduce biases rather than isolate prefix support, undermining the claim that the extrapolation strengthens the true posterior.

    Authors: We agree that explicit details on the corruption procedure are necessary for reproducibility and to substantiate the mechanism. Section 3 describes random token masking to create the corrupted prefix, but we acknowledge that the specific masking ratio and selection process were not stated with sufficient precision. In the revised manuscript we will expand §3 to specify a fixed masking ratio of 0.5 applied to randomly selected tokens with no additional noise schedule, thereby clarifying that the corruption is a controlled disruption of prefix support rather than an arbitrary modification. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Table 1, §4.2] Table 1 and §4.2 report an average FID reduction of 0.36 on VAR without accompanying standard deviations across multiple runs, ablation on the guidance scale, or comparison to simple baselines such as temperature scaling; this weakens the ability to attribute gains specifically to the prefix-contrast mechanism rather than generic logit adjustment.

    Authors: We acknowledge that standard deviations, guidance-scale ablations, and baseline comparisons would strengthen attribution of gains to the prefix-contrast mechanism. Due to computational constraints we are unable to provide standard deviations from multiple independent runs. However, we will add an ablation on the guidance scale and a direct comparison against temperature scaling in the revised §4.2 and Table 1 to better isolate the contribution of VPG from generic logit adjustments. revision: partial

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  • Reporting standard deviations across multiple independent runs due to computational resource limitations.

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full rationale

The paper presents VPG as a training-free inference-time method that contrasts model outputs on generated vs. corrupted prefixes to guide next-token logits toward stronger posterior support. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are described in the provided abstract or mechanism that reduce the claimed FID improvements or guidance effect to a quantity defined by construction from the inputs themselves. The central claim rests on an empirical contrast-and-extrapolation procedure whose value is demonstrated by reported quality gains on external benchmarks (VAR, Infinity, InfinityStar), with no load-bearing step that renames a fit as a prediction or imports uniqueness via author self-citation. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external evaluation.

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