NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous
  Tokens at Scale
Prevailing autoregressive (AR) models for text-to-image generation either
rely on heavy, computationally-intensive diffusion models to process continuous
image tokens, or employ vector quantization (VQ) to obtain discrete tokens with
quantization loss. In this paper, we push the autoregressive paradigm forward
with NextStep-1, a 14B autoregressive model paired with a 157M flow matching
head, training on discrete text tokens and continuous image tokens with
next-token prediction objectives. NextStep-1 achieves state-of-the-art
performance for autoregressive models in text-to-image generation tasks,
exhibiting strong capabilities in high-fidelity image synthesis. Furthermore,
our method shows strong performance in image editing, highlighting the power
and versatility of our unified approach. To facilitate open research, we will
release our code and models to the community.
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Guopeng Li
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Jingwei Wu
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Zheng Ge
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En Yu
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Yu Zhou
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Yucheng Han
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Ziyang Meng
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Daxin Jiang
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Xiangyu Zhang
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Yibo Zhu
NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous
  Tokens at Scale
Prevailing autoregressive (AR) models for text-to-image generation either
rely on heavy, computationally-intensive diffusion models to process continuous
image tokens, or employ vector quantization (VQ) to obtain discrete tokens with
quantization loss. In this paper, we push the autoregressive paradigm forward
with NextStep-1, a 14B autoregressive model paired with a 157M flow matching
head, training on discrete text tokens and continuous image tokens with
next-token prediction objectives. NextStep-1 achieves state-of-the-art
performance for autoregressive models in text-to-image generation tasks,
exhibiting strong capabilities in high-fidelity image synthesis. Furthermore,
our method shows strong performance in image editing, highlighting the power
and versatility of our unified approach. To facilitate open research, we will
release our code and models to the community.
NextStep-1, a 14B autoregressive model with a 157M flow matching head, achieves state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image generation and image editing by processing discrete text tokens and continuous image tokens.
autoregressive models diffusion models vector quantization flow matching next-token prediction high-fidelity image synthesis image editing