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arxiv: 2606.09156 · v1 · pith:7TDFPHWUnew · submitted 2026-06-08 · 💻 cs.CV

OmniGen-AR: AutoRegressive Any-to-Image Generation

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keywords autoregressive image generationany-to-imagevisual tokenizerdisentangled causal attentionconditional generationmultimodal image synthesistext-to-video
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The pith

A single autoregressive model generates images from text, depth, segmentation, or prior images using one shared visual tokenizer.

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

The paper seeks to establish that diverse visual conditions can be unified in one autoregressive generation system by discretizing them all through a shared visual tokenizer alongside text prompts. It introduces Disentangled Causal Attention to block information leakage from condition tokens to content tokens during training. If the approach holds, real-world image synthesis tasks that now require separate models could be handled by a single architecture without changes at inference time. A sympathetic reader would care because this design targets flexible control over outputs from whatever signals are available, such as spatial maps or video frames.

Core claim

OmniGen-AR is presented as a unified autoregressive framework for Any-to-Image generation. By discretizing various visual conditions through a shared visual tokenizer and text prompts with a text tokenizer, the model supports a broad spectrum of conditional inputs within a single model, including text-to-image generation, segmentation-to-image, depth-to-image, image editing, frame prediction, and text-to-video generation. Disentangled Causal Attention separates the full-sequence causal mask into condition causal attention and content causal attention, serving as a training-time regularizer without affecting standard next-token prediction during inference.

What carries the argument

Disentangled Causal Attention (DCA), which separates the causal mask into condition and content parts to prevent leakage while acting only as a training regularizer.

If this is right

  • One model architecture performs text-to-image, spatial-signal-to-image, and visual-context tasks without retraining or separate heads.
  • Disentangled Causal Attention keeps inference unchanged while regularizing training against condition leakage.
  • The design extends naturally to frame prediction for video and to image editing from visual context.
  • Competitive or leading results appear across text-to-image and video benchmarks under the unified setup.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The uniform tokenization could allow a single generation pass to accept mixed conditions, such as text plus depth, without extra engineering.
  • If the tokenizer generalizes, the same approach might apply to additional modalities like sketches or 3D projections in future extensions.
  • Simpler deployment pipelines become possible when one checkpoint replaces several task-specific generators.

Load-bearing premise

A shared visual tokenizer can discretize diverse condition types such as depth maps and segmentation while retaining enough detail for accurate image synthesis.

What would settle it

Generate an image from a provided depth map condition and check whether the output depth structure matches the input map within a small error margin; systematic mismatch would show the tokenizer or attention failed to preserve the signal.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.09156 by Junke Wang, Peize Sun, Qiushan Guo, Weilin Huang, Xun Wang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Zuxuan Wu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: OmniGen-AR could handle 5 types of gener [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: OmniGen-AR consists of a text tokenizer, a visual tokenizer, an autoregressive transformer. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison between plain causal attention, the proposed disentangled causal attention, and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Token similarity on MagicBrush [105] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Effects of model scaling. Synergy between different tasks. We study the synergy between different generation tasks by comparing joint training and separate training, both initialized with the 2nd stage checkpoint. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of text-to-image and text-to-video results generated by OmniGen-AR. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Image editing, depth-to-image, and segmentation-to-image generation results. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Failure cases generated by OmniGen-AR. potential directions for future work: 1) Scaling up the model and training data to build a stronger base model with improved generalization and instruction-following ability across diverse visual tasks. 2) Leveraging chain-of-thought (CoT) [90] to improve the reasoning ability on complex prompts. 5 Conclusion and Broader Impacts This paper presented OmniGen-AR, a unif… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated strong potential in visual generation, offering superior performance with simple architectures and optimization objectives. However, existing methods are typically limited to single-modality conditions, e.g., text, restricting their applicability in real-world scenarios that demand image synthesis from diverse controls. In this work, we present OmniGen-AR, a unified autoregressive framework for Any-to-Image generation. By discretizing various visual conditions through a shared visual tokenizer and text prompts with a text tokenizer, OmniGen-AR supports a broad spectrum of conditional inputs within a single model, including text (text-to-image generation), spatial signals (segmentation-to-image and depth-to-image), and visual context (image editing, frame prediction, and text-to-video generation). To mitigate the risk of information leakage from condition tokens to content tokens, we introduce Disentangled Causal Attention (DCA), which separates the full-sequence causal mask into condition causal attention and content causal attention. It serves as a training-time regularizer without affecting the standard next-token prediction during inference. With this design, OmniGen-AR achieves new state-of-the-art or at least competitive results across a range of benchmark, e.g., 0.63 on GenEval and 80.02 on VBench, demonstrating its effectiveness in flexible and high-fidelity visual generation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper presents OmniGen-AR, a unified autoregressive framework for any-to-image generation. It discretizes diverse visual conditions (depth, segmentation, video frames) via a shared visual tokenizer and text via a text tokenizer, enabling a single model to handle text-to-image, segmentation-to-image, depth-to-image, image editing, frame prediction, and text-to-video. Disentangled Causal Attention (DCA) is introduced to separate condition and content causal masks during training as a regularizer that leaves standard inference unchanged. The work claims new state-of-the-art or competitive results on benchmarks including 0.63 on GenEval and 80.02 on VBench.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold after proper validation, the approach would offer a meaningful unification of conditional visual generation tasks under a single autoregressive architecture, reducing the need for modality-specific models while maintaining high fidelity.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the benchmark scores (0.63 on GenEval, 80.02 on VBench) are asserted without any description of experimental protocol, baselines, training details, or implementation of the shared visual tokenizer and DCA, rendering the performance claims unverifiable from the supplied text.
  2. Method section (DCA and shared tokenizer): the central claims rest on the assumptions that a single visual tokenizer losslessly discretizes depth maps, segmentation masks, and video frames into a shared codebook and that DCA prevents leakage without side-effects, yet no per-modality reconstruction metrics, codebook analysis, or ablation comparing DCA to standard causal attention are reported.
minor comments (1)
  1. Notation for the condition causal attention mask versus content causal attention mask should be defined explicitly with an equation or diagram to avoid ambiguity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the two major comments point-by-point below and outline concrete revisions to improve clarity and completeness of the experimental claims.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: the benchmark scores (0.63 on GenEval, 80.02 on VBench) are asserted without any description of experimental protocol, baselines, training details, or implementation of the shared visual tokenizer and DCA, rendering the performance claims unverifiable from the supplied text.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, as currently written, is too terse to allow verification of the reported numbers. The full manuscript contains the experimental protocol, baselines, and implementation details in Sections 4 and 5, but these are not referenced or summarized in the abstract. In the revised version we will add one concise sentence to the abstract that states the training data scale, the primary baselines, and that all results use the shared tokenizer and DCA described in Section 3. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Method section (DCA and shared tokenizer): the central claims rest on the assumptions that a single visual tokenizer losslessly discretizes depth maps, segmentation masks, and video frames into a shared codebook and that DCA prevents leakage without side-effects, yet no per-modality reconstruction metrics, codebook analysis, or ablation comparing DCA to standard causal attention are reported.

    Authors: The manuscript describes the shared visual tokenizer (Section 3.2) and DCA (Section 3.3) but does not include the requested quantitative validation. We will add a new subsection (or appendix) containing: (i) per-modality reconstruction metrics (PSNR/SSIM/FID) for depth, segmentation, and video frames, (ii) codebook utilization statistics, and (iii) an ablation table comparing DCA against standard causal attention on GenEval and a subset of VBench tasks. These additions will directly test the lossless-discretization and no-leakage assumptions. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No circularity; claims rest on external benchmark scores

full rationale

The paper presents architectural choices (shared visual tokenizer, DCA) whose value is asserted via empirical results on independent benchmarks (GenEval 0.63, VBench 80.02). No equations, self-definitions, or fitted parameters are shown reducing to the inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external evaluation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 2 invented entities

Based solely on the abstract, the paper relies on standard autoregressive modeling assumptions and introduces DCA and shared tokenization as key new elements; no explicit free parameters are named.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Autoregressive next-token prediction remains effective when inputs from multiple modalities are discretized into a shared token space.
    The framework extends prior AR visual generation to any-to-image by assuming tokenization unifies conditions without major information loss.
  • ad hoc to paper Separating condition causal attention from content causal attention during training prevents leakage while leaving standard inference unchanged.
    DCA is presented as a training-time regularizer whose correctness is asserted without further justification in the abstract.
invented entities (2)
  • Disentangled Causal Attention (DCA) no independent evidence
    purpose: Separate full-sequence causal mask into condition and content attention to mitigate information leakage.
    New mechanism introduced in the paper.
  • Shared visual tokenizer no independent evidence
    purpose: Discretize diverse visual conditions (depth, segmentation, frames) into tokens compatible with text tokenizer.
    Core component enabling the unified any-to-image capability.

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