Depth Adaptive Efficient Visual Autoregressive Modeling
Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling inefficiently applies a fixed computational depth to each position when generating high-resolution images. While existing methods accelerate inference by pruning tokens using frequency maps, their binary hard-pruning approach is fundamentally limited and fails to improve quality even with better frequency estimation. Observing that VAR models possess significant depth redundancy, we propose a paradigm shift from pruning entire tokens to adaptively allocating per-token computational depth. To this end, we introduce DepthVAR, a training-free framework that dynamically allocates computation. It integrates an adaptive depth scheduler, which assigns computational depth via a cyclic rotated schedule for balanced, non-static refinement, with a dynamic inference process that translates these depths into layer-major masks, selectively applies transformer blocks, and blends the resulting codes to ensure each token's influence is proportional to its processing depth. Extensive experiments show that DepthVAR achieves 2.3$\times$-3.1$\times$ acceleration with minimal quality loss, offering a competitive compute-performance trade-off compared to existing hard-pruning approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/STOVAGtz/DepthVAR
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