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[NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award][GPT beats diffusion🔥] [scaling laws in visual generation📈] Official impl. of "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction". An *ultra-simple, user-friendly yet state-of-the-art* codebase f

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Generate images using advanced AI techniques with a simple interface.

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[NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award][GPT beats diffusion🔥] [scaling laws in visual generation📈] Official impl. of "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction". An *ultra-simple, user-friendly yet state-of-the-art* codebase f

VAR has 8.7k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 572 times. VAR is written mainly in Jupyter Notebook. It has been in active development since 2024. VAR is available under the MIT license. Its main topics are auto-regressive-model, autoregressive-models, diffusion-models, generative-ai.

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[NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award][GPT beats diffusion🔥] [scaling laws in visual generation📈] Official impl. of "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction". An *ultra-simple, user-friendly yet state-of-the-art* codebase f

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Yes. VAR is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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VAR is written mainly in Jupyter Notebook.

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