FARMER is a novel generative framework that integrates Normalizing Flows and Autoregressive models for effective likelihood estimation and high-quality image synthesis directly from raw pixel data. It incorporates an invertible autoregressive flow to convert images into latent sequences and employs a self-supervised dimension reduction method to optimize the modeling process. Experimental results show that FARMER achieves competitive performance compared to existing models while ensuring exact likelihoods and scalable training.
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computer-vision ✓
+ autoregressive
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image-synthesis ✓