How AI Actually Generates Images There are two main ways modern models generate images: auto-regressive and diffusion. Auto-regressive models generate an image ... (opens in new tab)

How AI Actually Generates Images<br><br>There are two main ways modern models generate images: auto-regressive and diffusion.<br><br>Auto-regressive models generate an image piece by piece.<br><br>During training, an image is split into tokens, and the model learns to predict them one by one, just like text. It minimizes next-token prediction loss over image tokens.<br><br>At inference time, the model predicts one image token at a time until the full image is formed.<br><br>Diffusion models s...