SSD: Spatially Speculative Decoding Accelerates Autoregressive Image Generation
Autoregressive image models treat images as 1D token sequences, inheriting the next-token factorization of language models. This flattening discards a useful property of images: visual tokens are organized and correlated in two-dimensional space. We introduce Spatially Speculative Decoding (SSD), an inference-time decoding framework that exploits this spatial structure for accelerated generation. Rather than speculating only along the flattened sequence, SSD predicts both the adjacent horizontal token and the token directly below it, allowing multiple spatial directions to advance in parallel. This reduces the number of backbone forward evaluations and alleviates the memory bottleneck of ...
| Authors | Shilong Xiang, Zirui Zhang, Lijun Yu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 18 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 27 September 2026 |
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