A simple yet effective idea: enforcing *hypersphere (manifold) constraint* unlock the potential of continuous-token AR generative models. Our next-token, raster-order AR model hits FID 1.34 on ImageNet-256, setting a new SOTA for AR image generation. check huggingface.co/papers/2509.24…
Machine Learning & AI for Science. Created #LightGBM, #Graphormer, #UniFold, Uni-Mol, Uni-3DAR. Former Senior Researcher @MSFTResearch. Opinions are my own.

