StepVAR: Structure-Texture Guided Pruning for Visual Autoregressive Models.

@inproceedings{liu-2026-stepvar, author = {Keli Liu and Zhendong Wang and Wengang Zhou and Houqiang Li}, editor = {Stevan Rudinac and Zi Huang and Marcel Worring and Lucia Vadicamo and Xirong Li and Pascal Mettes and Lizi Liao}, title = {{StepVAR: Structure-Texture Guided Pruning for Visual Autoregressive Models}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, ICMR 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16-19, 2026}}, pages = {1626--1634}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810814}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810814} }