CycleVAR: Repurposing Autoregressive Model for Unsupervised One-Step Image Translation

Yi Liu¹, Shengqian Li², Zuzeng Lin³, Feng Wang⁴, Si Liu^1†

¹BUAA  ²UCAS  ³TJU  ⁴CreateAI  ^†Corresponding author

 

Official implementation of CycleVAR: Repurposing Autoregressive Model for Unsupervised One-Step Image Translation, ICCV 2025

Updates

• [25-06-29] Release the arXiv preprint.
• [25-06-26] Our work is accepted by ICCV 2025! 🎉

Todo

• Release the code and checkpoint of CycleVAR.
• Upload a gradio script to run the demo locally.
• Create a online demo in the huggingface space.
• Training script for CycleVAR.

Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank the great work img2img-turbo for their inspiring work and contributions to the AIGC community.

Citation

Please consider citing our work as follows if it is helpful.

@article{liu2025cyclevar,
  title={CycleVAR: Repurposing Autoregressive Model for Unsupervised One-Step Image Translation},
  author={Liu, Yi and Li, Shengqian and Lin, Zuzeng and Wang, Feng and Liu, Si},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.23347},
  year={2025}
}