image-gpt-291a4e01·1 events·first seen Aliases: Image GPT
OpenAI demonstrates that a large transformer model trained autoregressively on pixel sequences can generate coherent image completions and samples, analogous to text generation. The work establishes a correlation between generative sample quality and downstream image classification accuracy. The best generative model achieves features competitive with top convolutional networks in the unsupervised setting, suggesting shared representational principles across modalities.