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ImageNet 256x256 Benchmark (Image Generation)
Image Generation (synthesis) is the task of generating new images from an existing dataset.
- Unconditional generation refers to generating samples unconditionally from the dataset, i.e. p(y)
- Conditional image generation (subtask) refers to generating samples conditionally from the dataset, based on a label, i.e. p(y|x).
In this section, you can find state-of-the-art leaderboards for unconditional generation. For conditional generation, and other types of image generations, refer to the subtasks.
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Direction inferred from the metric name, not from the archive: FID (lower is better), Inception score (higher is better). Not inferred (points only, no best-so-far line): NFE. Points are placed at the row's paper date; 91 of 94 rows carry one.
Results archive 2025-07-28
Archive rows end at the archive snapshot, 2025-07-28: no result published after that date is in this table. Rank is the archive's row order at that snapshot; not re-ranked here. Metric values are the archive's strings. Column headers sort the table in your browser; each row keeps its archive rank.
| Paper | Code | Ran Syntology | Report | |||||||
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| 1 | SiT-XL/2 + UCGM-S (E2E-VAE + 40 sampling steps + CFG) | 1.06 | 80 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 16 of 21 ran · 5 unverified | report | |
| 2 | UCGM-XL/2 (VA-VAE + 30 sampling steps, without guidance) | 1.21 | 30 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 16 of 21 ran · 5 unverified | report | |
| 3 | UCGM-XL/2 (E2E-VAE + 40 sampling steps, without guidance) | 1.21 | 40 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 16 of 21 ran · 5 unverified | report | |
| 4 | EDM2-L + DDO (SD-VAE, 25 steps, DPM-Solver-v3) | 1.21 | 50 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 5 | LightningDiT + UCGM-S (VA-VAE + 50 sampling steps + CFG) | 1.21 | 100 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 16 of 21 ran · 5 unverified | report | |
| 6 | xAR-H | 1.24 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 7 | SiT-XL/2 + REPA-E | 1.26 | 314.9 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 3 of 3 ran · 0 unverified | report | |
| 8 | DDT-XL/2(22en6de 675M + guidance interval ) | 1.26 | 310.6 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 9 | xAR-L | 1.28 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 10 | FACM (2-step) | 1.32 | 2 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 8 of 14 ran · 6 unverified | report | |
| 11 | GMem (with the guidance interval) | 1.32 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 8 of 15 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 12 | SiT-XL/2 + MG | 1.34 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 8 of 12 ran · 4 unverified | report | ||
| 13 | AliTok-XL, autoregressive, 662M | 1.35 | 318.8 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 4 of 8 ran · 4 unverified | report | |
| 14 | LightningDiT + VA-VAE (with the guidance interval) | 1.35 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 15 | SiD2 | 1.38 | – | Paper | – | 2024 | no code linked | report | ||
| 16 | SiT↓-XL/2+U-REPA (with the guidance interval) | 1.41 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 17 | AliTok-XL, autoregressive, 318M | 1.42 | 326.6 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 4 of 8 ran · 4 unverified | report | |
| 18 | SiT-XL/2 + REPA (with the guidance interval) | 1.42 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 7 of 9 ran · 2 unverified | report | ||
| 19 | RAR-XXL, autoregressive | 1.48 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 20 | RAR-XL, autoregressive | 1.50 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 21 | MaskBit | 1.52 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 8 of 9 ran · 1 unverified | report | ||
| 22 | GMem (w/o guidance) | 1.53 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 8 of 15 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 23 | ELM | 1.54 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 24 | MAR-H, Diff Loss | 1.55 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 8 of 13 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 25 | PaGoDA | 1.56 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 15 of 17 ran · 2 unverified | report | ||
| 26 | ViT-XL/2 with limited Interval Guidance | 1.57 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 3 of 3 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 27 | MDTv2 | 1.58 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 4 of 6 ran · 2 unverified | report | ||
| 28 | SiT-XL + SRA | 1.58 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 7 of 8 ran · 1 unverified | report | ||
| 29 | RobustTok-L | 1.60 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 30 | DiMR-G/2R | 1.63 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 10 of 16 ran · 6 unverified | report | ||
| 31 | FlowAR | 1.65 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 32 | FACM (1-step) | 1.70 | 1 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 8 of 14 ran · 6 unverified | report | |
| 33 | DiT-XL/2 with CADS | 1.70 | – | Paper | – | 2023 | no code linked | report | ||
| 34 | DiMR-XL/2R | 1.70 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 10 of 16 ran · 6 unverified | report | ||
| 35 | RAR-L, autoregressive | 1.70 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 36 | DiffiT | 1.73 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 18 of 25 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 37 | VAR (Visual Autoregressive) | 1.73 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 5 of 11 ran · 6 unverified | report | ||
| 38 | MAGVIT-v2 | 1.78 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 12 of 20 ran · 8 unverified | report | ||
| 39 | MAR-L, Diff Loss | 1.78 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 8 of 13 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 40 | MDT | 1.79 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 4 of 6 ran · 2 unverified | report | ||
| 41 | Discriminator Guidance | 1.83 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 42 | DoD-XL | 1.83 | – | Paper | – | 2024 | no code linked | report | ||
| 43 | RobustTok-B | 1.83 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 44 | ARPG-XXL | 1.94 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 11 of 18 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 45 | RAR-B, autoregressive | 1.95 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 46 | TiTok-S-128 | 1.97 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 47 | PixelFlow | 1.98 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 4 of 9 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 48 | RDM | 1.99 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 12 of 17 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 49 | FasterDiT-XL/2 | 2.03 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 6 of 10 ran · 4 unverified | report | ||
| 50 | LEGO-XL | 2.05 | 338.08 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 11 of 17 ran · 6 unverified | report | |
| 51 | ARPG-XL | 2.1 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 11 of 18 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 52 | StyleSAN-XL | 2.14 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 53 | LlamaGen | 2.18 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 6 of 15 ran · 9 unverified | report | ||
| 54 | DiT-XL/2 | 2.27 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 5 of 20 ran · 15 unverified | report | ||
| 55 | StyleGAN-XL | 2.30 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 14 of 19 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 56 | MAR-B, Diff Loss | 2.31 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 8 of 13 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 57 | Open-MAGVIT2-XL | 2.33 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 3 of 3 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 58 | ACDiT | 2.37 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 1 of 6 ran · 5 unverified | report | ||
| 59 | ARPG-L | 2.44 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | 11 of 18 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 60 | TiTok-B-64 | 2.48 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 61 | GIVT-Causal-L+A | 2.59 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 62 | Patch Diffusion | 2.74 | – | – | – | not matched | report | |||
| 63 | TiTok-B-32 | 2.77 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 64 | DoD-B | 2.79 | – | Paper | – | 2024 | no code linked | report | ||
| 65 | Poly-INR | 2.86 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 66 | MGVQ | 3.02 | 294.1 | – | Paper | Code | 2025 | linked, not harvested | report | |
| 67 | ADM-G++ (FID) | 3.18 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 68 | DiGIT-0.7B | 3.39 | 205.96 | – | Paper | Code | 2024 | 3 of 5 ran · 2 unverified | report | |
| 69 | Contextual RQ-Transformer | 3.41 | – | Paper | – | 2022 | no code linked | report | ||
| 70 | GigaGAN | 3.45 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 8 of 14 ran · 6 unverified | report | ||
| 71 | RCG-L (w/o guidance) | 3.49 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 12 of 18 ran · 6 unverified | report | ||
| 72 | BIGRoC-gt (Guided-Diffusion) | 3.63 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 73 | MAGVIT-v2 (w/o guidance) | 3.65 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 12 of 20 ran · 8 unverified | report | ||
| 74 | BIGRoC-pl (Guided-Diffusion) | 3.69 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 75 | simple diffusion (U-Net) | 3.71 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 76 | simple diffusion (U-ViT, L) | 3.75 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 77 | RQ-Transformer | 3.83 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 1 of 1 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 78 | ADM-G, ADM-U | 3.94 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | 27 of 50 ran · 23 unverified | report | ||
| 79 | ADM-G + EDS (ED-DPM, classifier_scale=0.75) | 3.96 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 1 of 1 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 80 | MaskGIT (a=0.05) | 4.02 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 14 of 21 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 81 | ADM-G + EDS + ECT (ED-DPM, classifier_scale=1.0) | 4.09 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 1 of 1 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 82 | LDM | 4.29 | – | – | – | not matched | report | |||
| 83 | ADM-G++ (Recall) | 4.45 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 2 of 2 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 84 | LFM | 4.46 | – | Paper | Code | 2023 | 1 of 1 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 85 | RIN | 4.51 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 21 of 29 ran · 8 unverified | report | ||
| 86 | ADM-G | 4.59 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | 27 of 50 ran · 23 unverified | report | ||
| 87 | CDM | 4.88 | – | Paper | – | 2021 | no code linked | report | ||
| 88 | VQGAN+Transformer (k=600, p=1.0, a=0.05) | 5.2 | – | Paper | Code | 2020 | 6 of 6 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 89 | MaskGIT | 6.18 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | 14 of 21 ran · 7 unverified | report | ||
| 90 | VQGAN+Transformer (k=mixed, p=1.0, a=0.005) | 6.59 | – | Paper | Code | 2020 | 6 of 6 ran · 0 unverified | report | ||
| 91 | Polarity-BigGAN | 6.82 | – | Paper | Code | 2022 | linked, not harvested | report | ||
| 92 | BigGAN-deep | 8.1 | – | Paper | Code | 2018 | 14 of 41 ran · 27 unverified | report | ||
| 93 | ADM | 11.84 | – | – | – | not matched | report | |||
| 94 | Improved DDPM | 12.3 | – | Paper | Code | 2021 | 9 of 11 ran · 2 unverified | report |
All 94 rows shown. 91 link to a paper page on this site; 0 are marked as using additional training data in the archive. No GitHub stars are tracked; "Code" is the first repository the archive lists for the row. The archive carries no row tags, review links or community-submitted rows for this table; none are shown. archive 2025-07-28
Syntology Ran reads "N of M ran · U unverified": of the M code samples Syntology harvested from repositories linked to that row's paper (joined by arXiv id), N executed on a synthesized input and the other U = M−N are unverified (harvested, no recorded run). It counts code from repositories linked to that row's paper, not this result: the row's number was not reproduced and nothing here is a correctness claim. The other cell texts mean no graph line for the row: "linked, not harvested" (the archive links code, Syntology has not harvested it), "no code linked" (no code link in the archive), "not matched" (the row's paper URL matched no paper on this site). 64 rows have a graph line, from 42 distinct papers; 64 rows (42 papers) have at least one sample that ran. Counting each paper once: Syntology ran 340 of 548 samples; 208 unverified. Separately, 98 of those 548 are pointer-only (licence): the site points at that code rather than redistributing it, a licence property recorded for ran and unverified samples alike; each cell's tooltip carries the row's own pointer-only count. Read from the graph 2026-09-24. Per-sample status is on the paper page.
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