EdgeRunner: Auto-regressive Auto-encoder for Artistic Mesh Generation

Part of International Conference on Representation Learning 2025 (ICLR 2025) Conference

Bibtex Paper

Authors

Jiaxiang Tang, Max Li, Zekun Hao, Xian Liu, Gang Zeng, Ming-Yu Liu, Qinsheng Zhang

Abstract

Current auto-regressive mesh generation methods suffer from issues such as incompleteness, insufficient detail, and poor generalization. In this paper, we propose an Auto-regressive Auto-encoder (ArAE) model capable of generating high-quality 3D meshes with up to 4,000 faces at a spatial resolution of $512^3$.We introduce a novel mesh tokenization algorithm that efficiently compresses triangular meshes into 1D token sequences, significantly enhancing training efficiency. Furthermore, our model compresses variable-length triangular meshes into a fixed-length latent space, enabling training latent diffusion models for better generalization. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior quality, diversity, and generalization capabilities of our model in both point cloud and image-conditioned mesh generation tasks.