# Unlocking Any-Order Generation in Pretrained Autoregressive Image Models > Source: > Published: 2026-10-30 17:30:33+00:00 Autoregressive (AR) image generators are powerful in principle but inflexible in practice: training with a fixed raster-scan order hardcodes a single factorization of the image distribution into the model, leaving it unable to inpaint, outpaint, or edit at inference time. Existing solutions, includi