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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a unified architecture, yet it remains unclear to what extent their representations are truly aligned across modalities. To investigate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cheng Yang , Chufan Shi , Bo Shui , Yaokang Wu , Muzi Tao , Huijuan Wang , Ivan Yee Lee , Yong Liu , Xuezhe Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in unconditional generation, as well as on applications such as image editing and restoration. The success of DMs lies in the iterative nature of diffusion: diffusion breaks down the complex process of mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Beomsu Kim , Jaemin Kim , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

In this paper, we propose \textbf{UniCode}, a novel approach within the domain of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that learns a unified codebook to efficiently tokenize visual, text, and potentially other types of signals. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Sipeng Zheng , Bohan Zhou , Yicheng Feng , Ye Wang , Zongqing Lu

Image diffusion distillation achieves high-fidelity generation with very few sampling steps. However, applying these techniques directly to video diffusion often results in unsatisfactory frame quality due to the limited visual quality in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Zhai , Kevin Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Chung-Ching Lin , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan , Lijuan Wang

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Consistency Models (CMs) have showed a promise in creating visual content efficiently and with high quality. However, the way to add new conditional controls to the pretrained CMs has not been explored. In this technical report, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jie Xiao , Kai Zhu , Han Zhang , Zhiheng Liu , Yujun Shen , Yu Liu , Xueyang Fu , Zheng-Jun Zha

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-image generation (T2I) and editing (TI2I), whether instantiated as assembled unified frameworks which couple powerful vision-language model (VLM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuxin Song , Wenkai Dong , Shizun Wang , Qi Zhang , Song Xue , Tao Yuan , Hu Yang , Haocheng Feng , Hang Zhou , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang

Multi-modal object tracking integrates auxiliary modalities such as depth, thermal infrared, event flow, and language to provide additional information beyond RGB images, showing great potential in improving tracking stabilization in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shiyu Xuan , Zechao Li , Jinhui Tang

Recently, text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with diffusion models facilitating high-quality image synthesis from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Wenjun Yan , Yinglun Li , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Mingming Gong , Gui-Song Xia

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Consistency Models (CMs) have made significant progress in accelerating the generation of diffusion models. However, their application to high-resolution, text-conditioned image generation in the latent space remains unsatisfactory. In this…

Neural Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems find broad applications in voice assistants, e-learning, and audiobook creation. The pursuit of modern models, like Diffusion Models (DMs), holds promise for achieving high-fidelity, real-time speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiang Li , Fan Bu , Ambuj Mehrish , Yingting Li , Jiale Han , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) enable high-fidelity synthesis by operating in learned latent spaces. However, training state-of-the-art LDMs requires complex staging: a tokenizer must be trained first, before the diffusion model can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shivam Duggal , Xingjian Bai , Zongze Wu , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Antonio Torralba , Phillip Isola , William T. Freeman

While Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable success in cross-modal comprehension, a significant gap persists in their ability to leverage such internal knowledge for high-quality generation. We formalize this discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ruiyan Han , Zhen Fang , XinYu Sun , Yuchen Ma , Ziheng Wang , Yu Zeng , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Wenxuan Huang , Wei-Jie Xu , Yi Cao , Feng Zhao

Consistency models (CMs) are a powerful class of diffusion-based generative models optimized for fast sampling. Most existing CMs are trained using discretized timesteps, which introduce additional hyperparameters and are prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Cheng Lu , Yang Song

Notable breakthroughs in unified understanding and generation modeling have led to remarkable advancements in image understanding, reasoning, production and editing, yet current foundational models predominantly focus on processing images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhiyu Tan , Hao Yang , Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Mengping Yang , Hao Li

Consistency Models (CM) (Song et al., 2023) accelerate score-based diffusion model sampling at the cost of sample quality but lack a natural way to trade-off quality for speed. To address this limitation, we propose Consistency Trajectory…

Latent Consistency Models (LCMs) have achieved impressive performance in accelerating text-to-image generative tasks, producing high-quality images with minimal inference steps. LCMs are distilled from pre-trained latent diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Suraj Patil , Daniel Gu , Patrick von Platen , Apolinário Passos , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful generative framework that have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, the high computational cost of training DMs limits their practical applications. In this paper, we start with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tianshuo Xu , Peng Mi , Ruilin Wang , Yingcong Chen

Video Diffusion Models have been developed for video generation, usually integrating text and image conditioning to enhance control over the generated content. Despite the progress, ensuring consistency across frames remains a challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tian Xia , Xuweiyi Chen , Sihan Xu