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We propose LLM-Interleaved (LLM-I), a flexible and dynamic framework that reframes interleaved image-text generation as a tool-use problem. LLM-I is designed to overcome the "one-tool" bottleneck of current unified models, which are limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zirun Guo , Feng Zhang , Kai Jia , Tao Jin

We propose an efficient method to ground pretrained text-only language models to the visual domain, enabling them to process arbitrarily interleaved image-and-text data, and generate text interleaved with retrieved images. Our method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jing Yu Koh , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Daniel Fried

Although recent advances in visual generation have been remarkable, most existing architectures still depend on distinct encoders for images and text. This separation constrains diffusion models' ability to perform cross-modal reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kevin Li , Manuel Brack , Sudeep Katakol , Hareesh Ravi , Ajinkya Kale

Controllable text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models generate images conditioned on both text prompts and semantic inputs of other modalities like edge maps. Nevertheless, current controllable T2I methods commonly face challenges related to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xuehai He , Jian Zheng , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Robinson Piramuthu , Mohit Bansal , Vicente Ordonez , Gunnar A Sigurdsson , Nanyun Peng , Xin Eric Wang

Generating desired images conditioned on given text descriptions has received lots of attention. Recently, diffusion models and autoregressive models have demonstrated their outstanding expressivity and gradually replaced GAN as the favored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Xiaozhou You , Jian Zhang

Image-to-text (I2T) understanding and text-to-image (T2I) generation are two fundamental, important yet traditionally isolated multimodal tasks. Despite their intrinsic connection, existing approaches typically optimize them independently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhiyuan Yan , Kaiqing Lin , Zongjian Li , Junyan Ye , Hui Han , Haochen Wang , Zhendong Wang , Bin Lin , Hao Li , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang , Haifeng Wang , Li Yuan

Text-to-image models are showcasing the impressive ability to create high-quality and diverse generative images. Nevertheless, the transition from freehand sketches to complex scene images remains challenging using diffusion models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Tianyu Zhang , Xiaoxuan Xie , Xusheng Du , Haoran Xie

In multimodal unsupervised image-to-image translation tasks, the goal is to translate an image from the source domain to many images in the target domain. We present a simple method that produces higher quality images than current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Yazeed Alharbi , Neil Smith , Peter Wonka

Unifying diverse image generation tasks within a single framework remains a fundamental challenge in visual generation. While large language models (LLMs) achieve unification through task-agnostic data and generation, existing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yijing Lin , Mengqi Huang , Shuhan Zhuang , Zhendong Mao

Few-step generation has been a long-standing goal, with recent one-step generation methods exemplified by MeanFlow achieving remarkable results. Existing research on MeanFlow primarily focuses on class-to-image generation. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenxi Zhao , Chen Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Aiming Hao , Jiashu Zhu , Jiachen Lei , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Jufeng Yang

Diffusion models have been widely used for conditional data cross-modal generation tasks such as text-to-image and text-to-video. However, state-of-the-art models still fail to align the generated visual concepts with high-level semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zizhao Hu , Shaochong Jia , Mohammad Rostami

Text-to-video (T2V) generation technology holds potential to transform multiple domains such as education, marketing, entertainment, and assistive technologies for individuals with visual or reading comprehension challenges, by creating…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nilay Kumar , Priyansh Bhandari , G. Maragatham

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

Large-scale text-guided image diffusion models have shown astonishing results in text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, applying these models to synthesize textures for 3D geometries remains challenging due to the domain gap between 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jiawei Lu , Yingpeng Zhang , Zengjun Zhao , He Wang , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

This paper presents a multimodal framework that attempts to unify visual understanding and generation within a shared discrete semantic representation. At its core is the Text-Aligned Tokenizer (TA-Tok), which converts images into discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jiaming Han , Hao Chen , Yang Zhao , Hanyu Wang , Qi Zhao , Ziyan Yang , Hao He , Xiangyu Yue , Lu Jiang

Multimodal generative models require a unified approach to handle both discrete data (e.g., text and code) and continuous data (e.g., image, audio, video). In this work, we propose Latent Language Modeling (LatentLM), which seamlessly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yutao Sun , Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in autonomous driving, yet generalization to long-tail and open-world scenarios remains a major bottleneck for large-scale deployment. To address this challenge, some works use LLMs and VLMs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Yang Zhou , Yuxuan Hu , Zhuofan Zong , Steven L. Waslander , Wei Zhan , Hongsheng Li

We introduce spatially grounded contextual image generation, a controllable image generation task that reframes the conditioning paradigm. Instead of supplying a reference image and a global text prompt through two separate encoders, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiayun Wang , Yu Wang , Weijie Gan , Zhenting Wang , Wei Wei

Large-scale diffusion-based generative models have led to breakthroughs in text-conditioned high-resolution image synthesis. Starting from random noise, such text-to-image diffusion models gradually synthesize images in an iterative fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yogesh Balaji , Seungjun Nah , Xun Huang , Arash Vahdat , Jiaming Song , Qinsheng Zhang , Karsten Kreis , Miika Aittala , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine , Bryan Catanzaro , Tero Karras , Ming-Yu Liu

Large-scale diffusion generative models are greatly simplifying image, video and 3D asset creation from user-provided text prompts and images. However, the challenging problem of text-to-4D dynamic 3D scene generation with diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yufeng Zheng , Xueting Li , Koki Nagano , Sifei Liu , Karsten Kreis , Otmar Hilliges , Shalini De Mello