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Unified models capable of interleaved generation have emerged as a promising paradigm, with the community increasingly converging on autoregressive modeling for text and flow matching for image generation. To advance this direction, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jie Liu , Zilyu Ye , Linxiao Yuan , Shenhan Zhu , Yu Gao , Jie Wu , Kunchang Li , Xionghui Wang , Xiaonan Nie , Weilin Huang , Wanli Ouyang

Unified multimodal models often struggle with complex synthesis tasks that demand deep reasoning, and typically treat text-to-image generation and image editing as isolated capabilities rather than interconnected reasoning steps. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dianyi Wang , Chaofan Ma , Feng Han , Size Wu , Wei Song , Yibin Wang , Zhixiong Zhang , Tianhang Wang , Siyuan Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Jiaqi Wang

Real-world perception and interaction are inherently multimodal, encompassing not only language but also vision and speech, which motivates the development of "Omni" MLLMs that support both multimodal inputs and multimodal outputs. While a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Dongjie Cheng , Ruifeng Yuan , Yongqi Li , Runyang You , Wenjie Wang , Liqiang Nie , Lei Zhang , Wenjie Li

Despite recent progress, medical foundation models still struggle to unify visual understanding and generation, as these tasks have inherently conflicting goals: semantic abstraction versus pixel-level reconstruction. Existing approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Ruiheng Zhang , Jingfeng Yao , Huangxuan Zhao , Hao Yan , Xiao He , Lei Chen , Zhou Wei , Yong Luo , Zengmao Wang , Lefei Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bo Du

The recently developed discrete diffusion models perform extraordinarily well in the text-to-image task, showing significant promise for handling the multi-modality signals. In this work, we harness these traits and present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Minghui Hu , Chuanxia Zheng , Heliang Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Chaoyue Wang , Zuopeng Yang , Dacheng Tao , Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan

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

Recent feed-forward models have significantly advanced geometry perception for inferring dense 3D structure from sensor observations. However, its essential capabilities remain fragmented across multiple incompatible paradigms, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Haotian Wang , Yusong Huang , Zhaonian Kuang , Hongliang Lu , Xinhu Zheng , Meng Yang , Gang Hua

Recent progress in diffusion models significantly advances various image generation tasks. However, the current mainstream approach remains focused on building task-specific models, which have limited efficiency when supporting a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zhong-Yu Li , Ruoyi Du , Juncheng Yan , Le Zhuo , Qilong Wu , Zhen Li , Peng Gao , Zhanyu Ma , Ming-Ming Cheng

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating visually compelling images following user prompts. Building on this, various methods further fine-tune the pre-trained T2I model for specific tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tsu-Jui Fu , Yusu Qian , Chen Chen , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang

Flow models are effective at progressively generating realistic images, but they generally struggle to capture long-range dependencies during the generation process as they compress all the information from previous time steps into a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mude Hui , Rui-Jie Zhu , Songlin Yang , Yu Zhang , Zirui Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Jason Eshraghian , Cihang Xie

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

Unified multimodal models have recently demonstrated strong generative capabilities, yet whether and when generation improves understanding remains unclear. Existing benchmarks lack a systematic exploration of the specific tasks where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zimo Wen , Boxiu Li , Wanbo Zhang , Junxiang Lei , Xiaoyu Chen , Yijia Fan , Qi Zhang , Yujiang Wang , Lili Qiu , Bo Li , Ziwei Liu , Caihua Shan , Yifan Yang , Yifei Shen

Numerous efforts have been made to extend the ``next token prediction'' paradigm to visual contents, aiming to create a unified approach for both image generation and understanding. Nevertheless, attempts to generate images through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zigang Geng , Yibing Wang , Yeyao Ma , Chen Li , Yongming Rao , Shuyang Gu , Zhao Zhong , Qinglin Lu , Han Hu , Xiaosong Zhang , Linus , Di Wang , Jie Jiang

We propose UniMo, an innovative autoregressive model for joint modeling of 2D human videos and 3D human motions within a unified framework, enabling simultaneous generation and understanding of these two modalities for the first time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Youxin Pang , Yong Zhang , Ruizhi Shao , Xiang Deng , Feng Gao , Xu Xiaoming , Xiaoming Wei , Yebin Liu

Unified generation models aim to handle diverse tasks across modalities -- such as text generation, image generation, and vision-language reasoning -- within a single architecture and decoding paradigm. Autoregressive unified models suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qingyu Shi , Jinbin Bai , Zhuoran Zhao , Wenhao Chai , Kaidong Yu , Jianzong Wu , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li , Xuelong Li , Shuicheng Yan

Spatiotemporal flows govern diverse phenomena across physics, biology, and engineering, yet modelling their multiscale dynamics remains a central challenge. Despite major advances in physics-informed machine learning, existing approaches…

Despite the impressive progress on understanding and generating images shown by the recent unified architectures, the integration of 3D tasks remains challenging and largely unexplored. In this paper, we introduce UniUGG, the first unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yueming Xu , Jiahui Zhang , Ze Huang , Yurui Chen , Yanpeng Zhou , Zhenyu Chen , Yu-Jie Yuan , Pengxiang Xia , Guowei Huang , Xinyue Cai , Zhongang Qi , Xingyue Quan , Jianye Hao , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Consistency models (CMs) have shown promise in the efficient generation of both image and text. This raises the natural question of whether we can learn a unified CM for efficient multimodal generation (e.g., text-to-image) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Chenkai Xu , Xu Wang , Zhenyi Liao , Yishun Li , Tianqi Hou , Zhijie Deng

Existing methods for vision-and-language learning typically require designing task-specific architectures and objectives for each task. For example, a multi-label answer classifier for visual question answering, a region scorer for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jaemin Cho , Jie Lei , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu