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A unified diffusion framework for multi-modal generation and understanding has the transformative potential to achieve seamless and controllable image diffusion and other cross-modal tasks. In this paper, we introduce MMGen, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiepeng Wang , Zhaoqing Wang , Hao Pan , Yuan Liu , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Wenping Wang

We propose the first joint audio-video generation framework that brings engaging watching and listening experiences simultaneously, towards high-quality realistic videos. To generate joint audio-video pairs, we propose a novel Multi-Modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ludan Ruan , Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Huiguo He , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Qin Jin , Baining Guo

Current unified multimodal models typically rely on discrete visual tokenizers to bridge the modality gap. However, discretization inevitably discards fine-grained semantic information, leading to suboptimal performance in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yaqi Zhao , Wang Lin , Zijian Zhang , Miles Yang , Jingyuan Chen , Wentao Zhang , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo

Unified multimodal models aim to integrate understanding and generation within a single framework, yet bridging the gap between discrete semantic reasoning and high-fidelity visual synthesis remains challenging. We present MammothModa2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tao Shen , Xin Wan , Taicai Chen , Rui Zhang , Junwen Pan , Dawei Lu , Fanding Lei , Zhilin Lu , Yunfei Yang , Chen Cheng , Qi She , Chang Liu , Zhenbang Sun

Visual generation with discrete tokens has gained significant attention as it enables a unified token prediction paradigm shared with language models, promising seamless multimodal architectures. However, current discrete generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuqing Wang , Chuofan Ma , Zhijie Lin , Yao Teng , Lijun Yu , Shuai Wang , Jiaming Han , Jiashi Feng , Yi Jiang , Xihui Liu

Despite the success of generating high-quality images given any text prompts by diffusion-based generative models, prior works directly generate the entire images, but cannot provide object-wise manipulation capability. To support wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Runhui Huang , Kaixin Cai , Jianhua Han , Xiaodan Liang , Renjing Pei , Guansong Lu , Songcen Xu , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

Diffusion-based generative modeling has been achieving state-of-the-art results on various generation tasks. Most diffusion models, however, are limited to a single-generation modeling. Can we generalize diffusion models with the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Changyou Chen , Han Ding , Bunyamin Sisman , Yi Xu , Ouye Xie , Benjamin Z. Yao , Son Dinh Tran , Belinda Zeng

This study aims to construct an audio-video generative model with minimal computational cost by leveraging pre-trained single-modal generative models for audio and video. To achieve this, we propose a novel method that guides single-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Akio Hayakawa , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Motivated by discrete diffusion's success in language-vision modeling, we explore its potential for multi-view generation, a task dominated by continuous approaches. We introduce ViewMask-1-to-3, formulating multi-view synthesis as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ruishu Zhu , Zhihao Huang , Jiacheng Sun , Ping Luo , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

With the rise of diffusion models, audio-video generation has been revolutionized. However, most existing methods rely on separate modules for each modality, with limited exploration of unified generative architectures. In addition, many…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lei Zhao , Linfeng Feng , Dongxu Ge , Rujin Chen , Fangqiu Yi , Chi Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

Recent progress has shown that video diffusion models (VDMs) can be repurposed for diverse multimodal graphics tasks. However, existing methods often train separate models for each problem setting, which fixes the input-output mapping and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Houyuan Chen , Hong Li , Xianghao Kong , Tianrui Zhu , Shaocong Xu , Weiqing Xiao , Yuwei Guo , Chongjie Ye , Lvmin Zhang , Hao Zhao , Anyi Rao

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly growing ability to generate coherent natural language, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Michael Cardei , Jacob K Christopher , Thomas Hartvigsen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ferdinando Fioretto

We tackle the dual challenges of video understanding and controllable video generation within a unified diffusion framework. Our key insights are two-fold: geometry-only cues (e.g., depth, edges) are insufficient: they specify layout but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Dianbing Xi , Jiepeng Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xi Qiu , Jialun Liu , Hao Pan , Yuchi Huo , Rui Wang , Haibin Huang , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Discrete diffusion models have achieved success in tasks like image generation and masked language modeling but face limitations in controlled content editing. We introduce DICE (Discrete Inversion for Controllable Editing), the first…

Diffusion generative models have recently greatly improved the power of text-conditioned image generation. Existing image generation models mainly include text conditional diffusion model and cross-modal guided diffusion model, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Wei Li , Xue Xu , Xinyan Xiao , Jiachen Liu , Hu Yang , Guohao Li , Zhanpeng Wang , Zhifan Feng , Qiaoqiao She , Yajuan Lyu , Hua Wu

In this work, we provide a systematic survey of Discrete Diffusion Language Models (dLLMs) and Discrete Diffusion Multimodal Language Models (dMLLMs). Unlike autoregressive (AR) models, dLLMs and dMLLMs adopt a multi-token, parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Runpeng Yu , Qi Li , Xinchao Wang

Current image captioning works usually focus on generating descriptions in an autoregressive manner. However, there are limited works that focus on generating descriptions non-autoregressively, which brings more decoding diversity. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yufeng He , Zefan Cai , Xu Gan , Baobao Chang

We introduce Lumina-DiMOO, an open-source foundational model for seamless multi-modal generation and understanding. Lumina-DiMOO sets itself apart from prior unified models by utilizing a fully discrete diffusion modeling to handle inputs…

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