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Achieving machine autonomy and human control often represent divergent objectives in the design of interactive AI systems. Visual generative foundation models such as Stable Diffusion show promise in navigating these goals, especially when…

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Existing multimodal generative models fall short as qualified design copilots, as they often struggle to generate imaginative outputs once instructions are less detailed or lack the ability to maintain consistency with the provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhipeng Huang , Shaobin Zhuang , Canmiao Fu , Binxin Yang , Ying Zhang , Chong Sun , Zhizheng Zhang , Yali Wang , Chen Li , Zheng-Jun Zha

Recent advances in vision-language pre-training have enabled machines to perform better in multimodal object discrimination (e.g., image-text semantic alignment) and image synthesis (e.g., text-to-image generation). On the other hand,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xiao Dong , Runhui Huang , Xiaoyong Wei , Zequn Jie , Jianxing Yu , Jian Yin , Xiaodan Liang

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

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

Recent endeavors in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aim to unify visual comprehension and generation by combining LLM and diffusion models, the state-of-the-art in each task, respectively. Existing approaches rely on spatial visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kaihang Pan , Wang Lin , Zhongqi Yue , Tenglong Ao , Liyu Jia , Wei Zhao , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Hanwang Zhang

Remote sensing vision tasks require extensive labeled data across multiple, interconnected domains. However, current generative data augmentation frameworks are task-isolated, i.e., each vision task requires training an independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Datao Tang , Hao Wang , Yudeng Xin , Hui Qiao , Dongsheng Jiang , Yin Li , Zhiheng Yu , Xiangyong Cao

The exponential growth of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has driven advancements in cross-modal reasoning but at significant computational costs. In this work, we focus on visual language models. We highlight the redundancy and inefficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yasmine Omri , Parth Shroff , Thierry Tambe

Unified image understanding and generation has emerged as a promising paradigm in multimodal artificial intelligence. Despite recent progress, the optimal architectural design for such unified models remains an open challenge. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Teng Li , Quanfeng Lu , Lirui Zhao , Hao Li , Xizhou Zhu , Yu Qiao , Jun Zhang , Wenqi Shao

3D structure modeling is essential across scales, enabling applications from fluid simulation and 3D reconstruction to protein folding and molecular docking. Yet, despite shared 3D spatial patterns, current approaches remain fragmented,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shuqi Lu , Haowei Lin , Lin Yao , Zhifeng Gao , Xiaohong Ji , Yitao Liang , Weinan E , Linfeng Zhang , Guolin Ke

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced the integration of visual and textual understanding. However, their ability to generate code from multimodal inputs remains limited. In this work, we introduce VisCodex, a…

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Full-stack multimodal interaction in real-time is a central goal in building intelligent embodied agents capable of natural, dynamic communication. However, existing systems are either limited to unimodal generation or suffer from degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiang Deng , Feng Gao , Yong Zhang , Youxin Pang , Xu Xiaoming , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Yebin Liu

Unified remote sensing multimodal models exhibit a pronounced spatial reversal curse: Although they can accurately recognize and describe object locations in images, they often fail to faithfully execute the same spatial relations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weiyu Zhang , Yuan Hu , Yong Li , Yu Liu

We present Unified-IO 2, the first autoregressive multimodal model that is capable of understanding and generating image, text, audio, and action. To unify different modalities, we tokenize inputs and outputs -- images, text, audio, action,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiasen Lu , Christopher Clark , Sangho Lee , Zichen Zhang , Savya Khosla , Ryan Marten , Derek Hoiem , Aniruddha Kembhavi

We introduce Uni4D, a unified framework for large scale open vocabulary 3D retrieval and controlled 4D generation based on structured three level alignment across text, 3D models, and image modalities. Built upon the Align3D 130 dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Philip Xu

Multimodal generative models that can understand and generate across multiple modalities are dominated by autoregressive (AR) approaches, which process tokens sequentially from left to right, or top to bottom. These models jointly handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Alexander Swerdlow , Mihir Prabhudesai , Siddharth Gandhi , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Large vision-language models exhibit inherent capabilities to handle diverse visual perception tasks. In this paper, we introduce VisionReasoner, a unified framework capable of reasoning and solving multiple visual perception tasks within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuqi Liu , Tianyuan Qu , Zhisheng Zhong , Bohao Peng , Shu Liu , Bei Yu , Jiaya Jia

Recent vision-language model (VLM)-based approaches have achieved impressive results on SVG generation. However, because they generate only text and lack visual signals during decoding, they often struggle with complex semantics and fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Peiying Zhang , Nanxuan Zhao , Matthew Fisher , Yiran Xu , Jing Liao , Difan Liu

Classical visual coding and Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) token technology share the core objective - maximizing information fidelity while minimizing computational cost. Therefore, this paper reexamines MLLM token technology,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Jinming Liu , Junyan Lin , Yuntao Wei , Kele Shao , Keda Tao , Jianguo Huang , Xudong Yang , Zhibo Chen , Huan Wang , Xin Jin

We present NextFlow, a unified decoder-only autoregressive transformer trained on 6 trillion interleaved text-image discrete tokens. By leveraging a unified vision representation within a unified autoregressive architecture, NextFlow…