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Recent advancements in omnimodal learning have significantly improved understanding and generation across images, text, and speech, yet these developments remain predominantly confined to proprietary models. The lack of high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Run Luo , Ting-En Lin , Haonan Zhang , Yuchuan Wu , Xiong Liu , Min Yang , Yongbin Li , Longze Chen , Jiaming Li , Lei Zhang , Xiaobo Xia , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Fei Huang

Although existing unified models achieve strong performance in vision-language understanding and text-to-image generation, they remain limited in addressing image perception and manipulation -- capabilities increasingly demanded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Bin Lin , Zongjian Li , Xinhua Cheng , Yuwei Niu , Yang Ye , Xianyi He , Shenghai Yuan , Wangbo Yu , Shaodong Wang , Yunyang Ge , Yatian Pang , Li Yuan

With the recent success of the pre-training technique for NLP and image-linguistic tasks, some video-linguistic pre-training works are gradually developed to improve video-text related downstream tasks. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Huaishao Luo , Lei Ji , Botian Shi , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Tianrui Li , Jason Li , Taroon Bharti , Ming Zhou

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

Unified models (UMs) hold promise for their ability to understand and generate content across heterogeneous modalities. Compared to merely generating visual content, the use of UMs for interleaved cross-modal reasoning is more promising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiachun Jin , Zetong Zhou , Xiao Yang , Hao Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Jun Zhu , Zhijie Deng

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiehui Huang , Yuechen Zhang , Xu He , Yuan Gao , Zhi Cen , Bin Xia , Yan Zhou , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jiaya Jia

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly propelled the development of large multi-modal models (LMMs), highlighting the potential for general and intelligent assistants. However, most LMMs model visual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Rui Yang , Lin Song , Yicheng Xiao , Runhui Huang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Hengshuang Zhao

Text-rich visual understanding-the ability to process environments where dense textual content is integrated with visuals-is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interact effectively with structured environments. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Junpeng Liu , Tianyue Ou , Yifan Song , Yuxiao Qu , Wai Lam , Chenyan Xiong , Wenhu Chen , Graham Neubig , Xiang Yue

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) built on shared autoregressive (AR) transformers are attractive for their architectural simplicity. However, we identify a critical limitation: when trained on multimodal inputs, modality-shared transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jitai Hao , Hao Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Qiang Huang , Jun Yu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are making significant progress in multimodal reasoning. Early approaches focus on pure text-based reasoning. More recent studies have incorporated multimodal information into the reasoning steps;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dongjie Cheng , Yongqi Li , Zhixin Ma , Hongru Cai , Yupeng Hu , Wenjie Wang , Liqiang Nie , Wenjie Li

Recently, unified multimodal models (UMMs) have made remarkable progress in integrating visual understanding and generation, demonstrating strong potential for complex text-to-image (T2I) tasks. Despite their theoretical promise, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiadong Pan , Liang Li , Yuxin Peng , Yu-Ming Tang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , Qingming Huang , Haifeng Wang

This paper presents Omni-View, which extends the unified multimodal understanding and generation to 3D scenes based on multiview images, exploring the principle that "generation facilitates understanding". Consisting of understanding model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 JiaKui Hu , Shanshan Zhao , Qing-Guo Chen , Xuerui Qiu , Jialun Liu , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Yanye Lu

Vision-language pre-training has been an emerging and fast-developing research topic, which transfers multi-modal knowledge from rich-resource pre-training task to limited-resource downstream tasks. Unlike existing works that predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Yehao Li , Jiahao Fan , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Weiyao Lin , Tao Mei

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven impressive progress in omni-modal understanding and generation. However, training omni-modal LLMs remains a significant challenge due to the heterogeneous model architectures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Qianli Ma , Yaowei Zheng , Zhelun Shi , Zhongkai Zhao , Bin Jia , Ziyue Huang , Zhiqi Lin , Youjie Li , Jiacheng Yang , Yanghua Peng , Zhi Zhang , Xin Liu

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

The recent popularity of text-to-image diffusion models (DM) can largely be attributed to the intuitive interface they provide to users. The intended generation can be expressed in natural language, with the model producing faithful…

We present UniFluid, a unified autoregressive framework for joint visual generation and understanding leveraging continuous visual tokens. Our unified autoregressive architecture processes multimodal image and text inputs, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lijie Fan , Luming Tang , Siyang Qin , Tianhong Li , Xuan Yang , Siyuan Qiao , Andreas Steiner , Chen Sun , Yuanzhen Li , Tao Zhu , Michael Rubinstein , Michalis Raptis , Deqing Sun , Radu Soricut

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) are often constrained by the pre-training of their $\textbf{visual generation components}$, which typically relies on inefficient paradigms and scarce, high-quality text-image paired data. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Peng Sun , Jun Xie , Tao Lin

Unified multimodal understanding and generation have recently received much attention in the area of vision and language. Existing UniMs are designed to simultaneously learn both multimodal understanding and generation capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jianwen Sun , Yukang Feng , Chuanhao Li , Fanrui Zhang , Zizhen Li , Jiaxin Ai , Sizhuo Zhou , Yu Dai , Shenglin Zhang , Kaipeng Zhang