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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) extend the success of language models to visual understanding, and recent efforts have sought to build unified MLLMs that support both understanding and generation. However, constructing such models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hanyu Wang , Jiaming Han , Ziyan Yang , Qi Zhao , Shanchuan Lin , Xiangyu Yue , Abhinav Shrivastava , Zhenheng Yang , Hao Chen

Unified vision-language models have made significant progress in multimodal understanding and generation, yet they largely fall short in producing multimodal interleaved outputs, which is a crucial capability for tasks like visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ming Nie , Chunwei Wang , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

We present JanusFlow, a powerful framework that unifies image understanding and generation in a single model. JanusFlow introduces a minimalist architecture that integrates autoregressive language models with rectified flow, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yiyang Ma , Xingchao Liu , Xiaokang Chen , Wen Liu , Chengyue Wu , Zhiyu Wu , Zizheng Pan , Zhenda Xie , Haowei Zhang , Xingkai yu , Liang Zhao , Yisong Wang , Jiaying Liu , Chong Ruan

Data often are formed of multiple modalities, which jointly describe the observed phenomena. Modeling the joint distribution of multimodal data requires larger expressive power to capture high-level concepts and provide better data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Sasho Nedelkoski , Mihail Bogojeski , Odej Kao

Native unified multimodal models, which integrate both generative and understanding capabilities, face substantial computational overhead that hinders their real-world deployment. Existing acceleration techniques typically employ a static,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Junlong Ke , Zichen Wen , Boxue Yang , Yantai Yang , Xuyang Liu , Chenfei Liao , Zhaorun Chen , Shaobo Wang , Linfeng Zhang

World model-based searching and planning are widely recognized as a promising path toward human-level physical intelligence. However, current driving world models primarily rely on video diffusion models, which specialize in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuntao Chen , Yuqi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

In recent years, multimodal AI has seen an upward trend as researchers are integrating data of different types such as text, images, speech into modelling to get the best results. This project leverages multimodal AI and matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Aishwarya Jayagopal , Ankireddy Monica Aiswarya , Ankita Garg , Srinivasan Kolumam Nandakumar

Unified multimodal models typically rely on pretrained vision encoders and use separate visual representations for understanding and generation, creating misalignment between the two tasks and preventing fully end-to-end optimization from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhiheng Liu , Weiming Ren , Xiaoke Huang , Shoufa Chen , Tianhong Li , Mengzhao Chen , Yatai Ji , Sen He , Jonas Schult , Belinda Zeng , Tao Xiang , Wenhu Chen , Ping Luo , Luke Zettlemoyer , Yuren Cong

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities. However, further enhancing existing MLLMs necessitates high-quality vision-language datasets with carefully curated task complexities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xiuwei Chen , Wentao Hu , Hanhui Li , Jun Zhou , Zisheng Chen , Meng Cao , Yihan Zeng , Kui Zhang , Yu-Jie Yuan , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

We introduce UGen, a unified autoregressive multimodal model that demonstrates strong performance across text processing, image understanding, and image generation tasks simultaneously. UGen converts both texts and images into discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hongxuan Tang , Hao Liu , Xinyan Xiao

Generating realistic, context-aware two-person motion conditioned on diverse modalities remains a fundamental challenge for graphics, animation and embodied AI systems. Real-world applications such as VR/AR companions, social robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Prerit Gupta , Shourya Verma , Ananth Grama , Aniket Bera

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

We propose V2Flow, a novel tokenizer that produces discrete visual tokens capable of high-fidelity reconstruction, while ensuring structural and latent distribution alignment with the vocabulary space of large language models (LLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guiwei Zhang , Tianyu Zhang , Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Biye Li

Unified multimodal models can both understand and generate visual content within a single architecture. Existing models, however, remain data-hungry and too heavy for deployment on edge devices. We present Mobile-O, a compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Abdelrahman Shaker , Ahmed Heakl , Jaseel Muhammad , Ritesh Thawkar , Omkar Thawakar , Senmao Li , Hisham Cholakkal , Ian Reid , Eric P. Xing , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Large-scale flow matching models have achieved strong performance across generative tasks such as text-to-image, video, 3D, and speech synthesis. However, aligning their outputs with human preferences and task-specific objectives remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zexiang Liu , Xianglong He , Yangguang Li

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

In this work, we present VARGPT-v1.1, an advanced unified visual autoregressive model that builds upon our previous framework VARGPT. The model preserves the dual paradigm of next-token prediction for visual understanding and next-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Xianwei Zhuang , Yuxin Xie , Yufan Deng , Dongchao Yang , Liming Liang , Jinghan Ru , Yuguo Yin , Yuexian Zou

Recent years have witnessed a big convergence of language, vision, and multi-modal pretraining. In this work, we present mPLUG-2, a new unified paradigm with modularized design for multi-modal pretraining, which can benefit from modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Haiyang Xu , Qinghao Ye , Ming Yan , Yaya Shi , Jiabo Ye , Yuanhong Xu , Chenliang Li , Bin Bi , Qi Qian , Wei Wang , Guohai Xu , Ji Zhang , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Cross-modal systems trained on 2D visual inputs are presented with a dimensional shift when processing 3D scenes. An in-scene camera bridges the dimensionality gap but requires learning a control module. We introduce a new method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jason Armitage , Rico Sennnrich

We present Omni-Video 2, a scalable and computationally efficient model that connects pretrained multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) with video diffusion models for unified video generation and editing. Our key idea is to exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hao Yang , Zhiyu Tan , Jia Gong , Luozheng Qin , Hesen Chen , Xiaomeng Yang , Yuqing Sun , Yuetan Lin , Mengping Yang , Hao Li