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Image processing, including image restoration, image enhancement, etc., involves generating a high-quality clean image from a degraded input. Deep learning-based methods have shown superior performance for various image processing tasks in…

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The evolution of visual generative models has long been constrained by fragmented architectures relying on disjoint text encoders and external VAEs. In this report, we present HiDream-O1-Image, a natively unified generative foundation model…

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,…

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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled multimodal foundation models to tackle both image understanding and generation within a unified framework. Despite these gains, unified models often underperform compared to…

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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 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

In this report, we present OpenUni, a simple, lightweight, and fully open-source baseline for unifying multimodal understanding and generation. Inspired by prevailing practices in unified model learning, we adopt an efficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Size Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Zerui Gong , Qingyi Tao , Sheng Jin , Qinyue Li , Wei Li , Chen Change Loy

Autoregressive modeling has driven major advances in multimodal AI, yet its application to medical imaging remains constrained by the absence of a unified image tokenizer that simultaneously preserves fine-grained anatomical structures and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Chenglong Ma , Yuanfeng Ji , Jin Ye , Zilong Li , Chenhui Wang , Junzhi Ning , Wei Li , Lihao Liu , Qiushan Guo , Tianbin Li , Junjun He , Hongming Shan

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 present Infinity, a Bitwise Visual AutoRegressive Modeling capable of generating high-resolution, photorealistic images following language instruction. Infinity redefines visual autoregressive model under a bitwise token prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jian Han , Jinlai Liu , Yi Jiang , Bin Yan , Yuqi Zhang , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Xiaobing Liu

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

We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xi Chen , Zhifei Zhang , He Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Soo Ye Kim , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Jianming Zhang , Nanxuan Zhao , Yilin Wang , Hui Ding , Zhe Lin , Hengshuang Zhao

While Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable success in cross-modal comprehension, a significant gap persists in their ability to leverage such internal knowledge for high-quality generation. We formalize this discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ruiyan Han , Zhen Fang , XinYu Sun , Yuchen Ma , Ziheng Wang , Yu Zeng , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Wenxuan Huang , Wei-Jie Xu , Yi Cao , Feng Zhao

We study the joint learning of image-to-text and text-to-image generations, which are naturally bi-directional tasks. Typical existing works design two separate task-specific models for each task, which impose expensive design efforts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yupan Huang , Hongwei Xue , Bei Liu , Yutong Lu

Current multimodal models aim to transcend the limitations of single-modality representations by unifying understanding and generation, often using text-to-image (T2I) tasks to calibrate semantic consistency. However, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Juanxi Tian , Siyuan Li , Conghui He , Lijun Wu , Cheng Tan

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…

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ye Liu , Zongyang Ma , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen

Visual tokenization remains a core challenge in unifying visual understanding and generation within the autoregressive paradigm. Existing methods typically employ tokenizers in discrete latent spaces to align with the tokens from large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ziyuan Huang , DanDan Zheng , Cheng Zou , Rui Liu , Xiaolong Wang , Kaixiang Ji , Weilong Chai , Jianxin Sun , Libin Wang , Yongjie Lv , Taozhi Huang , Jiajia Liu , Qingpei Guo , Ming Yang , Jingdong Chen , Jun Zhou

We introduce Skywork R1V, a multimodal reasoning model extending the an R1-series Large language models (LLM) to visual modalities via an efficient multimodal transfer method. Leveraging a lightweight visual projector, Skywork R1V…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yi Peng , Peiyu Wang , Xiaokun Wang , Yichen Wei , Jiangbo Pei , Weijie Qiu , Ai Jian , Yunzhuo Hao , Jiachun Pan , Tianyidan Xie , Li Ge , Rongxian Zhuang , Xuchen Song , Yang Liu , Yahui Zhou

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,…

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