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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a unified architecture, yet it remains unclear to what extent their representations are truly aligned across modalities. To investigate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cheng Yang , Chufan Shi , Bo Shui , Yaokang Wu , Muzi Tao , Huijuan Wang , Ivan Yee Lee , Yong Liu , Xuezhe Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Ensuring truthfulness in large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for reliable text generation. While supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback have shown promise, they require a substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Manh Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Hung Le

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

Universal Multimodal Retrieval requires unified embedding models capable of interpreting diverse user intents, ranging from simple keywords to complex compositional instructions. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xiangzhao Hao , Shijie Wang , Tianyu Yang , Tianyue Wang , Haiyun Guo , Jinqiao Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from cross-modal hallucinations, where one modality inappropriately influences generation about another, leading to fabricated output. This exposes a more fundamental deficiency in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Sangyun Chung , Se Yeon Kim , Youngchae Chee , Yong Man Ro

Large language models can generate plausible code, but remain brittle for formal verification in proof assistants such as Lean. A central scalability challenge is that verified synthesis requires consistent artifacts across several coupled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Robert Joseph George , Carson Eisenach , Udaya Ghai , Dominique Perrault-Joncas , Anima Anandkumar , Dean Foster

Unified multimodal models integrating visual understanding and generation face a fundamental challenge: visual generation incurs substantially higher computational costs than understanding, particularly for video. This imbalance motivates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Qian Qiao , Tianjiao Li , Li Xu , Haoyu Pan , Chao Qu , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li

Music enhances video narratives and emotions, driving demand for automatic video-to-music (V2M) generation. However, existing V2M methods relying solely on visual features or supplementary textual inputs generate music in a black-box…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Junxian Wu , Weitao You , Heda Zuo , Dengming Zhang , Pei Chen , Lingyun Sun

Perceiving the environment and its changes over time corresponds to two fundamental yet heterogeneous types of information: semantics and motion. Previous end-to-end autonomous driving works represent both types of information in a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yinzhe Shen , Omer Sahin Tas , Kaiwen Wang , Royden Wagner , Christoph Stiller

Empowering Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with image generation often leads to catastrophic forgetting in understanding tasks due to severe gradient conflicts. While existing paradigms like Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xiangyue Liu , Zijian Zhang , Miles Yang , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo , Ping Tan

Generative models have recently undergone significant advancement due to the diffusion models. The success of these models can be often attributed to their use of guidance techniques, such as classifier or classifier-free guidance, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Gyeongnyeon Kim , Wooseok Jang , Gyuseong Lee , Susung Hong , Junyoung Seo , Seungryong Kim

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enable scalable performance by activating large parameter sets sparsely, minimizing computational overhead. To mitigate the prohibitive cost of training MoEs from scratch, recent work employs upcycling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Qi Wang , Hanyang Peng , Yue Yu

Survival analysis, as a challenging task, requires integrating Whole Slide Images (WSIs) and genomic data for comprehensive decision-making. There are two main challenges in this task: significant heterogeneity and complex inter- and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Conghao Xiong , Hao Chen , Hao Zheng , Dong Wei , Yefeng Zheng , Joseph J. Y. Sung , Irwin King

This article makes discrete masked models for the generative modeling of discrete data controllable. The goal is to generate samples of a discrete random variable that adheres to a posterior distribution, satisfies specific constraints, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wei Guo , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

Medical generative models, acknowledged for their high-quality sample generation ability, have accelerated the fast growth of medical applications. However, recent works concentrate on separate medical generation models for distinct medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Chenlu Zhan , Yu Lin , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang , Jian Wu

Model merging is an efficient empowerment technique in the machine learning community that does not require the collection of raw training data and does not require expensive computation. As model merging becomes increasingly prevalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Enneng Yang , Li Shen , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Jie Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Understanding the decision-making process of Deep Reinforcement Learning agents remains a key challenge for deploying these systems in safety-critical and multi-agent environments. While prior explainability methods like StateMask, have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Maisha Maliha , Dean Hougen

Expressive representation of pose sequences is crucial for accurate motion modeling in human motion prediction (HMP). While recent deep learning-based methods have shown promise in learning motion representations, these methods tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiexin Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Zhao Yang , Bing Su

We study the challenging problem of unsupervised multi-object segmentation on single images. Existing methods, which rely on image reconstruction objectives to learn objectness or leverage pretrained image features to group similar pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yafei Yang , Zihui Zhang , Bo Yang

Software reuse has long been recognized as a critical and widely studied topic in software engineering, offering substantial benefits in reducing development costs, improving software quality, and enhancing operational efficiency. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 You Lu , Jiyang Zhang , Bihuan Chen , Chaofeng Sha , Dingji Wang , Xin Peng