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Unified multimodal generative models aim to integrate image understanding and generation abilities, offering significant advantages in harnessing multimodal corpora, particularly interleaved text-image data. However, existing unified models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Hong Zhang , Zhongjie Duan , Xingjun Wang , Yuze Zhao , Weiyi Lu , Zhipeng Di , Yixuan Xu , Yingda Chen , Yu Zhang

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

Recently, text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with diffusion models facilitating high-quality image synthesis from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Wenjun Yan , Yinglun Li , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Mingming Gong , Gui-Song Xia

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

In this paper, we propose \textbf{UniCode}, a novel approach within the domain of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that learns a unified codebook to efficiently tokenize visual, text, and potentially other types of signals. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Sipeng Zheng , Bohan Zhou , Yicheng Feng , Ye Wang , Zongqing Lu

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in both multimodal understanding models and image generation models. Despite their respective successes, these two domains have evolved independently, leading to distinct architectural paradigms:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Shanshan Zhao , Xinjie Zhang , Jintao Guo , Jiakui Hu , Lunhao Duan , Minghao Fu , Yong Xien Chng , Guo-Hua Wang , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has unified language generation tasks and revolutionized human-machine interaction. However, in the realm of image generation, a unified model capable of handling various tasks within a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shitao Xiao , Yueze Wang , Junjie Zhou , Huaying Yuan , Xingrun Xing , Ruiran Yan , Chaofan Li , Shuting Wang , Tiejun Huang , Zheng Liu

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

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

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

Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shiyuan Yang , Xiaodong Chen , Jing Liao

Recent progress has shown that video diffusion models (VDMs) can be repurposed for diverse multimodal graphics tasks. However, existing methods often train separate models for each problem setting, which fixes the input-output mapping and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Houyuan Chen , Hong Li , Xianghao Kong , Tianrui Zhu , Shaocong Xu , Weiqing Xiao , Yuwei Guo , Chongjie Ye , Lvmin Zhang , Hao Zhao , Anyi Rao

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

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating visually compelling images following user prompts. Building on this, various methods further fine-tune the pre-trained T2I model for specific tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tsu-Jui Fu , Yusu Qian , Chen Chen , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang

Text-to-image generation has greatly advanced content creation, yet accurately rendering visual text remains a key challenge due to blurred glyphs, semantic drift, and limited style control. Existing methods often rely on pre-rendered glyph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yuanrui Wang , Cong Han , Yafei Li , Zhipeng Jin , Xiawei Li , SiNan Du , Wen Tao , Yi Yang , Shuanglong Li , Chun Yuan , Liu Lin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Sijing Wu , Wei Shen , Guangtao Zhai

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

Vision-language large models are moving toward the unification of visual understanding and visual generation tasks. However, whether generation can enhance understanding is still under-explored on large data scale. In this work, we analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Fengjiao Chen , Minhao Jing , Weitao Lu , Yan Feng , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) integrate both visual understanding and generation within a single framework. Their ultimate aspiration is to create a cycle where understanding and generation mutually reinforce each other. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zihan Su , Hongyang Wei , Kangrui Cen , Yong Wang , Guanhua Chen , Chun Yuan , Xiangxiang Chu

Multimodal generation has long been dominated by text-driven pipelines where language dictates vision but cannot reason or create within it. We challenge this paradigm by asking whether all modalities, including textual descriptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Junchao Yi , Rui Zhao , Jiahao Tang , Weixian Lei , Linjie Li , Qisheng Su , Zhengyuan Yang , Lijuan Wang , Xiaofeng Zhu , Alex Jinpeng Wang