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Unified understanding and generation is a highly appealing research direction in multimodal learning. There exist two approaches: one trains a transformer via an auto-regressive paradigm, and the other adopts a two-stage scheme connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shihao Zhao , Yitong Chen , Zeyinzi Jiang , Bojia Zi , Shaozhe Hao , Yu Liu , Chaojie Mao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities. However, current benchmarks predominantly focus on image comprehension in specific domains, and these benchmarks are labor-intensive to construct. Moreover, their answers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hailang Huang , Yong Wang , Zixuan Huang , Huaqiu Li , Tongwen Huang , Xiangxiang Chu , Richong Zhang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual understanding tasks such as visual grounding, segmentation, and captioning. However, their ability to perceive perceptual-level image features remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shuo Cao , Jiayang Li , Xiaohui Li , Yuandong Pu , Kaiwen Zhu , Yuanting Gao , Siqi Luo , Yi Xin , Qi Qin , Yu Zhou , Xiangyu Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Bin Fu , Yu Qiao , Yihao Liu

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

Interleaved multimodal comprehension and generation, enabling models to produce and interpret both images and text in arbitrary sequences, have become a pivotal area in multimodal learning. Despite significant advancements, the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Peng Xia , Siwei Han , Shi Qiu , Yiyang Zhou , Zhaoyang Wang , Wenhao Zheng , Zhaorun Chen , Chenhang Cui , Mingyu Ding , Linjie Li , Lijuan Wang , Huaxiu Yao

Recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation underscores the importance of reliable benchmarks in evaluating how accurately generated images reflect the semantics of their textual prompt. However, (1) existing benchmarks lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yibin Wang , Zhimin Li , Yuhang Zang , Jiazi Bu , Yujie Zhou , Yi Xin , Junjun He , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Cheng Jin , Jiaqi Wang

Autonomous driving has seen remarkable advancements, largely driven by extensive real-world data collection. However, acquiring diverse and corner-case data remains costly and inefficient. Generative models have emerged as a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tao Tang , Enhui Ma , xia zhou , Letian Wang , Tianyi Yan , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , XianPeng Lang , Jia-Wang Bian , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaodan Liang

Unified multimodal models are envisioned to bridge the gap between understanding and generation. Yet, to achieve competitive performance, state-of-the-art models adopt largely decoupled understanding and generation components. This design,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zeyu Liu , Zanlin Ni , Yang Yue , Cheng Da , Huan Yang , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Gao Huang

Image generation has witnessed significant advancements in the past few years. However, evaluating the performance of image generation models remains a formidable challenge. In this paper, we propose ICE-Bench, a unified and comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yulin Pan , Xiangteng He , Chaojie Mao , Zhen Han , Zeyinzi Jiang , Jingfeng Zhang , Yu Liu

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced text generation capabilities, yet evaluating their performance in generative writing remains a challenge. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on generic text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuning Wu , Jiahao Mei , Ming Yan , Chenliang Li , Shaopeng Lai , Yuran Ren , Zijia Wang , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Qin Jin , Fei Huang

We introduce Generative Universal Verifier, a novel concept and plugin designed for next-generation multimodal reasoning in vision-language models and unified multimodal models, providing the fundamental capability of reflection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xinchen Zhang , Xiaoying Zhang , Youbin Wu , Yanbin Cao , Renrui Zhang , Ruihang Chu , Ling Yang , Yujiu Yang

The capability of Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) to apply world knowledge across diverse tasks remains a critical, unresolved challenge. Existing benchmarks fall short, offering only siloed, single-task evaluations with limited diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Jintao Lin , Bowen Dong , Weikang Shi , Chenyang Lei , Suiyun Zhang , Rui Liu , Xihui Liu

Recent advances in unified multimodal models (UMMs) have enabled impressive progress in visual comprehension and generation. However, existing datasets and benchmarks focus primarily on single-turn interactions, failing to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Wei Chow , Jiachun Pan , Yongyuan Liang , Mingze Zhou , Xue Song , Liyu Jia , Saining Zhang , Siliang Tang , Juncheng Li , Fengda Zhang , Weijia Wu , Hanwang Zhang , Tat-Seng Chua

With the rapid advancement of Generative AI technology, Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) have the potential to act as AI software engineers capable of executing complex web application development. Considering that the model requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhiyu Lin , Zhengda Zhou , Zhiyuan Zhao , Tianrui Wan , Yilun Ma , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

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

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

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in fundamental cross-modality research, demonstrating significant potential in both image understanding and generation. However, existing research in the face domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Junzhe Li , Sifan Zhou , Liya Guo , Xuerui Qiu , Linrui Xu , Delin Qu , Tingting Long , Chun Fan , Ming Li , Hehe Fan , Jun Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Counting is a core capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet there is no unified counting dataset to rigorously evaluate this ability across image, text, and audio. We present UNICBench, a unified multimodal, multi level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chenggang Rong , Tao Han , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yaowu Fan , Jia Wan , Song Guo , Yuan Yuan , Junyu Gao

Multimodal generative models have made significant strides in image editing, demonstrating impressive performance on a variety of static tasks. However, their proficiency typically does not extend to complex scenarios requiring dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhiqiang Sheng , Xumeng Han , Zhiwei Zhang , Zenghui Xiong , Yifan Ding , Aoxiang Ping , Xiang Li , Tong Guo , Yao Mao

While Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is now widely adopted to enhance LLMs, evaluating its true performance benefits in a reproducible and interpretable way remains a major hurdle. Existing methods often fall short: they lack domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiaxuan Liang , Shide Zhou , Kailong Wang