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Currently, enhancing Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) with image understanding, generation, and editing capabilities mainly relies on mixed multi-task training. Due to inherent task conflicts, such strategy requires complex multi-stage…

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Recent progress in multimodal models has spurred rapid advances in audio understanding, generation, and editing. However, these capabilities are typically addressed by specialized models, leaving the development of a truly unified framework…

We introduce MuirBench, a comprehensive benchmark that focuses on robust multi-image understanding capabilities of multimodal LLMs. MuirBench consists of 12 diverse multi-image tasks (e.g., scene understanding, ordering) that involve 10…

Unified Multimodal Models (uMMs) aim to support both visual understanding and visual generation within a shared representation. However, existing evaluation protocols assess these two capabilities independently and do not examine whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Weixing Wang , Liudvikas Zekas , Anton Hackl , Constantin Alexander Auga , Parisa Shahabinejad , Jona Otholt , Antonio Rueda-Toicen , Gerard de Melo

The remarkable success of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has driven advances in multimodal embeddings, yet existing models remain inherently discriminative, limiting their ability to benefit from reasoning-driven generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhibin Lan , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Jinsong Su

Recovering editable CAD programs from images or 3D observations is central to AI-assisted design, but progress is difficult to measure because existing evaluations are fragmented across datasets, modalities, and metrics. We introduce…

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With the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), many recent works have explored using them for decision-making. However, most of these approaches rely solely on language-based…

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Automatically evaluating multimodal generation presents a significant challenge, as automated metrics often struggle to align reliably with human evaluation, especially for complex tasks that involve multiple modalities. To address this, we…

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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, it remains underexplored how to effectively coordinate these two capabilities for more effective and efficient reasoning.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hayes Bai , Yinyi Luo , Wenwen Wang , Qingsong Wen , Jindong Wang

Solving expert-level multimodal tasks is a key milestone towards general intelligence. As the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) continue to improve, evaluation of such advanced multimodal intelligence becomes…

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Personalized models have demonstrated remarkable success in understanding and generating concepts provided by users. However, existing methods use separate concept tokens for understanding and generation, treating these tasks in isolation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ruichuan An , Sihan Yang , Renrui Zhang , Zijun Shen , Ming Lu , Gaole Dai , Hao Liang , Ziyu Guo , Shilin Yan , Yulin Luo , Bocheng Zou , Chaoqun Yang , Wentao Zhang

Adaptive multimodal reasoning has emerged as a promising frontier in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), aiming to dynamically modulate between tool-augmented visual reasoning and text reasoning to enhance both effectiveness and efficiency.…

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Video--based world models have emerged along two dominant paradigms: video generation and 3D reconstruction. However, existing evaluation benchmarks either focus narrowly on visual fidelity and text--video alignment for generative models,…

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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for seamlessly unifying text and image understanding and generation. However, prevailing evaluations treat these abilities in isolation, such that tasks with multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yongyuan Liang , Wei Chow , Feng Li , Ziqiao Ma , Xiyao Wang , Jiageng Mao , Jiuhai Chen , Jiatao Gu , Yue Wang , Furong Huang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which integrate language and visual cues for problem-solving, are crucial for advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, current benchmarks for measuring the intelligence of MLLMs…

Recent multimodal image generators such as GPT-4o, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Gemini 2.5 Pro excel at following complex instructions, editing images and maintaining concept consistency. However, they are still evaluated by disjoint toolkits:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Hang Hua , Ziyun Zeng , Yizhi Song , Yunlong Tang , Liu He , Daniel Aliaga , Wei Xiong , Jiebo Luo

Emotional understanding and generation are often treated as separate tasks, yet they are inherently complementary and can mutually enhance each other. In this paper, we propose the UniEmo, a unified framework that seamlessly integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yijie Zhu , Lingsen Zhang , Zitong Yu , Rui Shao , Tao Tan , Liqiang Nie

In different multimodal scenarios, it needs to integrate and utilize information across modalities in a specific way based on the demands of the task. Different integration ways between modalities are referred to as "multimodal…

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As language models (LMs) become capable of handling a wide range of tasks, their evaluation is becoming as challenging as their development. Most generation benchmarks currently assess LMs using abstract evaluation criteria like helpfulness…

Developing a universal model that can effectively harness heterogeneous resources and respond to a wide range of personalized needs has been a longstanding community aspiration. Our daily choices, especially in domains like fashion and…

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