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Generative AI promises to allow people to create high-quality personalized media. Although powerful, we identify three fundamental design problems with existing tooling through a literature review. We introduce a multimodal generative AI…

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We propose V2Flow, a novel tokenizer that produces discrete visual tokens capable of high-fidelity reconstruction, while ensuring structural and latent distribution alignment with the vocabulary space of large language models (LLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Guiwei Zhang , Tianyu Zhang , Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Biye Li

Denoising generative models, such as diffusion and flow-based models, produce high-quality samples but require many denoising steps due to discretization error. Flow maps, which estimate the average velocity between timesteps, mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Kyungmin Lee , Sihyun Yu , Jinwoo Shin

3D human reaction generation faces three main challenges:(1) high motion fidelity, (2) real-time inference, and (3) autoregressive adaptability for online scenarios. Existing methods fail to meet all three simultaneously. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zichen Geng , Zeeshan Hayder , Wei Liu , Hesheng Wang , Ajmal Mian

We introduce UniToken, an auto-regressive generation model that encodes visual inputs through a combination of discrete and continuous representations, enabling seamless integration of unified visual understanding and image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yang Jiao , Haibo Qiu , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most prominent object in a video. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical flow have gained significant attention, but their performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

Unified multimodal models have recently attracted considerable attention for their remarkable abilities in jointly understanding and generating diverse content. However, as contexts integrate increasingly numerous interleaved multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yanzuo Lu , Xin Xia , Manlin Zhang , Huafeng Kuang , Jianbin Zheng , Yuxi Ren , Xuefeng Xiao

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Autoregressive models have demonstrated great performance in natural language processing (NLP) with impressive scalability, adaptability and generalizability. Inspired by their notable success in NLP field, autoregressive models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Kai Jiang , Jiaxing Huang

Unified multimodal models aim to integrate understanding (text output) and generation (pixel output), but aligning these different modalities within a single architecture often demands complex training recipes and careful data balancing. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Xichen Pan , Satya Narayan Shukla , Aashu Singh , Zhuokai Zhao , Shlok Kumar Mishra , Jialiang Wang , Zhiyang Xu , Jiuhai Chen , Kunpeng Li , Felix Juefei-Xu , Ji Hou , Saining Xie

In this work, we introduce Wallaroo, a simple autoregressive baseline that leverages next-token prediction to unify multi-modal understanding, image generation, and editing at the same time. Moreover, Wallaroo supports multi-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jie Zhu , Hanghang Ma , Jia Wang , Yayong Guan , Yanbing Zeng , Lishuai Gao , Junqiang Wu , Jie Hu , Leye Wang

We introduce OneDiffusion, a versatile, large-scale diffusion model that seamlessly supports bidirectional image synthesis and understanding across diverse tasks. It enables conditional generation from inputs such as text, depth, pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Duong H. Le , Tuan Pham , Sangho Lee , Christopher Clark , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Stephan Mandt , Ranjay Krishna , Jiasen Lu

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

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

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

We introduce Transfusion, a recipe for training a multi-modal model over discrete and continuous data. Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function (next token prediction) with diffusion to train a single transformer over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chunting Zhou , Lili Yu , Arun Babu , Kushal Tirumala , Michihiro Yasunaga , Leonid Shamis , Jacob Kahn , Xuezhe Ma , Luke Zettlemoyer , Omer Levy

Diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation with its exceptional quality and creativity. However, its multi-step sampling process is known to be slow, often requiring tens of inference steps to obtain satisfactory results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xingchao Liu , Xiwen Zhang , Jianzhu Ma , Jian Peng , Qiang Liu