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While recent advances in image editing have enabled impressive visual synthesis capabilities, current methods remain constrained by explicit textual instructions and limited editing operations, lacking deep comprehension of implicit user…

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In-context image generation and editing (ICGE) enables users to specify visual concepts through interleaved image-text prompts, demanding precise understanding and faithful execution of user intent. Although recent unified multimodal models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Runze He , Yiji Cheng , Tiankai Hang , Zhimin Li , Yu Xu , Zijin Yin , Shiyi Zhang , Wenxun Dai , Penghui Du , Ao Ma , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Jizhong Han , Jiao Dai

Large-scale generative models have shown impressive image-generation capabilities, propelled by massive data. However, this often inadvertently leads to the generation of harmful or inappropriate content and raises copyright concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Myeongseob Ko , Henry Li , Zhun Wang , Jonathan Patsenker , Jiachen T. Wang , Qinbin Li , Ming Jin , Dawn Song , Ruoxi Jia

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

The field of controllable image generation has seen significant advancements, with various architectures improving generation layout consistency with control signals. However, contemporary methods still face challenges in bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Feng Han , Yang Jiao , Shaoxiang Chen , Junhao Xu , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihao Sun , Zhilong Zhang , Yang Yu , Pierre-Luc Bacon

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

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Medical imaging provides critical evidence for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and surgical decisions, yet most existing imaging models are narrowly focused and require multiple specialized networks, limiting their generalization.…

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Unified multimodal models can encode visual understanding and image generation within a shared backbone, yet understanding does not automatically translate into control: models may infer objects, relations, or knowledge cues but fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fuxiang Zhai , Sixiang Chen , Yingjin Li , Shuaibo Li , Jianyu Lai , Tengjun Huang , Lei Zhu

Large vision-language models exhibit inherent capabilities to handle diverse visual perception tasks. In this paper, we introduce VisionReasoner, a unified framework capable of reasoning and solving multiple visual perception tasks within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuqi Liu , Tianyuan Qu , Zhisheng Zhong , Bohao Peng , Shu Liu , Bei Yu , Jiaya Jia

Previous efforts to support creative problem-solving have included (a) techniques (such as brainstorming and design thinking) to stimulate creative ideas, and (b) software tools to record and share these ideas. Now, generative AI…

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…

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In recent years, significant progress has been made in both image generation and generated image detection. Despite their rapid, yet largely independent, development, these two fields have evolved distinct architectural paradigms: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yanran Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yifei Li , Bingyao Yu , Yu Zheng , Lei Chen , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

While generative models have become powerful tools for image synthesis, they are typically optimized for executing carefully crafted textual prompts, offering limited support for the open-ended visual exploration that often precedes idea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kfir Goldberg , Elad Richardson , Yael Vinker

Large pre-trained models exhibit distinct and complementary capabilities dependent on the data they are trained on. Language models such as GPT-3 are capable of textual reasoning but cannot understand visual information, while vision models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Shuang Li , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba , Igor Mordatch

The advent of Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) signals a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence, moving from passive perception to active, cross-modal generation. Despite their unprecedented ability to synthesize information, a critical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jingxuan Wei , Caijun Jia , Xi Bai , Xinglong Xu , Siyuan Li , Linzhuang Sun , Bihui Yu , Conghui He , Lijun Wu , Cheng Tan

Conceptual reasoning, the ability to reason in abstract and high-level perspectives, is key to generalization in human cognition. However, limited study has been done on large language models' capability to perform conceptual reasoning. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ben Zhou , Hongming Zhang , Sihao Chen , Dian Yu , Hongwei Wang , Baolin Peng , Dan Roth , Dong Yu

Text embedding and generative tasks are usually trained separately based on large language models (LLMs) nowadays. This causes a large amount of training cost and deployment effort. Context compression is also a challenging and pressing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhongtao Miao , Qiyu Wu , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have attained significant strides in multimodal reasoning, their reasoning processes remain predominantly text-centric, leading to suboptimal performance in complex long-horizon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zefeng He , Xiaoye Qu , Yafu Li , Tong Zhu , Siyuan Huang , Yu Cheng

Abstract visual reasoning (AVR) enables humans to quickly discover and generalize abstract rules to new scenarios. Designing intelligent systems with human-like AVR abilities has been a long-standing topic in the artificial intelligence…

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