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The Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) framework has become a widely used approach for multimodal representation learning, particularly in image-text retrieval and clustering. However, its efficacy is constrained by three key…

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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) that integrate understanding, reasoning, generation, and editing face inherent trade-offs between maintaining strong semantic comprehension and acquiring powerful generation capabilities. In this report, we…

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

Representation Learning is a significant and challenging task in multimodal learning. Effective modality representations should contain two parts of characteristics: the consistency and the difference. Due to the unified multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Wenmeng Yu , Hua Xu , Ziqi Yuan , Jiele Wu

The fashion domain encompasses a variety of real-world multimodal tasks, including multimodal retrieval and multimodal generation. The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence generated content, particularly in technologies like large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiangyu Zhao , Yuehan Zhang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

Existing test-time scaling (TTS) methods for unified multimodal models (UMMs) in text-to-image (T2I) generation primarily rely on search or sampling strategies that produce only instance-level improvements, limiting the ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lit Sin Tan , Junzhe Chen , Xiaolong Fu , Lichen Ma , Junshi Huang , Jianzhong Shi , Yan Li , Lijie Wen

Recent advances in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated their remarkable success as general-purpose multi-modal assistants, with particular focuses on holistic image- and video-language understanding. Conversely, less attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ye Liu , Zongyang Ma , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen

Recent advances in 3D vision have led to specialized models for either 3D understanding (e.g., shape classification, segmentation, reconstruction) or 3D generation (e.g., synthesis, completion, and editing). However, these tasks are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Peng Huang , Yifeng Chen , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Recent works have made notable advancements in enhancing unified models for text-to-image generation through the Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, these reasoning methods separate the processes of understanding and generation, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Chi Kit Wong , Chenfei Liao , Lutao Jiang , Xu Zheng , Zexin Lu , Linfeng Zhang , Xuming Hu

Unified multimodal models hold the promise of generating extensive, interleaved narratives, weaving text and imagery into coherent long-form stories. However, current systems suffer from a critical reliability gap: as sequences grow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haoyu Chen , Qing Liu , Yuqian Zhou , He Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Mengwei Ren , Jingjing Ren , Xiang Wang , Zhe Lin , Lei Zhu

Unified multimodal models have recently shown remarkable gains in both capability and versatility, yet most leading systems are still trained from scratch and require substantial computational resources. In this paper, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zeyu Wang , Zilong Chen , Chenhui Gou , Feng Li , Chaorui Deng , Deyao Zhu , Kunchang Li , Weihao Yu , Haoqin Tu , Haoqi Fan , Cihang Xie

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

Safety moderation is pivotal for identifying harmful content. Despite the success of textual safety moderation, its multimodal counterparts remain hindered by a dual sparsity of data and supervision. Conventional reliance on binary labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Tianle Gu , Kexin Huang , Lingyu Li , Ruilin Luo , Shiyang Huang , Zongqi Wang , Yujiu Yang , Yan Teng , Yingchun Wang

Recent large vision-language models (VLMs) remain fundamentally constrained by a persistent dichotomy: understanding and generation are treated as distinct problems, leading to fragmented architectures, cascaded pipelines, and misaligned…

Existing 3D human motion generation and understanding methods often exhibit limited interpretability, restricting effective mutual enhancement between these inherently related tasks. While current unified frameworks based on large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Guocun Wang , Kenkun Liu , Jing Lin , Guorui Song , Jian Li , Xiaoguang Han

We present Unified-IO 2, the first autoregressive multimodal model that is capable of understanding and generating image, text, audio, and action. To unify different modalities, we tokenize inputs and outputs -- images, text, audio, action,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiasen Lu , Christopher Clark , Sangho Lee , Zichen Zhang , Savya Khosla , Ryan Marten , Derek Hoiem , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results with only large monolingual corpora in each language. However, the uncertainty of associating target with source sentences makes UNMT theoretically an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yuanhang Su , Kai Fan , Nguyen Bach , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Fei Huang

Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision-making,…

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

Building upon large language models (LLMs), recent large multimodal models (LMMs) unify cross-model understanding and generation into a single framework. However, LMMs still struggle to achieve accurate vision-language alignment, prone to…

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