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Generative audio modeling has largely been fragmented into specialized tasks, text-to-speech (TTS), text-to-music (TTM), and text-to-audio (TTA), each operating under heterogeneous control paradigms. Unifying these modalities remains a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Chunyu Qiang , Xiaopeng Wang , Kang Yin , Yuzhe Liang , Yuxin Guo , Teng Ma , Ziyu Zhang , Tianrui Wang , Cheng Gong , Yushen Chen , Ruibo Fu , Chen Zhang , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

With the rise of diffusion models, audio-video generation has been revolutionized. However, most existing methods rely on separate modules for each modality, with limited exploration of unified generative architectures. In addition, many…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lei Zhao , Linfeng Feng , Dongxu Ge , Rujin Chen , Fangqiu Yi , Chi Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) unify visual understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, conventional training relies on image-text pairs (or sequences) whose captions are typically sparse and miss fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ji Xie , Trevor Darrell , Luke Zettlemoyer , XuDong Wang

The rapid progress of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and cloud-based AI agents is transforming human-AI collaboration into bidirectional, multimodal interaction. However, existing codecs remain optimized for unimodal, one-way communication,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qi Mao , Tinghan Yang , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Libiao Jin , Yan Lu

We address prevailing challenges of the brain-powered research, departing from the observation that the literature hardly recover accurate spatial information and require subject-specific models. To address these challenges, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Xia , Raoul de Charette , Cengiz Öztireli , Jing-Hao Xue

In-context Learning enables training-free adaptation via demonstrations but remains highly sensitive to example selection and formatting. In unified multimodal models spanning understanding and generation, this sensitivity is exacerbated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yicheng Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Zhucun Xue , Teng Hu , Ran Yi , Xiaobin Hu , Yong Liu , Dacheng Tao

In this paper, we propose \textbf{UniCode}, a novel approach within the domain of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that learns a unified codebook to efficiently tokenize visual, text, and potentially other types of signals. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Sipeng Zheng , Bohan Zhou , Yicheng Feng , Ye Wang , Zongqing Lu

In real-world multimodal applications, systems usually need to comprehend arbitrarily combined and interleaved multimodal inputs from users, while also generating outputs in any interleaved multimedia form. This capability defines the goal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yanlin Li , Minghui Guo , Kaiwen Zhang , Shize Zhang , Yiran Zhao , Haodong Li , Congyue Zhou , Weijie Zheng , Yushen Yan , Shengqiong Wu , Wei Ji , Lei Cui , Furu Wei , Hao Fei , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Medical diagnostic applications require models that can process multimodal medical inputs (images, patient histories, lab results) and generate diverse outputs including both textual reports and visual content (annotations, segmentation…

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

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

Current vision-language models have been explored for multi-modal embedding tasks like information retrieval. However, they face significant challenges in real-world queries and targets involving diverse modality combinations, as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiajun Qin , Yuan Pu , Zhuolun He , Seunggeun Kim , David Z. Pan , Bei Yu

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to jointly perform multimodal understanding and generation within a single framework. We present TUNA, a native UMM that builds a unified continuous visual representation by cascading a VAE encoder with…

Motion simulation, prediction and planning are foundational tasks in autonomous driving, each essential for modeling and reasoning about dynamic traffic scenarios. While often addressed in isolation due to their differing objectives, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Nan Song , Junzhe Jiang , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Effective code retrieval is indispensable and it has become an important paradigm to search code in hybrid mode using both natural language and code snippets. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether existing approaches can effectively…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yang Yang , Li Kuang , Jiakun Liu , Zhongxin Liu , Yingjie Xia , David Lo

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

Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have enabled remarkable image understanding and generation capabilities. However, while models like Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image show emerging abilities to reason over multiple related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingrui Wu , Hang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Recent work shows that large multimodal models (LMMs) can self-improve from unlabeled data via self-play and intrinsic feedback. Yet existing self-evolving frameworks mainly reward final outcomes, leaving intermediate reasoning weakly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Meghana Sunil , Manikandarajan Venmathimaran , Muthu Subash Kavitha

The long-standing goal of multimodal AI is to build unified models in which visual understanding and visual generation mutually enhance one another. Despite recent works such as BAGEL, BLIP3o achieves remarkable progress; In practice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yujun Tong , Dongliang Chang , Zijin Yin , Xintong Liu , Yuanchen Fang , Zhanyu Ma

Current coding benchmarks often inflate Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities due to static paradigms and data contamination, enabling models to exploit statistical shortcuts rather than genuine reasoning. To address this, we introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xinyue Zheng , Haowei Lin , Shaofei Cai , Zilong Zheng , Yaodong Yang , Yitao Liang