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Text-to-image generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion models, progressing from CLIP and T5 conditioning to unified systems where a single LLM backbone handles both visual understanding and generation. Despite the architectural…

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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a unified architecture, yet it remains unclear to what extent their representations are truly aligned across modalities. To investigate this…

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We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

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Unified multimodal models integrate the reasoning capacity of large language models with both image understanding and generation, showing great promise for advanced multimodal intelligence. However, the community still lacks a rigorous…

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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…

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We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xi Chen , Zhifei Zhang , He Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Soo Ye Kim , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Jianming Zhang , Nanxuan Zhao , Yilin Wang , Hui Ding , Zhe Lin , Hengshuang Zhao

Unified multimodal models aim to jointly enable visual understanding and generation, yet current benchmarks rarely examine their true integration. Existing evaluations either treat the two abilities in isolation or overlook tasks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kai Zou , Ziqi Huang , Yuhao Dong , Shulin Tian , Dian Zheng , Hongbo Liu , Jingwen He , Bin Liu , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are making significant progress in multimodal reasoning. Early approaches focus on pure text-based reasoning. More recent studies have incorporated multimodal information into the reasoning steps;…

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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…

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Unified models capable of interleaved generation have emerged as a promising paradigm, with the community increasingly converging on autoregressive modeling for text and flow matching for image generation. To advance this direction, we…

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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…

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Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capability in complex textual tasks. However, multimodal reasoning, which requires integrating visual and textual information, remains a significant challenge. Existing…

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Despite impressive progress in high-fidelity image synthesis, generative models still struggle with logic-intensive instruction following, exposing a persistent reasoning--execution gap. Meanwhile, closed-source systems (e.g., Nano Banana)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Sashuai Zhou , Qiang Zhou , Jijin Hu , Hanqing Yang , Yue Cao , Junpeng Ma , Yinchao Ma , Jun Song , Tiezheng Ge , Cheng Yu , Bo Zheng , Zhou Zhao

Unified understanding and generation is a highly appealing research direction in multimodal learning. There exist two approaches: one trains a transformer via an auto-regressive paradigm, and the other adopts a two-stage scheme connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shihao Zhao , Yitong Chen , Zeyinzi Jiang , Bojia Zi , Shaozhe Hao , Yu Liu , Chaojie Mao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Unified multimodal models target joint understanding, reasoning, and generation, but current image editing benchmarks are largely confined to natural images and shallow commonsense reasoning, offering limited assessment of this capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Mingxin Liu , Ziqian Fan , Zhaokai Wang , Leyao Gu , Zirun Zhu , Yiguo He , Yuchen Yang , Changyao Tian , Xiangyu Zhao , Ning Liao , Shaofeng Zhang , Qibing Ren , Zhihang Zhong , Xuanhe Zhou , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

The remarkable success of diffusion models in text-to-image generation has sparked growing interest in expanding their capabilities to a variety of multi-modal tasks, including image understanding, manipulation, and perception. These tasks…

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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

Recent advances in foundation models highlight a clear trend toward unification and scaling, showing emergent capabilities across diverse domains. While image generation and editing have rapidly transitioned from task-specific to unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xuan Ju , Tianyu Wang , Yuqian Zhou , He Zhang , Qing Liu , Nanxuan Zhao , Zhifei Zhang , Yijun Li , Yuanhao Cai , Shaoteng Liu , Daniil Pakhomov , Zhe Lin , Soo Ye Kim , Qiang Xu

Unified multimodal models provide a natural and promising architecture for understanding diverse and complex real-world knowledge while generating high-quality images. However, they still rely primarily on frozen parametric knowledge, which…

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