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Current multimodal models aim to transcend the limitations of single-modality representations by unifying understanding and generation, often using text-to-image (T2I) tasks to calibrate semantic consistency. However, their reliance on…

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Effectiveness and interpretability are two essential properties for trustworthy AI systems. Most recent studies in visual reasoning are dedicated to improving the accuracy of predicted answers, and less attention is paid to explaining the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Shi Chen , Qi Zhao

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for seamlessly unifying text and image understanding and generation. However, prevailing evaluations treat these abilities in isolation, such that tasks with multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yongyuan Liang , Wei Chow , Feng Li , Ziqiao Ma , Xiyao Wang , Jiageng Mao , Jiuhai Chen , Jiatao Gu , Yue Wang , Furong Huang

Existing methods for vision-and-language learning typically require designing task-specific architectures and objectives for each task. For example, a multi-label answer classifier for visual question answering, a region scorer for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jaemin Cho , Jie Lei , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

We propose UniDFlow, a unified discrete flow-matching framework for multimodal understanding, generation, and editing. It decouples understanding and generation via task-specific low-rank adapters, avoiding objective interference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Onkar Susladkar , Tushar Prakash , Gayatri Deshmukh , Kiet A. Nguyen , Jiaxun Zhang , Adheesh Juvekar , Tianshu Bao , Lin Chai , Sparsh Mittal , Inderjit S Dhillon , Ismini Lourentzou

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

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

Traditional photographic image editing typically requires users to possess sufficient aesthetic understanding to provide appropriate instructions for adjusting image quality and camera parameters. However, this paradigm relies on explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ying Zeng , Miaosen Luo , Guangyuan Li , Yang Yang , Ruiyang Fan , Linxiao Shi , Qirui Yang , Jian Zhang , Chengcheng Liu , Siming Zheng , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with unified architectures excel across a wide range of vision-language tasks, yet aligning them with personalized image generation remains a significant challenge. Existing methods for MLLMs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qian Liang , Yujia Wu , Kuncheng Li , Jiwei Wei , Shiyuan He , Jinyu Guo , Ning Xie

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiehui Huang , Yuechen Zhang , Xu He , Yuan Gao , Zhi Cen , Bin Xia , Yan Zhou , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jiaya Jia

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

Multimodal generation has long been dominated by text-driven pipelines where language dictates vision but cannot reason or create within it. We challenge this paradigm by asking whether all modalities, including textual descriptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Junchao Yi , Rui Zhao , Jiahao Tang , Weixian Lei , Linjie Li , Qisheng Su , Zhengyuan Yang , Lijuan Wang , Xiaofeng Zhu , Alex Jinpeng Wang

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

Text rendering has recently emerged as one of the most challenging frontiers in visual generation, drawing significant attention from large-scale diffusion and multimodal models. However, text editing within images remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Rui Gui , Yang Wan , Haochen Han , Dongxing Mao , Fangming Liu , Min Li , Alex Jinpeng Wang

This paper presents ReasonFormer, a unified reasoning framework for mirroring the modular and compositional reasoning process of humans in complex decision-making. Inspired by dual-process theory in cognitive science, the representation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Wanjun Zhong , Tingting Ma , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin , Tiejun Zhao , Chin-Yew Lin , Nan Duan

Image reconstruction and captioning from brain activity evoked by visual stimuli allow researchers to further understand the connection between the human brain and the visual perception system. While deep generative models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Image processing, including image restoration, image enhancement, etc., involves generating a high-quality clean image from a degraded input. Deep learning-based methods have shown superior performance for various image processing tasks in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Huiyu Duan , Xiongkuo Min , Sijing Wu , Wei Shen , Guangtao Zhai

Unified multimodal models have shown promising results in multimodal content generation and editing but remain largely limited to the image domain. In this work, we present UniVideo, a versatile framework that extends unified modeling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Cong Wei , Quande Liu , Zixuan Ye , Qiulin Wang , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Wenhu Chen

Current unified multimodal models typically rely on discrete visual tokenizers to bridge the modality gap. However, discretization inevitably discards fine-grained semantic information, leading to suboptimal performance in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yaqi Zhao , Wang Lin , Zijian Zhang , Miles Yang , Jingyuan Chen , Wentao Zhang , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo

The task of synthesizing novel views from a single image is highly ill-posed due to multiple explanations for unobserved areas. Most current methods tend to generate unseen regions from ambiguity priors and interpolation near input views,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haowang Cui , Rui Chen , Jiaze Wang , Tao Guo , Zheng Qin