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Multi-dimensional evaluation is the dominant paradigm for human evaluation in Natural Language Generation (NLG), i.e., evaluating the generated text from multiple explainable dimensions, such as coherence and fluency. However, automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ming Zhong , Yang Liu , Da Yin , Yuning Mao , Yizhu Jiao , Pengfei Liu , Chenguang Zhu , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Full-stack multimodal interaction in real-time is a central goal in building intelligent embodied agents capable of natural, dynamic communication. However, existing systems are either limited to unimodal generation or suffer from degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xiang Deng , Feng Gao , Yong Zhang , Youxin Pang , Xu Xiaoming , Zhuoliang Kang , Xiaoming Wei , Yebin Liu

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to autonomously navigate complex environments via visual images and natural language instructions--remains highly challenging. Recent research on enhancing language-guided navigation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Changxin Huang , Lv Tang , Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Runhao Zeng , Zun Liu , Zhengjie Wang , Jianqiang Li

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) were designed to combine the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the generation capability of vision models. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Songlin Yang , Xianghao Kong , Anyi Rao

With the rapid advancement of image generation, visual text editing using natural language instructions has received increasing attention. The main challenge of this task is to fully understand the instruction and reference image, and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lichen Ma , Xiaolong Fu , Gaojing Zhou , Zipeng Guo , Ting Zhu , Yichun Liu , Yu Shi , Jason Li , Junshi Huang

We present UniGen-1.5, a unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) for advanced image understanding, generation and editing. Building upon UniGen, we comprehensively enhance the model architecture and training pipeline to strengthen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Rui Tian , Mingfei Gao , Haiming Gang , Jiasen Lu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang , Zuxuan Wu , Afshin Dehghan

We propose EMMA, an efficient and unified architecture for multimodal understanding, generation and editing. Specifically, EMMA primarily consists of 1) An efficient autoencoder with a 32x compression ratio, which significantly reduces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin He , Longhui Wei , Jianbo Ouyang , Minghui Liao , Lingxi Xie , Qi Tian

We introduce UniGen, a unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) capable of image understanding and generation. We study the full training pipeline of UniGen from a data-centric perspective, including multi-stage pre-training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Rui Tian , Mingfei Gao , Mingze Xu , Jiaming Hu , Jiasen Lu , Zuxuan Wu , Yinfei Yang , Afshin Dehghan

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in tasks like visual question answering and common sense reasoning, while visual perception models have made significant strides in perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Guanqun Wang , Xinyu Wei , Jiaming Liu , Ray Zhang , Yichi Zhang , Kevin Zhang , Maurice Chong , Shanghang Zhang

Connecting text and visual modalities plays an essential role in generative intelligence. For this reason, inspired by the success of large language models, significant research efforts are being devoted to the development of Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Davide Caffagni , Federico Cocchi , Luca Barsellotti , Nicholas Moratelli , Sara Sarto , Lorenzo Baraldi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Despite significant strides in medical foundation models, the ultrasound domain lacks a comprehensive solution capable of bridging low-level Ultrasound Grounded Perception (e.g., segmentation, localization) and high-level Ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Dengbo Chen , Ziwei Zhao , Kexin Zhang , Shishuang Zhao , Junjie Hou , Yaqian Wang , Nianxi Liao , Anlan Sun , Fei Gao , Jia Ding , Yuhang Liu , Dong Wang

Significant advancements has recently been achieved in the field of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), demonstrating their remarkable capabilities in understanding and reasoning across diverse tasks. However, these models are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhaowei Li , Wei Wang , YiQing Cai , Xu Qi , Pengyu Wang , Dong Zhang , Hang Song , Botian Jiang , Zhida Huang , Tao Wang

Recent advances in the audio language modeling (ALM) domain tackle audio understanding and text-to-audio generation as separate tasks. Very few studies attempt to unify these tasks -- an essential step toward advanced multimodal reasoning.…

The task of visual dialog requires a multimodal chatbot to answer sequential questions from humans about image content. Prior work performs the standard likelihood training for answer generation on the positive instances (involving correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Zihao Wang , Junli Wang , Changjun Jiang

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

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show strong capabilities in visual-language reasoning, yet their performance on ultra-high-resolution imagery remains largely unexplored. Existing visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Siqi Li , Xinyu Cai , Jianbiao Mei , Nianchen Deng , Pinlong Cai , Licheng Wen , Yufan Shen , Xuemeng Yang , Botian Shi , Yong Liu

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made the ambitious quest for generalist agents significantly far from being a fantasy. A key hurdle for building such general models is the diversity and heterogeneity of tasks and modalities. A promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Mustafa Shukor , Corentin Dancette , Alexandre Rame , Matthieu Cord

Recent advancements in unified vision-language models (VLMs), which integrate both visual understanding and generation capabilities, have attracted significant attention. The underlying hypothesis is that a unified architecture with mixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jihai Zhang , Tianle Li , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Yu Cheng