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We present Thinking with Generated Images, a novel paradigm that fundamentally transforms how large multimodal models (LMMs) engage with visual reasoning by enabling them to natively think across text and vision modalities through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ethan Chern , Zhulin Hu , Steffi Chern , Siqi Kou , Jiadi Su , Yan Ma , Zhijie Deng , Pengfei Liu

While recent advancements in multimodal language models have enabled image generation from expressive multi-image instructions, existing methods struggle to maintain performance under complex interleaved instructions. This limitation stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yabo Zhang , Kunchang Li , Dewei Zhou , Xinyu Huang , Xun Wang

Recent advances in visual generation have increasingly explored the integration of reasoning capabilities. They incorporate textual reasoning, i.e., think, either before (as pre-planning) or after (as post-refinement) the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Hongyu Li , Manyuan Zhang , Xinyan Chen , Sifan Wang , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models recently have achieve significant improvement in image generation capability, yet a large gap remains in instruction following and detail preservation compared to systems that tightly…

The "thinking with images" paradigm represents a pivotal shift in the reasoning of Vision Language Models (VLMs), moving from text-dominant chain-of-thought to image-interactive reasoning. By invoking visual tools or generating intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chi Zhang , Haibo Qiu , Qiming Zhang , Zhixiong Zeng , Lin Ma , Jing Zhang

Multimodal generative models have made significant strides in image editing, demonstrating impressive performance on a variety of static tasks. However, their proficiency typically does not extend to complex scenarios requiring dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhiqiang Sheng , Xumeng Han , Zhiwei Zhang , Zenghui Xiong , Yifan Ding , Aoxiang Ping , Xiang Li , Tong Guo , Yao Mao

Editing images via instruction provides a natural way to generate interactive content, but it is a big challenge due to the higher requirement of scene understanding and generation. Prior work utilizes a chain of large language models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Liya Ji , Chenyang Qi , Qifeng Chen

Multimodal reasoning requires iterative coordination between language and vision, yet it remains unclear what constitutes a meaningful interleaved chain of thought. We posit that text and image thoughts should function as complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiawei Gu , Yunzhuo Hao , Huichen Will Wang , Linjie Li , Michael Qizhe Shieh , Yejin Choi , Ranjay Krishna , Yu Cheng

Previous text-to-image synthesis algorithms typically use explicit textual instructions to generate/manipulate images accurately, but they have difficulty adapting to guidance in the form of coarsely matched texts. In this work, we attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengyao Cui , Zhe Zhu , Shao-Ping Lu , Yulu Yang

Recent progress in multimodal reasoning has been significantly advanced by textual Chain-of-Thought (CoT), a paradigm where models conduct reasoning within language. This text-centric approach, however, treats vision as a static, initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zhaochen Su , Peng Xia , Hangyu Guo , Zhenhua Liu , Yan Ma , Xiaoye Qu , Jiaqi Liu , Yanshu Li , Kaide Zeng , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Yu Cheng , Heng Ji , Junxian He , Yi R. Fung

Image extrapolation aims at expanding the narrow field of view of a given image patch. Existing models mainly deal with natural scene images of homogeneous regions and have no control of the content generation process. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yijun Li , Lu Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jie Liu , Zilyu Ye , Linxiao Yuan , Shenhan Zhu , Yu Gao , Jie Wu , Kunchang Li , Xionghui Wang , Xiaonan Nie , Weilin Huang , Wanli Ouyang

Design generation, in its essence, is a step-by-step process where designers progressively refine and enhance their work through careful modifications. Despite this fundamental characteristic, existing approaches mainly treat design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Faizan Farooq Khan , K J Joseph , Koustava Goswami , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Understanding the contents of multimodal documents is essential to accurately extract relevant evidence and use it for reasoning. Existing document understanding models tend to generate answers with a single word or phrase directly,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Jinxu Zhang

While vision-language models (VLMs) have exhibited multi-turn visual reasoning capabilities, their reasoning trajectories remain relatively shallow and are dominated by a text-centric paradigm, limiting their applicability to complex visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhiwei Ning , Wenwen Tong , Xiangli Kong , Shengnan Ma , Ziyi Shang , Jingcheng Ni , Tao Hu , Yong Xien Chng , Jixuan Ying , Zehuan Wu , Hanming Deng , Jie Yang , Yuanjie Zheng , Wei Liu , Lewei Lu

While today's large language models exhibit impressive abilities in generating human-like text, they require massive amounts of data during training. We here take inspiration from human cognitive development to train models in limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Badr AlKhamissi , Yingtian Tang , Abdülkadir Gökce , Johannes Mehrer , Martin Schrimpf

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can process text presented as images, yet they often perform worse than when the same content is provided as textual tokens. We systematically diagnose this "modality gap" by evaluating seven MLLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaiser Sun , Xiaochuang Yuan , Hongjun Liu , Chen Zhao , Cheng Zhang , Mark Dredze , Fan Bai

The painting process of artists is inherently stepwise and varies significantly among different painters and styles. Generating detailed, step-by-step painting processes is essential for art education and research, yet remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yiren Song , Shijie Huang , Chen Yao , Xiaojun Ye , Hai Ci , Jiaming Liu , Yuxuan Zhang , Mike Zheng Shou

Conditional text-to-image generation is an active area of research, with many possible applications. Existing research has primarily focused on generating a single image from available conditioning information in one step. One practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Shikhar Sharma , Hannes Schulz , Devon Hjelm , Layla El Asri , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Yoshua Bengio , Graham W. Taylor
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