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Recently, unified multimodal models (UMMs) have made remarkable progress in integrating visual understanding and generation, demonstrating strong potential for complex text-to-image (T2I) tasks. Despite their theoretical promise, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiadong Pan , Liang Li , Yuxin Peng , Yu-Ming Tang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , Qingming Huang , Haifeng Wang

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) are emerging as strong foundation models that can do both generation and understanding tasks in a single architecture. However, they are typically trained in centralized settings where all training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhaolong Su , Leheng Zhao , Xiaoying Wu , Ziyue Xu , Jindong Wang

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly operate in Real-world environments, the integration of multi-modal data sources such as vision, language, and audio presents both unprecedented opportunities and critical challenges for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sree Bhargavi Balija

The construction of World Models capable of learning, simulating, and reasoning about objective physical laws constitutes a foundational challenge in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence. Recent advancements represented by video…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for image understanding tasks, yet their practical deployment remains hindered by significant architectural heterogeneity across model families. This paper introduces UVLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joan Perez , Giovanni Fusco

While Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable success in cross-modal comprehension, a significant gap persists in their ability to leverage such internal knowledge for high-quality generation. We formalize this discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ruiyan Han , Zhen Fang , XinYu Sun , Yuchen Ma , Ziheng Wang , Yu Zeng , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Wenxuan Huang , Wei-Jie Xu , Yi Cao , Feng Zhao

Interleaved image-text generation has emerged as a crucial multimodal task, aiming at creating sequences of interleaved visual and textual content given a query. Despite notable advancements in recent multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Wei Chen , Lin Li , Yongqi Yang , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Yu Wu , Long Chen

Multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have demonstrated significant success in tasks such as visual captioning, question answering, and image-text retrieval. However, these models face inherent limitations due to their finite internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xingjian Diao , Chunhui Zhang , Weiyi Wu , Zhongyu Ouyang , Peijun Qing , Ming Cheng , Soroush Vosoughi , Jiang Gui

In this report, we present OpenUni, a simple, lightweight, and fully open-source baseline for unifying multimodal understanding and generation. Inspired by prevailing practices in unified model learning, we adopt an efficient training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Size Wu , Zhonghua Wu , Zerui Gong , Qingyi Tao , Sheng Jin , Qinyue Li , Wei Li , Chen Change Loy

Image feature matching, a foundational task in computer vision, remains challenging for multimodal image applications, often necessitating intricate training on specific datasets. In this paper, we introduce a Unified Feature Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yide Di , Yun Liao , Hao Zhou , Kaijun Zhu , Qing Duan , Junhui Liu , Mingyu Lu

We introduce CEMTM, a context-enhanced multimodal topic model designed to infer coherent and interpretable topic structures from both short and long documents containing text and images. CEMTM builds on fine-tuned large vision language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Amirhossein Abaskohi , Raymond Li , Chuyuan Li , Shafiq Joty , Giuseppe Carenini

Despite rapid progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and emerging omni-modal architectures, current benchmarks remain limited in scope and integration, suffering from incomplete modality coverage, restricted interaction to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yue Jiang , Dingkang Yang , Minghao Han , Jinghang Han , Zizhi Chen , Yizhou Liu , Mingcheng Li , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

Foundation models have indeed made a profound impact on various fields, emerging as pivotal components that significantly shape the capabilities of intelligent systems. In the context of intelligent vehicles, leveraging the power of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sheng Luo , Wei Chen , Wanxin Tian , Rui Liu , Luanxuan Hou , Xiubao Zhang , Haifeng Shen , Ruiqi Wu , Shuyi Geng , Yi Zhou , Ling Shao , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu

Unified Multimodal Models (uMMs) aim to support both visual understanding and visual generation within a shared representation. However, existing evaluation protocols assess these two capabilities independently and do not examine whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Weixing Wang , Liudvikas Zekas , Anton Hackl , Constantin Alexander Auga , Parisa Shahabinejad , Jona Otholt , Antonio Rueda-Toicen , Gerard de Melo

Large language models (LLMs) are, by design, inherently capable of multi-task learning: through a unified next-token prediction paradigm, they can naturally address a wide variety of downstream tasks. Prior work in the motion domain has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zeyu Ling , Bo Han , Shiyang Li , Jikang Cheng , Hongdeng Shen , Changqing Zou

In this paper, we introduce ILLUME, a unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) that seamlessly integrates multimodal understanding and generation capabilities within a single large language model through a unified next-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chunwei Wang , Guansong Lu , Junwei Yang , Runhui Huang , Jianhua Han , Lu Hou , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

Building reliable speech systems often requires combining multiple modalities, like audio and visual cues. While such multimodal solutions frequently lead to improvements in performance and may even be critical in certain cases, they come…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Joanna Hong , Sanjeel Parekh , Honglie Chen , Jacob Donley , Ke Tan , Buye Xu , Anurag Kumar

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced the integration of visual and textual understanding. However, their ability to generate code from multimodal inputs remains limited. In this work, we introduce VisCodex, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Lingjie Jiang , Shaohan Huang , Xun Wu , Yixia Li , Dongdong Zhang , Furu Wei

Unified multimodal models have recently demonstrated strong generative capabilities, yet whether and when generation improves understanding remains unclear. Existing benchmarks lack a systematic exploration of the specific tasks where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zimo Wen , Boxiu Li , Wanbo Zhang , Junxiang Lei , Xiaoyu Chen , Yijia Fan , Qi Zhang , Yujiang Wang , Lili Qiu , Bo Li , Ziwei Liu , Caihua Shan , Yifan Yang , Yifei Shen

Recent evaluations of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have explored their capabilities in various domains, with only few benchmarks specifically focusing on urban environments. Moreover, existing urban benchmarks have been limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Baichuan Zhou , Haote Yang , Dairong Chen , Junyan Ye , Tianyi Bai , Jinhua Yu , Songyang Zhang , Dahua Lin , Conghui He , Weijia Li