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Unified vision-language models have made significant progress in multimodal understanding and generation, yet they largely fall short in producing multimodal interleaved outputs, which is a crucial capability for tasks like visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ming Nie , Chunwei Wang , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Li Zhang

Most existing vision-language pre-training methods focus on understanding tasks and use BERT-like objectives (masked language modeling and image-text matching) during pretraining. Although they perform well in many understanding downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Tianyi Liu , Zuxuan Wu , Wenhan Xiong , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Unified multimodal models have recently shown remarkable gains in both capability and versatility, yet most leading systems are still trained from scratch and require substantial computational resources. In this paper, we show that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zeyu Wang , Zilong Chen , Chenhui Gou , Feng Li , Chaorui Deng , Deyao Zhu , Kunchang Li , Weihao Yu , Haoqin Tu , Haoqi Fan , Cihang Xie

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cheng Yang , Chufan Shi , Bo Shui , Yaokang Wu , Muzi Tao , Huijuan Wang , Ivan Yee Lee , Yong Liu , Xuezhe Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Current research in multimodal models faces a key challenge where enhancing generative capabilities often comes at the expense of understanding, and vice versa. We analyzed this trade-off and identify the primary cause might be the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Sen Ye , Mengde Xu , Shuyang Gu , Di He , Liwei Wang , Han Hu

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

Recent years have witnessed significant progress in Unified Multimodal Models, yet a fundamental question remains: Does understanding truly inform generation? To investigate this, we introduce UniSandbox, a decoupled evaluation framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yuwei Niu , Weiyang Jin , Jiaqi Liao , Chaoran Feng , Peng Jin , Bin Lin , Zongjian Li , Bin Zhu , Weihao Yu , Li Yuan

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture. However, prevailing training paradigms independently optimize understanding via sparse text signals and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Songsong Yu , Yuxin Chen , Ying Shan , Yanwei Li

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

Ensuring model explainability and robustness is essential for reliable deployment of deep vision systems. Current methods for evaluating robustness rely on collecting and annotating extensive test sets. While this is common practice, the…

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We present VINO, a unified visual generator that performs image and video generation and editing within a single framework. Instead of relying on task-specific models or independent modules for each modality, VINO uses a shared diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Junyi Chen , Tong He , Zhoujie Fu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Weicai Ye

Unified models (UMs) hold promise for their ability to understand and generate content across heterogeneous modalities. Compared to merely generating visual content, the use of UMs for interleaved cross-modal reasoning is more promising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiachun Jin , Zetong Zhou , Xiao Yang , Hao Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Jun Zhu , Zhijie Deng

The recently developed discrete diffusion models perform extraordinarily well in the text-to-image task, showing significant promise for handling the multi-modality signals. In this work, we harness these traits and present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Minghui Hu , Chuanxia Zheng , Heliang Zheng , Tat-Jen Cham , Chaoyue Wang , Zuopeng Yang , Dacheng Tao , Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) excel in general tasks but struggle to bridge the gap between personalized understanding and generation. Prior works largely rely on implicit token-level alignment via supervised fine-tuning, which fails to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zijun Shen , Sihan Yang , Ruichuan An , Ziyu Guo , Hao Liang , Ming Lu , Renrui Zhang , Wentao Zhang

Building upon large language models (LLMs), recent large multimodal models (LMMs) unify cross-model understanding and generation into a single framework. However, LMMs still struggle to achieve accurate vision-language alignment, prone to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jixiang Hong , Yiran Zhang , Guanzhong Wang , Yi Liu , Ji-Rong Wen , Rui Yan

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Recent advances in unified multimodal models (UMM) have demonstrated remarkable progress in both understanding and generation tasks. However, whether these two capabilities are genuinely aligned and integrated within a single model remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chenlong Wang , Yuhang Chen , Zhihan Hu , Dongping Chen , Wenhu Chen , Sarah Wiegreffe , Tianyi Zhou

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

Video Scene Graph Generation (VidSGG) aims to represent dynamic visual content by detecting objects and modeling their temporal interactions as structured graphs. Prior studies typically target either coarse-grained box-level or…

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