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This paper presents Omni-View, which extends the unified multimodal understanding and generation to 3D scenes based on multiview images, exploring the principle that "generation facilitates understanding". Consisting of understanding model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 JiaKui Hu , Shanshan Zhao , Qing-Guo Chen , Xuerui Qiu , Jialun Liu , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Yanye Lu

As generative models become increasingly powerful and pervasive, the ability to unlearn specific data, whether due to privacy concerns, legal requirements, or the correction of harmful content, has become increasingly important. Unlike in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Pinak Mandal , Georg A. Gottwald

The remarkable success of diffusion models in text-to-image generation has sparked growing interest in expanding their capabilities to a variety of multi-modal tasks, including image understanding, manipulation, and perception. These tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinyang Song , Libin Wang , Weining Wang , Shaozhen Liu , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Qi Li , Zhenan Sun

Notable breakthroughs in unified understanding and generation modeling have led to remarkable advancements in image understanding, reasoning, production and editing, yet current foundational models predominantly focus on processing images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhiyu Tan , Hao Yang , Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Mengping Yang , Hao Li

The rapid progress of large multimodal models has inspired efforts toward unified frameworks that couple understanding and generation. While such paradigms have shown remarkable success in 2D, extending them to 3D remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zhaoyang Lyu , Shangchen Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan

The integration of visual understanding and generation into unified multimodal models represents a significant stride toward general-purpose AI. However, a fundamental question remains unanswered by existing benchmarks: does this…

Unifying visual understanding and generation within a single multimodal framework remains a significant challenge, as the two inherently heterogeneous tasks require representations at different levels of granularity. Current approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Size Wu , Wenwei Zhang , Lumin Xu , Sheng Jin , Zhonghua Wu , Qingyi Tao , Wentao Liu , Wei Li , Chen Change Loy

Large language models, trained on extensive corpora, successfully unify diverse linguistic tasks within a single generative framework. Inspired by this, recent works like Large Vision Model (LVM) extend this paradigm to vision by organizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lan Chen , Yuchao Gu , Qi Mao

We introduce UniToken, an auto-regressive generation model that encodes visual inputs through a combination of discrete and continuous representations, enabling seamless integration of unified visual understanding and image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yang Jiao , Haibo Qiu , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recently, text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with diffusion models facilitating high-quality image synthesis from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Wenjun Yan , Yinglun Li , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Mingming Gong , Gui-Song Xia

In this paper, we introduce Janus, an autoregressive framework that unifies multimodal understanding and generation. Prior research often relies on a single visual encoder for both tasks, such as Chameleon. However, due to the differing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Chengyue Wu , Xiaokang Chen , Zhiyu Wu , Yiyang Ma , Xingchao Liu , Zizheng Pan , Wen Liu , Zhenda Xie , Xingkai Yu , Chong Ruan , Ping Luo

Neural Module Networks (NMN) are a compelling method for visual question answering, enabling the translation of a question into a program consisting of a series of reasoning sub-tasks that are sequentially executed on the image to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wafa Aissa , Marin Ferecatu , Michel Crucianu

Recent progress in unified models for image understanding and generation has been impressive, yet most approaches remain limited to single-modal generation conditioned on multiple modalities. In this paper, we present Mogao, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chao Liao , Liyang Liu , Xun Wang , Zhengxiong Luo , Xinyu Zhang , Wenliang Zhao , Jie Wu , Liang Li , Zhi Tian , Weilin Huang

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

Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm that integrates multimodal understanding and generation within a unified modeling framework. However, current generative training paradigms suffer from inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jiyeong Kim , Yerim So , Hyesong Choi , Uiwon Hwang , Dongbo Min

Recent unified models integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a single framework. However, an "understanding-generation gap" persists, where models can capture user intent but often fail to translate this semantic knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Qingyang Liu , Bingjie Gao , Canmiao Fu , Zhipeng Huang , Chen Li , Feng Wang , Shuochen Chang , Shaobo Wang , Yali Wang , Keming Ye , Jiangtong Li , Li Niu

Recent cross-lingual cross-modal works attempt to extend Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models to non-English inputs and achieve impressive performance. However, these models focus only on understanding tasks utilizing encoder-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Bin Shan , Yaqian Han , Weichong Yin , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

With the recent success of the pre-training technique for NLP and image-linguistic tasks, some video-linguistic pre-training works are gradually developed to improve video-text related downstream tasks. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Huaishao Luo , Lei Ji , Botian Shi , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Tianrui Li , Jason Li , Taroon Bharti , Ming Zhou

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to jointly perform multimodal understanding and generation within a single framework. We present TUNA, a native UMM that builds a unified continuous visual representation by cascading a VAE encoder with…

Unifying multimodal understanding and generation has shown impressive capabilities in cutting-edge proprietary systems. However, evaluations of unified multimodal models (UMMs) remain decoupled, assessing their understanding and generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Kai Liu , Leyang Chen , Wenbo Li , Zhikai Chen , Zhixin Wang , Renjing Pei , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang