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Multimodal Generative Models (MGMs) have rapidly evolved beyond text generation, now spanning diverse output modalities including images, music, video, human motion, and 3D objects, by integrating language with other sensory modalities…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Longzhen Han , Awes Mubarak , Almas Baimagambetov , Nikolaos Polatidis , Thar Baker

Embodied Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance and generalization in robotics, particularly within Vision-Language-Action frameworks. However, a significant gap remains between the high-level semantic focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ruowen Zhao , Bangguo Li , Zuyan Liu , Yinan Liang , Junliang Ye , Fangfu Liu , Diankun Wu , Zhengyi Wang , Xumin Yu , Yongming Rao , Han Hu , Jun Zhu

We introduce MUSE-VL, a Unified Vision-Language Model through Semantic discrete Encoding for multimodal understanding and generation. Recently, the research community has begun exploring unified models for visual generation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Rongchang Xie , Chen Du , Ping Song , Chang Liu

In recent years, there has been a rapid development of spatio-temporal prediction techniques in response to the increasing demands of traffic management and travel planning. While advanced end-to-end models have achieved notable success in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhonghang Li , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Chao Huang

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently demonstrated impressive results in terms of both sample quality and distribution coverage. However, they are usually applied directly in data space and often require thousands of network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis , Jan Kautz

In this paper, we introduce SemHiTok, a unified image Tokenizer via Semantic-Guided Hierarchical codebook that provides consistent discrete representations for multimodal understanding and generation. Recently, unified image tokenizers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zisheng Chen , Chunwei Wang , Runhui Huang , Hongbin Xu , Xiuwei Chen , Jun Zhou , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is widely used in front-end development and UI/UX design due to its scalability, editability, and rendering efficiency. However, turning creative ideas into precise vector graphics remains a time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Feiyu Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Yuandong Liu , Da Zhang , Junyu Gao , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

Semantic image synthesis (SIS) aims to generate realistic images that match given semantic masks. Despite recent advances allowing high-quality results and precise spatial control, they require a massive semantic segmentation dataset for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Jungwoo Chae , Hyunin Cho , Sooyeon Go , Kyungmook Choi , Youngjung Uh

Agents that can follow language instructions are expected to be useful in a variety of situations such as navigation. However, training neural network-based agents requires numerous paired trajectories and languages. This paper proposes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kei Akuzawa , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

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

Recent endeavors in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aim to unify visual comprehension and generation by combining LLM and diffusion models, the state-of-the-art in each task, respectively. Existing approaches rely on spatial visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kaihang Pan , Wang Lin , Zhongqi Yue , Tenglong Ao , Liyu Jia , Wei Zhao , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Hanwang Zhang

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) achieve strong performance in both understanding and generation by learning a shared latent space, yet they often exhibit functional inconsistency between these two capabilities. We observe that this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yinyi Luo , Wenwen Wang , Hayes Bai , Marios Savvides , Jindong Wang

To bridge the semantic gap between vision and language (VL), it is necessary to develop a good alignment strategy, which includes handling semantic diversity, abstract representation of visual information, and generalization ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Siyu Zhang , Wenzhe Liu , Yeming Chen , Yiming Wu , Heming Zheng , Cheng Cheng

Recent advancements in pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have highlighted the significant potential of prompt tuning for adapting these models to a wide range of downstream tasks. However, existing prompt tuning methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xinyang Wang , Yi Yang , Minfeng Zhu , Kecheng Zheng , Shi Liu , Wei Chen

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

Recent time series modeling faces a sharp divide between numerical generation and semantic understanding, with research showing that generation models often rely on superficial pattern matching, while understanding-oriented models struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Tong Guan , Sheng Pan , Johan Barthelemy , Zhao Li , Yujun Cai , Cesare Alippi , Ming Jin , Shirui Pan

Unifying diverse image generation tasks within a single framework remains a fundamental challenge in visual generation. While large language models (LLMs) achieve unification through task-agnostic data and generation, existing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yijing Lin , Mengqi Huang , Shuhan Zhuang , Zhendong Mao

Diffusion-based video motion customization facilitates the acquisition of human motion representations from a few video samples, while achieving arbitrary subjects transfer through precise textual conditioning. Existing approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Yujie Wei , Shiwei Zhang , Zhuoxin Liu , Ke Ma , Yan Wang , Kecheng Zheng , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

Amidst the sharp rise in the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, we find that semantic textual similarity (STS) has been under-explored. In this study, we show that STS can be cast as a text generation problem while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Joseph Gatto , Omar Sharif , Parker Seegmiller , Philip Bohlman , Sarah Masud Preum

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…

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