arXiv Computer Vision

Vision-centric generative AI models: A software-hardware perspective

The article discusses how vision generative AI models, while rapidly advancing, have largely been developed with a focus on output quality, leading to hardware that adapts reactively to increasing model demands. It evaluates the parameter cost and energy efficiency of these models across various accelerator platforms and aligns four generative model families with seven real-world application domains. The authors propose a software‑hardware co‑design strategy that considers deployment constraints from the outset, ensuring that the appropriate model runs on suitable hardware for specific applications, thereby making generative AI deployment more sustainable and widely accessible.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13

A Survey on the Green Development of Large Models: From Resource-Efficient Architectures to Hardware-Software Co-Design

arXiv:2607. 09084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid expansion of large-scale AI models has led to significant performance breakthroughs across diverse domains, yet it has also raised critical concerns regarding computational costs, energy consumption, and environmental sustainability.

By Linhui Xiao, Guiping Cao, Mingyue Guo, Xianchao Guan, Fan Yang, Ming Tao, Xin Li, Yuxin Peng, Yaowei Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 10

A Vision Toward Energy-Efficient Domain-Specific Artificial Intelligence Models and Agents

arXiv:2510. 22052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has taken a tight hold on broad aspects of society, industry, business, and governance in ways that dictate the prosperity and might of the world's economies.

By Abhijit Chatterjee, Niraj K. Jha, Jonathan D. Cohen, Thomas L. Griffiths, Hongjing Lu, Diana Marculescu, Ashiqur Rasul, Wenrui Xu, Keshab K. Parhi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Is Generation Required for Data-Efficient Perception?

arXiv:2512. 08854v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: It has been hypothesized that achieving the data efficiency of human visual perception requires a generative approach in which internal representations result from inverting a decoder.

By Jack Brady, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Thomas Kipf, Simon Buchholz, Wieland Brendel
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open-Source Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

arXiv:2607. 13125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Boogu-Image-0.

By Guoxuan Chen, Chufeng Xiao, Haoran Yang, Siyue Xie, Binxiao Huang, Ming Zhang, Cheuk Him Chau, Xinyu Fu, Yingzhao Lian, Tom S. Y. Li, Jintao Lin, Bowen Dong, Zian Qian, Yuhao Liu, Yuxuan Hu, Weikang Shi, Bin Zou, Bowen Zheng, Haoxuan Che, Chang Chen, Yuyang He, Heyang Sun, Tianyu Huang, Chong Hou Choi, Cheng Gong, Han Shi, Haoli Bai, Xihui Liu, Hongsheng Li, Qifeng Chen, Chao Huang, Rui Liu, Chenyang Lei
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

Exploring the Performance Frontier of Compact Unified Image Generation Models

Swift-Image is a compact unified model that performs text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing using a 6B parameter DiT architecture. It employs a progressive training pipeline, parallel expert reinforcement learning, and multi-teacher distillation to balance diverse objectives, while a Prompt Enhancer decouples high-level reasoning from pixel-level rendering. After training, structural pruning and few-step distillation produce efficient 3B and accelerated variants that maintain near‑lossless performance and improve editing efficiency.

By Taihang Hu, Zhao Wang, Zuan Gao, Tao Liu, Hao Yan, Zhengze Xu, Yuhang Yu, Yongchao Du, Xingjian Wang, Jun Zheng, Qinye Zhou, Yaqi Cai, Zhengrui Chen, Chao Lin, Yefeng Shen, Yuan Wang, Zhengtao Wu, Ge Wu, Xiaoli Xu, Denghui Yang, Huayu Zhang, Mingzhou Zhang, Mengting Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open Agentic Multimodal Generation via Understanding under a Minimal Budget

arXiv:2607. 13125v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Boogu-Image-0.

By Guoxuan Chen, Chufeng Xiao, Haoran Yang, Siyue Xie, Binxiao Huang, Ming Zhang, Cheuk Him Chau, Xinyu Fu, Yingzhao Lian, Tom S. Y. Li, Jintao Lin, Bowen Dong, Zian Qian, Yuhao Liu, Yuxuan Hu, Weikang Shi, Bin Zou, Bowen Zheng, Haoxuan Che, Chang Chen, Yuyang He, Heyang Sun, Tianyu Huang, Chong Hou Choi, Cheng Gong, Han Shi, Haoli Bai, Xihui Liu, Hongsheng Li, Qifeng Chen, Chao Huang, Rui Liu, Chenyang Lei
arXiv AI
Jun 12

M*: A Modular, Extensible, Serving System for Multimodal Models

arXiv:2606. 12688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We are entering a new era of composite model architectures that integrate diverse components such as vision encoders, language backbones, diffusion and flow heads, audio codecs, action generators, and world-model predictors.

By Atindra Jha, Naomi Sagan, Keisuke Kamahori, Irmak Sivgin, Rohan Sanda, Steven Gao, Mark Horowitz, Luke Zettlemoyer, Olivia Hsu, Jure Leskovec, Baris Kasikci, Stephanie Wang