Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation and editing, particularly regarding instruction following and visual fidelity. However, when handling ambiguous intentions, logical reasoning, and Out-of-Distribution (OOD) knowledge, existing image models often yield sub-optimal results due to a lack of deep reasoning capabilities and real-time external information.
arXiv:2606. 03099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Image Search requires multi-step reasoning over rich contextual cues, such as time, location, and event relations.
By Kailin Lyu, Zhiqiang Yuan, Jianwei He, Qiwei Yan, Xuanbo Su, Nanxing Hu, Yang Liu, Ce Hao, Shengqian Qin, Lianyu Hu, Jinchao Zhang, Jie Zhou
arXiv:2606. 05275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the personal camera roll visual question answering setting.
By Thao Nguyen, Krishna Kumar Singh, Donghyun Kim, Yong Jae Lee, Yuheng Li
arXiv:2607. 23809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic tasks are inherently long-horizon and multi-turn, constantly accumulating context through interactions with the environment.
By Xiaochuan Li, Ryan Ming, Meng Chu, Shuai Shao, Rong Jin, Chenyan Xiong
arXiv:2608. 12290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows.
By Aman Tyagi, Hemanth Boinpally, Jonathan Chen, Douglas Gebert, Steven Hickson
Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows. Their inherent stochasticity causes minor variations in textual prompts or hyperparameters to yield drastically different outputs often necessitating inefficient, brute-force trial-and-error processes.
arXiv:2606. 27974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to combine image understanding with external knowledge.
By ZhengXian Wu, Hangrui Xu, Kai Shi, Zhuohong Chen, Yunyao Yu, Chuanrui Zhang, Zirui Liao, Jun Yang, Zhenyu Yang, Haonan Lu, Haoqian Wang
arXiv:2607. 08497v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent unified multimodal models show a single architecture can jointly perform vision/language understanding and image generation/editing.
By Feng Wang, Canmiao Fu, Zhipeng Huang, Chen Li, Jing Lyu, Ge Li
Recent image generators have demonstrated impressive photorealism and instruction-following capabilities in single-image generation and editing. However, constrained by their architectures, they cannot achieve interleaved generation (text-image sequence), which has crucial applications in visual narratives, guidance, and embodied manipulation.
arXiv:2606. 01803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The explosive growth of Text-to-Image (T2I) models, from large-scale versions to lightweight, real-time ones, now faces diminishing marginal returns from single-model scaling.
By Xu Jiang, Bin Chen, Gehui Li, Yule Duan, Ronggang Wang, Jian Zhang
arXiv:2607. 05465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex image creation and editing often require more than a single generation or editing model.
By Hairui Zhu, Yiying Yang, Tengjin Weng, Ziyu Lu, Xiao Yao, Xiaoyang Ye, Lin Ma, Wenhao Jiang
arXiv:2607. 22643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (mRAG) aims to answer image-text queries with external knowledge, but most existing systems still retrieve directly from raw multimodal input over a flat evidence space.
By Tianyu Yang, Shir Simon, Zhenzhen Li, Minhao Cheng, Xiangliang Zhang