Recent advances in multimodal generative models have enabled instruction-based image generation to move beyond semantic manipulation to knowledge-driven visual reasoning. However, these methods focus on explicit commonsense reasoning, shallow causal understanding, and direct knowledge recall, failing at knowledge-intensive generation.
We present S1-Omni-Image, an open-weight unified multimodal model for scientific image understanding, generation, and editing. Unlike general-purpose image generation models, scientific image tasks require not only high-fidelity synthesis, but also robust understanding of scientific semantics, structural relations, domain knowledge, and task intent.
arXiv:2606. 28406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image and multimodal generative models are increasingly used to produce scientific figures such as mechanism diagrams, experimental-design schematics, conceptual frameworks, and graphical abstracts.
By Davie Chen
arXiv:2503. 07265v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-Image (T2I) models are capable of generating high-quality artistic creations and visual content.
By Yuwei Niu, Munan Ning, Mengren Zheng, Weiyang Jin, Bin Lin, Peng Jin, Jiaqi Liao, Chaoran Feng, Fanqing Meng, Kunpeng Ning, Bin Zhu, Li Yuan
arXiv:2608. 05000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models, driving a shift towards natively unified multimodal pretraining.
By Junlin Han, Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Minghao Chen, Philip Torr, Filippos Kokkinos, Mike Lewis
arXiv:2607. 25422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-intensive multimodal question answering (KI-MMQA) sits at the intersection of three expensive primitives: long visual token sequences, dense retrieval over large external corpora, and full cross-modal fusion.
By Noor Islam S. Mohammad, Ulu\u{g} Bayaz{\i}t
arXiv:2606. 12169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-stakes clinical use of large vision-language models (LVLMs) requires reasoning that is grounded in visual evidence and clinical knowledge, not just correct final answers.
By Negin Baghbanzadeh, Pritam Sarkar, Michael Colacci, Abeer Badawi, Adibvafa Fallahpour, Arash Afkanpour, Leonid Sigal, Ali Etemad, Elham Dolatabadi
arXiv:2608. 11907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Vision-Language Models increasingly aim to integrate visual generation and understanding within a single parameter space, evaluating such structural unification in a cohesive manner remains a critical challenge.
By Hao Zhang, Jiaxin Qi, Zhijiang Tang, Jianqiang Huang
arXiv:2601. 04498v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Infographics are composite visual artifacts that combine data visualizations with textual and illustrative elements to communicate information.
By Yinghao Tang, Xueding Liu, Boyuan Zhang, Tingfeng Lan, Yupeng Xie, Jiale Lao, Yiyao Wang, Haoxuan Li, Tingting Gao, Bo Pan, Luoxuan Weng, Xiuqi Huang, Minfeng Zhu, Yingchaojie Feng, Yuyu Luo, Wei Chen
arXiv:2601. 13591v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent LLM-based data agents aim to automate data science tasks ranging from data analysis to deep learning.
By Maojun Sun, Yifei Xie, Yue Wu, Ruijian Han, Binyan Jiang, Defeng Sun, Yancheng Yuan, Jian Huang
arXiv:2607. 05382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual generators excel at rendering, but they confidently fabricate what they do not know.
By Haozhe Wang, Weijia Feng, Jinpeng Yu, Che Liu, Ping Nie, Fangzhen Lin, Jiaming Liu, Ruihua Huang, Jimmy Lin, Wenhu Chen, Cong Wei
As Large Vision-Language Models increasingly aim to integrate visual generation and understanding within a single parameter space, evaluating such structural unification in a cohesive manner remains a critical challenge. Current evaluation protocols predominantly treat generative and discriminative capabilities as separate tasks, leaving a gap in system-level evaluation for unified multimodal models (UMMs).