Unified multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong text-to-image generation quality, but still struggle with structure-aware prompt following, where object counts, spatial relations, attribute bindings, and coarse layouts must be preserved. We attribute this limitation in part to the entanglement of structural planning and appearance rendering within a single conditioning stream.
arXiv:2607. 07117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In text-to-image in-context learning (T2I-ICL), a model has to infer a latent compositional pattern from fewshot demonstrations for generating a query image.
By Stepanida Alekseeva, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan Lee
arXiv:2603. 08652v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have significantly advanced text-to-image (T2I) generation, particularly through the integration of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning.
By Haodong Li, Chunmei Qing, Huanyu Zhang, Dongzhi Jiang, Yihang Zou, Hongbo Peng, Dingming Li, Yuhong Dai, ZePeng Lin, Juanxi Tian, Yi Zhou, Siqi Dai, Jingwei Wu, Pheng-Ann Heng
arXiv:2608. 15869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments.
By Xiaoyu Zhu, Xinke Deng, Suresh Taddewadikar, Arnab Kumar Mondal, Zhongyu Jiang, Ian Fasel, Joerg Liebelt
arXiv:2607. 16409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer a promising paradigm for unifying visual understanding and generation, yet they still struggle to follow complex spatial instructions and logical constraints in controllable image generation.
By Junhao Liu, Jian-Wei Zhang, Tao Huang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo
arXiv:2605. 18714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture.
By Songsong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Ying Shan, Yanwei Li