arXiv:2604. 07753v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Empowering Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with image generation often leads to catastrophic forgetting in understanding tasks due to severe gradient conflicts.
By Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Ping Tan
arXiv:2607. 00293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving true artificial general intelligence requires foundation models capable of integrating new modalities without forgetting prior knowledge.
By Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Ping Tan
arXiv:2606. 03871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual instruction tuning effectively adapts a pre-trained Large Language Model (LLM) to process image information alongside text.
By Luis Palacios, Lorenzo Basile, Diego Doimo, Alberto Cazzaniga
arXiv:2607. 03738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) generate responses autoregressively, integrating visual and linguistic information in an evolving context.
By Varun Gupta, Vineet Gandhi, Makarand Tapaswi
arXiv:2607. 25527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unifying visual understanding and generation in one model holds immense promise, but remains challenging and expensive due to heavy compute and data demands and conflicts between the visual features needed for these two capabilities.
By Weiming Zhuang, Jiabo Huang, Jingtao Li, Zhizhong Li, Chen Chen, Sina Sajadmanesh, Lingjuan Lyu
arXiv:2503. 06211v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-pretrained language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge, but adapting them to process and generate perceptual modalities such as audio and images while effectively leveraging that knowledge remains challenging.
By Santiago Cuervo, Adel Moumen, Yanis Labrak, Sameer Khurana, Antoine Laurent, Mickael Rouvier, Phil Woodland, Ricard Marxer