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FLAT framework unifies image and text for multimodal generation

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Researchers have introduced FLAT, a novel framework for joint multimodal representation learning and generation. FLAT maps visual and textual inputs into a unified 1D sequence space, enabling both discriminative semantic descriptions and generative conditions. This approach allows for cross-modal retrieval and generation with dynamic output lengths, achieving strong performance on tasks like text-to-image generation and image captioning. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more integrated and efficient multimodal AI systems for tasks like image generation and captioning.

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FLAT framework unifies image and text for multimodal generation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Guangyu Sun, Shlok Kumar Mishra, Wentao Bao, Robert Zhenheng Yang, Xiao Wang, Xiyuan Wang, Yujunrong Ma, Chen Yuan, Max Xiangjun Fan, Jun Xiao, Jianpeng Cheng ·

    FLAT: Resampling Image and Text into 1D Flexible-Length Aligned Transmodal Tokens for Retrieval and Generation

    arXiv:2609.16591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional multimodal representation learning and generation are two stages: a contrastive or self-supervised visual encoder is trained first, followed by a separate downstream generative model. This setup bottlenecks generative pe…

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