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JUICE model unifies multimodal generation in continuous encoder spaces

Researchers have introduced JUICE (Joint Unified multimodal modeling In Continuous Encoder spaces), a novel Transformer model designed for unified multimodal generation. Unlike previous models that treat image and text generation asymmetrically, JUICE models the joint distribution directly within continuous encoder spaces, allowing for flexible task definition. The model can perform image generation, captioning, visual question answering, or joint generation by adjusting noise levels for each modality. At 2.1B parameters, JUICE achieves strong performance on benchmarks like GenEval and VQAv2, and its coupled sampling method significantly improves success rates on tasks requiring joint modality generation, such as route planning on maps. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiahan Li, Huangyuan Su, Shengbang Tong, Shusheng Yang, Ruihan Guo, Suozhi Huang, Hexu Zhao, Pratyusha Sharma, Sherry Yang, Jiatao Gu, Rob Fergus, Kyunghyun Cho ·

    JUICE: Unified Multimodal Modeling in Pretrained Representation Spaces

    arXiv:2610.28801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most unified multimodal models treat images and text asymmetrically: a pretrained language model generates text, an attached diffusion head generates images, and outputs that contain both are produced in a fixed order, so the first …