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WeLM-Image model integrates multimodal understanding for advanced image generation

Researchers have introduced WeLM-Image, a unified image generation model designed for integration into large-scale consumer applications like WeChat. This model combines multimodal understanding with text-to-image generation, instruction-guided editing, and multi-reference synthesis capabilities. It features a Mixture-of-Transformers backbone with Mixture-of-Experts modules, boasting 31.7 billion stored parameters and approximately 5.4 billion activated parameters for efficient processing. WeLM-Image achieves top rankings on several benchmarks, including PRISM-Bench and Qwen Image Bench, and its distilled version, WeLM-Image-Turbo, can generate a 1024x1024 image in under 5 seconds on a single NVIDIA H20 GPU. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Canmiao Fu, Chen Li, Guohui Zhang, Hao Lu, Hongyang Wei, Huadong Wu, Huaisong Zhang, Hubery Yin, Liyuan Cui, Qixin Yan, Tong Shao, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Xinhang Leng, Ying Zhang, Zhenhai Liu, Zhipeng Huang ·

    WeLM-Image: A Unified Image Generation Model towards Visual Intelligence

    arXiv:2611.07392v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present \textbf{WeLM-Image}, a unified image foundation model that integrates multimodal understanding into text-to-image generation, instruction-guided editing, and multi-reference synthesis. Designed for single-GPU deployment…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    WeLM-Image: A Unified Image Generation Model towards Visual Intelligence

    We present WeLM-Image, a unified image foundation model that integrates multimodal understanding into text-to-image generation, instruction-guided editing, and multi-reference synthesis. Designed for single-GPU deployment in WeChat's large-scale consumer applications, the model p…