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cs.CV2026

Sparse-LaViDa: Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Shufan Li, Jiuxiang Gu, Kangning Liu +4

Masked Discrete Diffusion Models (MDMs) have achieved strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, including image understanding, generation, and editing. However, t…

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Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Shufan Li, Jiuxiang Gu, Kangning Liu +4

Lavida-O is a unified masked diffusion model that combines a lightweight generation branch with a larger understanding branch to perform image understanding, object grounding, imag…

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LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

Shufan Li, Yuchen Zhu, Jiuxiang Gu +6

Diffusion language models (dLLMs) recently emerged as a promising alternative to auto-regressive LLMs. The latest works further extended it to multimodal understanding and generati…

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MAOAM: Unified Object and Material Selection with Vision-Language Models

Jaden Park, Valentin Deschaintre, Jason Kuen +5

Selection is a core operation in interactive image editing. To be practical, a user should be able to specify and disambiguate the desired selection region through either text or c…

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Inline Critic Steers Image Editing

Weitai Kang, Xiaohang Zhan, Yizhou Wang +4

Instruction-based image editing exhibits heterogeneous difficulty not only across cases but also across regions of an image, motivating refinement approaches that allocate correcti…

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SNCE: Geometry-Aware Supervision for Scalable Discrete Image Generation

Shufan Li, Jiuxiang Gu, Kangning Liu +3

Recent advancements in discrete image generation showed that scaling the VQ codebook size significantly improves reconstruction fidelity. However, training generative models with a…