4 papers
InfoEdit: Probing Global Layout Reasoning in Infographic Editing
Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Huijuan Wang +6
Multimodal foundation models edit natural photographs at production quality, yet the same models struggle with structured visual content such as infographics. Unlike photographs, i…
An Exam for Active Observers
Jiarui Zhang, Muzi Tao, Shangshang Wang +3
Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued…
Asymmetric Idiosyncrasies in Multimodal Models
Muzi Tao, Chufan Shi, Huijuan Wang +2
In this work, we study idiosyncrasies in the caption models and their downstream impact on text-to-image models. We design a systematic analysis: given either a generated caption o…
UReason: Benchmarking Reasoning-to-Generation Alignment in Unified Multimodal Models
Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Bo Shui +7
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a unified architecture, yet it remains unclear to what extent textual and visual mo…