8 papers
ViStoryBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Story Visualization
Cailin Zhuang, Ailin Huang, Yaoqi Hu +12
Story visualization aims to generate coherent image sequences that faithfully represent a narrative and match given character references. Despite progress in generative models, exi…
Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…
STEP3-VL-10B Technical Report
Ailin Huang, Chengyuan Yao, Chunrui Han +90
We present STEP3-VL-10B, a lightweight open-source foundation model designed to redefine the trade-off between compact efficiency and frontier-level multimodal intelligence. STEP3-…
PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning
Jingcheng Hu, Yinmin Zhang, Shijie Shang +17
We introduce Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (PaCoRe), a training-and-inference framework designed to overcome a central limitation of contemporary language models: their inability…
NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous Tokens at Scale
NextStep Team, Chunrui Han, Guopeng Li +47
Prevailing autoregressive (AR) models for text-to-image generation either rely on heavy, computationally-intensive diffusion models to process continuous image tokens, or employ ve…
Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding
StepFun, :, Bin Wang +195
Large language models (LLMs) face low hardware efficiency during decoding, especially for long-context reasoning tasks. This paper introduces Step-3, a 321B-parameter VLM with hard…