Overview

Multimodal generation studies models that create outputs such as images, video, speech, motion, or scientific signals from text, media, or combinations of them. Common approaches include diffusion and flow-matching decoders, autoregressive or discrete-token models, shared latent spaces, and systems that connect vision-language models to modality-specific generators; planning and reinforcement learning can add control for complex or interleaved outputs. A major direction is building models that both understand and generate, with benchmarks measuring prompt adherence, fidelity, temporal and cross-modal coherence, and task-specific validity. An open challenge is enabling shared models to turn understanding into faithful, controllable generation without modality imbalance or loss of specialized quality, especially over long sequences and varied real-world inputs.

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243 papers29 papers in the last four weeks, up 38% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. Cognitive-structured Multimodal Agent for Multimodal Understanding, Generation, and Editing

    Jul 9, 2026Feng Wang, Canmiao Fu, Zhipeng Huang +3Multimodal MemoryEpisodic Memory

  2. Cross-Modal Generative Framework for Signal Translation from Fetal-Maternal Electrocardiograms to Fetal Doppler Waveforms

    Jul 9, 2026Tongli Su, Alireza Rafiei, Marly van Assen +4ElectrocardiographyMultimodal Generation

  3. Latent graph encoding of multimodal neuroimaging features with generative AI architectures

    Jul 8, 2026Ishaan Batta, Meenu Ajith, Vince CalhounVariational AutoencodersMultimodal Embedding

  4. Vision as Unified Multimodal Generation

    Jul 7, 2026Xiaoyang Han, Jianhua Li, Kewang Deng +14Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Generation

  5. Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models

    Jul 5, 2026Jiwon Kang, Heeji Yoon, Jaewoo Jung +5Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Generation

  6. Bridging Interleaved Multi-Modal Reasoning as a Unified Decision Process

    Jul 4, 2026Zican Hu, Xuyang Hu, Yiming Liu +10Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Reasoning

  7. Attending to Multimodal Generation One Token at a Time

    Jul 4, 2026Varun Gupta, Vineet Gandhi, Makarand TapaswiMultimodal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Generation

  8. Conversational Human Audio-visual Talking Dialogue Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Junhao Song, Lluis Guasch, Xilin He +8Audio-Video GenerationSpoken Dialogue Systems

  9. Alignment Is All You Need For X-to-4D Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Qiaowei Miao, Kehan Li, Yawei Luo +1Cross-Modal AlignmentMultimodal Generation

  10. Learning Spectral and Polarimetric Clues for One-to-Multimodal Novel View Synthesis

    Jul 2, 2026Federico Lincetto, Gianluca Agresti, Mattia Rossi +2Neural RenderingNovel View Synthesis

  11. Rosetta: Composable Native Multimodal Pretraining

    Jul 1, 2026Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang +3Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Pretraining

  12. BrainJanus: A Unified Model for Understanding and Generation across Brain, Vision, and Language

    Jun 29, 2026Haitao Wu, Qirui Zhang, Zhouheng Yao +8Cross-Modal Representation LearningUnified Multimodal Models

  13. OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Data

    Jun 29, 2026Kaixing Yang, Jiashu Zhu, Xulong Tang +8Audio-Video GenerationMultimodal Generation

  14. ModaFlow: Modality-Aware Flow Matching for High-Fidelity Virtual Try-On

    Jun 26, 2026Xiangyu Sai, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera +1Flow MatchingVirtual Try-On

  15. Ask, Solve, Generate: Self-Evolving Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Self-Consistency Rewards

    Jun 25, 2026Ritesh Thawkar, Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar +5Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Generation

  16. Navigating User Behavior toward Personalized Multimodal Generation

    Jun 23, 2026Hengji Zhou, Yufeng Liu, Ye Liu +3Multimodal GenerationConditional Generation

  17. TailorMind: Towards Preference-Aligned Multimodal Content Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Hengji Zhou, Ye Liu, Yufeng Liu +3Multimodal GenerationUser Preference Modeling

  18. SPAR: Semantic-Pixel Self-Alignment and Adaptive Routing for Unified Multimodal Models

    Jun 22, 2026Hongxiang Li, Hongxu Chen, Chenyang Zhu +5Diffusion Model AlignmentUnified Multimodal Models

  19. BioMatrix: Towards a Comprehensive Biological Foundation Model Spanning the Modality Matrix of Sequences, Structures, and Language

    Jun 20, 2026Qizhi Pei, Zhimeng Zhou, Yi Duan +9Multimodal UnderstandingMultimodal Pretraining

  20. Integrating Facial Generation into Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Jun 20, 2026Jingjing Jiang, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro HigashinakaAudio-Driven Facial AnimationMultimodal Generation

  21. Pareto LoRA: Mitigating Modality Imbalance in Unified Multimodal Models via Pareto-Optimal Gradient Integration

    Jun 15, 2026Xiwen Wei, Mark Nutter, Madhusudhanan Srinivasan +1Unified Multimodal ModelsModality Imbalance

  22. MMDiff: Extending Diffusion Transformers for Multi-Modal Generation

    Jun 15, 2026Yagmur Akarken, Orest Kupyn, Christian RupprechtDiffusion TransformerDepth Estimation

  23. UniDDT: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Decoupled Diffusion Transformer

    Jun 15, 2026Shuai Wang, Liang Li, Yang Chen +3Diffusion TransformerUnified Multimodal Models

  24. InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Dian Zheng, Harry Lee, Manyuan Zhang +4Agentic Image GenerationMultimodal Generation

  25. Hölder++: Improving the Quality-Coherence Trade-off in Multimodal VAEs

    Jun 11, 2026Huyen Vo, María Martínez-García, Isabel ValeraVariational AutoencodersMulti-View Consistency

  26. OMG: Omni-Modal Motion Generation for Generalist Humanoid Control

    Jun 9, 2026Siqiao Huang, Kun-Ying Lee, Dongming Qiao +5Robot Foundation ModelsHumanoid Robot Control

  27. IMUG-Bench: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Models on Interleaved Understanding and Generation

    Jun 8, 2026Lingyi Meng, Zecong Tang, Haoran Li +12Unified Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Generation