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  1. PhysTacGen: Physics-Aware Visual-Tactile Sensor Image Generation

    Oct 6, 2026Guo Tang, Yongtao WangTactileVisual Generation

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University · VGI Labs Co., Ltd.

  2. Imagine to Act: High-Fidelity Data Synthesis via Image Editing World Model for Scalable GUI Agent Training

    Oct 5, 2026Yongxin Ning, Runliang Niu, Qianli Xing +4Visual GenerationIndoor Scene Generation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University · College of Computer Science, Jilin University · OPPO

  3. DMAD: Distribution Matching as Adversarial Distillation for Fast Visual Generation

    Oct 1, 2026Zhengming Yu, Junkun Yuan, Haotian Yang +8Distribution Matching DistillationDataset Distillation

    Texas A&M University · Intelligent Creation, ByteDance

  4. Form and Void: Entangled Composition through an Autonomous AI Agent

    Oct 1, 2026Shiwen Wang, Jian Yang, Xu Wang +2Visual GenerationMultimodal Generation

    School of AI, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Renmin University of China · Shanghai Theatre Academy +1

  5. AutoGUIWorld: Image Generators as Visual World Models for GUI Agent

    Oct 1, 2026Cheng Yang, Yifan Wu, Yutao Huang +18Visual GenerationAction Generation

    Hunyuan AI Data Team

  6. OmniTaskonomy: When Does Visual Generation Improve Visual Understanding?

    Sep 29, 2026Jiaxin Ge, Yiming Qin, Ji Xie +13Visual Generation

    University of California, Berkeley · Duke University · Impossible Research +3

  7. Think Before You Score: Thinking Reward Model for Visual Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Xuehai Bai, Zhenchen Tang, Yang Shi +9Progress Reward ModelingVisual Generation

    HDU · SenseTime · CASIA +5

  8. Unifying Distributional Training for One-Step Visual Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Chi Zhang, Shi Haoyang, Yueyi Liu +9Generative Flow NetworksVisual Generation

    Tsinghua University · Fudan University · Xi’an Jiaotong University +4

  9. SolveEdit: Benchmarking Visual Problem Solving in Generative Models

    Sep 28, 2026Wenjie Shu, Yexin Liu, Harold Haodong Chen +9Visual GenerationVisual Reasoning

    ZODA · HKUST · UCAS +2

  10. DrawingsDreamer: A Unified Multi-View Engineering Drawings Generation Model

    Sep 28, 2026Shurui Liu, Weide Chen, Changwang Yi +1Scalable Vector GraphicVisual Generation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China · School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, China

  11. What Visual Generators Need from Teachers: Rethinking Representation Alignment

    Sep 28, 2026Yongcong Wang, Hingchin Chen, Mingyu Fan +6Diffusion AlignmentDiffusion Transformers

    Central South University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Tsinghua University +7

  12. MaLiang-Harness: A Programmable Path to Image and Video Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Haoyu Zhao, Zihao Zhang, Xudong Wang +4Visual GenerationVideo Generation

    National University of Singapore · Fudan University · Tencent

  13. SciGen-Verifier: A Multimodal Reasoner for Explainable Verification in Scientific Image Generation

    Sep 27, 2026Jiali Chen, Zhengteng Lin, Zuqi Wang +6Scientific FigureReference-Guided Multimodal In-Context Verification

    South China University of Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · South China University of Technology · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  14. Seeing Is Not Perceiving: When Synthetic Consumers Can and Cannot Pretest Visual Marketing

    Sep 22, 2026Yi-Lin Tsai, Yung-Hsiu, LaiGenerative Artificial IntelligenceVisual Generation

    Arvin · Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne

  15. GAE: Learning a Geometry-Native Latent Space for 3D-Consistent World Generation

    Sep 21, 2026Jiahao Lu, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu +5Playable Video World GenerationVideo Latents

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · ARC Lab, Tencent IEG · The University of Hong Kong +1

  16. A Multi-Modal Generative Model for Tomato Disease Leaves Understanding

    Sep 17, 2026Khang Nguyen Quoc, Minh-Phuoc Tran, Gia-Han Truong +1Tomato DiseasesMultimodal Clinical Data

  17. What Do Hallucinations Reveal About Multimodal Reasoning? Diagnosing Visual Grounding Failures via Contrastive Decoding Probes

    Sep 15, 2026Zhipeng Zhao, Wenxu Wang, Peishun Liu +1Weak Visual GroundingMultimodal Reasoning

    1Ocean University of China

  18. Reasoning with Image Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Nishad Singhi, Hector Garcia Rodriguez, Aditya Arora +2Visual ReasoningVisual Generation

    Technical University of Darmstadt & hessian.AI

  19. Programmable World Model

    Sep 9, 2026Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Jiacheng Lin +8Video World ModelsWorld Models

    Alaya Lab

  20. Editable Visual Design

    Sep 3, 2026Junyan Ye, Wei Liu, Dongzhi Jiang +9Visual GenerationAesthetics

    Tencent Hunyuan · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Tsinghua University +1

  21. VisCAD: A Foundation Model Suite with Multimodal Industrial CAD Intelligence

    Sep 3, 2026JoyIndustrial VisCAD Team, Linxin Cai, Qiuhe Hong +103D ModelsVisual Generation

    JoyIndustrial VisCAD Team

  22. LLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training Recipes

    Sep 3, 2026Chuyan Chen, Haoxing Chen, Kun Chen +27Multi-Reference Image GenerationVisual Generation

    AGI Research Center, Inclusion AI

  23. Figures as Programs: Recursive Generation of Editable Scientific Figures

    Sep 1, 2026Yepeng Liu, Dasen Dai, Chengzhi Liu +7Scientific FigureScalable Vector Graphic

    1UC Santa Barbara · 2CUHK · 3Show Lab, National University of Singapore +2

  24. From Terminology to Diagrams: Visual-Instruction Generation for Scientific Diagram Understanding

    Sep 1, 2026Raul Ortega, José Manuel Gómez-PérezDiagramsReasoning Graphs

    Language Technology Research Laboratory Expert.ai 17 Henri Dunant, 28036 Madrid, Spain

  25. CANVAS: Consistency-Aware Navigation via Visual Adaptive Sampling for Long-Context Text-to-SVG Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Yichen Wu, Haoxuan Qu, Yihang Lou +2Scalable Vector GraphicSketches

    University of Nottingham · Lancaster University · Peking University

  26. From Local Mismatch to Global Impact: Optimizing Cache Reuse Policy for Efficient Diffusion

    Aug 13, 2026Xichen Ye, Yifan Wu, Zhikang Xie +3Diffusion ModelsDenoising Trajectory

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University · Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · School of Data Science, Fudan University

  27. From Visual Widgets to UI Code: Efficient Tool-Grounded Generation

    Aug 12, 2026Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu +5Image-To-Code GenerationGenerative User Interface

    McMaster University · University of Toronto · Concordia University

  28. Do You See What You Draw? A Semantic Closed-Loop Framework for Holistic Evaluation of Unified Multimodal Models

    Aug 12, 2026Hao Zhang, Jiaxin Qi, Zhijiang Tang +1Multimodal ModelVisual Generation

    Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  29. AdvFD: Boosting Visual Generation via Adversarial Fr'echet Distance Loss

    Aug 11, 2026Mingju Gao, Jingkai Zhou, Kun Gai +2Fréchet Inception DistanceVisual Generation

    Peking University · KlingAI Research

  30. Open Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation of Visual Generative Models

    Aug 10, 2026Shulin Tian, Ziqi Huang, Fan Zhang +3Agentic EvaluationsEvaluation Agent

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  31. InstructionCrafter: Generating Consistent and High-Fidelity Visual Instructions

    Aug 9, 2026Shun Okamoto, Satoshi Iizuka, Kazuhiro FukuiVisual GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

    University of Tsukuba

  32. Innocent Panels, Hateful Stories: Evaluating and Detecting Hateful Intent in Multi-Turn Visual Story Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Ye Leng, Junjie Chu, Yiting Qu +3Hate SpeechHate Speech Detection

    1CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · 2Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  33. Scaling Properties of Text Conditioning in Visual Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Zilong Chen, Chaorui Deng, Kunchang Li +2Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsVisual Generation

    ByteDance Seed

  34. GVR-Coder: A Visual-Feedback Framework for Structured SVG Generation in Complex Document and Meeting Scenarios

    Jul 30, 2026Yiming Xu, Jihua Kang, Chunsai Du +5Scalable Vector GraphicDiagrams

    University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui, China · ByteDance Inc. Shanghai, China · Hefei University of Technology Hefei, Anhui, China

  35. Amortized Moment Matching for Visual Generation

    Jul 29, 2026Wenze Liu, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan +1Fréchet Inception DistanceContrastive Flow Matching

    MMLab, CUHK · Work done at Kuaishou Technology. · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology

  36. UniGen-AR: Unifying Visual Generation with Auto-Regressive Modeling

    Jul 27, 2026Zhipeng Bao, Zhen Zhu, Nupur Kumari +4Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Generation

    1Carnegie Mellon University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 3Toyota Research Institute

  37. Show, Don't Tell: Evaluating Spatial Cognition in Generative Pixels Rather Than LLM Text

    Jul 23, 2026Xu Wang, Kaixiang Yao, Miao Pan +4Spatial ReasoningVisual Question Answering Benchmarks

    OmniAI Group of ZJU ACES Lab

  38. ExpertVerse: A General-Purpose Benchmark for Expert-Level Reasoning in Knowledge-Intensive Visual Synthesis

    Jul 21, 2026Yuan Wang, Yongchao Du, Mengting Chen +4Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Generation

    1Alibaba Group · 2Tsinghua University · 3Johns Hopkins University‌

  39. Knowledge-Centric Agents for Workflow Generation in ComfyUI

    Jul 17, 2026Zhendong Li, Lei Sun, Ruibo Ming +4Agentic WorkflowsData Generation Pipelines

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · Adobe Research

  40. Uni-AdaVD: Universal Concept Erasure for Visual Generation via Orthogonal Value Decomposition

    Jul 16, 2026Qifan Zhou, Yuan Wang, Yanbin Hao +4Concept ErasureVisual Generation

    School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China +1

  41. SymbOmni: Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept Learning

    Jul 13, 2026Jinxiu Liu, Jianru Li, Tanqing Kuang +4Visual GenerationMultimodal Generation

    South China University of Technology · Westlake University · Johns Hopkins University +2

  42. MetaView: Monocular Novel View Synthesis with Scale-Aware Implicit Geometry Priors

    Jul 13, 2026Yufei Cai, Xuesong Niu, Hao Lu +3Novel View SynthesisGeometric Priors

    Nanyang Technological University · Kolors Team, Kuaishou Technology · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  43. Model Guides You How to Draw: Adaptive Visual Gating for Unified Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 10, 2026Wenxi Gao, Guanxi Lu, Didi Zhu +5Multimodal ReasoningVisual Generation

    Imperial College London · Tsinghua University

  44. AEGIS: A Mechanism-Guided Defense against Visual Synonym Jailbreaks in Text-to-Image Models

    Jul 7, 2026Yuanmin Huang, Zhenfei Zhang, Mi Zhang +5Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsText-To-Image

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China · Shanghai Pudong Research Institute of Cryptology, and Engineering Research Center of Cyber Security Auditing and Monitoring, Ministry of Education, China

  45. Search Beyond What Can Be Taught: Evolving the Knowledge Boundary in Agentic Visual Generation

    Jul 6, 2026Haozhe Wang, Weijia Feng, Jinpeng Yu +8Visual GenerationMultimodal Search Agents

    1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Qwen Applications · 4Imperial College London +1

  46. Representation Distribution Matching for One-Step Visual Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Lan Feng, Wuyang Li, Eloi Zablocki +2Multi-Reference Image GenerationVisual Generation

    1EPFL, Switzerland · 2Valeo.ai, France · 3Sorbonne Universit´e, France

  47. Optimizing Visual Generative Models via Distribution-wise Rewards

    Jul 2, 2026Ruihang Li, Mengde Xu, Shuyang Gu +4Generative ModelsVisual Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Hunyuan Frontier Lab, Tencent +1

  48. DisciplineGen-1M: A Large-Scale Dataset for Multidisciplinary Visual Generation and Editing

    Jul 2, 2026Zhaokai Wang, Mingxin Liu, Zirun Zhu +11Visual GenerationLarge Reasoning Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · South China University of Technology · Xiamen University +1

  49. KathaTrace: Diagnosing Semantic Trajectory Collapse in Generated Visual Narratives

    Jul 1, 2026Jamuna S. Murthy, Amin Karimi Monsefi, Rajiv RamnathVideo StorytellingNarratives

    Ramaiah Institute of Technology · The Ohio State University

  50. Representation as a Bottleneck for Mechanistic Interpretability: The Manifestation Unit Protocol

    Jun 30, 2026Hussein Chouman, Wataru Sasaki, Tomokazu Matsui +2Mechanistic InterpretabilityInterpretability

    Ubiquitous Computing Systems Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

  51. UniCoder: Unified Visual-to-Code Generation via Symbolic Rewards and Reference-Guided Code Optimization

    Jun 30, 2026Yaozhi Zheng, Yilei Jiang, Manyuan Zhang +5Image-To-Code GenerationVisual Generation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  52. ForgeDrive: Bidirectional Cross-Conditioning for Unified Visual-Action Generation in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 30, 2026Xuchang Zhong, He Zheng, Chenxu Zhao +8Autonomous DrivingAutoregressive Diffusion

    1Amap, Alibaba Group · 2Tsinghua University

  53. COrigami: An AI Pipeline for Co-Designing Flat-Foldable Visually Recognisable Origami

    Jun 24, 2026Tom Zahavy, Shaobo Hou, Thomas Tumiel +16Asymmetric Origami BendingGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    Google DeepMind · Google · Independent +1

  54. SACE: Concept Erasure at the Semantic Singularity in Visual Autoregressive Models

    Jun 14, 2026Siya Yang, Nanxiang Jiang, Zhaoxin Fan +1Visual Autoregressive ModelsConcept Erasure

    1Hefei University of Technology · 2Beihang University

  55. OmniGen-AR: AutoRegressive Any-to-Image Generation

    Jun 8, 2026Junke Wang, Xun Wang, Qiushan Guo +4Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Generation

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · 2Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Intelligent Visual Computing · 3Bytedance Seed +1

  56. Can We Predict The Human Preference For Text-to-Image Content Prior To Generation And Is It Even Useful To Do So?

    Jun 3, 2026Joong Ho Kim, Keith G. MillsText-To-ImageDiffusion Models

    LSU ATHENA Lab Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. 70803

  57. Do Models Share Safety Representations? Cross-Model Steering for Safe Visual Generation

    Jun 3, 2026Tobia Poppi, Silvia Cappelletti, Sara Sarto +5Visual GenerationGenerative Models

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · University of Pisa · Amazon Prime Video

  58. MetaPoint: Unlocking Precise Spatial Control in Agentic Visual Generation

    Jun 3, 2026Dewei Zhou, Xinyu Huang, Xun Wang +6Visual GenerationSpatial Grounding

    Zhejiang University · ByteDance Seed · Harvard University

  59. Do Text Edits Generalize to Visual Generation? Benchmarking Cross-Modal Knowledge Editing in UMMs

    May 30, 2026Xin Gao, Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi +1Multimodal Knowledge EditingMultimodal Model

    University of California San Diego · University of Southern California

  60. APE: Agentic Prompt Enhancer for Image Generation and Editing

    May 29, 2026Zijian Huang, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Zian Wang +5Visual GenerationImage Generation

    1NVIDIA · University of Michigan