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Dec 2, 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

What Are Today’s Unified Generation-and-Understanding Multimodal Model Architectures?

This article surveys current unified generation-and-understanding multimodal large-model architectures, compares LLM-centric and LLM-plus-diffusion designs, extracts common insights, details large-scale training tricks from models like Emu3, Chameleon and Janus, and outlines open research directions for visual encoders.