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Recent progress in unified models for image understanding and generation has been impressive, yet most approaches remain limited to single-modal generation conditioned on multiple modalities.
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Taming transformers for high-resolution image synthesis
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Flamingo: a visual language model for few-shot learning
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Maskgit: Masked generative image transformer
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Instructpix2pix: Learning to follow image editing instructions
Tim Brooks, Aleksander Holynski, and Alexei A Efros · 2023
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Pixart- a l p h a 𝑎 𝑙 𝑝 ℎ 𝑎 alpha italic_a italic_l italic_p italic_h italic_a : Fast training of diffusion transformer for photorealistic text-to-image synthesis
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Patch n’pack: Navit, a vision transformer for any aspect ratio and resolution
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Mme: A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for multimodal large language models
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Tokenflow: Unified image tokenizer for multimodal understanding and generation
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Roformer: Enhanced transformer with rotary position embedding
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Mmmu: A massive multi-discipline multimodal understanding and reasoning benchmark for expert agi
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Transfusion: Predict the next token and diffuse images with one multi-modal model
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