How understanding-generation synergy really works in unified multimodal models

Penghao Wu · hf · 2026-09-02

This work studies understanding-generation synergy in native unified multimodal models across representation, task and system levels, finding synergy comes from specialized architectures, shared knowledge and end-to-end optimization rather than simple functional unification.

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