Seedream team unveils VoT: visual thinking before pixel rendering for image generation

JingxiangSun42 · x · 2026-09-13

The ByteDance Seedream team announces VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment. The method inserts a VoT branch between the VLM and the DiT diffusion backbone, letting the model perform visual reasoning before rendering pixels — bringing chain-of-thought-style thinking into the image generation pipeline.

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