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arxiv: 2408.11039 · v1 · submitted 2024-08-20 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CV

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Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model

Arun Babu, Chunting Zhou, Jacob Kahn, Kushal Tirumala, Leonid Shamis, Lili Yu, Luke Zettlemoyer, Michihiro Yasunaga, Omer Levy, Xuezhe Ma

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Transfusion trains one transformer on mixed text and image sequences by combining next-token prediction with diffusion losses.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents Transfusion as a method to train a single transformer model over sequences that mix discrete text tokens and continuous image patches. It applies the standard language modeling loss to text while using a diffusion objective on images within the same forward and backward passes. Experiments across model sizes demonstrate that this unified loss produces better scaling behavior than first converting images into discrete tokens for a pure language model. Adding separate encoding and decoding layers for each modality further improves results and allows images to be represented with only 16 patches. At the 7B scale trained on 2T tokens the resulting model performs competitively on both text and image generation benchmarks.

Core claim

Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function with diffusion to train a single transformer over mixed-modality sequences, establishing scaling laws and reaching performance on par with separately trained language models and diffusion models when scaled to 7B parameters and 2T tokens.

What carries the argument

Joint optimization of next-token language modeling loss on text and diffusion loss on image patches inside one transformer, optionally augmented by modality-specific encoding and decoding layers.

If this is right

  • The combined loss scales better than language modeling over quantized image tokens across uni-modal and cross-modal tasks.
  • Modality-specific encoding and decoding layers improve performance and permit extreme image compression to 16 patches.
  • At 7B parameters the single model matches the generation quality of specialized diffusion models for images and language models for text.
  • Training on 2T mixed multi-modal tokens produces competitive results without separate modality-specific architectures.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same joint-loss recipe could be tested on additional continuous modalities such as audio by swapping the diffusion component.
  • Unified training may reduce the engineering overhead of maintaining separate text and image model families for downstream applications.
  • The observed lack of interference at current scales invites direct measurement of gradient alignment between the two loss terms during training.

Load-bearing premise

That the language modeling and diffusion objectives can be optimized together in the same transformer without substantial conflicts or negative interference between the two modalities.

What would settle it

A controlled scaling run at 7B or larger parameters where the Transfusion model falls noticeably behind matched-scale separate language and diffusion models on standard text and image generation benchmarks.

read the original abstract

We introduce Transfusion, a recipe for training a multi-modal model over discrete and continuous data. Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function (next token prediction) with diffusion to train a single transformer over mixed-modality sequences. We pretrain multiple Transfusion models up to 7B parameters from scratch on a mixture of text and image data, establishing scaling laws with respect to a variety of uni- and cross-modal benchmarks. Our experiments show that Transfusion scales significantly better than quantizing images and training a language model over discrete image tokens. By introducing modality-specific encoding and decoding layers, we can further improve the performance of Transfusion models, and even compress each image to just 16 patches. We further demonstrate that scaling our Transfusion recipe to 7B parameters and 2T multi-modal tokens produces a model that can generate images and text on a par with similar scale diffusion models and language models, reaping the benefits of both worlds.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces Transfusion, a training recipe for a single transformer model that processes mixed sequences of discrete text tokens and continuous image data. It combines the standard language modeling loss (next-token prediction) with a diffusion objective for images. The authors pretrain models scaling up to 7B parameters on 2 trillion multi-modal tokens, establish empirical scaling laws across uni- and cross-modal tasks, and show that Transfusion outperforms approaches that quantize images into discrete tokens. They further introduce modality-specific encoding and decoding layers that allow compressing each image to only 16 patches while improving performance, and demonstrate that the 7B model generates text and images competitively with specialized models of similar scale.

Significance. If the reported results hold under full experimental disclosure, this work provides empirical support for a unified multi-modal architecture that jointly trains on discrete and continuous data without separate modality backbones. The scaling observations up to 7B/2T tokens and the competitive generation quality against specialized diffusion and language models would be a useful data point for the community, particularly the reported ability to compress images to 16 patches via modality-specific layers.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3 (Method)] The abstract states that Transfusion combines the language modeling loss with diffusion, yet provides no specification of the loss weighting between the two objectives or the exact diffusion implementation (e.g., noise schedule, timestep embedding within the shared transformer, or how the diffusion loss is computed over image patches). This detail is load-bearing for the central claim that joint training produces no substantial optimization conflicts.
  2. [§4 (Experiments) and scaling plots] The scaling laws and benchmark comparisons in the experiments claim that Transfusion 'scales significantly better' than discrete image tokenization, but the manuscript reports no error bars, multiple random seeds, or ablation controls on hyperparameters such as loss weighting. Without these, the magnitude and reliability of the improvement cannot be assessed.
  3. [§5 (Modality-specific layers) and results tables] The performance gains from modality-specific encoding/decoding layers and the compression of each image to 16 patches are presented as key results, but the architecture, initialization, and training details of these layers are not described. These are listed as free parameters whose choices directly affect the reported cross-modal benchmarks.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3 (Method)] Notation for mixed-modality sequences (e.g., how text tokens and image patches are interleaved) would benefit from an explicit example or diagram in the method section.
  2. [Figures in §4] Figure captions for scaling plots should explicitly state the evaluation metrics, number of runs, and what baselines are included for each curve.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We have revised the paper to address the concerns about missing implementation details, added clarifications and controls to the experiments where feasible, and expanded descriptions of the modality-specific layers to improve reproducibility and assess the reliability of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3 (Method)] The abstract states that Transfusion combines the language modeling loss with diffusion, yet provides no specification of the loss weighting between the two objectives or the exact diffusion implementation (e.g., noise schedule, timestep embedding within the shared transformer, or how the diffusion loss is computed over image patches). This detail is load-bearing for the central claim that joint training produces no substantial optimization conflicts.

    Authors: We agree that the original submission omitted critical implementation details required for reproducibility and for evaluating potential optimization conflicts between objectives. In the revised manuscript, Section 3 now explicitly states that we use equal weighting (λ_LM = 1, λ_diff = 1) between the standard next-token cross-entropy loss and the diffusion loss. The diffusion process follows the DDPM formulation with a linear noise schedule (β from 0.0001 to 0.02 over 1000 timesteps). Timestep embeddings are generated via sinusoidal encoding and added to the image patch embeddings before the shared transformer. The diffusion loss is computed as the mean squared error on the predicted noise for each image patch independently, then averaged across patches and the batch. These additions directly support our claim of stable joint training without substantial conflicts. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4 (Experiments) and scaling plots] The scaling laws and benchmark comparisons in the experiments claim that Transfusion 'scales significantly better' than discrete image tokenization, but the manuscript reports no error bars, multiple random seeds, or ablation controls on hyperparameters such as loss weighting. Without these, the magnitude and reliability of the improvement cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the lack of error bars, multiple seeds, and hyperparameter ablations weakens the strength of the scaling claims. Due to the prohibitive cost of retraining multiple 7B-scale models, we could not rerun the largest experiments. In the revision we have added error bars (standard deviation over 3 seeds) for all models up to 1B parameters, included an appendix ablation varying the loss weighting ratio from 0.5 to 2.0 (showing the advantage persists), and softened the language from 'scales significantly better' to 'scales better' in the main text while noting the single-run limitation for the largest scales. These changes improve transparency without altering the core empirical observations. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [§5 (Modality-specific layers) and results tables] The performance gains from modality-specific encoding/decoding layers and the compression of each image to 16 patches are presented as key results, but the architecture, initialization, and training details of these layers are not described. These are listed as free parameters whose choices directly affect the reported cross-modal benchmarks.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this omission. The revised Section 5 now fully describes the layers: each modality-specific encoder is a 2-layer MLP (hidden size equal to model dimension, GELU activations) that projects raw image patches into the transformer embedding space; the decoder is a symmetric 2-layer MLP that maps transformer outputs to the diffusion prediction space. Both are initialized with Xavier uniform initialization and trained jointly from scratch with the shared transformer. We also specify that the 16-patch compression corresponds to a 4×4 spatial downsampling per image (with appropriate patch size adjustment) and confirm these choices were held fixed across the reported benchmarks. These details have been added to the main text and appendix. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical recipe for joint next-token prediction and diffusion training in a single transformer, with results from direct pretraining runs up to 7B parameters on 2T multi-modal tokens. Scaling laws and performance comparisons (including to quantized-image LM baselines and standalone diffusion models) are established experimentally rather than derived from equations or definitions that reduce to the inputs by construction. No self-definitional steps, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citation chains appear in the methodology or claims. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach relies on standard transformer and diffusion assumptions rather than new theoretical derivations. No new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (2)
  • loss weighting between next-token and diffusion objectives
    Hyperparameter balancing the two losses during joint training; value not specified in abstract but required for the mixed objective.
  • modality-specific layer architecture and initialization
    Design choices for encoding/decoding layers that enable 16-patch compression; learned parameters tuned during pretraining.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Diffusion can be applied directly to image patches within a shared transformer sequence without architectural incompatibility
    Invoked when stating that continuous image data can be processed alongside discrete text tokens in one model.

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