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Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

As of 19 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 20 of 20 outbound references and 8 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.23043.

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This paper cites Expanding Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Multimodal Models with Model, Data, and Test-Time Scaling.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Expanding Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Multimodal Models with Model, Data, and Test-Time Scaling

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This paper cites SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis

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This paper cites Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling

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Observation e97a0651-39e3-4f7a-bef6-fdb932b66777 · outbound

This paper cites Emu3: Next-Token Prediction is All You Need.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Emu3: Next-Token Prediction is All You Need

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Observation 99aaf820-8c5e-4420-8422-7c36a7c5b90e · outbound

This paper cites MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation MetaMorph: Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Instruction Tuning

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Observation 88636981-0a87-40b5-98da-fadb43d3c281 · outbound

This paper cites Liquid: Language Models are Scalable and Unified Multi-modal Generators.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Liquid: Language Models are Scalable and Unified Multi-modal Generators

Reference 9

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Observation f5a6238d-09c5-477c-81d2-1735344b6635 · outbound

This paper cites MM-Interleaved: Interleaved Image-Text Generative Modeling via Multi-modal Feature Synchronizer.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation MM-Interleaved: Interleaved Image-Text Generative Modeling via Multi-modal Feature Synchronizer

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Observation e9ed10ee-6de4-4cfc-bbad-9cbcf6387e45 · outbound

This paper cites Emu: Generative Pretraining in Multimodality.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Emu: Generative Pretraining in Multimodality

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Observation c8bc3102-07b3-4228-a66a-a07cca591a52 · outbound

This paper cites Instruction Tuning with GPT-4.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Instruction Tuning with GPT-4

Reference 14

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Observation 485851a2-adb4-4330-affd-9aa9646c0757 · outbound

This paper cites ShareGPT4V: Improving Large Multi-Modal Models with Better Captions.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation ShareGPT4V: Improving Large Multi-Modal Models with Better Captions

Reference 15

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Observation de8b0986-ae8e-4247-9022-ae1ddb487e73 · outbound

This paper cites Lmms- eval: accelerating the development of large multimoal models (2024).URL: https://github.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Lmms- eval: accelerating the development of large multimoal models (2024).URL: https://github

Reference 16

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Observation 94957f9f-b3b4-43be-a67e-93cdd9612117 · outbound

This paper cites MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

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Observation d04638e1-b8f4-44e1-a21e-6c2e57cbda22 · outbound

This paper cites Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models?

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Observation 1136db49-8e14-48c3-8528-270948dfa0b4 · outbound

This paper cites Evaluating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Evaluating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

Reference 19

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Observation e4721438-4639-474b-b2f0-1b4b5fca92fc · outbound

This paper cites _u” refers to understanding-only; “_g.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation _u” refers to understanding-only; “_g

Reference 393

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Observation bcf40dac-dd34-4641-9038-bc2f8d4cb9c7 · outbound

This paper cites Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: Llama for Scalable Image Generation.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Autoregressive Model Beats Diffusion: Llama for Scalable Image Generation

Reference 2017

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Observation f0c5e914-991b-4de0-87ea-f8c90b403eca · outbound

This paper cites DreamLLM: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Creation.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation DreamLLM: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Creation

Reference 2022

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Observation a3ee0b67-963b-4bf2-8664-3c3fbb24b85e · outbound

This paper cites Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution

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Observation 369ca1a0-1eff-4d6e-8cc4-9fbe475d1db6 · outbound

This paper cites Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Transfusion: Predict the Next Token and Diffuse Images with One Multi-Modal Model

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This paper cites Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation.

Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation Show-o: One Single Transformer to Unify Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Reference 2025

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Observation 844b3e6a-ea89-4fc1-b5cf-a92b9f6d2639 · inbound

UniWorld-V1: High-Resolution Semantic Encoders for Unified Visual Understanding and Generation cites this paper.

UniWorld-V1: High-Resolution Semantic Encoders for Unified Visual Understanding and Generation Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

Reference 55

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Observation bfbb7e93-76ba-4638-918e-68d65e3803b1 · inbound

Skywork-R1V3 Technical Report cites this paper.

Skywork-R1V3 Technical Report Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

Reference 47

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IRG-MotionLLM: Interleaving Motion Generation, Assessment and Refinement for Text-to-Motion Generation cites this paper.

IRG-MotionLLM: Interleaving Motion Generation, Assessment and Refinement for Text-to-Motion Generation Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

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Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models cites this paper.

Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

Reference 108

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Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence cites this paper.

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

Reference 261

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Observation e2ee9f89-6e09-4582-958a-ab9830eeb666 · inbound

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence cites this paper.

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

Reference 261

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Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes cites this paper.

Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes Are Unified Vision-Language Models Necessary: Generalization Across Understanding and Generation

Reference 156

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Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes cites this paper.

Reference 156

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