Diffusion models, known for their success in the generation of high quality images, are now explored as a base to manage various types of data. These Nenoise Data models and rebuild the original content from noisy entrances. This capacity makes promising diffusion models for multimodal tasks involving discreet data, such as text and continuous data, such as images.
The challenge in multimodal models is to create systems that can manage understanding and generation through text and images without using distinct methods or architectures. Existing models are often struggling to balance these tasks effectively. They are designed for specific tasks such as the generation of images or the answer to questions, which leads to limited performance in unified tasks. Post-training techniques that could further align models through reasoning and generation tasks are also underdeveloped, leaving a gap in fully integrated multimodal models that can manage various challenges using a unique design.
Popular approaches like Show-O, Janus and Seed-X combine self-regressive models for text and distribution models for images, requiring distinct loss functions and architectures. These models use distinct tokenization patterns and separate pipelines for text and image tasks, complicating training and limitation of their ability to manage reasoning and generation in a unified manner. In addition, they focus strongly on pre-training strategies, overlooking post-training methods that could help these models learn to reason through different types of data.
Researchers from Princeton University, the University of Beijing, Tsinghua University and Bytedance have introduced MMADA, a unified multimodal diffusion model. This system incorporates textual reasoning, visual understanding and the generation of images in a probabilistic framework. MMADA uses shared diffusion architecture without relying on components specific to modality, simplifying training on different types of data. The design of the model allows it to process textual and visual data together, allowing a rationalized and consistent coherent approach for reasoning and generation tasks.
The MMADA system introduces a long -chain mixed end -of -study strategy (COT long) which aligns the reasoning stages through text and image tasks. The researchers organized a diverse set of diverse traces of reasoning, such as solving mathematics problems and the answer to visual questions, to guide the model by learning complex reasoning through the methods. They have also developed UNIGRPO, a strengthening learning algorithm adapted to diffusion models, which uses diversified policy and reward signals, including accuracy, format adhesion and alignment with visual content. The model training pipeline incorporates a uniform masking strategy and structured clearing stages, guaranteeing stability during learning and allowing the model to effectively reconstruct content between different tasks.
In performance references, Mmada has demonstrated solid results on various tasks. He obtained a clip score of 32.46 for the text generation in the image and an image of 1.15, outperforming models like SDXL and Janus. In multimodal understanding, he reached a POPE score of 86.1, an MME score of 1410.7 and a Flickr30K score of 67.6, exceeding systems such as Show-O and Seed-X. For textual reasoning, MMADA scored 73.4 on GSM8K and 36.0 on Math500, surpassing other models based on diffusion such as LLADA-8B. These results highlight MMADA's ability to provide coherent and high quality results through reasoning, understanding and generation tasks.
Overall, MMADA provides a practical solution to the challenges of building unified multimodal models by introducing simplified architecture and innovative training techniques. Research shows that distribution models can excel as a general use systems capable of reasoning and generation on several types of data. By approaching the limits of existing models, MMADA offers a plan to develop future AI systems which transparently integrate different tasks into a unique and robust setting.
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