Unified Multimodal Discrete Diffusion
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| author | Swerdlow, Alexander Prabhudesai, Mihir Gandhi, Siddharth Pathak, Deepak Fragkiadaki, Katerina |
| author_facet | Swerdlow, Alexander Prabhudesai, Mihir Gandhi, Siddharth Pathak, Deepak Fragkiadaki, Katerina |
| contents | Multimodal generative models that can understand and generate across multiple modalities are dominated by autoregressive (AR) approaches, which process tokens sequentially from left to right, or top to bottom. These models jointly handle images, text, video, and audio for various tasks such as image captioning, question answering, and image generation. In this work, we explore discrete diffusion models as a unified generative formulation in the joint text and image domain, building upon their recent success in text generation. Discrete diffusion models offer several advantages over AR models, including improved control over quality versus diversity of generated samples, the ability to perform joint multimodal inpainting (across both text and image domains), and greater controllability in generation through guidance. Leveraging these benefits, we present the first Unified Multimodal Discrete Diffusion (UniDisc) model which is capable of jointly understanding and generating text and images for a variety of downstream tasks. We compare UniDisc to multimodal AR models, performing a scaling analysis and demonstrating that UniDisc outperforms them in terms of both performance and inference-time compute, enhanced controllability, editability, inpainting, and flexible trade-off between inference time and generation quality. Code and additional visualizations are available at https://unidisc.github.io. |
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| spellingShingle | Unified Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Swerdlow, Alexander Prabhudesai, Mihir Gandhi, Siddharth Pathak, Deepak Fragkiadaki, Katerina Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Robotics Multimodal generative models that can understand and generate across multiple modalities are dominated by autoregressive (AR) approaches, which process tokens sequentially from left to right, or top to bottom. These models jointly handle images, text, video, and audio for various tasks such as image captioning, question answering, and image generation. In this work, we explore discrete diffusion models as a unified generative formulation in the joint text and image domain, building upon their recent success in text generation. Discrete diffusion models offer several advantages over AR models, including improved control over quality versus diversity of generated samples, the ability to perform joint multimodal inpainting (across both text and image domains), and greater controllability in generation through guidance. Leveraging these benefits, we present the first Unified Multimodal Discrete Diffusion (UniDisc) model which is capable of jointly understanding and generating text and images for a variety of downstream tasks. We compare UniDisc to multimodal AR models, performing a scaling analysis and demonstrating that UniDisc outperforms them in terms of both performance and inference-time compute, enhanced controllability, editability, inpainting, and flexible trade-off between inference time and generation quality. Code and additional visualizations are available at https://unidisc.github.io. |
| title | Unified Multimodal Discrete Diffusion |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20853 |