Quantifying the Gap between Understanding and Generation within Unified Multimodal Models

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Hauptverfasser:	Wang, Chenlong, Chen, Yuhang, Hu, Zhihan, Chen, Dongping, Chen, Wenhu, Wiegreffe, Sarah, Zhou, Tianyi
Format:	Preprint
Veröffentlicht:	2026
Schlagworte:	Computation and Language
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