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Main Authors: Chen, Shuang, Shou, Quanxin, Chen, Hangting, Zhou, Yucheng, Feng, Kaituo, Hu, Wenbo, Zhang, Yi-Fan, Lin, Yunlong, Huang, Wenxuan, Song, Mingyang, Dai, Dasen, Jiang, Bolin, Zhang, Manyuan, Zhang, Shi-Xue, Jiang, Zhengkai, Wang, Lucas, Zhong, Zhao, Cheng, Yu, Peng, Nanyun
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29620
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author Chen, Shuang
Shou, Quanxin
Chen, Hangting
Zhou, Yucheng
Feng, Kaituo
Hu, Wenbo
Zhang, Yi-Fan
Lin, Yunlong
Huang, Wenxuan
Song, Mingyang
Dai, Dasen
Jiang, Bolin
Zhang, Manyuan
Zhang, Shi-Xue
Jiang, Zhengkai
Wang, Lucas
Zhong, Zhao
Cheng, Yu
Peng, Nanyun
author_facet Chen, Shuang
Shou, Quanxin
Chen, Hangting
Zhou, Yucheng
Feng, Kaituo
Hu, Wenbo
Zhang, Yi-Fan
Lin, Yunlong
Huang, Wenxuan
Song, Mingyang
Dai, Dasen
Jiang, Bolin
Zhang, Manyuan
Zhang, Shi-Xue
Jiang, Zhengkai
Wang, Lucas
Zhong, Zhao
Cheng, Yu
Peng, Nanyun
contents Unified multimodal models provide a natural and promising architecture for understanding diverse and complex real-world knowledge while generating high-quality images. However, they still rely primarily on frozen parametric knowledge, which makes them struggle with real-world image generation involving long-tail and knowledge-intensive concepts. Inspired by the broad success of agents on real-world tasks, we explore agentic modeling to address this limitation. Specifically, we present Unify-Agent, a unified multimodal agent for world-grounded image synthesis, which reframes image generation as an agentic pipeline consisting of prompt understanding, multimodal evidence searching, grounded recaptioning, and final synthesis. To train our model, we construct a tailored multimodal data pipeline and curate 143K high-quality agent trajectories for world-grounded image synthesis, enabling effective supervision over the full agentic generation process. We further introduce FactIP, a benchmark covering 12 categories of culturally significant and long-tail factual concepts that explicitly requires external knowledge grounding. Extensive experiments show that our proposed Unify-Agent substantially improves over its base unified model across diverse benchmarks and real world generation tasks, while approaching the world knowledge capabilities of the strongest closed-source models. As an early exploration of agent-based modeling for world-grounded image synthesis, our work highlights the value of tightly coupling reasoning, searching, and generation for reliable open-world agentic image synthesis.
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spellingShingle Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis
Chen, Shuang
Shou, Quanxin
Chen, Hangting
Zhou, Yucheng
Feng, Kaituo
Hu, Wenbo
Zhang, Yi-Fan
Lin, Yunlong
Huang, Wenxuan
Song, Mingyang
Dai, Dasen
Jiang, Bolin
Zhang, Manyuan
Zhang, Shi-Xue
Jiang, Zhengkai
Wang, Lucas
Zhong, Zhao
Cheng, Yu
Peng, Nanyun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Unified multimodal models provide a natural and promising architecture for understanding diverse and complex real-world knowledge while generating high-quality images. However, they still rely primarily on frozen parametric knowledge, which makes them struggle with real-world image generation involving long-tail and knowledge-intensive concepts. Inspired by the broad success of agents on real-world tasks, we explore agentic modeling to address this limitation. Specifically, we present Unify-Agent, a unified multimodal agent for world-grounded image synthesis, which reframes image generation as an agentic pipeline consisting of prompt understanding, multimodal evidence searching, grounded recaptioning, and final synthesis. To train our model, we construct a tailored multimodal data pipeline and curate 143K high-quality agent trajectories for world-grounded image synthesis, enabling effective supervision over the full agentic generation process. We further introduce FactIP, a benchmark covering 12 categories of culturally significant and long-tail factual concepts that explicitly requires external knowledge grounding. Extensive experiments show that our proposed Unify-Agent substantially improves over its base unified model across diverse benchmarks and real world generation tasks, while approaching the world knowledge capabilities of the strongest closed-source models. As an early exploration of agent-based modeling for world-grounded image synthesis, our work highlights the value of tightly coupling reasoning, searching, and generation for reliable open-world agentic image synthesis.
title Unify-Agent: A Unified Multimodal Agent for World-Grounded Image Synthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29620