arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-05
Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models
Jiwon Kang, Heeji Yoon, Jaewoo Jung, Jaewon Min, Minkyeong Jeon, Biyeon Hwang, et al.
Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) integrate image understanding and generation within a single architecture, yet how the two tasks interact remains understudied. We investigate $\boldsymbol{\mathsf{transferability}}$ in UMMs: whether training a capability on one task improves the…