arxivcs.CV2026-07-19
STBridge: Shared-Target Alignment for Bridging Understanding and Generation in UMMs
Ye Wang, Hongjun Wang, Hao Fang, Tongyuan Bai, Zuwei Long, Peixian Chen, et al.
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate visual understanding and generation within a single architecture, but architectural unification alone does not ensure semantic consistency. A model may describe the intended target correctly while generating an inconsistent edit.…