arxivcs.CV2026-06-25
Ask, Solve, Generate: Self-Evolving Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Self-Consistency Rewards
Ritesh Thawkar, Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar, Abdelrahman Shaker, Fahad Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, et al.
Most unified large multimodal models (LMMs) that support both visual understanding and image generation still rely on curated post-training supervision, such as human annotations, preference labels, or external reward models. We ask whether a unified LMM can improve both abilitie…