Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models

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arXiv:2509.07295v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) unify visual understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, conventional training relies on image-text pairs (or sequences) whose captions are typically sparse and miss fine-grained visual details, even when they use hundreds of words to describe a simple image. We introduce Reconstruction Alignment (RECA), a resource-efficient post-training method that leverages visual understanding e

Published 26 Jun 2026

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Title: Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models

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arXiv:2509.07295v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) unify visual understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, conventional training relies on image-text pairs (or sequences) whose captions are typically sparse and miss fine-grained visual details, even when they use hundreds of words to describe a simple image. We introduce Reconstruction Alignment (RECA), a resource-efficient post-training method that leverages visual understanding e
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