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ARXIV:2604.10949 · MULTIMODAL AI · SUBMITTED 14 APR · 20:33 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.10949MULTIMODAL AISUBMITTED 14 APR · 20:33 UTCFRESHNESS STALESonglin Yang · Xianghao Kong · Anyi Rao · arXiv
Pseudo-unification in multimodal models stems from divergent information patterns, requiring consistency in information flow for genuine synergy.
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Pseudo-unification in multimodal models stems from divergent information patterns, requiring consistency in information flow for genuine synergy. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer LLM-like reasoning to image synthesis and…
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) were designed to combine the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the generation capability of vision models. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 6.0/10 on the public viability pass. Only models that unify both sides (e.g., via contextual prediction) achieve more genuine unification, enabling stronger reasoning-based text-to-image generation even with fewer parameters. Code…
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.10949Pseudo-unification in multimodal models stems from divergent information patterns, requiring consistency in information flow for genuine synergy.
Abstract
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) were designed to combine the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the generation capability of vision models. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer LLM-like reasoning to image synthesis and exhibit divergent response behaviors. We term this phenomenon pseudo-unification. Diagnosing its internal causes is important, but existing probing methods either lack model-internal insight or ignore prompt-response dependencies. To address these limitations, we propose an information-theoretic probing framework that jointly analyzes how UMMs encode inputs and generate outputs. Applied to ten representative UMMs, our framework reveals that pseudo-unification stems from a dual divergence: (i) Modality-Asymmetric Encoding, where vision and language follow different entropy trajectories, and (ii) Pattern-Split Response, where text generation exhibits high-entropy creativity while image synthesis enforces low-entropy fidelity. Only models that unify both sides (e.g., via contextual prediction) achieve more genuine unification, enabling stronger reasoning-based text-to-image generation even with fewer parameters. Our work provides the first model-internal probing of unification, demonstrating that real multimodal synergy requires consistency in information flow, not just shared parameters.
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Pseudo-unification in multimodal models stems from divergent information patterns, requiring consistency in information flow for genuine synergy. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer LLM-like reasoning to image synthesis and exhibit divergent...
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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) were designed to combine the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the generation capability of vision models. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer LLM-like reasoning to image synthesis and ex...
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Pseudo-unification in multimodal models stems from divergent information patterns, requiring consistency in information flow for genuine synergy. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer LLM-like reasoning to image synthesis and exhibit divergent response behaviors.
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Unified multimodal models (UMMs) were designed to combine the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the generation capability of vision models. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer LLM-like reasoning to image synthesis and exhibit divergent response behaviors.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 6.0/10 on the public viability pass. Only models that unify both sides (e.g., via contextual prediction) achieve more genuine unification, enabling stronger reasoning-based text-to-image generation even with fewer parameters. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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