2026-06-27 AI 리서치 브리핑

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 abilities autonomously using only unlabeled images. We propose a self-evolving training framework with three internal roles: a Proposer that generates visual questions, a Solver that answers and evaluates them, and a Generator that synthesizes images. Training uses only self-derived consistency signals, without human annotations, preference labels, or task-trained external reward/judge models. To stabilize learning, we introduce Solver Token Entropy (STE), a continuous difficulty signal based on token-level prediction uncertainty that remains useful even when sample-level consistency becomes unreliable. For image generation, we design a multi-scale internal evaluation scheme that combines question-answer fidelity scoring with cycle-consistent captioning. This creates a solver-mediated coupling, where better visual understanding enables more reliable generation assessment and stronger internal training signals. The framework preserves the same role decomposition, reward logic, and training schedule across diffusion-based BLIP3o, rectified-flow BAGEL, and autoregressive VARGPT-v1.1 architectures, requiring only each backbone's native prompting and generation interface. Across eight understanding metrics, our method consistently improves over the corresponding base models. On BAGEL, it achieves a $+3.5\%$ absolute gain on MMMU and improves GenEval image generation performance from $82\%$ to $85\%$. Code and models are publicly released.

Recently, self-evolving large multimodal models (LMMs) have received attention for improving visual reasoning in a purely unsupervised setting. However, multi-role self-play and self-consistency reward schemes in existing self-evolving LMMs optimize answer agreement without ensuring the decoder attends to visual content, relying instead on statistical language priors to produce self consistent outputs. This leads to a persistent failure mode we term visual under-conditioning, where the decoder relies on language priors rather than the image during generation, manifesting as insufficient attention to visual tokens. As a result, current self-evolving LMMs struggle on vision--language understanding tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. To address this, we propose VISE (Visual Invariance Self-Evolution), a purely unsupervised self-evolving framework that directly regularizes the model's visual conditioning policy through two complementary invariance-based rewards: a geometric invariance reward that enforces spatial consistency under known transformations, and a semantic invariance reward that penalizes evidence-agnostic generation by requiring the model to recognize the absence of evidence when predicted regions are perturbed. VISE operates within a single model without specialist roles, external reward models, or annotations, and is trained on raw unlabeled images. Experiments on 18 benchmarks demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. Using Qwen3-VL-2B as the base model, VISE achieves gains of $+16.85$ CIDEr on COCO and $+19.66$ CIDEr on TextCaps, reduces object hallucination by $5.0$ Chair-I points, and generalizes across four model families and scales. Our code and models are available at https://mbzuai-oryx.github.io/VISE

DanceOPD: On-Policy Generative Field Distillation에 관한 최근 업데이트입니다. 자세한 내용은 원문 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.

OPID: On-Policy Skill Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning에 관한 최근 업데이트입니다. 자세한 내용은 원문 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.

Modern image generation demands a single model that unifies diverse capabilities, including text-to-image (T2I), local editing, and global editing. However, these capabilities are rarely naturally aligned and often conflict. For instance, editing tends to degrade T2I performance, while global and local editing interfere with each other. Consequently, effectively composing these capabilities has become a central challenge for image generation model training. To tackle this, we introduce DanceOPD, an on-policy generative field distillation framework for flow-matching models that routes each sample to one capability field, queries one low-noise student-induced state, and trains with a simple velocity MSE objective. With each capability source defined as a velocity field over the shared flow state space, the student learns from fields queried on its own rollout states to compose expert capabilities. This formulation also absorbs operator-defined fields such as classifier-free guidance. Comprehensive experiments on T2I, editing, realism-field absorption, and CFG absorption show that our approach improves multi-capability composition, strengthening target capabilities while preserving anchor generation quality. We believe this work establishes a practical route for generative field distillation in flow-matching models.

June 26, 2026 Accelerating Gemini Nano models on Pixel with frozen Multi-Token Prediction Machine Intelligence · Mobile Systems · Natural Language Processing에 관한 최근 업데이트입니다. 자세한 내용은 원문 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.

ViQ: Text-Aligned Visual Quantized Representations at Any Resolution에 관한 최근 업데이트입니다. 자세한 내용은 원문 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.

Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation에 관한 최근 업데이트입니다. 자세한 내용은 원문 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.

The Verification Horizon: No Silver Bullet for Coding Agent Rewards에 관한 최근 업데이트입니다. 자세한 내용은 원문 링크에서 확인할 수 있습니다.

Going beyond predicting robot actions, World Action Models (WAMs) can also generate future visual observations. We build on this generative capability to propose Recurrent Generative Replay (REGEN), a continual imitation learning framework that synthesizes pseudo-replay trajectories, enabling a robot policy to rehearse previously learned tasks without storing their original human demonstrations. During continual adaptation, REGEN recursively queries the WAM to synthesize pseudo-replay trajectories conditioned only on prior task instructions and current-task observations. Experiments in both simulation and real-world manipulation settings show that REGEN reduces catastrophic forgetting by up to $50\%$ relative to sequential fine-tuning, while approaching the performance of privileged experience replay methods that require access to real replay data. Finally, we analyze the factors limiting generated replay, identifying long-horizon visual degradation and action-observation inconsistency as the primary bottlenecks. Our results establish WAMs as a promising foundation for continual robot learning without stored demonstrations.

The softmax activation in multihead attention (MHA) is the de facto standard for attention-based models in visual perception tasks. However, standard softmax can produce noisy attention patterns that dilute relevant features and degrade its performance. In this paper, we propose Denoising Attention or DnA, in which, first, a positive query identifies which image features belong to the correct class, and a negative query identifies closely associated but irrelevant image features. DnA then projects these interactions into two distinct subspaces with larger principal angles, promoting subspace separation and improved discriminability. Using a ViT-B backbone, our proposed DnA achieves an absolute gain of 0.8% on ImageNet-1K compared to the baseline. We further show improvements across multiple visual understanding tasks, including video understanding with video transformers (1.8%) and video LLMs (0.5%). Our extensive empirical analyses justify the design choices involving two interacting subspaces and the denoising effect of DnA.