AI RESEARCH

Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Reasoning and Generation via Unified Discrete Flow Matching

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2602.12221v2 Announce Type: replace We propose UniDFlow, a unified discrete flow-matching framework for multimodal understanding, generation, and editing. It decouples understanding and generation via task-specific low-rank adapters, avoiding objective interference and representation entanglement, while a novel reference-based multimodal preference alignment optimizes relative outcomes under identical conditioning, improving faithfulness and controllability without large-scale re