A Simple Baseline for Unifying Understanding, Generation, and Editing via Vanilla Next-token Prediction
In this work, we introduce Wallaroo, a simple autoregressive baseline that leverages next-token prediction to unify multi-modal understanding, image generation, and editing at the same time. Moreover, Wallaroo supports multi-resolution image input and output, as well as bilingual support for both Chinese and English. We decouple the visual encoding into separate pathways and apply a four-stage training strategy to reshape the model's capabilities. Experiments are conducted on various benchmarks where Wallaroo produces competitive performance or exceeds other unified models, suggesting the great potential of autoregressive models in unifying multi-modality understanding and generation. Our...
| Authors | Jie Zhu, Hanghang Ma, Jia Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 5 March 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 5 March 2026 |
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