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LARC enables continuous latent reasoning for unified multimodal models, improving image generation quality and enabling test-time scaling without discrete token bottlenecks.
Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) achieve remarkable success on diverse multimodal understanding and generation tasks, yet they still struggle to effectively leverage language-based chain-of-thought reasoning for image generation. As a result, existing reasoning-augmented UMMs often fail to inherit the test-time scaling and fine-grained controllability observed in large language models. We attribute this failure to a fundamental modality mismatch: reasoning is performed in a discrete token space, whereas image generation operates in a continuous space. To bridge this gap, we introduce a Latent Reasoning framework in Continuous space (LARC), which alleviates the token-level bottleneck by…
Unified Multimodal Modelschain-of-thought reasoninglatent reasoningcontinuous hidden statescurriculum supervised fine-tuninginformation-gain reinforcement learningtest-time scalingGenEval
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