Toward Native Multimodal Modeling: A Roadmap

Published
Source
arXiv
Paper number
233
Field
Computer Vision
arXiv ID
2605.25343

Key points

  • This roadmap systematically classifies NMM models along three axes: T2M for generation, M2T for understanding, and M2M for symmetric modeling.
  • It compares two design philosophies: full discretization through digital tokens versus preserving modality characteristics through a continuous feature space.
  • It summarizes trends in extreme VAE compression and dynamic sparse-attention pruning techniques for addressing token explosion.
  • It analyzes explicit-rule and implicit-emergence approaches for teaching physical law understanding, such as rigid-body dynamics, gravity, and collision, in video generation.
  • It proposes unified timeline anchoring and deep architectural coupling for precise audio-visual synchronization.
  • It includes data and evaluation strategies, such as physical decoupling and encoder-free modeling, to address the comprehension-generation dilemma.

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