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Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Publications 3

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Visual Abstention in Unified Multimodal Models

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) integrate understanding and generation, yet their generative behavior is rarely governed by what they understand about the task. We formalize visual abstention: when a requested visual transformation is impossible under the task's rules, the model should recognize that no valid solution …

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Recursive Self-Improvement in Unified Multimodal Models

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) understand and generate both text and images, which lets a model produce its own training data. Existing self-improvement in UMMs keeps supervision on the visual side, where image understanding judges image generation. We propose recursive cross-capability self-improvement (RSI), a trai …

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