AI RESEARCH
Unifying Contrastive and Generative Objectives for Visual Understanding and Text-to-Image Generation
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2603.02667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Unifying text-image contrastive learning and text-to-image (T2I) generation in a single end-to-end model is challenging because the two objectives demand opposing masking regimes: contrastive alignment needs near-complete visible tokens, while masked generative modeling needs heavy corruption. We