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TUNA: Taming Unified Visual Representations for Native Unified Multimodal Models research paper by Meta, 2025

Meta · Dec 1, 2025 · Multimodal and robotics · 35 citations · 78 upvotes · unverified

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TUNA, a unified multimodal model, uses a cascaded VAE and representation encoder for end-to-end multimodal understanding and generation, outperforming decoupled models and achieving state-of-the-art results across various benchmarks.

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About this paper
Authors
Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Haozhe Liu and 22 more
arXiv
2512.02014 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
35, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
78 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/wren93/tuna
Lab
Meta · on Companies · on Acquisitions · on Quarterly · on Paydays · on TechConf

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Influential citationsfirst count: 2Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 35Sep 25, 2026
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