Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling

Split the visual pathway in two — separate encoders for seeing and for drawing, in one transformer.

Chen et al. · arXiv 2025 · Model Architectures. Read the paper ↗

A free, interactive, animated visual explainer of Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling — every exhibit computed from the real formulas, with verbatim quotes from the source.

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What is Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling?

Split the visual pathway in two — separate encoders for seeing and for drawing, in one transformer.

Who published Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling, and where?

Chen et al. — arXiv 2025 (arXiv:2501.17811).

Where can I find a visual explainer of Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling?

Right here — a free, interactive, animated walkthrough of the whole paper, with exhibits computed from the real formulas and verbatim quotes from the source.

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