Wan-Weaver: Interleaved Multi-modal Generation via Decoupled Training

Journal: arXiv
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Abstract

Recent unified models have made unprecedented progress in both understanding and generation. However, while most of them accept multi-modal inputs, they typically produce only single-modality outputs. This challenge of producing interleaved content is mainly due to training data scarcity and the difficulty of modeling long-range cross-modal context. To address this issue, we decompose interleaved generation into textual planning and visual consistency modeling, and introduce a framework consisting of a planner and a visualizer. The planner produces dense textual descriptions for visual content, while the visualizer synthesizes images accordingly. Under this guidance, we construct large-scale textual-proxy interleaved data (where visual content is represented in text) to train the planner, and curate reference-guided image data to train the visualizer. These designs give rise to Wan-Weaver, which exhibits emergent interleaved generation ability with long-range textual coherence and visual consistency. Meanwhile, the integration of diverse understanding and generation data into planner training enables Wan-Weaver to achieve robust task reasoning and generation proficiency. To assess the model's capability in interleaved generation, we further construct a benchmark that spans a wide range of use cases across multiple dimensions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that, even without access to any real interleaved data, Wan-Weaver achieves superior performance over existing methods.

Authors

  • Jinbo Xing; Zeyinzi Jiang; Yuxiang Tuo; Chaojie Mao; Xiaotang Gai; Xi Chen; Jingfeng Zhang; Yulin Pan; Zhen Han; Jie Xiao; Keyu Yan; Chenwei Xie; Chongyang Zhong; Kai Zhu; Tong Shen; Lianghua Huang; Yu Liu; Yujiu Yang