STARFlow2: Bridging Language Models and Normalizing Flows for Unified
Unified multimodal models that understand, reason over, and generate interleaved text–image sequences remain structurally fragmented: existing approaches.
By Dillip Chowdary • Aug 25, 2026 • Source: Apple Machine Learning Research
What happened
Apple Machine Learning Research reports: STARFlow2: Bridging Language Models and Normalizing Flows for Unified Multimodal Generation. Unified multimodal models that understand, reason over, and generate interleaved text–image sequences remain structurally fragmented: existing approaches either sacrifice visual fidelity through discrete tokenization, impose structural asymmetry by combining causal text generation with iterative diffusion-based…
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Developer Action Items
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