MUNI: Multimodal Unified Latent Diffusion for Coherent Any-to-Any Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16408v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:46:48 GMT
• Title: MUNI: Multimodal Unified Latent Diffusion for Coherent Any-to-Any Generation
• Abstract summary: MUNI is an end-to-end multimodal latent diffusion framework for any-to-any generation.<n>It unifies subset-conditioned cross-modal generation and unconditional joint sampling through a shared latent.<n>MUNI rests on two complementary contributions, one architectural and one in the training objective.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce MUNI, an end-to-end multimodal latent diffusion framework for any-to-any generation that unifies subset-conditioned cross-modal generation and unconditional joint sampling through a shared stochastic latent. Existing multimodal generative models are largely LLM-based, which limits leveraging modality-specific generators and requires text-paired data for training. Recent diffusion- and flow-based any-to-any extensions take a different direction but still rely on text-aligned embeddings, fully-paired training, or matched-dimensionality deterministic mappings. MUNI rests on two complementary contributions, one architectural and one in the training objective. First, we extend latent diffusion to multimodal any-to-any generation end-to-end: instead of the standard two-stage recipe that precomputes a frozen latent space and then fits a prior over it, MUNI jointly trains modality-specific encoders, expressive decoders, and a single shared flow-based prior under one objective. Second, we identify that the standard aggregation rules of multimodal variational inference are insufficient once coupled with a learned prior and expressive decoders. A suitable shared latent must simultaneously satisfy coherence across generated modalities, predictive sufficiency of subset latents, and minimality of the latent content. We propose a routed training objective whose structural choices align the latent with these criteria and admit a minimal-sufficiency characterization in the realizable setting. Experiments on PolyMNIST-Quadrant-Labels and a large-scale image-text-audio benchmark show MUNI matching or exceeding the strongest baselines on conditional generation while opening its largest margins on unconditional coherence. Project page: https://muni-proj.github.io/.

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