MODUS: Decoder-Only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities

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Modus is a decoder-only model that predicts any modality from any combination of others, achieving strong performance across diverse benchmarks without modality-specific heads or losses.

Any-to-any models predict any modality from any combination of others within a single network, a formulation used in multimodal vision and vision-language models, and increasingly in scientific domains such as ecology and astronomy. Existing any-to-any models are typically trained from scratch using encoder-decoder or diffusion architectures, impacting their performance and preventing them from using strong pre-trained decoder-only models as a prior. In this work, we investigate decoder-only any-to-any multimodal modeling, which treats all modalities symmetrically and supports arbitrary modalities as inputs and outputs without modality-specific heads, losses, or task pipelines. Because every modality is both an input and an output of the same model, the resulting model, named Modus, can support a range of applications, such as chained generation through intermediate modalities or cross-modal self-verification by scoring the model's own outputs with another generated modality. Modus demonstrates strong out-of-the-box performance and is competitive with specialist and multitask baselines using a single model across various benchmarks. All materials are open-sourced at https://modus-multimodal.epfl.ch/.
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Any-to-anymodelspredictanymodalityfromanycombinationofotherswithinasinglenetwork,aformulationusedinmultimodalvisionandvision-languagemodels,andincreasinglyinscientificdomainssuchasecologyandastronomy.Existingany-to-anymodelsaretypicallytrainedfromscratchusingencoder-decoderordiffusionarchitectures,impactingtheirperformanceandpreventingthemfromusingstrongpre-traineddecoder-onlymodelsasaprior.Inthiswork,weinvestigatedecoder-onlyany-to-anymultimodalmodeling,whichtreatsallmodalitiessymmetricallyandsupportsarbitrarymodalitiesasinputsandoutputswithoutmodality-specificheads,losses,ortaskpipelines.Becauseeverymodalityisbothaninputandanoutputofthesamemodel,theresultingmodel,namedModus,cansupportarangeofapplications,suchaschainedgenerationthroughintermediatemodalitiesorcross-modalself-verificationbyscoringthemodel’sownoutputswithanothergeneratedmodality.Modusdemonstratesstrongout-of-the-boxperformanceandiscompetitivewithspecialistandmultitaskbaselinesusingasinglemodelacrossvariousbenchmarks.Allmaterialsareopen-sourcedathttps://modus-multimodal.epfl.ch/.

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