README.md

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license: apache-2.0
base_model:
- google/siglip2-so400m-patch14-384
---
### Unifying Visual Understanding and Generation via Text-Aligned Representations
> [Jiaming Han](https://csuhan.com), [Hao Chen](https://haochen-rye.github.io)<sup>†</sup>, [Yang Zhao](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uPmTOHAAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN), [Hanyu Wang](https://hywang66.github.io), [Qi Zhao](https://kevinz8866.github.io), [Ziyan Yang](https://ziyanyang.github.io), [Hao He](https://hehao13.github.io), [Xiangyu Yue](https://xyue.io)<sup>‡</sup>, [Lu Jiang](https://www.lujiang.info)<sup>‡</sup>
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> <sup>†</sup> Project Lead&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>‡</sup> Corresponding Authors

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### Citation
```
@article{han2025tar,
  title={Vision as a Dialect: Unifying Visual Understanding and Generation via Text-Aligned Representations}, 
  author={Han, Jiaming and Chen, Hao and Zhao, Yang and Wang, Hanyu and Zhao, Qi and Yang, Ziyan and He, Hao and Yue, Xiangyu and Jiang, Lu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.18898},
  year={2025},
}
```

### License
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.