EPISODE · Mar 26, 2026 · 20 MIN
UniGRPO: Unified Policy Optimization for Reasoning-Driven Visual Generation
from Daily Paper Cast · host Jingwen Liang, Gengyu Wang
🤗 Upvotes: 30 | cs.CV Authors: Jie Liu, Zilyu Ye, Linxiao Yuan, Shenhan Zhu, Yu Gao, Jie Wu, Kunchang Li, Xionghui Wang, Xiaonan Nie, Weilin Huang, Wanli Ouyang Title: UniGRPO: Unified Policy Optimization for Reasoning-Driven Visual Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23500v1 Abstract: Unified models capable of interleaved generation have emerged as a promising paradigm, with the community increasingly converging on autoregressive modeling for text and flow matching for image generation. To advance this direction, we propose a unified reinforcement learning framework tailored for interleaved generation. We validate our approach on its fundamental unit: a single round of reasoning-driven image generation, where the model first expands the user prompt through reasoning, followed by image synthesis. Formulating this multimodal generation process as a Markov Decision Process with sparse terminal rewards, we introduce UniGRPO to jointly optimize text and image generation policies using GRPO. Adopting a minimalist methodology to avoid over-design, we leverage established training recipes for both modalities by seamlessly integrating standard GRPO for reasoning and FlowGRPO for visual synthesis. To ensure scalability to multi-round interleaved generation, we introduce two critical modifications to the original FlowGRPO: (1) eliminating classifier-free guidance to maintain linear, unbranched rollouts, which is essential for scaling to complex scenarios involving multi-turn interactions and multi-condition generation (e.g., editing); and (2) replacing the standard latent KL penalty with an MSE penalty directly on the velocity fields, providing a more robust and direct regularization signal to mitigate reward hacking effectively. Our experiments demonstrate that this unified training recipe significantly enhances image generation quality through reasoning, providing a robust and scalable baseline for the future post-training of fully interleaved models.
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🤗 Upvotes: 30 | cs.CV Authors: Jie Liu, Zilyu Ye, Linxiao Yuan, Shenhan Zhu, Yu Gao, Jie Wu, Kunchang Li, Xionghui Wang, Xiaonan Nie, Weilin Huang, Wanli Ouyang Title: UniGRPO: Unified Policy Optimization for Reasoning-Driven Visual Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23500v1 Abstract: Unified models capable of interleaved generation have emerged as a promising paradigm, with the community increasingly converging on autoregressive modeling for text and flow matching for image generation. To advance this direction, we propose a unified reinforcement learning framework tailored for interleaved generation. We validate our approach on its fundamental unit: a single round of reasoning-driven image generation, where the model first expands the user prompt through reasoning, followed by image synthesis. Formulating this multimodal generation process as a Markov Decision Process with sparse terminal rewards, we introduce UniGRPO to jointly optimize text and image generation policies using GRPO. Adopting a minimalist methodology to avoid over-design, we leverage established training recipes for both modalities by seamlessly integrating standard GRPO for reasoning and FlowGRPO for visual synthesis. To ensure scalability to multi-round interleaved generation, we introduce two critical modifications to the original FlowGRPO: (1) eliminating classifier-free guidance to maintain linear, unbranched rollouts, which is essential for scaling to complex scenarios involving multi-turn interactions and multi-condition generation (e.g., editing); and (2) replacing the standard latent KL penalty with an MSE penalty directly on the velocity fields, providing a more robust and direct regularization signal to mitigate reward hacking effectively. Our experiments demonstrate that this unified training recipe significantly enhances image generation quality through reasoning, providing a robust and scalable baseline for the future post-training of fully interleaved models.
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