@article{unifyingcontrastiveandgenerativeobjectiv, title = {Unifying Contrastive and Generative Objectives for Visual Understanding and Text-to-Image Generation}, author = {Chao Li and Tianhong Li and Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati and Hong-You Chen and Satya Narayan Shukla and Jianpeng Cheng and Yonghuan Yang and Jun Xiao and Xiangjun Fan and Aashu Singh and Dina Katabi and Shlok Kumar Mishra}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2603.02667}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02667}, }