Emu3: Next-Token Prediction is All You Need

[Emu3 Team, BAAI](https://www.baai.ac.cn/english.html) | [Project Page](https://emu.baai.ac.cn) | [Paper](https://baai-solution.ks3-cn-beijing.ksyuncs.com/emu3/Emu3-tech-report.pdf?KSSAccessKeyId=AKLTgew6Kdg6RsK92QSfB2KLA&Expires=2591406552&Signature=6BvwfLVqvfww26Bhwvk3mG0FrL8%3D) | [🤗HF Models](https://huggingface.co/collections/BAAI/emu3-66f4e64f70850ff358a2e60f) | [github](https://github.com/baaivision/Emu3) |

We introduce **Emu3**, a new suite of state-of-the-art multimodal models trained solely with **next-token prediction**! By tokenizing images, text, and videos into a discrete space, we train a single transformer from scratch on a mixture of multimodal sequences. ### Emu3 excels in both generation and perception **Emu3** outperforms several well-established task-specific models in both generation and perception tasks, surpassing flagship open models such as SDXL, LLaVA-1.6 and OpenSora-1.2, while eliminating the need for diffusion or compositional architectures.

### Highlights - **Emu3** is capable of generating high-quality images following the text input, by simply predicting the next vision token. The model naturally supports flexible resolutions and styles. - **Emu3** shows strong vision-language understanding capabilities to see the physical world and provides coherent text responses. Notably, this capability is achieved without depending on a CLIP and a pretrained LLM. - **Emu3** simply generates a video causally by predicting the next token in a video sequence, unlike the video diffusion model as in Sora. With a video in context, Emu3 can also naturally extend the video and predict what will happen next.