README.md

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# MeissonFlow Research [[Join us]](mailto:jinbin5bai@gmail.com)

**MeissonFlow Research** is a non-commercial research group dedicated to advancing generative modeling techniques for structured visual and multimodal content creation. 
We aim to design models and algorithms that help creators produce high-quality content with greater efficiency and control.

Our journey began with [**MaskGIT**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04200), a pioneering work by [**Huiwen Chang**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=eZQNcvcAAAAJ), which introduced a bidirectional transformer decoder for image synthesis—outperforming traditional raster-scan autoregressive (AR) generation.
This paradigm was later extended to text-to-image synthesis in [**MUSE**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704).

Building upon these foundations, we scaled masked generative modeling with the latest architectural designs and sampling strategies—culminating in [**Monetico** and **Meissonic**](https://github.com/viiika/Meissonic) from scratch, which on par with leading diffusion models such as SDXL, while maintaining greater efficiency.

Having verified the effectiveness of this approach, we began to ask a deeper question — one that reaches beyond performance benchmarks: **what foundations are required for general-purpose generative intelligence**?  
Through discussions with researchers at Safe Superintelligence (SSI) Club, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Riot Video Games, we converged on the vision of a **visual-centric world model** — a generative and interactive system capable of simulating, interacting with, and reasoning about multimodal environments.

> We believe that **masking** is a fundamental abstraction for building such controllable, efficient, and generalizable intelligence.

A similar vision was shared by [**Stefano Ermon**](https://cs.stanford.edu/~ermon/) at ICLR 2025, where he described *Diffusion as a unified paradigm for a multi-modal world model* — a message that echoes and strengthens our belief: that unified generative modeling is the path toward general-purpose superintelligence.

To pursue this vision, we introduced [**Muddit** and **Muddit Plus**](https://github.com/M-E-AGI-Lab/Muddit), unified generative models built upon visual priors (Meissonic), and capable of unified generation across text and image within a single architecture and paradigm.

We look forward to releasing more models and algorithms in this direction.  
We thank our amazing teammates — and you, the reader — for your interest in our work.

Special thanks to [**Style2Paints Research**](https://lllyasviel.github.io/Style2PaintsResearch/), which helped shape our taste and research direction in the early days.