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    MetaCanvas accepted to NeurIPS 2026

    The announcement says learnable “canvas tokens” carry multimodal models’ visual plans into diffusion models through a lightweight connector.

    Mohit BansalMB
    Han LinHL
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    A post announcing MetaCanvas’s acceptance to NeurIPS 2026 describes a method that lets multimodal large language models plan in spatial and spatiotemporal latent spaces. Learnable “canvas tokens” carry that planning into a diffusion model’s latent space. The author reports testing MetaCanvas on three diffusion backbones across six image and video tasks, and says it consistently beat global-conditioning baselines.

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    Han Lin@hanlin_hlGlad to announce that MetaCanvas has been accepted to #NeurIPS2026! ✨ MetaCanvas lets MLLMs reason and plan directly in spatial and spatiotemporal latent spaces, instead of reducing them to global text encoders for diffusion models. A set of learnable "canvas tokens" carries the MLLM's planning into the diffusion latent space through a lightweight connector, and visualizations show these canvas tokens act as reasonable visual planning sketches guiding the final synthesis. Implemented on three diffusion backbones and evaluated across six tasks: text-to-image, text/image-to-video, image/video editing, and in-context video generation, each requiring precise layouts, robust attribute binding, and reasoning-intensive control. MetaCanvas consistently beats global-conditioning baselines, narrowing the gap between multimodal understanding and generation. See you in Atlanta! 🚀2h
    Mohit Bansal@mohitban47RT @hanlin_hl: Glad to announce that MetaCanvas has been accepted to #NeurIPS2026! ✨ MetaCanvas lets MLLMs reason and plan directly in spa…1h

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    Han Lin@hanlin_hlGlad to announce that MetaCanvas has been accepted to #NeurIPS2026! ✨ MetaCanvas lets MLLMs reason and plan directly in spatial and spatiotemporal latent spaces, instead of reducing them to global text encoders for diffusion models. A set of learnable "canvas tokens" carries the MLLM's planning into the diffusion latent space through a lightweight connector, and visualizations show these canvas tokens act as reasonable visual planning sketches guiding the final synthesis. Implemented on three diffusion backbones and evaluated across six tasks: text-to-image, text/image-to-video, image/video editing, and in-context video generation, each requiring precise layouts, robust attribute binding, and reasoning-intensive control. MetaCanvas consistently beats global-conditioning baselines, narrowing the gap between multimodal understanding and generation. See you in Atlanta! 🚀2h
    Mohit Bansal@mohitban47RT @hanlin_hl: Glad to announce that MetaCanvas has been accepted to #NeurIPS2026! ✨ MetaCanvas lets MLLMs reason and plan directly in spa…1h