---
license: mit
license_name: deepseek
license_link: LICENSE
pipeline_tag: any-to-any
library_name: transformers
tags:
- muiltimodal
- text-to-image
- unified-model
---

## 1. Introduction

Janus-Pro is a novel autoregressive framework that unifies multimodal understanding and generation. 
It addresses the limitations of previous approaches by decoupling visual encoding into separate pathways, while still utilizing a single, unified transformer architecture for processing. The decoupling not only alleviates the conflict between the visual encoder’s roles in understanding and generation, but also enhances the framework’s flexibility. 
Janus-Pro surpasses previous unified model and matches or exceeds the performance of task-specific models. 
The simplicity, high flexibility, and effectiveness of Janus-Pro make it a strong candidate for next-generation unified multimodal models.

[**Github Repository**](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus)

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### 2. Model Summary

Janus-Pro is a unified understanding and generation MLLM, which decouples visual encoding for multimodal understanding and generation. 
Janus-Pro is constructed based on the DeepSeek-LLM-1.5b-base/DeepSeek-LLM-7b-base.

For multimodal understanding, it uses the [SigLIP-L](https://huggingface.co/timm/ViT-L-16-SigLIP-384) as the vision encoder, which supports 384 x 384 image input. For image generation, Janus-Pro uses the tokenizer from [here](https://github.com/FoundationVision/LlamaGen) with a downsample rate of 16.



## 3. Quick Start

Please refer to [**Github Repository**](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus)


## 4. License

This code repository is licensed under [the MIT License](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM/blob/HEAD/LICENSE-CODE). The use of Janus-Pro models is subject to [DeepSeek Model License](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM/blob/HEAD/LICENSE-MODEL).
## 5. Citation

```
@misc{chen2025januspro,
      title={Janus-Pro: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Data and Model Scaling}, 
      author={Xiaokang Chen and Zhiyu Wu and Xingchao Liu and Zizheng Pan and Wen Liu and Zhenda Xie and Xingkai Yu and Chong Ruan},
      year={2025},
}
```

## 6. Contact

If you have any questions, please raise an issue or contact us at [service@deepseek.com](mailto:service@deepseek.com).