Large multimodal models (LMMs) have the potential to revolutionize machine interaction with human languages and visual information, presenting more intuitive understanding. Current research focuses on autoregressive LLMs and fine-tuning LMMs to enhance their capabilities. TinyLLaVA, a novel framework, utilizes small-scale LLMs for multimodal tasks, outperforming larger models and highlighting the importance of innovative solutions in advancing artificial intelligence.
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Large multimodal models (LMMs) are transforming how machines understand human languages and visual information, offering more natural interactions. Multimodal learning involves interpreting and synthesizing information from textual and visual inputs, which is complex due to the distinct properties of each modality.
Researchers have developed small-scale LMMs like TinyLLaVA to reduce computation overhead while maintaining impressive performance. TinyLLaVA comprises a vision encoder, a small-scale LMM decoder, an intermediate connector, and tailored training pipelines. It aims to achieve high performance in multimodal learning while minimizing computational demands.
The framework trains a family of small-scale LMMs, with the best model, TinyLLaVA-3.1B, outperforming existing larger models. It combines vision encoders like CLIP-Large and SigLIP with small-scale LMMs for better performance and allows adjustment of learnable parameters during the supervised fine-tuning stage.
The experiments revealed that model variants employing larger LMMs and the SigLIP vision encoder demonstrated superior performance. The success of TinyLLaVA underscores the importance of innovative solutions in advancing the capabilities of artificial intelligence.
For more information, you can check out the research paper.
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