Multimodal Language Model
Multimodal language models (MLLMs) aim to integrate and process information from multiple modalities, such as text, images, and video, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the world. Current research focuses on improving MLLM performance through techniques like fine-grained reward models, knowledge distillation to create smaller, more efficient models, and data augmentation strategies to address data scarcity and biases. These advancements are significant because they enhance the reliability and applicability of MLLMs across diverse fields, including medical diagnosis, video summarization, and autonomous driving, by enabling more accurate and nuanced interpretations of complex multimodal data.
Papers
BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive
Xingyu Fu, Yushi Hu, Bangzheng Li, Yu Feng, Haoyu Wang, Xudong Lin, Dan Roth, Noah A. Smith, Wei-Chiu Ma, Ranjay Krishna
Reka Core, Flash, and Edge: A Series of Powerful Multimodal Language Models
Reka Team, Aitor Ormazabal, Che Zheng, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Dani Yogatama, Deyu Fu, Donovan Ong, Eric Chen, Eugenie Lamprecht, Hai Pham, Isaac Ong, Kaloyan Aleksiev, Lei Li, Matthew Henderson, Max Bain, Mikel Artetxe, Nishant Relan, Piotr Padlewski, Qi Liu, Ren Chen, Samuel Phua, Yazheng Yang, Yi Tay, Yuqi Wang, Zhongkai Zhu, Zhihui Xie