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Instruction tuning is a crucial supervised training phase in Large Language Models (LLMs), aiming to enhance the LLM's ability to generalize instruction execution and adapt to user preferences. With the increasing integration of multi-modal…

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Emerging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit great potential for chart question answering (CQA). Recent efforts primarily focus on scaling up training datasets (i.e., charts, data tables, and question-answer (QA) pairs) through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Xingchen Zeng , Haichuan Lin , Yilin Ye , Wei Zeng

Large-scale pre-training and instruction tuning have been successful at creating general-purpose language models with broad competence. However, building general-purpose vision-language models is challenging due to the rich input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wenliang Dai , Junnan Li , Dongxu Li , Anthony Meng Huat Tiong , Junqi Zhao , Weisheng Wang , Boyang Li , Pascale Fung , Steven Hoi

Visual instruction tuning is crucial for enhancing the zero-shot generalization capability of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In this paper, we aim to investigate a fundamental question: ''what makes for good visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yifan Du , Hangyu Guo , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jinpeng Wang , Chuyuan Wang , Mingchen Cai , Ruihua Song , Ji-Rong Wen

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have experienced significant advancements in recent years. However, their performance still falls short in tasks requiring deep visual perception, such as identifying subtle differences between images. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qingguo Hu , Ante Wang , Jia Song , Delai Qiu , Qingsong Liu , Jinsong Su

In the realm of Sign Language Translation (SLT), reliance on costly gloss-annotated datasets has posed a significant barrier. Recent advancements in gloss-free SLT methods have shown promise, yet they often largely lag behind gloss-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Han Liang , Chengyu Huang , Yuecheng Xu , Cheng Tang , Weicai Ye , Juze Zhang , Xin Chen , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Large vision language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of tasks. These capabilities largely stem from visual instruction tuning, which fine-tunes models on datasets consisting of curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Myeongkyun Kang , Soopil Kim , Xiaoxiao Li , Sang Hyun Park

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic growth of attention computations with the number of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingqi Fan , Anhao Zhao , Jinlan Fu , Junlong Tong , Hui Su , Yijie Pan , Wei Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) utilizing instruction-following data, such as LLaVA, have achieved great progress in the industry. A major limitation in these models is that visual tokens consume a substantial portion of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Ke Wang , Hong Xuan

The advent of real-time large multimodal models (LMMs) like GPT-4o has sparked considerable interest in efficient LMMs. LMM frameworks typically encode visual inputs into vision tokens (continuous representations) and integrate them and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Shaolei Zhang , Qingkai Fang , Zhe Yang , Yang Feng

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results in visual question-answering and reasoning tasks through vision instruction tuning on specific datasets. However, there remains significant room for improvement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xiyao Wang , Jiuhai Chen , Zhaoyang Wang , Yuhang Zhou , Yiyang Zhou , Huaxiu Yao , Tianyi Zhou , Tom Goldstein , Parminder Bhatia , Furong Huang , Cao Xiao

Vision Language Models (VLMs), which extend Large Language Models (LLM) by incorporating visual understanding capability, have demonstrated significant advancements in addressing open-ended visual question-answering (VQA) tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Wenbo Hu , Yifan Xu , Yi Li , Weiyue Li , Zeyuan Chen , Zhuowen Tu

The abilities of large language models (LLMs) have recently progressed to unprecedented levels, paving the way to novel applications in a wide variety of areas. In computer vision, LLMs can be used to prime vision-language tasks such image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Théophane Vallaeys , Mustafa Shukor , Matthieu Cord , Jakob Verbeek

Instruction following is crucial in contemporary LLM. However, when extended to multimodal setting, it often suffers from misalignment between specific textual instruction and targeted local region of an image. To achieve more accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jinliang Zheng , Jianxiong Li , Sijie Cheng , Yinan Zheng , Jiaming Li , Jihao Liu , Yu Liu , Jingjing Liu , Xianyuan Zhan

Modular vision-language models (Vision-LLMs) align pretrained image encoders with (frozen) large language models (LLMs) and post-hoc condition LLMs to `understand' the image input. With the abundance of readily available high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gregor Geigle , Abhay Jain , Radu Timofte , Goran Glavaš

Multimodal large language models are typically trained in two stages: first pre-training on image-text pairs, and then fine-tuning using supervised vision-language instruction data. Recent studies have shown that large language models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lai Wei , Xiaozhe Li , Zihao Jiang , Weiran Huang , Lichao Sun

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) are expected to support multi-turn queries of interchanging image and text modalities in production. However, the current MLLMs trained with visual-question-answering (VQA) datasets could suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Shengzhi Li , Rongyu Lin , Shichao Pei

The remarkable multimodal capabilities demonstrated by OpenAI's GPT-4 have sparked significant interest in the development of multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs). A primary research objective of such models is to align visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yanda Li , Chi Zhang , Gang Yu , Zhibin Wang , Bin Fu , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Ling Chen , Yunchao Wei

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown success in vision-language tasks, but their ability to reason over complex educational materials remains largely untested. This work presents the first evaluation of state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Hessa A. Alawwad , Anas Zafar , Areej Alhothali , Usman Naseem , Ali Alkhathlan , Amani Jamal

Instruction tuning is widely used to improve a pre-trained Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) by training it on curated task-specific datasets, enabling better comprehension of human instructions. However, it is infeasible to collect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Haiyang Guo , Fanhu Zeng , Ziwei Xiang , Fei Zhu , Da-Han Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu