4 papers
CLIP-UP: A Simple and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts CLIP Training Recipe with Sparse Upcycling
Xinze Wang, Chen Chen, Yinfei Yang +5
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are crucial for scaling model capacity while controlling inference costs. While integrating MoE into multimodal models like CLIP improves performanc…
Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training
Hong-You Chen, Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang +7
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. R…
Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models
Zhengfeng Lai, Vasileios Saveris, Chen Chen +9
Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often…
MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning
Haotian Zhang, Mingfei Gao, Zhe Gan +20
We present MM1.5, a new family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) designed to enhance capabilities in text-rich image understanding, visual referring and grounding, and mu…