4 papers
LMFusion: Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Multimodal Generation
Weijia Shi, Xiaochuang Han, Chunting Zhou +4
We present LMFusion, a framework for empowering pretrained text-only large language models (LLMs) with multimodal generative capabilities, enabling them to understand and generate…
CAT: Content-Adaptive Image Tokenization
Junhong Shen, Kushal Tirumala, Michihiro Yasunaga +4
Most existing image tokenizers encode images into a fixed number of tokens or patches, overlooking the inherent variability in image complexity. To address this, we introduce Conte…
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
Artidoro Pagnoni, Ram Pasunuru, Pedro Rodriguez +11
We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at scale with significant imp…
ALMA: Alignment with Minimal Annotation
Michihiro Yasunaga, Leonid Shamis, Chunting Zhou +4
Recent approaches to large language model (LLM) alignment typically require millions of human annotations or rely on external aligned models for synthetic data generation. This pap…