5 papers
Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes
Junlin Han, Shengbang Tong, David Fan +4
Vision offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models, driving a shift towards natively unified multimodal pretraining. Despite this momentum, the design space and the fund…
Compute Optimal Tokenization
Tomasz Limisiewicz, Artidoro Pagnoni, Srini Iyer +6
Scaling laws enable the optimal selection of data amount and language model size, yet the impact of the data unit, the token, on this relationship remains underexplored. In this wo…
Beyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining
Shengbang Tong, David Fan, John Nguyen +18
The visual world offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models beyond language. Despite growing interest in this direction, the design space for native multimodal models r…
Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models
Weixin Liang, Lili Yu, Liang Luo +8
The development of large language models (LLMs) has expanded to multi-modal systems capable of processing text, images, and speech within a unified framework. Training these models…
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…