4 papers
AXLearn: Modular, Hardware-Agnostic Large Model Training
Mark Lee, Chang Lan, Tom Gunter +34
AXLearn is a production system which facilitates scalable and high-performance training of large deep learning models. Compared to other state-of-art deep learning systems, AXLearn…
AstroMMBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models Capabilities in Astronomy
Jinghang Shi, Xiaoyu Tang, Yang Huang +4
Astronomical image interpretation presents a significant challenge for applying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to specialized scientific tasks. Existing benchmarks focus…
MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan +24
Unified multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) that can both understand and generate visual content hold immense potential. However, existing open-source models often suffer from…
Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision Encoders
Enrico Fini, Mustafa Shukor, Xiujun Li +13
We introduce a novel method for pre-training of large-scale vision encoders. Building on recent advancements in autoregressive pre-training of vision models, we extend this framewo…