4 papers
SMILE: A Composite Lexical-Semantic Metric for Question-Answering Evaluation
Shrikant Kendre, Austin Xu, Honglu Zhou +3
Traditional evaluation metrics for textual and visual question answering, like ROUGE, METEOR, and Exact Match (EM), focus heavily on n-gram based lexical similarity, often missing…
xGen-MM (BLIP-3): A Family of Open Large Multimodal Models
Le Xue, Manli Shu, Anas Awadalla +30
This paper introduces BLIP-3, an open framework for developing Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). The framework comprises meticulously curated datasets, a training recipe, model archi…
Strefer: Empowering Video LLMs with Space-Time Referring and Reasoning via Synthetic Instruction Data
Honglu Zhou, Xiangyu Peng, Shrikant Kendre +4
Next-generation AI companions must go beyond general video understanding to resolve spatial and temporal references in dynamic, real-world environments. Existing Video Large Langua…
xGen-MM-Vid (BLIP-3-Video): You Only Need 32 Tokens to Represent a Video Even in VLMs
Michael S. Ryoo, Honglu Zhou, Shrikant Kendre +9
We present xGen-MM-Vid (BLIP-3-Video): a multimodal language model for videos, particularly designed to efficiently capture temporal information over multiple frames. BLIP-3-Video…