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Multimodal Foundation Models: From Specialists to General-Purpose Assistants
Chunyuan Li, Zhe Gan, Zhengyuan Yang +4
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the taxonomy and evolution of multimodal foundation models that demonstrate vision and vision-language capabilities, focusing on the t…
Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
Tsu-Jui Fu, Wenze Hu, Xianzhi Du +3
Instruction-based image editing improves the controllability and flexibility of image manipulation via natural commands without elaborate descriptions or regional masks. However, h…
MOFI: Learning Image Representations from Noisy Entity Annotated Images
Wentao Wu, Aleksei Timofeev, Chen Chen +8
We present MOFI, Manifold OF Images, a new vision foundation model designed to learn image representations from noisy entity annotated images. MOFI differs from previous work in tw…
An Empirical Study of Multimodal Model Merging
Yi-Lin Sung, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin +3
Model merging (e.g., via interpolation or task arithmetic) fuses multiple models trained on different tasks to generate a multi-task solution. The technique has been proven success…
Diagnostic Benchmark and Iterative Inpainting for Layout-Guided Image Generation
Jaemin Cho, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang +3
Spatial control is a core capability in controllable image generation. Advancements in layout-guided image generation have shown promising results on in-distribution (ID) datasets…
Generalized Decoding for Pixel, Image, and Language
Xueyan Zou, Zi-Yi Dou, Jianwei Yang +11
We present X-Decoder, a generalized decoding model that can predict pixel-level segmentation and language tokens seamlessly. X-Decodert takes as input two types of queries: (i) gen…
Exploring Discrete Diffusion Models for Image Captioning
Zixin Zhu, Yixuan Wei, Jianfeng Wang +7
The image captioning task is typically realized by an auto-regressive method that decodes the text tokens one by one. We present a diffusion-based captioning model, dubbed the name…
GRiT: A Generative Region-to-text Transformer for Object Understanding
Jialian Wu, Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang +4
This paper presents a Generative RegIon-to-Text transformer, GRiT, for object understanding. The spirit of GRiT is to formulate object understanding as <region, text> pairs, where…
ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generation
Zhengyuan Yang, Jianfeng Wang, Zhe Gan +8
Recently, large-scale text-to-image (T2I) models have shown impressive performance in generating high-fidelity images, but with limited controllability, e.g., precisely specifying…
Non-Contrastive Learning Meets Language-Image Pre-Training
Jinghao Zhou, Li Dong, Zhe Gan +2
Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) serves as a de-facto standard to align images and texts. Nonetheless, the loose correlation between images and texts of web-crawled d…
Vision-Language Pre-training: Basics, Recent Advances, and Future Trends
Zhe Gan, Linjie Li, Chunyuan Li +3
This paper surveys vision-language pre-training (VLP) methods for multimodal intelligence that have been developed in the last few years. We group these approaches into three categ…
An Empirical Study of End-to-End Video-Language Transformers with Masked Visual Modeling
Tsu-Jui Fu, Linjie Li, Zhe Gan +4
Masked visual modeling (MVM) has been recently proven effective for visual pre-training. While similar reconstructive objectives on video inputs (e.g., masked frame modeling) have…
NUWA-Infinity: Autoregressive over Autoregressive Generation for Infinite Visual Synthesis
Chenfei Wu, Jian Liang, Xiaowei Hu +6
In this paper, we present NUWA-Infinity, a generative model for infinite visual synthesis, which is defined as the task of generating arbitrarily-sized high-resolution images or lo…
LAVENDER: Unifying Video-Language Understanding as Masked Language Modeling
Linjie Li, Zhe Gan, Kevin Lin +4
Unified vision-language frameworks have greatly advanced in recent years, most of which adopt an encoder-decoder architecture to unify image-text tasks as sequence-to-sequence gene…
Coarse-to-Fine Vision-Language Pre-training with Fusion in the Backbone
Zi-Yi Dou, Aishwarya Kamath, Zhe Gan +9
Vision-language (VL) pre-training has recently received considerable attention. However, most existing end-to-end pre-training approaches either only aim to tackle VL tasks such as…
GIT: A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language
Jianfeng Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Xiaowei Hu +6
In this paper, we design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering. While generati…
K-LITE: Learning Transferable Visual Models with External Knowledge
Sheng Shen, Chunyuan Li, Xiaowei Hu +11
The new generation of state-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained from natural language supervision, ranging from simple object category names to descriptive captions. Thi…
MLP Architectures for Vision-and-Language Modeling: An Empirical Study
Yixin Nie, Linjie Li, Zhe Gan +6
We initiate the first empirical study on the use of MLP architectures for vision-and-language (VL) fusion. Through extensive experiments on 5 VL tasks and 5 robust VQA benchmarks,…
Injecting Semantic Concepts into End-to-End Image Captioning
Zhiyuan Fang, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu +5
Tremendous progress has been made in recent years in developing better image captioning models, yet most of them rely on a separate object detector to extract regional features. Re…
UFO: A UniFied TransfOrmer for Vision-Language Representation Learning
Jianfeng Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Zhe Gan +5
In this paper, we propose a single UniFied transfOrmer (UFO), which is capable of processing either unimodal inputs (e.g., image or language) or multimodal inputs (e.g., the concat…
SwinBERT: End-to-End Transformers with Sparse Attention for Video Captioning
Kevin Lin, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin +5
The canonical approach to video captioning dictates a caption generation model to learn from offline-extracted dense video features. These feature extractors usually operate on vid…
VIOLET : End-to-End Video-Language Transformers with Masked Visual-token Modeling
Tsu-Jui Fu, Linjie Li, Zhe Gan +4
A great challenge in video-language (VidL) modeling lies in the disconnection between fixed video representations extracted from image/video understanding models and downstream Vid…
Scaling Up Vision-Language Pre-training for Image Captioning
Xiaowei Hu, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang +4
In recent years, we have witnessed significant performance boost in the image captioning task based on vision-language pre-training (VLP). Scale is believed to be an important fact…
UniTAB: Unifying Text and Box Outputs for Grounded Vision-Language Modeling
Zhengyuan Yang, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Wang +5
We propose UniTAB that Unifies Text And Box outputs for grounded vision-language (VL) modeling. Grounded VL tasks such as grounded captioning require the model to generate a text d…