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CoLLaVO: Crayon Large Language and Vision mOdel

17 Feb 2024arXiv:2402.11248archive 2025-07-28

Byung-Kwan Lee, Beomchan Park, Chae Won Kim, Yong Man Ro

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) and instruction tuning drives the evolution of Vision Language Models (VLMs) towards a versatile general-purpose model. Yet, it remains unexplored whether current VLMs genuinely possess quality object-level image understanding capabilities determined from 'what objects are in the image?' or 'which object corresponds to a specified bounding box?'. Our findings reveal that the image understanding capabilities of current VLMs are strongly correlated with their zero-shot performance on vision language (VL) tasks. This suggests that prioritizing basic image understanding is crucial for VLMs to excel at VL tasks. To enhance object-level image understanding, we propose Crayon Large Language and Vision mOdel (CoLLaVO), which incorporates instruction tuning with Crayon Prompt as a new visual prompt tuning scheme based on panoptic color maps. Furthermore, we present a learning strategy of Dual QLoRA to preserve object-level image understanding without forgetting it during visual instruction tuning, thereby achieving a significant leap in numerous VL benchmarks in a zero-shot setting.

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Large Language ModelObjectVisual Prompt TuningVisual Question AnsweringVisual Question Answering (VQA)Zero-Shot Visual Question Answringmodel

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Visual Question Answering MM-Vet CoLLaVO GPT-4 score 40.3 #108 of 231 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering MM-Vet CoLLaVO Params 7B #108 of 231 Archive leaderboard report

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