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InternVL: Scaling up Vision Foundation Models and Aligning for Generic Visual-Linguistic Tasks

21 Dec 2023CVPR 2024 1arXiv:2312.14238archive 2025-07-28

Zhe Chen, Jiannan Wu, Wenhai Wang, Weijie Su, Guo Chen, Sen Xing, Muyan Zhong, Qinglong Zhang, Xizhou Zhu, Lewei Lu, Bin Li, Ping Luo, Tong Lu, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai

The exponential growth of large language models (LLMs) has opened up numerous possibilities for multimodal AGI systems. However, the progress in vision and vision-language foundation models, which are also critical elements of multi-modal AGI, has not kept pace with LLMs. In this work, we design a large-scale vision-language foundation model (InternVL), which scales up the vision foundation model to 6 billion parameters and progressively aligns it with the LLM, using web-scale image-text data from various sources. This model can be broadly applied to and achieve state-of-the-art performance on 32 generic visual-linguistic benchmarks including visual perception tasks such as image-level or pixel-level recognition, vision-language tasks such as zero-shot image/video classification, zero-shot image/video-text retrieval, and link with LLMs to create multi-modal dialogue systems. It has powerful visual capabilities and can be a good alternative to the ViT-22B. We hope that our research could contribute to the development of multi-modal large models. Code and models are available at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/InternVL.

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Tasks

Image RetrievalImage-to-Text RetrievalLanguage ModellingLarge Language ModelMMR totalRetrievalText RetrievalVideo ClassificationVideo-Text RetrievalVisual Question AnsweringVisual Question Answering (VQA)Zero-Shot Cross-Modal RetrievalZero-Shot Transfer Image ClassificationZero-Shot Video RetrievalZero-shot Image Retrieval

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Retrieval Flickr30k-CN InternVL-G-FT R@1 85.9 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30k-CN InternVL-G-FT R@10 97.1 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30k-CN InternVL-G-FT R@5 98.7 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30k-CN InternVL-C-FT R@1 85.2 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30k-CN InternVL-C-FT R@10 97.0 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image Retrieval Flickr30k-CN InternVL-C-FT R@5 98.5 #2 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Text Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G-FT (finetuned, w/o ranking) Recall@1 97.9 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Text Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G-FT (finetuned, w/o ranking) Recall@10 100 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Text Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G-FT (finetuned, w/o ranking) Recall@5 100 #1 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Text Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C-FT (finetuned, w/o ranking) Recall@1 97.2 #4 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Text Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C-FT (finetuned, w/o ranking) Recall@10 100 #4 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Text Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C-FT (finetuned, w/o ranking) Recall@5 100 #4 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
MMR total MRR-Benchmark InternVL2-8B Total Column Score 368 #6 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
MMR total MRR-Benchmark InternVL2-1B Total Column Score 237 #12 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) VQA v2 test-dev InternVL-C Accuracy 81.2 #10 of 56 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-G Image-to-text R@1 74.9 #1 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-G Image-to-text R@10 95.2 #1 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-G Image-to-text R@5 91.3 #1 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-G Text-to-image R@1 58.6 #1 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-G Text-to-image R@10 88.0 #1 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-G Text-to-image R@5 81.3 #1 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-C Image-to-text R@1 70.6 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-C Image-to-text R@10 93.5 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-C Image-to-text R@5 89.0 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-C Text-to-image R@1 54.1 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-C Text-to-image R@10 84.6 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 InternVL-C Text-to-image R@5 77.3 #4 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G Image-to-text R@1 95.7 #1 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G Image-to-text R@10 99.9 #1 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G Image-to-text R@5 99.7 #1 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G Text-to-image R@1 85.0 #1 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G Text-to-image R@10 98.6 #1 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-G Text-to-image R@5 97.0 #1 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C Image-to-text R@1 94.7 #3 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C Image-to-text R@10 99.9 #3 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C Image-to-text R@5 99.6 #3 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C Text-to-image R@1 81.7 #3 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C Text-to-image R@10 98.2 #3 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval Flickr30k InternVL-C Text-to-image R@5 96.0 #3 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification CN-ImageNet InternVL-C Accuracy (Private) 64.5 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification Food-101 InternVL-C Top 1 Accuracy 95.3 #3 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification ImageNet InternVL-C Accuracy (Private) 83.2 #10 of 23 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification ImageNet V2 InternVL-C Accuracy (Private) 77.3 #8 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification ImageNet-A InternVL-C Accuracy (Private) 83.8 #7 of 13 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification ImageNet-Sketch InternVL-C Accuracy (Private) 73.9 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer Image Classification ObjectNet InternVL-C Accuracy (Private) 80.6 #6 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-G text-to-video R@1 46.3 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-G text-to-video R@10 79.6 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-G text-to-video R@5 70.5 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-G video-to-text R@1 42.4 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-G video-to-text R@10 75.4 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-G video-to-text R@5 65.9 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-C text-to-video R@1 44.7 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-C text-to-video R@10 78.4 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-C text-to-video R@5 68.2 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-C video-to-text R@1 40.2 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-C video-to-text R@10 74.1 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-full InternVL-C video-to-text R@5 63.1 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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