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MMInstruct: A High-Quality Multi-Modal Instruction Tuning Dataset with Extensive Diversity

22 Jul 2024arXiv:2407.15838archive 2025-07-28

Yangzhou Liu, Yue Cao, Zhangwei Gao, Weiyun Wang, Zhe Chen, Wenhai Wang, Hao Tian, Lewei Lu, Xizhou Zhu, Tong Lu, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai

Despite the effectiveness of vision-language supervised fine-tuning in enhancing the performance of Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs). However, existing visual instruction tuning datasets include the following limitations: (1) Instruction annotation quality: despite existing VLLMs exhibiting strong performance, instructions generated by those advanced VLLMs may still suffer from inaccuracies, such as hallucinations. (2) Instructions and image diversity: the limited range of instruction types and the lack of diversity in image data may impact the model's ability to generate diversified and closer to real-world scenarios outputs. To address these challenges, we construct a high-quality, diverse visual instruction tuning dataset MMInstruct, which consists of 973K instructions from 24 domains. There are four instruction types: Judgement, Multiple-Choice, Long Visual Question Answering and Short Visual Question Answering. To construct MMInstruct, we propose an instruction generation data engine that leverages GPT-4V, GPT-3.5, and manual correction. Our instruction generation engine enables semi-automatic, low-cost, and multi-domain instruction generation at 1/6 the cost of manual construction. Through extensive experiment validation and ablation experiments, we demonstrate that MMInstruct could significantly improve the performance of VLLMs, e.g., the model fine-tuning on MMInstruct achieves new state-of-the-art performance on 10 out of 12 benchmarks. The code and data shall be available at https://github.com/yuecao0119/MMInstruct.

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Visual Question Answering MM-Vet LLaVA-1.5+MMInstruct (Vicuna-13B) GPT-4 score 37.9 #126 of 231 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering MM-Vet LLaVA-1.5+MMInstruct (Vicuna-7B) GPT-4 score 34.4 #167 of 231 Archive leaderboard report

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