CaMML:

Context-Aware Multimodal Learner for Large Models

Yixin Chen*, Shuai Zhang*, Boran Han, Tong He, Bo Li,
▶ The Chinese University of Hong Kong ▶ Amazon Web Services ▶ University of Chicago

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Abstract

In this work, we introduce Context-Aware MultiModal Learner (CaMML), for tuning large multimodal models (LMMs). CaMML, a lightweight module, is crafted to seamlessly integrate multimodal contextual samples into large models, thereby empowering the model to derive knowledge from analogous, domain-specific, up-to-date information and make grounded inferences. Importantly, CaMML is highly scalable and can efficiently handle lengthy multimodal context examples owing to its hierarchical design. Based on CaMML, we have developed two multimodal models, CaMML-7B and CaMML-13B, that have shown exceptional performance across an array of benchmark datasets for multimodal tasks. Remarkably, CaMML-13B achieves the state-of-the-art performance on over ten widely recognized multimodal benchmark datasets, surpassing LLaVA-1.5 (13B) with a noticeable margin, without integration of any external resources. Moreover, we have conducted extensive ablative studies to inspect the inner workings of CaMML and performed qualitative analyses to showcase its effectiveness in handling real-world challenging cases.



Model

CaMML framework, which consists of retriever, perceiver and generator. Once receiving user query q, CaMML retriever identifies relevant multimodal contexts C from datastore, then CaMML Perceiver seamlessly integrates various modalities, effectively encodeing long-context information and injecting it into the CaMML generator. This allows for the prediction of responses that are conditioned on both the context and the query q.

Performance

CaMML achieves the state-of-the-art performance on a number of multimodal benchmarks, outperforming LLaVA-1.5 and many other large multimodal models.

BibTeX


@misc{camml,
      title={CaMML: Context-Aware Multimodal Learner for Large Models},
      author={Yixin Chen and Shuai Zhang and Boran Han and Tong He and Bo Li},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2401.03149},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

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