Sparkles: Unlocking Chats Across Multiple Images for Multimodal Instruction-Following Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16463v3
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:46:07 GMT
• Title: Sparkles: Unlocking Chats Across Multiple Images for Multimodal Instruction-Following Models
• Authors: Yupan Huang, Zaiqiao Meng, Fangyu Liu, Yixuan Su, Nigel Collier, Yutong Lu,
• Abstract summary: Multimodal instruction-following models extend capabilities by integrating both text and images. Existing models such as MiniGPT-4 and LLaVA face challenges in maintaining dialogue coherence in scenarios involving multiple images. We introduce SparklesDialogue, the first machine-generated dialogue dataset tailored for word-level interleaved multi-image and text interactions. We then present SparklesChat, a multimodal instruction-following model for open-ended dialogues across multiple images.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models exhibit enhanced zero-shot performance on various tasks when fine-tuned with instruction-following data. Multimodal instruction-following models extend these capabilities by integrating both text and images. However, existing models such as MiniGPT-4 and LLaVA face challenges in maintaining dialogue coherence in scenarios involving multiple images. A primary reason is the lack of a specialized dataset for this critical application. To bridge these gaps, we introduce SparklesDialogue, the first machine-generated dialogue dataset tailored for word-level interleaved multi-image and text interactions. Furthermore, we construct SparklesEval, a GPT-assisted benchmark for quantitatively assessing a model's conversational competence across multiple images and dialogue turns. We then present SparklesChat, a multimodal instruction-following model for open-ended dialogues across multiple images. Our experiments validate the effectiveness of training SparklesChat with SparklesDialogue based on MiniGPT-4 and LLaVA-v1.5, which enhances comprehension across multiple images and dialogue turns, and does not compromise single-image understanding capabilities. Qualitative evaluations further demonstrate SparklesChat's generality in handling real-world applications. All resources related to this study are publicly available at https://github.com/HYPJUDY/Sparkles.

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