Vision-Language Instruction Tuning: A Review and Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08172v2
• Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:59:48 GMT
• Title: Vision-Language Instruction Tuning: A Review and Analysis
• Authors: Chen Li, Yixiao Ge, Dian Li, and Ying Shan
• Abstract summary: Vision-Language Instruction Tuning (VLIT) presents more complex characteristics compared to pure text instruction tuning. We offer a detailed categorization for existing VLIT datasets and identify the characteristics that high-quality VLIT data should possess. By incorporating these characteristics as guiding principles into the existing VLIT data construction process, we conduct extensive experiments and verify their positive impact on the performance of tuned multi-modal LLMs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Instruction tuning is a crucial supervised training phase in Large Language Models (LLMs), aiming to enhance the LLM's ability to generalize instruction execution and adapt to user preferences. With the increasing integration of multi-modal data into LLMs, there is growing interest in Vision-Language Instruction Tuning (VLIT), which presents more complex characteristics compared to pure text instruction tuning. In this paper, we systematically review the latest VLIT settings and corresponding datasets in multi-modal LLMs and provide insights into the intrinsic motivations behind their design. For the first time, we offer a detailed multi-perspective categorization for existing VLIT datasets and identify the characteristics that high-quality VLIT data should possess. By incorporating these characteristics as guiding principles into the existing VLIT data construction process, we conduct extensive experiments and verify their positive impact on the performance of tuned multi-modal LLMs. Furthermore, we discuss the current challenges and future research directions of VLIT, providing insights for the continuous development of this field. The code and dataset related to this paper have been open-sourced at https://github.com/palchenli/VL-Instruction-Tuning.

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