Text as Images: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Follow Printed Instructions in Pixels?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17647v2
• Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:39:24 GMT
• Title: Text as Images: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Follow Printed Instructions in Pixels?
• Authors: Xiujun Li, Yujie Lu, Zhe Gan, Jianfeng Gao, William Yang Wang, Yejin Choi,
• Abstract summary: multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising instruction following capabilities on vision-language tasks. We investigate how well multimodal models can understand textual instructions provided in pixels, despite not being explicitly trained on such data during pretraining or fine-tuning. We train v-MLLM, a generalizable model that is capable to conduct robust instruction following in both text-modality and visual-modality instructions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising instruction following capabilities on vision-language tasks. In this work, we introduce VISUAL MODALITY INSTRUCTION (VIM), and investigate how well multimodal models can understand textual instructions provided in pixels, despite not being explicitly trained on such data during pretraining or fine-tuning. We adapt VIM to eight benchmarks, including OKVQA, MM-Vet, MathVista, MMMU, and probe diverse MLLMs in both the text-modality instruction (TEM) setting and VIM setting. Notably, we observe a significant performance disparity between the original TEM and VIM settings for open-source MLLMs, indicating that open-source MLLMs face greater challenges when text instruction is presented solely in image form. To address this issue, we train v-MLLM, a generalizable model that is capable to conduct robust instruction following in both text-modality and visual-modality instructions.

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