Explaining Multi-modal Large Language Models by Analyzing their Vision Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14612v2
• Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:18:20 GMT
• Title: Explaining Multi-modal Large Language Models by Analyzing their Vision Perception
• Authors: Loris Giulivi, Giacomo Boracchi,
• Abstract summary: This research proposes a novel approach to enhance the interpretability of MLLMs by focusing on the image embedding component. We combine an open-world localization model with a MLLM, thus creating a new architecture able to simultaneously produce text and object localization outputs from the same vision embedding.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating content across various modalities, such as images and text. However, their interpretability remains a challenge, hindering their adoption in critical applications. This research proposes a novel approach to enhance the interpretability of MLLMs by focusing on the image embedding component. We combine an open-world localization model with a MLLM, thus creating a new architecture able to simultaneously produce text and object localization outputs from the same vision embedding. The proposed architecture greatly promotes interpretability, enabling us to design a novel saliency map to explain any output token, to identify model hallucinations, and to assess model biases through semantic adversarial perturbations.

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