On Efficient Language and Vision Assistants for Visually-Situated Natural Language Understanding: What Matters in Reading and Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11823v2
• Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:42:47 GMT
• Title: On Efficient Language and Vision Assistants for Visually-Situated Natural Language Understanding: What Matters in Reading and Reasoning
• Authors: Geewook Kim, Minjoon Seo,
• Abstract summary: Recent advancements in language and vision assistants have showcased impressive capabilities but suffer from a lack of transparency. Open-source models handle general image tasks effectively, but face challenges with the high computational demands of complex visually-situated text understanding. This study aims to redefine the design of vision-language models by identifying key components and creating efficient models with constrained inference costs.
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• Abstract: Recent advancements in language and vision assistants have showcased impressive capabilities but suffer from a lack of transparency, limiting broader research and reproducibility. While open-source models handle general image tasks effectively, they face challenges with the high computational demands of complex visually-situated text understanding. Such tasks often require increased token inputs and large vision modules to harness high-resolution information. Striking a balance between model size and data importance remains an open question. This study aims to redefine the design of vision-language models by identifying key components and creating efficient models with constrained inference costs. By strategically formulating datasets, optimizing vision modules, and enhancing supervision techniques, we achieve significant improvements in inference throughput while maintaining high performance. Extensive experiments across models ranging from 160M to 13B parameters offer insights into model optimization. We will fully open-source our codebase, models, and datasets at https://github.com/naver-ai/elva.

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