Are Bigger Encoders Always Better in Vision Large Models?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00620v1
• Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 15:05:42 GMT
• Title: Are Bigger Encoders Always Better in Vision Large Models?
• Authors: Bozhou Li, Hao Liang, Zimo Meng, Wentao Zhang,
• Abstract summary: multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential in real-world applications. The scaling trend of vision language models (VLMs) under the current mainstream paradigm has not been extensively studied. We conduct experiments on the pretraining stage of MLLMs using different encoder sizes and large language model (LLM) sizes.
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• Abstract: In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential in real-world applications. They are developing rapidly due to their remarkable ability to comprehend multimodal information and their inherent powerful cognitive and reasoning capabilities. Among MLLMs, vision language models (VLM) stand out for their ability to understand vision information. However, the scaling trend of VLMs under the current mainstream paradigm has not been extensively studied. Whether we can achieve better performance by training even larger models is still unclear. To address this issue, we conducted experiments on the pretraining stage of MLLMs. We conduct our experiment using different encoder sizes and large language model (LLM) sizes. Our findings indicate that merely increasing the size of encoders does not necessarily enhance the performance of VLMs. Moreover, we analyzed the effects of LLM backbone parameter size and data quality on the pretraining outcomes. Additionally, we explored the differences in scaling laws between LLMs and VLMs.

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