EMMA: Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05938v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:41:55 GMT
• Title: EMMA: Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment
• Authors: Yifei Xing, Xiangyuan Lan, Ruiping Wang, Dongmei Jiang, Wenjun Huang, Qingfang Zheng, Yaowei Wang,
• Abstract summary: We propose Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment (EMMA) to extract fine-grained visual information. Our model shows lower latency than other Mamba-based MLLMs and is nearly four times faster than transformer-based MLLMs of similar scale during inference.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Mamba-based architectures have shown to be a promising new direction for deep learning models owing to their competitive performance and sub-quadratic deployment speed. However, current Mamba multi-modal large language models (MLLM) are insufficient in extracting visual features, leading to imbalanced cross-modal alignment between visual and textural latents, negatively impacting performance on multi-modal tasks. In this work, we propose Empowering Multi-modal Mamba with Structural and Hierarchical Alignment (EMMA), which enables the MLLM to extract fine-grained visual information. Specifically, we propose a pixel-wise alignment module to autoregressively optimize the learning and processing of spatial image-level features along with textual tokens, enabling structural alignment at the image level. In addition, to prevent the degradation of visual information during the cross-model alignment process, we propose a multi-scale feature fusion (MFF) module to combine multi-scale visual features from intermediate layers, enabling hierarchical alignment at the feature level. Extensive experiments are conducted across a variety of multi-modal benchmarks. Our model shows lower latency than other Mamba-based MLLMs and is nearly four times faster than transformer-based MLLMs of similar scale during inference. Due to better cross-modal alignment, our model exhibits lower degrees of hallucination and enhanced sensitivity to visual details, which manifests in superior performance across diverse multi-modal benchmarks. Code will be provided.

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