2️⃣ Advancing Flamingo with InfiMM 🔥 Building upon the foundation of Flamingo, we introduce the InfiMM model series. InfiMM is a reproduction of Flamingo, enhanced with stronger Large Language Models (LLMs) such as LLaMA2-13B, Vicuna-13B, and Zephyr7B. We've meticulously filtered pre-training data and fine-tuned instructions, resulting in superior performance on recent benchmarks like MMMU, InfiMM-Eval, MM-Vet, and more. Explore the power of InfiMM on Huggingface: Infi-MM/infimm-zephyr
3️⃣ Exploring Multimodal Instruction Fine-tuning 🖼️ Visual Instruction Fine-tuning (IFT) is crucial for aligning MLLMs' output with user intentions. Our research identified challenges with models trained on the LLaVA-mix-665k dataset, particularly in multi-round dialog settings. To address this, we've created a new IFT dataset with high-quality, diverse instruction annotations and images sourced exclusively from the COCO dataset. Our experiments demonstrate that when fine-tuned with this dataset, MLLMs excel in open-ended evaluation benchmarks for both single-round and multi-round dialog settings. Dive into the details in our paper: COCO is "ALL'' You Need for Visual Instruction Fine-tuning (2401.08968)