RealSyn: An Effective and Scalable Multimodal Interleaved Document
  Transformation Paradigm
Authors: name: Tiancheng Gu, name: Kaicheng Yang, name: Chaoyi Zhang, name: Yin Xie, name: Xiang An, name: Ziyong Feng, name: Dongnan Liu, name: Weidong Cai, name: Jiankang Deng

After pre-training on extensive image-text pairs, Contrastive Language-Image
Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates promising performance on a wide variety of
benchmarks. However, a substantial volume of non-paired data, such as
multimodal interleaved documents, remains underutilized for vision-language
representation learning. To fully leverage these unpaired documents, we
initially establish a Real-World Data Extraction pipeline to extract
high-quality images and texts. Then we design a hierarchical retrieval method
to efficiently associate each image with multiple semantically relevant
realistic texts. To further enhance fine-grained visual information, we propose
an image semantic augmented generation module for synthetic text production.
Furthermore, we employ a semantic balance sampling strategy to improve dataset
diversity, enabling better learning of long-tail concepts. Based on these
innovations, we construct RealSyn, a dataset combining realistic and synthetic
texts, available in three scales: 15M, 30M, and 100M. Extensive experiments
demonstrate that RealSyn effectively advances vision-language representation
learning and exhibits strong scalability. Models pre-trained on RealSyn achieve
state-of-the-art performance on multiple downstream tasks. To facilitate future
research, the RealSyn dataset and pre-trained model weights are released at
https://github.com/deepglint/RealSyn.