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Good folks at
@Meta
have introduced Chameleon 🦎 (who names these things? 🤷♂️)
Chameleon is an AI model that can work with multiple types of data, like text and images, all at once. 🖼️📝
Before you start searching, as of this post, the model/code have not been open-sourced nor is there any commitment to open-source... sorry! 🚫🔓
Still, here is the technical stuff:
👉 Challenges with Current Systems:
📉 Fragmentation: Current multimodal models are often specialized for either text or image tasks, lacking unified approaches.
📊 Scalability: Existing systems struggle with scaling to handle complex, mixed-modal tasks without significant performance degradation.
🔄 Alignment: Aligning textual and visual modalities remains a technical challenge, often requiring separate processing pipelines.
👉 Objective:
🎯 Unified Modeling: Develop a single model capable of handling various multimodal tasks (text generation, image generation, image captioning, visual question answering) seamlessly.
👉 How It's Done 📘
Early-Fusion Architecture 🧠: Utilizes an early-fusion token-based approach to integrate text and image data from the beginning.
Stable Training 💪: Implements a tailored alignment recipe and specific architectural parameterization to ensure stability in mixed-modal settings.
Broad Evaluation 📊: Assesses the model across various tasks, including visual question answering, image captioning, text generation, image generation, and long-form mixed-modal generation.
👉 Results: (Fun fact they mention Llava-1.5 in comparison but never really share the results)
🏆 Performance: Chameleon achieves state-of-the-art results in image captioning and outperforms models like Llama-2 in text-only tasks.
⚖️ Competitiveness: It shows competitive performance with models such as Mixtral 8x7B and Gemini-Pro.
👩⚖️ Human Judgments: Matches or exceeds the performance of larger models, including Gemini Pro and GPT-4V
Paper: Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (2405.09818)
Chameleon is an AI model that can work with multiple types of data, like text and images, all at once. 🖼️📝
Before you start searching, as of this post, the model/code have not been open-sourced nor is there any commitment to open-source... sorry! 🚫🔓
Still, here is the technical stuff:
👉 Challenges with Current Systems:
📉 Fragmentation: Current multimodal models are often specialized for either text or image tasks, lacking unified approaches.
📊 Scalability: Existing systems struggle with scaling to handle complex, mixed-modal tasks without significant performance degradation.
🔄 Alignment: Aligning textual and visual modalities remains a technical challenge, often requiring separate processing pipelines.
👉 Objective:
🎯 Unified Modeling: Develop a single model capable of handling various multimodal tasks (text generation, image generation, image captioning, visual question answering) seamlessly.
👉 How It's Done 📘
Early-Fusion Architecture 🧠: Utilizes an early-fusion token-based approach to integrate text and image data from the beginning.
Stable Training 💪: Implements a tailored alignment recipe and specific architectural parameterization to ensure stability in mixed-modal settings.
Broad Evaluation 📊: Assesses the model across various tasks, including visual question answering, image captioning, text generation, image generation, and long-form mixed-modal generation.
👉 Results: (Fun fact they mention Llava-1.5 in comparison but never really share the results)
🏆 Performance: Chameleon achieves state-of-the-art results in image captioning and outperforms models like Llama-2 in text-only tasks.
⚖️ Competitiveness: It shows competitive performance with models such as Mixtral 8x7B and Gemini-Pro.
👩⚖️ Human Judgments: Matches or exceeds the performance of larger models, including Gemini Pro and GPT-4V
Paper: Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models (2405.09818)