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GIT: A Generative Image-to-text Transformer for Vision and Language
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In this paper, we design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering. While generative models provide a consistent network architecture between pre-training and fine-tuning, existing work typically contains complex structures (uni/multi-modal encoder/decoder) and depends on external modules such as object detectors/taggers and optical character recognition (OCR). In GIT, we simplify the architecture as one image encoder and one text decoder under a single language modeling task. We also scale up the pre-training data and the model size to boost the model performance. Without bells and whistles, our GIT establishes new state of the arts on 12 challenging benchmarks with a large margin. For instance, our model surpasses the human performance for the first time on TextCaps (138.2 vs. 125.5 in CIDEr). Furthermore, we present a new scheme of generation-based image classification and scene text recognition, achieving decent performance on standard benchmarks. Codes are released at \url{https://github.com/microsoft/GenerativeImage2Text}.
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HyperCap: Hyperspectral Land Cover Captioning Dataset for Vision Language Models
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Stitch-a-Demo: Video Demonstrations from Multistep Descriptions
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HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models
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Visual Instruction Tuning
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LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models with Zero-init Attention
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Language Is Not All You Need: Aligning Perception with Language Models
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VISOR: A Vision-Language Model-based Test Oracle for Testing Robots
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Embedding Arithmetic: A Lightweight, Tuning-Free Framework for Post-hoc Bias Mitigation in Text-to-Image Models
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ITIScore: An Image-to-Text-to-Image Rating Framework for the Image Captioning Ability of MLLMs
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From Broad Exploration to Stable Synthesis: Entropy-Guided Optimization for Autoregressive Image Generation
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MME: A Comprehensive Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models
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OCRBench: On the Hidden Mystery of OCR in Large Multimodal Models
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Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training
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MM-REACT: Prompting ChatGPT for Multimodal Reasoning and Action
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Text-Guided Multi-Scale Frequency Representation Adaptation
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