Deep Pre-Alignment uses a small VLM perceiver instead of ViT to pre-align visual features with LLM text space, yielding 1.9-3.0 point gains on multimodal benchmarks and 32.9% less language forgetting.
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Systematic evaluation finds cross-modal skill injection via model merging succeeds in instruction-following and cross-lingual scenarios but fails in mathematical reasoning, with TA and DARE methods outperforming others after hyperparameter analysis.
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Deep Pre-Alignment for VLMs
Deep Pre-Alignment uses a small VLM perceiver instead of ViT to pre-align visual features with LLM text space, yielding 1.9-3.0 point gains on multimodal benchmarks and 32.9% less language forgetting.
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Investigating Cross-Modal Skill Injection: Scenarios, Methods, and Hyperparameters
Systematic evaluation finds cross-modal skill injection via model merging succeeds in instruction-following and cross-lingual scenarios but fails in mathematical reasoning, with TA and DARE methods outperforming others after hyperparameter analysis.