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VoCoT: Unleashing Visually Grounded Multi-Step Reasoning in Large Multi-Modal Models

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arxiv 2405.16919 v3 pith:DMXUVTN3 submitted 2024-05-27 cs.CV cs.AIcs.CL

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While large multi-modal models (LMMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, their effectiveness in handling complex tasks has been limited by the prevailing single-step reasoning paradigm. To this end, this paper proposes VoCoT, a multi-step Visually grounded object-centric Chain-of-Thought reasoning framework tailored for inference with LMMs. VoCoT is characterized by two key features: (1) object-centric reasoning paths that revolve around cross-modal shared object-level information, and (2) visually grounded representation of object concepts in a multi-modal interleaved and aligned manner, which effectively bridges the modality gap within LMMs during long-term generation. To adapt LMMs in reasoning with VoCoT, we further construct an instruction-tuning dataset. By combining VoCoT with the prevalent open-source LMM architectures, we develop a VoCoT-based model, VolCano. With only 7B parameters and limited input image resolution, VolCano demonstrates excellent performance across various scenarios. In benchmarks like CLEVR and EmbSpatial, which highly require complex reasoning capabilities, VolCano outperforms SOTA models, including powerful GPT-4V. Related code, data and models are released in https://github.com/RupertLuo/VoCoT.

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