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arxiv: 2501.05067 · v3 · submitted 2025-01-09 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

LLaVA-Octopus: Unlocking Instruction-Driven Adaptive Projector Fusion for Video Understanding

Boyuan Sun , Jiaxing Zhao , Xiang Chen , Xihan Wei , Qibin Hou This is my paper

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keywords video multimodal large language modeladaptive projector fusioninstruction-driven weightingvisual projectorsvideo question answeringlong video understandingfeature fusion
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LLaVA-Octopus weights features from multiple visual projectors dynamically according to user instructions to improve video multimodal performance.

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The paper presents LLaVA-Octopus as a video multimodal large language model that adaptively weights and fuses outputs from different visual projectors based on the content of the user's instruction. Different projectors are observed to handle static details, temporal motion, or coherence at varying levels of effectiveness. The adaptive mechanism lets the model emphasize the projector best matched to the current query rather than applying a fixed combination. This yields measurable gains on video question answering, long-video understanding, and multi-choice benchmarks while using existing projectors without extra per-projector fine-tuning.

Core claim

LLaVA-Octopus adaptively weights features from different visual projectors based on user instructions, enabling the model to leverage the complementary strengths of each projector. Some projectors excel at static details, others at temporal information, and still others at temporal coherence. By dynamically adjusting feature weights, the model selects and combines the most suitable features for each task, leading to stronger results across video question answering, long video understanding, and comprehensive multi-choice benchmarks.

What carries the argument

Instruction-conditioned adaptive weighting that fuses outputs from multiple visual projectors

If this is right

  • Stronger accuracy on video question answering benchmarks
  • Improved handling of long video sequences
  • Better results on multi-choice video understanding tasks
  • Utilization of complementary projector capabilities without separate fine-tuning

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same instruction-driven selection could be tested on image-only or audio-video joint tasks to check broader applicability
  • If the weighting remains stable, it may reduce the engineering cost of maintaining multiple specialized projectors
  • Models using more than two projectors could reveal whether the gains scale with the number of available feature extractors

Load-bearing premise

The distinct strengths of different visual projectors can be reliably detected and combined through instruction-based weighting without introducing instability.

What would settle it

An ablation showing equal or lower accuracy and higher variance when the instruction-driven weighting is replaced by fixed or uniform fusion on the same video QA and long-video benchmarks would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2501.05067 by Boyuan Sun, Jiaxing Zhao, Qibin Hou, Xiang Chen, Xihan Wei.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of Different MLLM Paradigms. In the classical paradigm, user instructions are fed into the LLM solely as text tokens. While the instruction-involved paradigm facilitates in￾teraction between instructions and visual features, it is constrained by a single projector. Our proposed instruction-driven projector fusion paradigm designs a projector fusion router, which dynam￾ically adjusts the weights … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparisons of three representative methods under different video understanding scenarios. VideoChat2-HD [33] uses image-based projector while VideoLLaMa2 [17] and LLaMA-VID [35] use spatial-temporal projector and token-compress projector, re￾spectively. The results indicate that different visual projectors perform well in their appropriate domains while exhibiting poorer perfor￾mance in other scenarios. M… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Pipeline of the proposed LLaVA-Octopus model. Our LLaVA-Octopus proposes an instruction-driven adaptive projector that involves three types of visual projectors to enhance the model’s ability in multimodal tasks. actions accordingly, thus achieving comprehensive under￾standing and processing of visual and linguistic inputs. LLaVA1.5 [38] encodes different types of data into vectors of the same dimension, a… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Multimodal Data Distribution and Data Format. <image> and <video> represent visual tokens from image and video data, respectively. tages stemming from the model architecture rather than the aggregation of large-scale training data, we not only uti￾lize the aforementioned dataset for multi-task pre-training and instruction tuning but also introduce a simplified setup where only the Video-LLaVA dataset (rela… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative Results of LLaVA-Octopus. Compared to using a single type of projector, LLaVA-Octopus is capable of leveraging the strengths of different projectors, thereby transcending the limited advantages of a single projector. This enables LLaVA-Octopus to achieve excellent performance across various tasks. Projector Method MVBench VideoMME Image-based Single 48.6 50.5 Stacked 49.2 51.0 Spatial-temporal … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: More examples of scene details related question. 10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: More examples of spatial-temporal related question. 11 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: More examples of dynamic counting question. 12 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: More qualitative results of LLaVA-Octopus. 13 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: More qualitative results of LLaVA-Octopus. 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_10.png] view at source ↗
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In this paper, we introduce LLaVA-Octopus, a novel video multimodal large language model. LLaVA-Octopus adaptively weights features from different visual projectors based on user instructions, enabling us to leverage the complementary strengths of each projector. We observe that different visual projectors exhibit distinct characteristics when handling specific tasks. For instance, some projectors excel at capturing static details, while others are more effective at processing temporal information, and some are better suited for tasks requiring temporal coherence. By dynamically adjusting feature weights according to user instructions, LLaVA-Octopus dynamically selects and combines the most suitable features, significantly enhancing the model's performance in multimodal tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that LLaVA-Octopus achieves excellent performance across multiple benchmarks, especially in tasks such as video question answering, long video understanding, and comprehensive multi-choices benchmarks, highlighting its broad application potential.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces LLaVA-Octopus, a video multimodal large language model that adaptively weights and fuses features from multiple visual projectors conditioned on user instructions, claiming to exploit complementary projector strengths (e.g., static details vs. temporal information) and achieve excellent performance on video question answering, long-video understanding, and multi-choice benchmarks.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold and the weighting mechanism proves stable, the approach could offer a practical route to combining heterogeneous visual encoders in MLLMs without projector-specific fine-tuning, potentially improving instruction-following video tasks.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that LLaVA-Octopus 'achieves excellent performance across multiple benchmarks' is unsupported; the manuscript supplies no quantitative results, baselines, ablation studies, training details, or metrics, rendering the performance assertion unverifiable.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the description of instruction-conditioned weighting lacks any equations, gating-network architecture, or loss formulation, so it is impossible to assess whether the mechanism actually detects and exploits projector-specific characteristics or merely adds parameters.

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We thank the referee for the feedback. We address the major comments point by point below. The full manuscript contains the requested details in dedicated sections, but we agree the abstract can be improved for clarity.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that LLaVA-Octopus 'achieves excellent performance across multiple benchmarks' is unsupported; the manuscript supplies no quantitative results, baselines, ablation studies, training details, or metrics, rendering the performance assertion unverifiable.

    Authors: The abstract is a high-level summary. The full manuscript includes quantitative results on video question answering, long-video understanding, and multi-choice benchmarks, along with baselines, ablations, training details, and metrics in the Experiments section. To address the concern that the abstract alone does not support the claim, we will revise the abstract to include key performance numbers and benchmark references. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the description of instruction-conditioned weighting lacks any equations, gating-network architecture, or loss formulation, so it is impossible to assess whether the mechanism actually detects and exploits projector-specific characteristics or merely adds parameters.

    Authors: The abstract provides a concise textual description of the adaptive weighting. The full manuscript details the gating network architecture, fusion equations, and loss formulation in the Method section. We will revise the abstract to include a brief reference to the mechanism or a high-level equation to improve verifiability. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes an architectural design for instruction-driven adaptive weighting of visual projector features in a video MLLM. No equations, parameter-fitting procedures, predictions derived from fitted inputs, or self-citation chains appear in the provided abstract or description. The central claim is an empirical performance gain from the proposed mechanism rather than any derivation that reduces to its own inputs by construction. The work is self-contained as an engineering contribution evaluated on external benchmarks.

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