Lumen: Unleashing Versatile Vision-Centric Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models

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Main Authors: Jiao, Yang, Chen, Shaoxiang, Jie, Zequn, Chen, Jingjing, Ma, Lin, Jiang, Yu-Gang
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author Jiao, Yang
Chen, Shaoxiang
Jie, Zequn
Chen, Jingjing
Ma, Lin
Jiang, Yu-Gang
author_facet Jiao, Yang
Chen, Shaoxiang
Jie, Zequn
Chen, Jingjing
Ma, Lin
Jiang, Yu-Gang
contents Large Multimodal Model (LMM) is a hot research topic in the computer vision area and has also demonstrated remarkable potential across multiple disciplinary fields. A recent trend is to further extend and enhance the perception capabilities of LMMs. The current methods follow the paradigm of adapting the visual task outputs to the format of the language model, which is the main component of a LMM. This adaptation leads to convenient development of such LMMs with minimal modifications, however, it overlooks the intrinsic characteristics of diverse visual tasks and hinders the learning of perception capabilities. To address this issue, we propose a novel LMM architecture named Lumen, a Large multimodal model with versatile vision-centric capability enhancement. We decouple the LMM's learning of perception capabilities into task-agnostic and task-specific stages. Lumen first promotes fine-grained vision-language concept alignment, which is the fundamental capability for various visual tasks. Thus the output of the task-agnostic stage is a shared representation for all the tasks we address in this paper. Then the task-specific decoding is carried out by flexibly routing the shared representation to lightweight task decoders with negligible training efforts. Comprehensive experimental results on a series of vision-centric and VQA benchmarks indicate that our Lumen model not only achieves or surpasses the performance of existing LMM-based approaches in a range of vision-centric tasks while maintaining general visual understanding and instruction following capabilities. The code will be released at https://github.com/SxJyJay/Lumen.
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spellingShingle Lumen: Unleashing Versatile Vision-Centric Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models
Jiao, Yang
Chen, Shaoxiang
Jie, Zequn
Chen, Jingjing
Ma, Lin
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large Multimodal Model (LMM) is a hot research topic in the computer vision area and has also demonstrated remarkable potential across multiple disciplinary fields. A recent trend is to further extend and enhance the perception capabilities of LMMs. The current methods follow the paradigm of adapting the visual task outputs to the format of the language model, which is the main component of a LMM. This adaptation leads to convenient development of such LMMs with minimal modifications, however, it overlooks the intrinsic characteristics of diverse visual tasks and hinders the learning of perception capabilities. To address this issue, we propose a novel LMM architecture named Lumen, a Large multimodal model with versatile vision-centric capability enhancement. We decouple the LMM's learning of perception capabilities into task-agnostic and task-specific stages. Lumen first promotes fine-grained vision-language concept alignment, which is the fundamental capability for various visual tasks. Thus the output of the task-agnostic stage is a shared representation for all the tasks we address in this paper. Then the task-specific decoding is carried out by flexibly routing the shared representation to lightweight task decoders with negligible training efforts. Comprehensive experimental results on a series of vision-centric and VQA benchmarks indicate that our Lumen model not only achieves or surpasses the performance of existing LMM-based approaches in a range of vision-centric tasks while maintaining general visual understanding and instruction following capabilities. The code will be released at https://github.com/SxJyJay/Lumen.
title Lumen: Unleashing Versatile Vision-Centric Capabilities of Large Multimodal Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07304