Generalist Multimodal AI: A Review of Architectures, Challenges and Opportunities

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Main Authors: Munikoti, Sai, Stewart, Ian, Horawalavithana, Sameera, Kvinge, Henry, Emerson, Tegan, Thompson, Sandra E, Pazdernik, Karl
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Published: 2024
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author Munikoti, Sai
Stewart, Ian
Horawalavithana, Sameera
Kvinge, Henry
Emerson, Tegan
Thompson, Sandra E
Pazdernik, Karl
author_facet Munikoti, Sai
Stewart, Ian
Horawalavithana, Sameera
Kvinge, Henry
Emerson, Tegan
Thompson, Sandra E
Pazdernik, Karl
contents Multimodal models are expected to be a critical component to future advances in artificial intelligence. This field is starting to grow rapidly with a surge of new design elements motivated by the success of foundation models in natural language processing (NLP) and vision. It is widely hoped that further extending the foundation models to multiple modalities (e.g., text, image, video, sensor, time series, graph, etc.) will ultimately lead to generalist multimodal models, i.e. one model across different data modalities and tasks. However, there is little research that systematically analyzes recent multimodal models (particularly the ones that work beyond text and vision) with respect to the underling architecture proposed. Therefore, this work provides a fresh perspective on generalist multimodal models (GMMs) via a novel architecture and training configuration specific taxonomy. This includes factors such as Unifiability, Modularity, and Adaptability that are pertinent and essential to the wide adoption and application of GMMs. The review further highlights key challenges and prospects for the field and guide the researchers into the new advancements.
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spellingShingle Generalist Multimodal AI: A Review of Architectures, Challenges and Opportunities
Munikoti, Sai
Stewart, Ian
Horawalavithana, Sameera
Kvinge, Henry
Emerson, Tegan
Thompson, Sandra E
Pazdernik, Karl
Computation and Language
Multimodal models are expected to be a critical component to future advances in artificial intelligence. This field is starting to grow rapidly with a surge of new design elements motivated by the success of foundation models in natural language processing (NLP) and vision. It is widely hoped that further extending the foundation models to multiple modalities (e.g., text, image, video, sensor, time series, graph, etc.) will ultimately lead to generalist multimodal models, i.e. one model across different data modalities and tasks. However, there is little research that systematically analyzes recent multimodal models (particularly the ones that work beyond text and vision) with respect to the underling architecture proposed. Therefore, this work provides a fresh perspective on generalist multimodal models (GMMs) via a novel architecture and training configuration specific taxonomy. This includes factors such as Unifiability, Modularity, and Adaptability that are pertinent and essential to the wide adoption and application of GMMs. The review further highlights key challenges and prospects for the field and guide the researchers into the new advancements.
title Generalist Multimodal AI: A Review of Architectures, Challenges and Opportunities
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05496