Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs

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Main Authors: Tong, Shengbang, Brown, Ellis, Wu, Penghao, Woo, Sanghyun, Middepogu, Manoj, Akula, Sai Charitha, Yang, Jihan, Yang, Shusheng, Iyer, Adithya, Pan, Xichen, Wang, Ziteng, Fergus, Rob, LeCun, Yann, Xie, Saining
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author Tong, Shengbang
Brown, Ellis
Wu, Penghao
Woo, Sanghyun
Middepogu, Manoj
Akula, Sai Charitha
Yang, Jihan
Yang, Shusheng
Iyer, Adithya
Pan, Xichen
Wang, Ziteng
Fergus, Rob
LeCun, Yann
Xie, Saining
author_facet Tong, Shengbang
Brown, Ellis
Wu, Penghao
Woo, Sanghyun
Middepogu, Manoj
Akula, Sai Charitha
Yang, Jihan
Yang, Shusheng
Iyer, Adithya
Pan, Xichen
Wang, Ziteng
Fergus, Rob
LeCun, Yann
Xie, Saining
contents We introduce Cambrian-1, a family of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) designed with a vision-centric approach. While stronger language models can enhance multimodal capabilities, the design choices for vision components are often insufficiently explored and disconnected from visual representation learning research. This gap hinders accurate sensory grounding in real-world scenarios. Our study uses LLMs and visual instruction tuning as an interface to evaluate various visual representations, offering new insights into different models and architectures -- self-supervised, strongly supervised, or combinations thereof -- based on experiments with over 20 vision encoders. We critically examine existing MLLM benchmarks, address the difficulties involved in consolidating and interpreting results from various tasks, and introduce a new vision-centric benchmark, CV-Bench. To further improve visual grounding, we propose the Spatial Vision Aggregator (SVA), a dynamic and spatially-aware connector that integrates high-resolution vision features with LLMs while reducing the number of tokens. Additionally, we discuss the curation of high-quality visual instruction-tuning data from publicly available sources, emphasizing the importance of data source balancing and distribution ratio. Collectively, Cambrian-1 not only achieves state-of-the-art performance but also serves as a comprehensive, open cookbook for instruction-tuned MLLMs. We provide model weights, code, supporting tools, datasets, and detailed instruction-tuning and evaluation recipes. We hope our release will inspire and accelerate advancements in multimodal systems and visual representation learning.
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spellingShingle Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs
Tong, Shengbang
Brown, Ellis
Wu, Penghao
Woo, Sanghyun
Middepogu, Manoj
Akula, Sai Charitha
Yang, Jihan
Yang, Shusheng
Iyer, Adithya
Pan, Xichen
Wang, Ziteng
Fergus, Rob
LeCun, Yann
Xie, Saining
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce Cambrian-1, a family of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) designed with a vision-centric approach. While stronger language models can enhance multimodal capabilities, the design choices for vision components are often insufficiently explored and disconnected from visual representation learning research. This gap hinders accurate sensory grounding in real-world scenarios. Our study uses LLMs and visual instruction tuning as an interface to evaluate various visual representations, offering new insights into different models and architectures -- self-supervised, strongly supervised, or combinations thereof -- based on experiments with over 20 vision encoders. We critically examine existing MLLM benchmarks, address the difficulties involved in consolidating and interpreting results from various tasks, and introduce a new vision-centric benchmark, CV-Bench. To further improve visual grounding, we propose the Spatial Vision Aggregator (SVA), a dynamic and spatially-aware connector that integrates high-resolution vision features with LLMs while reducing the number of tokens. Additionally, we discuss the curation of high-quality visual instruction-tuning data from publicly available sources, emphasizing the importance of data source balancing and distribution ratio. Collectively, Cambrian-1 not only achieves state-of-the-art performance but also serves as a comprehensive, open cookbook for instruction-tuned MLLMs. We provide model weights, code, supporting tools, datasets, and detailed instruction-tuning and evaluation recipes. We hope our release will inspire and accelerate advancements in multimodal systems and visual representation learning.
title Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16860