Evaluating Linguistic Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs in the Lens of Few-Shot Learning

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Autores principales: Dogan, Mustafa, Kesen, Ilker, Calixto, Iacer, Erdem, Aykut, Erdem, Erkut
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author Dogan, Mustafa
Kesen, Ilker
Calixto, Iacer
Erdem, Aykut
Erdem, Erkut
author_facet Dogan, Mustafa
Kesen, Ilker
Calixto, Iacer
Erdem, Aykut
Erdem, Erkut
contents The linguistic capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are critical for their effective application across diverse tasks. This study aims to evaluate the performance of MLLMs on the VALSE benchmark, focusing on the efficacy of few-shot In-Context Learning (ICL), and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. We conducted a comprehensive assessment of state-of-the-art MLLMs, varying in model size and pretraining datasets. The experimental results reveal that ICL and CoT prompting significantly boost model performance, particularly in tasks requiring complex reasoning and contextual understanding. Models pretrained on captioning datasets show superior zero-shot performance, while those trained on interleaved image-text data benefit from few-shot learning. Our findings provide valuable insights into optimizing MLLMs for better grounding of language in visual contexts, highlighting the importance of the composition of pretraining data and the potential of few-shot learning strategies to improve the reasoning abilities of MLLMs.
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spellingShingle Evaluating Linguistic Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs in the Lens of Few-Shot Learning
Dogan, Mustafa
Kesen, Ilker
Calixto, Iacer
Erdem, Aykut
Erdem, Erkut
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The linguistic capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are critical for their effective application across diverse tasks. This study aims to evaluate the performance of MLLMs on the VALSE benchmark, focusing on the efficacy of few-shot In-Context Learning (ICL), and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. We conducted a comprehensive assessment of state-of-the-art MLLMs, varying in model size and pretraining datasets. The experimental results reveal that ICL and CoT prompting significantly boost model performance, particularly in tasks requiring complex reasoning and contextual understanding. Models pretrained on captioning datasets show superior zero-shot performance, while those trained on interleaved image-text data benefit from few-shot learning. Our findings provide valuable insights into optimizing MLLMs for better grounding of language in visual contexts, highlighting the importance of the composition of pretraining data and the potential of few-shot learning strategies to improve the reasoning abilities of MLLMs.
title Evaluating Linguistic Capabilities of Multimodal LLMs in the Lens of Few-Shot Learning
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12498