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Hauptverfasser: Li, Bozhou, Liang, Hao, Meng, Zimo, Zhang, Wentao
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Li, Bozhou
Liang, Hao
Meng, Zimo
Zhang, Wentao
author_facet Li, Bozhou
Liang, Hao
Meng, Zimo
Zhang, Wentao
contents In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential in real-world applications. They are developing rapidly due to their remarkable ability to comprehend multimodal information and their inherent powerful cognitive and reasoning capabilities. Among MLLMs, vision language models (VLM) stand out for their ability to understand vision information. However, the scaling trend of VLMs under the current mainstream paradigm has not been extensively studied. Whether we can achieve better performance by training even larger models is still unclear. To address this issue, we conducted experiments on the pretraining stage of MLLMs. We conduct our experiment using different encoder sizes and large language model (LLM) sizes. Our findings indicate that merely increasing the size of encoders does not necessarily enhance the performance of VLMs. Moreover, we analyzed the effects of LLM backbone parameter size and data quality on the pretraining outcomes. Additionally, we explored the differences in scaling laws between LLMs and VLMs.
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spellingShingle Are Bigger Encoders Always Better in Vision Large Models?
Li, Bozhou
Liang, Hao
Meng, Zimo
Zhang, Wentao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential in real-world applications. They are developing rapidly due to their remarkable ability to comprehend multimodal information and their inherent powerful cognitive and reasoning capabilities. Among MLLMs, vision language models (VLM) stand out for their ability to understand vision information. However, the scaling trend of VLMs under the current mainstream paradigm has not been extensively studied. Whether we can achieve better performance by training even larger models is still unclear. To address this issue, we conducted experiments on the pretraining stage of MLLMs. We conduct our experiment using different encoder sizes and large language model (LLM) sizes. Our findings indicate that merely increasing the size of encoders does not necessarily enhance the performance of VLMs. Moreover, we analyzed the effects of LLM backbone parameter size and data quality on the pretraining outcomes. Additionally, we explored the differences in scaling laws between LLMs and VLMs.
title Are Bigger Encoders Always Better in Vision Large Models?
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00620