MaVEn: An Effective Multi-granularity Hybrid Visual Encoding Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model

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Main Authors: Jiang, Chaoya, Hongrui, Jia, Xu, Haiyang, Ye, Wei, Dong, Mengfan, Yan, Ming, Zhang, Ji, Huang, Fei, Zhang, Shikun
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author Jiang, Chaoya
Hongrui, Jia
Xu, Haiyang
Ye, Wei
Dong, Mengfan
Yan, Ming
Zhang, Ji
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Shikun
author_facet Jiang, Chaoya
Hongrui, Jia
Xu, Haiyang
Ye, Wei
Dong, Mengfan
Yan, Ming
Zhang, Ji
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Shikun
contents This paper presents MaVEn, an innovative Multi-granularity Visual Encoding framework designed to enhance the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in multi-image reasoning. Current MLLMs primarily focus on single-image visual understanding, limiting their ability to interpret and integrate information across multiple images. MaVEn addresses this limitation by combining discrete visual symbol sequences, which abstract coarse-grained semantic concepts, with traditional continuous representation sequences that model fine-grained features. This dual approach bridges the semantic gap between visual and textual data, thereby improving the model's ability to process and interpret information from multiple images effectively. Additionally, we design a dynamic reduction mechanism by for long-sequence continuous features to enhance multi-image processing efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that MaVEn significantly enhances MLLMs' understanding in complex multi-image scenarios, while also improving performance in single-image contexts.
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spellingShingle MaVEn: An Effective Multi-granularity Hybrid Visual Encoding Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model
Jiang, Chaoya
Hongrui, Jia
Xu, Haiyang
Ye, Wei
Dong, Mengfan
Yan, Ming
Zhang, Ji
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Shikun
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
This paper presents MaVEn, an innovative Multi-granularity Visual Encoding framework designed to enhance the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in multi-image reasoning. Current MLLMs primarily focus on single-image visual understanding, limiting their ability to interpret and integrate information across multiple images. MaVEn addresses this limitation by combining discrete visual symbol sequences, which abstract coarse-grained semantic concepts, with traditional continuous representation sequences that model fine-grained features. This dual approach bridges the semantic gap between visual and textual data, thereby improving the model's ability to process and interpret information from multiple images effectively. Additionally, we design a dynamic reduction mechanism by for long-sequence continuous features to enhance multi-image processing efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that MaVEn significantly enhances MLLMs' understanding in complex multi-image scenarios, while also improving performance in single-image contexts.
title MaVEn: An Effective Multi-granularity Hybrid Visual Encoding Framework for Multimodal Large Language Model
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12321