Transferring Textual Preferences to Vision-Language Understanding through Model Merging

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Autores principales: Li, Chen-An, Lin, Tzu-Han, Chen, Yun-Nung, Lee, Hung-yi
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Publicado: 2025
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author Li, Chen-An
Lin, Tzu-Han
Chen, Yun-Nung
Lee, Hung-yi
author_facet Li, Chen-An
Lin, Tzu-Han
Chen, Yun-Nung
Lee, Hung-yi
contents Large vision-language models (LVLMs) perform outstandingly across various multimodal tasks. However, their ability to evaluate generated content remains limited, and training vision-language reward models (VLRMs) with preference data is computationally expensive. This paper explores a training-free alternative by merging text-based reward models (RMs) with LVLMs to create VLRMs. Our approach shows that integrating these models leads to improved performance over LVLMs' scoring and text-based RMs, offering an efficient method for incorporating textual preferences into LVLMs.
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spellingShingle Transferring Textual Preferences to Vision-Language Understanding through Model Merging
Li, Chen-An
Lin, Tzu-Han
Chen, Yun-Nung
Lee, Hung-yi
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) perform outstandingly across various multimodal tasks. However, their ability to evaluate generated content remains limited, and training vision-language reward models (VLRMs) with preference data is computationally expensive. This paper explores a training-free alternative by merging text-based reward models (RMs) with LVLMs to create VLRMs. Our approach shows that integrating these models leads to improved performance over LVLMs' scoring and text-based RMs, offering an efficient method for incorporating textual preferences into LVLMs.
title Transferring Textual Preferences to Vision-Language Understanding through Model Merging
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13487