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Autores principales: Khan, Shaharukh, Faraz, Ali, Ravi, Abhinav, Nauman, Mohd, Sarfraz, Mohd, Patidar, Akshat, Kolla, Raja, Khatri, Chandra, Agarwal, Shubham
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author Khan, Shaharukh
Faraz, Ali
Ravi, Abhinav
Nauman, Mohd
Sarfraz, Mohd
Patidar, Akshat
Kolla, Raja
Khatri, Chandra
Agarwal, Shubham
author_facet Khan, Shaharukh
Faraz, Ali
Ravi, Abhinav
Nauman, Mohd
Sarfraz, Mohd
Patidar, Akshat
Kolla, Raja
Khatri, Chandra
Agarwal, Shubham
contents Multimodal research has predominantly focused on single-image reasoning, with limited exploration of multi-image scenarios. Recent models have sought to enhance multi-image understanding through large-scale pretraining on interleaved image-text datasets. However, most Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained primarily on English datasets, leading to inadequate representation of Indian languages. To address this gap, we introduce the Chitrakshara dataset series, covering 11 Indian languages sourced from Common Crawl. It comprises (1) Chitrakshara-IL, a large-scale interleaved pretraining dataset with 193M images, 30B text tokens, and 50M multilingual documents, and (2) Chitrakshara-Cap, which includes 44M image-text pairs with 733M tokens. This paper details the data collection pipeline, including curation, filtering, and processing methodologies. Additionally, we present a comprehensive quality and diversity analysis to assess the dataset's representativeness across Indic languages and its potential for developing more culturally inclusive VLMs.
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spellingShingle Chitrakshara: A Large Multilingual Multimodal Dataset for Indian languages
Khan, Shaharukh
Faraz, Ali
Ravi, Abhinav
Nauman, Mohd
Sarfraz, Mohd
Patidar, Akshat
Kolla, Raja
Khatri, Chandra
Agarwal, Shubham
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal research has predominantly focused on single-image reasoning, with limited exploration of multi-image scenarios. Recent models have sought to enhance multi-image understanding through large-scale pretraining on interleaved image-text datasets. However, most Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained primarily on English datasets, leading to inadequate representation of Indian languages. To address this gap, we introduce the Chitrakshara dataset series, covering 11 Indian languages sourced from Common Crawl. It comprises (1) Chitrakshara-IL, a large-scale interleaved pretraining dataset with 193M images, 30B text tokens, and 50M multilingual documents, and (2) Chitrakshara-Cap, which includes 44M image-text pairs with 733M tokens. This paper details the data collection pipeline, including curation, filtering, and processing methodologies. Additionally, we present a comprehensive quality and diversity analysis to assess the dataset's representativeness across Indic languages and its potential for developing more culturally inclusive VLMs.
title Chitrakshara: A Large Multilingual Multimodal Dataset for Indian languages
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23521