@inproceedings{liu2023visual,
author = {Liu, Haotian and Li, Chunyuan and Wu, Qingyang and Lee, Yong Jae},
title = {Visual Instruction Tuning},
booktitle = {NeurIPS 2023},
year = {2023},
month = {April},
abstract = {Instruction tuning large language models (LLMs) using machine-generated instruction-following data has improved zero-shot capabilities on new tasks, but the idea is less explored in the multimodal field. In this paper, we present the first attempt to use language-only GPT-4 to generate multimodal language-image instruction-following data. By instruction tuning on such generated data, we introduce LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant, an end-to-end trained large multimodal model that connects a vision encoder and LLM for general-purpose visual and language understanding.Our early experiments show that LLaVA demonstrates impressive multimodel chat abilities, sometimes exhibiting the behaviors of multimodal GPT-4 on unseen images/instructions, and yields a 85.1% relative score compared with GPT-4 on a synthetic multimodal instruction-following dataset. When fine-tuned on Science QA, the synergy of LLaVA and GPT-4 achieves a new state-of-the-art accuracy of 92.53%. We make GPT-4 generated visual instruction tuning data, our model and code base publicly available.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/visual-instruction-tuning/},
note = {Oral Presentation Project Page: https://llava-vl.github.io/},
}