On Scaling Up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model

Xi Chen, Josip Djolonga, Piotr Padlewski, Basil Mustafa, Soravit Changpinyo, Jialin Wu, Carlos Riquelme Ruiz, Sebastian Goodman, Xiao Wang, Yi Tay, Siamak Shakeri, Mostafa Dehghani, Daniel Salz, Mario Lucic, Michael Tschannen, Arsha Nagrani, Hexiang Hu, Mandar Joshi, Bo Pang, Ceslee Montgomery, Paulina Pietrzyk, Marvin Ritter, AJ Piergiovanni, Matthias Minderer, Filip Pavetic, Austin Waters, Gang Li, Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin, Lucas Beyer, Julien Amelot, Kenton Lee, Andreas Peter Steiner, Yang Li, Daniel Keysers, Anurag Arnab, Yuanzhong Xu, Keran Rong, Alexander Kolesnikov, Mojtaba Seyedhosseini, Anelia Angelova, Xiaohua Zhai, Neil Houlsby, Radu Soricut; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 14432-14444

Abstract


We explore the boundaries of scaling up a multilingual vision and language model both in terms of size of the components and the breadth of its training task mixture. Our model achieves new levels of performance on a wide-range of varied and complex tasks including multiple image-based captioning and question-answering tasks image-based document understanding and few-shot (in-context) learning as well as object detection video question answering and video captioning. Our model advances the state-of-the-art on most vision-and-language benchmarks considered (20+ of them). Finally we observe emerging capabilities such as complex counting and multilingual object detection tasks that are not explicitly in the training mix.

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@InProceedings{Chen_2024_CVPR, author = {Chen, Xi and Djolonga, Josip and Padlewski, Piotr and Mustafa, Basil and Changpinyo, Soravit and Wu, Jialin and Ruiz, Carlos Riquelme and Goodman, Sebastian and Wang, Xiao and Tay, Yi and Shakeri, Siamak and Dehghani, Mostafa and Salz, Daniel and Lucic, Mario and Tschannen, Michael and Nagrani, Arsha and Hu, Hexiang and Joshi, Mandar and Pang, Bo and Montgomery, Ceslee and Pietrzyk, Paulina and Ritter, Marvin and Piergiovanni, AJ and Minderer, Matthias and Pavetic, Filip and Waters, Austin and Li, Gang and Alabdulmohsin, Ibrahim and Beyer, Lucas and Amelot, Julien and Lee, Kenton and Steiner, Andreas Peter and Li, Yang and Keysers, Daniel and Arnab, Anurag and Xu, Yuanzhong and Rong, Keran and Kolesnikov, Alexander and Seyedhosseini, Mojtaba and Angelova, Anelia and Zhai, Xiaohua and Houlsby, Neil and Soricut, Radu}, title = {On Scaling Up a Multilingual Vision and Language Model}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, month = {June}, year = {2024}, pages = {14432-14444} }