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Smaller AI Model Outperforms Larger Rivals In Image Understanding

LLaVA-MORE study mixes & matches AI experts for image understanding, achieving state-of-the-art results with LLaMA-3-8B & EVA-CLIP combo.

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LLaVA-MORE explores how different LLMs and visual backbones affect multimodal AI models
Compares Vicuna, LLaMA-3, Mistral, and Yi language models with CLIP ViT-L/14 and EVA-CLIP visual backbones
Introduces novel training data and curriculum learning approach
Achieves state-of-the-art results across major visual instruction benchmarks
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