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LLaMA-Adapter: Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models with Zero-init Attention
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We present LLaMA-Adapter, a lightweight adaption method to efficiently fine-tune LLaMA into an instruction-following model. Using 52K self-instruct demonstrations, LLaMA-Adapter only introduces 1.2M learnable parameters upon the frozen LLaMA 7B model, and costs less than one hour for fine-tuning on 8 A100 GPUs. Specifically, we adopt a set of learnable adaption prompts, and prepend them to the word tokens at higher transformer layers. Then, a zero-initialized attention mechanism with zero gating is proposed, which adaptively injects the new instructional cues into LLaMA, while effectively preserves its pre-trained knowledge. With our efficient training, LLaMA-Adapter can generate high-quality responses, comparable to Alpaca with fully fine-tuned 7B parameters. Besides language commands, our approach can be simply extended to multi-modal instructions for learning image-conditioned LLaMA model, which achieves superior reasoning performance on ScienceQA and COCO Caption benchmarks. Furthermore, we also evaluate the zero-initialized attention mechanism for fine-tuning other pre-trained models (ViT, RoBERTa) on traditional vision and language tasks, demonstrating the superior generalization capacity of our approach. Code is released at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/LLaMA-Adapter.
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MMMU-Pro is a stricter multimodal benchmark that removes text-only solvable questions, augments options, and requires reading text from images, yielding substantially lower model scores of 16.8-26.9%.
GPT-4-generated instruction data produces superior zero-shot performance in finetuned LLaMA models versus prior state-of-the-art data.
WorldSense provides the first benchmark requiring synergistic audio-video-text understanding on 1,662 real-world videos and 3,172 QA pairs, where the best current multimodal LLM reaches only 65.1% accuracy.
WE-MATH benchmark reveals most LMMs rely on rote memorization for visual math while GPT-4o has shifted toward knowledge generalization.
LLaMA-Adapter turns frozen LLaMA 7B into a capable instruction follower using only 1.2M new parameters and zero-init attention, matching Alpaca while extending to image-conditioned reasoning on ScienceQA and COCO.
AnchorSeg uses ordered query banks of latent reasoning tokens plus a spatial anchor token and a Token-Mask Cycle Consistency loss to achieve 67.7% gIoU and 68.1% cIoU on the ReasonSeg benchmark.
Set-of-Mark prompting marks segmented image regions with alphanumerics and masks to let GPT-4V achieve state-of-the-art zero-shot results on referring expression comprehension and segmentation benchmarks like RefCOCOg.
LLaVA is trained on GPT-4 generated visual instruction data to achieve 85.1% relative performance to GPT-4 on synthetic multimodal tasks and 92.53% accuracy on Science QA.
Lance presents a dual-stream mixture-of-experts model with modality-aware positional encoding and staged multi-task training that outperforms prior open-source unified models on image and video generation while keeping strong understanding performance.
UniMind unifies multi-task brain decoding from EEG by bridging signals to LLMs via a Neuro-Language Connector and dynamic task queries, outperforming prior models by 12% on average across ten datasets.
MathFlow decouples perception and inference stages in MLLMs for visual math, with a dedicated perception model delivering gains on the FlowVerse benchmark when paired with existing reasoners.
HybridVLA unifies diffusion and autoregression in a single VLA model via collaborative training and ensemble to raise robot manipulation success rates by 14% in simulation and 19% in real-world tasks.
Introduces the QEVD benchmark for asynchronous situated interaction in fitness coaching and proposes a streaming baseline to address limitations of existing vision-language models.
MVBench is a benchmark of 20 temporal video understanding tasks built by transforming static tasks into dynamic ones, with VideoChat2 outperforming prior MLLMs by over 15%.
AWQ quantizes LLM weights to low bits by scaling salient channels based on activation statistics, outperforming prior methods on language, coding, math, and multi-modal benchmarks.
Otter is a multi-modal model instruction-tuned on the MIMIC-IT dataset of over 3 million in-context instruction-response pairs to improve convergence and generalization on tasks with multiple images and videos.
LLM-X is a scalable architecture for direct negotiation and communication among personal LLM agents, featuring federated gateways, typed protocols, and policy enforcement, shown stable in experiments with up to 12 agents.
ALAM introduces algebraic consistency regularization on latent action transitions from videos, raising VLA success rates from 47.9% to 85.0% on MetaWorld MT50 and 94.1% to 98.1% on LIBERO.
ReasonEdit uses a new CoT dataset and reinforcement learning to produce interpretable, human-aligned evaluations of text-guided image edits.
M²-VLA shows that generalized VLMs can serve as direct backbones for robotic manipulation by selectively extracting task-critical features via Mixture of Layers and adding Meta Skill Modules for efficient trajectory learning.
A new 1.2M-caption dataset generated via GPT-4V improves LMMs on MME and MMBench by 222.8/22.0/22.3 and 2.7/1.3/1.5 points respectively when used for supervised fine-tuning.
Video-LLaVA creates a unified visual representation for images and videos via pre-projection alignment, enabling mutual enhancement from joint training and strong results on image and video benchmarks.
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