Summary of Dallah: a Dialect-aware Multimodal Large Language Model For Arabic, by Fakhraddin Alwajih et al.
Dallah: A Dialect-Aware Multimodal Large Language Model for Arabic
by Fakhraddin Alwajih, Gagan Bhatia, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces an efficient Arabic Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) called Dallah, which utilizes LLaMA-2 and demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in multimodal interactions. The model is fine-tuned on six Arabic dialects to handle complex interactions incorporating textual and visual elements. Dallah excels in benchmark tests evaluating its performance on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and assessing dialectal responses. This advance has the potential to pave the way for development of dialect-aware Arabic MLLMs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper makes a big breakthrough in creating a special kind of computer program that can understand and generate text about images, but only for Arabic language. There isn’t enough good data available to train these programs in other languages, so this is a big deal! The program, called Dallah, uses a powerful language model to help it learn how to understand different dialects of Arabic. It’s super good at understanding and generating text about images in both formal and informal Arabic. This could be really important for things like helping people communicate better or creating new kinds of AI assistants. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Language model » Large language model » Llama
