Summary of Allspark: a Multimodal Spatio-temporal General Intelligence Model with Ten Modalities Via Language As a Reference Framework, by Run Shao et al.
AllSpark: A Multimodal Spatio-Temporal General Intelligence Model with Ten Modalities via Language as a Reference Framework
by Run Shao, Cheng Yang, Qiujun Li, Qing Zhu, Yongjun Zhang, YanSheng Li, Yu Liu, Yong Tang, Dapeng Liu, Shizhong Yang, Haifeng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Dec 2023
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers tackle the challenging problem of integrating diverse multimodal data to understand geographic objects. They introduce a novel framework called Language as Reference Framework (LaRF) inspired by human cognition and linguistic philosophy. This framework enables the development of AllSpark, a general artificial intelligence model that combines ten different modalities into a unified system. To achieve modality cohesion, AllSpark uses a modal bridge and multimodal large language model to map diverse features into a shared language space. For modality autonomy, it employs modality-specific encoders to extract tokens from various spatio-temporal modalities. To enhance interpretability and generalization, the authors design modality-specific prompts and task heads. Experimental results show that AllSpark outperforms baseline performance by up to 41.82% in few-shot classification tasks for RGB and point cloud modalities without additional training. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand geographic objects better by combining different types of data together. The researchers created a new way of thinking called Language as Reference Framework (LaRF) that makes it easier to put all these different pieces of information together. They used this framework to build a special kind of computer program called AllSpark that can take in lots of different kinds of data and make sense of it all. This is important because it helps computers learn more about the world around us. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Few shot * Generalization * Large language model
