Summary of Silmm: Self-improving Large Multimodal Models For Compositional Text-to-image Generation, by Leigang Qu et al.
SILMM: Self-Improving Large Multimodal Models for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation
by Leigang Qu, Haochuan Li, Wenjie Wang, Xiang Liu, Juncheng Li, Liqiang Nie, Tat-Seng Chua
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel framework called SILMM (Self-Improvement Large Multimodal Models) that enables large multimodal models to provide self-feedback and optimize text-image alignment. This is achieved through Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), which can be applied to LMMs using discrete visual tokens as intermediate image representations. However, for LMMs with continuous visual features, the authors propose a diversity mechanism and kernel-based continuous DPO for alignment. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of SILMM on three compositional text-to-image generation benchmarks, showing improvements exceeding 30% on T2I-CompBench++ and around 20% on DPG-Bench. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed a new way to help large models that can understand and create images. These models are very good at generating realistic pictures from text descriptions. However, they often struggle to match the text with the correct image. The new method is called SILMM and it allows the model to learn from its own mistakes and improve over time. This makes the model more flexible and easier to use. The authors tested SILMM on several tasks and found that it performed much better than other methods, especially when creating images for complex text descriptions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Image generation » Optimization
