Summary of Vila-u: a Unified Foundation Model Integrating Visual Understanding and Generation, by Yecheng Wu et al.
VILA-U: a Unified Foundation Model Integrating Visual Understanding and Generation
by Yecheng Wu, Zhuoyang Zhang, Junyu Chen, Haotian Tang, Dacheng Li, Yunhao Fang, Ligeng Zhu, Enze Xie, Hongxu Yin, Li Yi, Song Han, Yao Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- 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 VILA-U is a unified foundation model that integrates video, image, language understanding and generation. Unlike traditional visual language models (VLMs), which use separate modules for understanding and generating visual content, VILA-U employs a single autoregressive next-token prediction framework for both tasks. This approach simplifies the model and achieves near state-of-the-art performance in visual language understanding and generation. The success of VILA-U is attributed to its unified vision tower, which aligns discrete visual tokens with textual inputs during pretraining, enhancing visual perception. Additionally, autoregressive image generation can achieve similar quality as diffusion models with high-quality datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary VILA-U is a new kind of computer model that can understand and create both words and pictures. It’s different from other models because it does these two tasks in the same way, rather than using separate parts for each one. This makes VILA-U simpler and more powerful than other models. The key to its success is that it can connect visual tokens (like pixels) with text inputs during training, making it better at understanding images. It also creates images by predicting what comes next in a sequence, just like it predicts the next word in a sentence. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoregressive » Image generation » Language understanding » Pretraining » Token
