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About this paper

Junwen He, Yifan Wang, Lijun Wang, Huchuan Lu, Jun-Yan He, Jin-Peng Lan, Bin Luo, Xuansong Xie

A general multi-modal large language model, AnyRef, achieves fine-grained pixel-level object segmentation and referring expression generation from diverse inputs, including text, bounding boxes, visual examples, and audio. It demonstrates competitive performance across various multi-modal referring tasks, providing a unified framework for flexible human-AI interaction.

Key insights

  • The refocusing mechanism effectively leverages internal LLM attention to implicitly supervise language generation with pixel-level data, improving regional understanding with minimal computational overhead.
  • Converting diverse multi-modal references into a unified token-based representation allows a single LLM to process and reason about various input types without modality-specific architectural changes.
  • Comprehensive training on diverse datasets (semantic, instance, referring expression, image-level, and audio-visual segmentation data) is crucial for building a generalist MLLM with broad capabilities.

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