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About this paper

Wentao Xiang, Haoxian Tan, Cong Wei, Yujie Zhong, Dengjie Li, Yujiu Yang

MVP-LM is a Visual Large Language Model that unifies diverse visual perception tasks, including bounding box and pixel-level mask predictions from both word-based and sentence-based instructions, within a single framework. The model demonstrates robust generalization in open-set scenarios and achieves competitive performance, notably outperforming larger VLLMs in referring expression comprehension with a relatively compact 1.3 billion parameter language model.

Key insights

  • Joint training across diverse perception datasets significantly boosts sentence-based task performance while maintaining or improving word-based tasks, empirically validating the unified multi-task approach.
  • A "thinking-then-perceiving" paradigm, by integrating image captions into the LLM's response, improves performance across both sentence-level and word-level perception by encouraging deeper visual context understanding.
  • Dynamic query generation, leveraging LLM's high-level understanding and language-guided visual features, is crucial for versatile and precise perception across multi-target tasks.

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