The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
<|reference_start|>The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey: Connecting text and visual modalities plays an essential role in generative intelligence. For this reason, inspired by the success of large language models, significant research efforts are being devoted to the development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). These models can seamlessly integrate visual and textual modalities, while providing a dialogue-based interface and instruction-following capabilities. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of recent visual-based MLLMs, analyzing their architectural choices, multimodal alignment strategies, and training techniques. We also conduct a detailed analysis of these models across a wide range of tasks, including visual grounding, image generation and editing, visual understanding, and domain-specific applications. Additionally, we compile and describe training datasets and evaluation benchmarks, conducting comparisons among existing models in terms of performance and computational requirements. Overall, this survey offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art, laying the groundwork for future MLLMs.<|reference_end|>
@article{caffagni2024the,
    title={The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey},
    author={Davide Caffagni, Federico Cocchi, Luca Barsellotti, Nicholas
  Moratelli, Sara Sarto, Lorenzo Baraldi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia,
  Rita Cucchiara},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12451},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.12451},
    primaryClass={cs.CV cs.AI cs.CL cs.MM}
}