Macaw-LLM: Multi-Modal Language Modeling with Image, Audio, Video, and
  Text Integration
Although instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have exhibited
remarkable capabilities across various NLP tasks, their effectiveness on other
data modalities beyond text has not been fully studied. In this work, we
propose Macaw-LLM, a novel multi-modal LLM that seamlessly integrates visual,
audio, and textual information. Macaw-LLM consists of three main components: a
modality module for encoding multi-modal data, a cognitive module for
harnessing pretrained LLMs, and an alignment module for harmonizing diverse
representations. Our novel alignment module seamlessly bridges multi-modal
features to textual features, simplifying the adaptation process from the
modality modules to the cognitive module. In addition, we construct a
large-scale multi-modal instruction dataset in terms of multi-turn dialogue,
including 69K image instances and 50K video instances. We have made our data,
code and model publicly available, which we hope can pave the way for future
research in multi-modal LLMs and expand the capabilities of LLMs to handle
diverse data modalities and address complex real-world scenarios.
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Macaw-LLM: Multi-Modal Language Modeling with Image, Audio, Video, and
  Text Integration
Although instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have exhibited
remarkable capabilities across various NLP tasks, their effectiveness on other
data modalities beyond text has not been fully studied. In this work, we
propose Macaw-LLM, a novel multi-modal LLM that seamlessly integrates visual,
audio, and textual information. Macaw-LLM consists of three main components: a
modality module for encoding multi-modal data, a cognitive module for
harnessing pretrained LLMs, and an alignment module for harmonizing diverse
representations. Our novel alignment module seamlessly bridges multi-modal
features to textual features, simplifying the adaptation process from the
modality modules to the cognitive module. In addition, we construct a
large-scale multi-modal instruction dataset in terms of multi-turn dialogue,
including 69K image instances and 50K video instances. We have made our data,
code and model publicly available, which we hope can pave the way for future
research in multi-modal LLMs and expand the capabilities of LLMs to handle
diverse data modalities and address complex real-world scenarios.
Macaw-LLM integrates multimodal data including visual, audio, and text by employing a modality module, cognitive module, and novel alignment module, enhancing LLM capabilities across diverse data types.
instruction-tuned large language models multi-modal LLM modality module cognitive module alignment module multi-turn dialogue image instances video instances