From Multimodal LLM to Human-level AI: Modality, Instruction, Reasoning, Efficiency and beyond

Hao Fei, Yuan Yao, Zhuosheng Zhang, Fuxiao Liu, Ao Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua


Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses knowledge acquisition and real-world grounding across various modalities. As a multidisciplinary research field, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently garnered growing interest in both academia and industry, showing an unprecedented trend to achieve human-level AI via MLLMs. These large models offer an effective vehicle for understanding, reasoning, and planning by integrating and modeling diverse information modalities, including language, visual, auditory, and sensory data. This tutorial aims to deliver a comprehensive review of cutting-edge research in MLLMs, focusing on four key areas: MLLM architecture design, instructional learning, multimodal reasoning, and the efficiency of MLLMs. We will explore technical advancements, synthesize key challenges, and discuss potential avenues for future research.
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2024.lrec-tutorials.1
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024): Tutorial Summaries
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Roman Klinger, Naozaki Okazaki, Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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1–8
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Hao Fei, Yuan Yao, Zhuosheng Zhang, Fuxiao Liu, Ao Zhang, and Tat-Seng Chua. 2024. From Multimodal LLM to Human-level AI: Modality, Instruction, Reasoning, Efficiency and beyond. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024): Tutorial Summaries, pages 1–8, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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From Multimodal LLM to Human-level AI: Modality, Instruction, Reasoning, Efficiency and beyond (Fei et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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