awesome foundation and multimodal models

👁️ + 💬 + 🎧 = 🤖

foundation model - a pre-trained machine learning model that serves as a base for a wide range of downstream tasks. It captures general knowledge from a large dataset and can be fine-tuned to perform specific tasks more effectively.

multimodal model - a model that can process multiple modalities (e.g. text, image, video, audio, etc.) at the same time.

🤖 models

YOLO-World: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

Tianheng Cheng, Lin Song, Yixiao Ge, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang, Ying Shan

• Date: 2024-01-30
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Object Detection

Depth Anything

Lihe Yang, Bingyi Kang, Zilong Huang, Xiaogang Xu, Jiashi Feng, Hengshuang Zhao

• Date: 2024-01-19
• Modalities: 👁
• Tasks: Depth Estimation

EfficientSAM: Leveraged Masked Image Pretraining for Efficient Segment Anything

Yunyang Xiong, Bala Varadarajan, Lemeng Wu, Xiaoyu Xiang, Fanyi Xiao, Chenchen Zhu, Xiaoliang Dai, Dilin Wang, Fei Sun, Forrest Iandola, Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi, Vikas Chandra

• Date: 2023-12-01
• Modalities: 👁️
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation

Qwen-VL-Plus / Max

Jinze Bai, Shuai Bai, Shusheng Yang, Shijie Wang, Sinan Tan, Peng Wang, Junyang Lin, Chang Zhou, Jingren Zhou

• Date: 2023-11-28
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Captioning, VQA, Zero-Shot Object Detection

CogVLM: Visual Expert for Pretrained Language Models

Weihan Wang, Qingsong Lv, Wenmeng Yu, Wenyi Hong, Ji Qi, Yan Wang, Junhui Ji, Zhuoyi Yang, Lei Zhao, Xixuan Song, Jiazheng Xu, Bin Xu, Juanzi Li, Yuxiao Dong, Ming Ding, Jie Tang

• Date: 2023-11-06
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Captioning, VQA

Fuyu-8B: A Multimodal Architecture for AI Agents

Rohan Bavishi, Erich Elsen, Curtis Hawthorne, Maxwell Nye, Augustus Odena, Arushi Somani, Sağnak Taşırlar

• Date: 2023-10-17
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Classification, Image Captioning, VQA, Find Text in Image

Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity

Haoxuan You, Haotian Zhang, Zhe Gan, Xianzhi Du, Bowen Zhang, Zirui Wang, Liangliang Cao, Shih-Fu Chang, Yinfei Yang

• Date: 2023-10-11
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Captioning, VQA, Phrase Grounding, Object Detection

MetaCLIP: Demystifying CLIP Data

Hu Xu, Saining Xie, Xiaoqing Ellen Tan, Po-Yao Huang, Russell Howes, Vasu Sharma, Shang-Wen Li, Gargi Ghosh, Luke Zettlemoyer, Christoph Feichtenhofer

• Date: 2023-09-28
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Classification

Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond

Jinze Bai, Shuai Bai, Shusheng Yang, Shijie Wang, Sinan Tan, Peng Wang, Junyang Lin, Chang Zhou, Jingren Zhou

• Date: 2023-09-24
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Captioning, VQA

SigLIP: Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training

Xiaohua Zhai, Basil Mustafa, Alexander Kolesnikov, Lucas Beyer

• Date: 2023-08-27
• Modalities: 👁️💬
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Image Classification

Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents

Lukas Blecher, Guillem Cucurull, Thomas Scialom, Robert Stojnic

• Date: 2023-08-25
• Modalities: 👁️💬
• Tasks: Visual Question Answering

AudioLDM 2: Learning Holistic Audio Generation with Self-supervised Pretraining

Haohe Liu, Qiao Tian, Yi Yuan, Xubo Liu, Xinhao Mei, Qiuqiang Kong, Yuping Wang, Wenwu Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Mark D. Plumbley

• Date: 2023-08-10
• Modalities: 💬️ + 🎧
• Tasks: Text-to-Audio, Text-to-Speech

OpenFlamingo: An Open-Source Framework for Training Large Autoregressive Vision-Language Models

Anas Awadalla, Irena Gao, Josh Gardner, Jack Hessel, Yusuf Hanafy, Wanrong Zhu, Kalyani Marathe, Yonatan Bitton, Samir Gadre, Shiori Sagawa, Jenia Jitsev, Simon Kornblith, Pang Wei Koh, Gabriel Ilharco, Mitchell Wortsman, Ludwig Schmidt

• Date: 2023-08-02
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Classification, Image Captioning, VQA

Kosmos-2: Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models to the World

Zhiliang Peng, Wenhui Wang, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Shaohan Huang, Shuming Ma, Furu Wei

• Date: 2023-07-26
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Captioning, VQA, Phrase Grounding

OWLv2: Scaling Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

Matthias Minderer, Alexey Gritsenko, Neil Houlsby

• Date: 2023-06-17
• Modalities: 👁️
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Object Detection

ImageBind: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All

Rohit Girdhar, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Zhuang Liu, Mannat Singh, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Armand Joulin, Ishan Misra

• Date: 2023-05-09
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬 + 🎧
• Tasks:

LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant

Haotian Liu, Chunyuan Li, Qingyang Wu, Yong Jae Lee

• Date: 2023-04-17
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Vision Language Modeling

Segment Anything

Alexander Kirillov, Eric Mintun, Nikhila Ravi, Hanzi Mao, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Tete Xiao, Spencer Whitehead, Alexander C. Berg, Wan-Yen Lo, Piotr Dollár, Ross Girshick

• Date: 2023-04-05
• Modalities: 👁️
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation

Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection

Shilong Liu, Zhaoyang Zeng, Tianhe Ren, Feng Li, Hao Zhang, Jie Yang, Chunyuan Li, Jianwei Yang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhang

• Date: 2023-03-09
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Phrase Grounding, Zero-Shot Object Detection

BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models

Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Silvio Savarese, Steven Hoi

• Date: 2023-01-30
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering

Whisper: Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, Greg Brockman, Christine McLeavey, Ilya Sutskever

• Date: 2022-12-06
• Modalities: 💬️ + 🎧
• Tasks: Speech-to-Text

OWL-ViT: Simple Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Vision Transformers

Matthias Minderer, Alexey Gritsenko, Austin Stone, Maxim Neumann, Dirk Weissenborn, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Aravindh Mahendran, Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, Zhuoran Shen, Xiao Wang, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Kipf, Neil Houlsby

• Date: 2022-05-12
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Object Detection

CLIP: Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision

Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, Aditya Ramesh, Gabriel Goh, Sandhini Agarwal, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Pamela Mishkin, Jack Clark, Gretchen Krueger, Ilya Sutskever

• Date: 2021-02-26
• Modalities: 👁️ + 💬
• Tasks: Zero-Shot Classification

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