Open Source Visual Modeling

Recently, a series of open-source visual models with excellent performance have emerged under the promotion of China's top universities such as Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University, which are open-source alternatives to GPT-4V. Among them, LLaVA, CogAgent and BakLLaVA are three open-source visual language models that have attracted much attention. LLaVA is a large multimodal model trained end-to-end that combines the visual encoder and Vicuna for general vision and language understanding, and has impressive chat capabilities. CogAgent is an open-source visual language model improved on CogVLM, with 11 billion...