把多模态任务统一成预测下一帧,让一个模型通吃文本、图像、音视频。
Everything is a Video: Unifying Modalities through Next-Frame Prediction
- 所有模态都看作视频帧序列,用统一框架处理。
- 在跨模态生成任务上表现良好,无需针对每种模态设计专用模块。
- 适合构建通用多模态大模型的研究者和开发者。
多模态学习涉及整合文本、图像、音频、视频等多种信息源,对视觉问答、跨模态检索、图文生成等复杂任务至关重要。传统方法依赖模态专用编码器与后期融合,难以扩展到新任务或新模态。本文提出一种新框架,将任务重构思想从自然语言处理拓展至多模态领域,将各类多模态任务统一为下一个帧预测问题,使单一模型无需模态特异性组件即可处理不同模态。该方法将所有输入输出视为视频序列中的帧,实现模态无缝融合与任务间知识迁移。我们在文本到文本、图像到文本、视频到视频、视频到文本、音频到文本等任务上进行评估,结果表明模型仅需少量调整即可跨模态泛化。证明任务重构能显著简化多模态模型设计,为构建更通用的多模态基础模型奠定基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal learning, which involves integrating information from various modalities such as text, images, audio, and video, is pivotal for numerous complex tasks like visual question answering, cross-modal retrieval, and caption generation. Traditional approaches rely on modality-specific encoders and late fusion techniques, which can hinder scalability and flexibility when adapting to new tasks or modalities. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel framework that extends the concept of task reformulation beyond natural language processing (NLP) to multimodal learning. We propose to reformulate diverse multimodal tasks into a unified next-frame prediction problem, allowing a single model to handle different modalities without modality-specific components. This method treats all inputs and outputs as sequential frames in a video, enabling seamless integration of modalities and effective knowledge transfer across tasks. Our approach is evaluated on a range of tasks, including text-to-text, image-to-text, video-to-video, video-to-text, and audio-to-text, demonstrating the model's ability to generalize across modalities with minimal adaptation. We show that task reformulation can significantly simplify multimodal model design across various tasks, laying the groundwork for more generalized multimodal foundation models.
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