用2.5年教学视频构建高质量图文教材,提升视觉语言模型理解力。
2.5 Years in Class: A Multimodal Textbook for Vision-Language Pretraining
- 基于教学视频构建时间有序的图文交织数据集
- 22,000小时视频涵盖丰富基础知识,显著提升推理任务表现
- 适合需要强知识与逻辑理解的视觉语言模型训练
相比图像-文本对数据,图文交错的语料能让视觉语言模型更自然地理解世界。但现有数据多来自网页,存在知识密度低、图文关联弱、逻辑不连贯等问题。互联网上大量教学视频(如在线几何课程)是人类学习基础学科的重要资源,却未被充分用于视觉语言模型训练。本文提出一个高质量的多模态教材语料库,包含超过2.5年的教学视频,总计22,000小时。我们首先利用大语言模型提出的分类体系系统收集教学视频,再逐步提取并精炼其中的视觉(关键帧)、音频(语音识别)、文本(OCR)知识,并按时间顺序组织为图文交错语料。相比同类数据,该视频中心教材具有更强的上下文连贯性、更丰富的知识内容和更好的图文对齐效果。实验表明,基于该语料预训练的模型在ScienceQA和MathVista等需知识与推理的任务中表现优异。此外,模型展现出出色的交错上下文感知能力,能有效利用视觉与文本线索完成少样本任务。代码已开源:https://github.com/DAMO-NLP-SG/multimodal_textbook。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Compared to image-text pair data, interleaved corpora enable Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to understand the world more naturally like humans. However, such existing datasets are crawled from webpage, facing challenges like low knowledge density, loose image-text relations, and poor logical coherence between images. On the other hand, the internet hosts vast instructional videos (e.g., online geometry courses) that are widely used by humans to learn foundational subjects, yet these valuable resources remain underexplored in VLM training. In this paper, we introduce a high-quality \textbf{multimodal textbook} corpus with richer foundational knowledge for VLM pretraining. It collects over 2.5 years of instructional videos, totaling 22,000 class hours. We first use an LLM-proposed taxonomy to systematically gather instructional videos. Then we progressively extract and refine visual (keyframes), audio (ASR), and textual knowledge (OCR) from the videos, and organize as an image-text interleaved corpus based on temporal order. Compared to its counterparts, our video-centric textbook offers more coherent context, richer knowledge, and better image-text alignment. Experiments demonstrate its superb pretraining performance, particularly in knowledge- and reasoning-intensive tasks like ScienceQA and MathVista. Moreover, VLMs pre-trained on our textbook exhibit outstanding interleaved context awareness, leveraging visual and textual cues in their few-shot context for task solving. Our code are available at https://github.com/DAMO-NLP-SG/multimodal_textbook.
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