README.md

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license: llama2
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# v-MLLM Model Card

## Model details

**Model type:**
v-MLLM is an open-source MLLM trained on Visual-Modality Instruction (VIM) corpus, it can robustly follow the text-modality instructions and visual-modality instructions.

**Model date:**
v-MLLM-7B was trained on January 2024.

**Github for more information:**
https://github.com/VIM-Bench/VIM_TOOL

## License
v-MLLM is licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License, 
Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

## Intended use
**Primary intended uses:**
The primary use of v-MLLM is research on multimodal large language models.

**Primary intended users:**
The primary intended users of the model are researchers in computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

## Training dataset
- 846k VIM corpus based on LVIS-Instruct4V corpus.

# Citation

Please kindly cite our paper if you find our resources useful:

```
@misc{li2024text,
      title={Text as Images: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Follow Printed Instructions in Pixels?}, 
      author={Xiujun Li and Yujie Lu and Zhe Gan and Jianfeng Gao and William Yang Wang and Yejin Choi},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2311.17647},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
@misc{lu2023vim,
      title={VIM: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Visual Embedded Instruction Following}, 
      author={Yujie Lu and Xiujun Li and William Yang Wang and Yejin Choi},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.17647},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
```