In plain words: Special placeholder words in the text tell an image generator when and what to picture, so a chat can weave pictures and sentences together without written descriptions of each image. Human judges preferred its outputs over the baseline's in more than 56% of cases.
Abstract
The effectiveness of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates a profound capability in multimodal understanding. However, the simultaneous generation of images with coherent texts is still underdeveloped. Addressing this, we introduce a novel interleaved vision-and-language generation method, centered around the concept of ``generative vokens". These vokens serve as pivotal elements contributing to coherent image-text outputs. Our method is marked by a unique two-stage training strategy for description-free multimodal generation, which does not necessitate extensive descriptions of images. We integrate classifier-free guidance to enhance the alignment of generated images and texts, ensuring more seamless and contextually relevant multimodal interactions. Our model, MiniGPT-5, exhibits substantial improvement over the baseline models on multimodal generation datasets, including MMDialog and VIST. The human evaluation shows MiniGPT-5 is better than the baseline model on more than 56\% cases for multimodal generation, highlighting its efficacy across diverse benchmarks.
Kaizhi Zheng, Xuehai He, Xin Eric Wang
arXiv:2310.02239 · cs.CV, cs.AI · submitted Oct 3, 2023 · updated Dec 9, 2025
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