TinyLLaVA Factory: A Modularized Codebase for Small-scale Large Multimodal Models
This provides a tool for researchers and practitioners to design and train small-scale multimodal models with affordable resources, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods without introducing new paradigms.
The authors introduced TinyLLaVA Factory, an open-source modular codebase for small-scale large multimodal models, aiming to simplify implementation, enhance extensibility, and ensure reproducibility, with empirical experiments validating its effectiveness.
We present TinyLLaVA Factory, an open-source modular codebase for small-scale large multimodal models (LMMs) with a focus on simplicity of code implementations, extensibility of new features, and reproducibility of training results. Following the design philosophy of the factory pattern in software engineering, TinyLLaVA Factory modularizes the entire system into interchangeable components, with each component integrating a suite of cutting-edge models and methods, meanwhile leaving room for extensions to more features. In addition to allowing users to customize their own LMMs, TinyLLaVA Factory provides popular training recipes to let users pretrain and finetune their models with less coding effort. Empirical experiments validate the effectiveness of our codebase. The goal of TinyLLaVA Factory is to assist researchers and practitioners in exploring the wide landscape of designing and training small-scale LMMs with affordable computational resources.