A Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Large Language Models: Performance and Challenges Across Different Tasks
It provides a comprehensive overview for researchers and practitioners working on multimodal AI systems, but is incremental as a review paper.
This paper reviews Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), analyzing their performance across tasks like natural language, vision, and audio, and identifies shortcomings and future research directions.
In an era defined by the explosive growth of data and rapid technological advancements, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) stand at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Designed to seamlessly integrate diverse data types-including text, images, videos, audio, and physiological sequences-MLLMs address the complexities of real-world applications far beyond the capabilities of single-modality systems. In this paper, we systematically sort out the applications of MLLM in multimodal tasks such as natural language, vision, and audio. We also provide a comparative analysis of the focus of different MLLMs in the tasks, and provide insights into the shortcomings of current MLLMs, and suggest potential directions for future research. Through these discussions, this paper hopes to provide valuable insights for the further development and application of MLLM.