Challenge: Experimental results show zero-shot performance on unseen multimodal tasks . instruction tuning has yet to be explored for vision and multimodal task.
Approach: They propose a multimodal instruction tuning benchmark dataset that consists of 62 diverse multimodal tasks in a unified seq-to-seq format covering 10 broad categories.
Outcome: The proposed model performs well on unseen multimodal tasks and is highly scalable.

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