VLFeedback: A Large-Scale AI Feedback Dataset for Large Vision-Language Models Alignment (2024.emnlp-main)
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Lei Li, Zhihui Xie, Mukai Li, Shunian Chen, Peiyi Wang, Liang Chen, Yazheng Yang, Benyou Wang, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu
| Challenge: | Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are evolving rapidly and require data with human supervision to achieve better alignment. |
| Approach: | They introduce VLFeedback, the first large-scale vision-language feedback dataset . they train Silkie, an LVLM fine-tuned via direct preference optimization . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms its base model in helpfulness, visual faithfulness, and safety metrics and exhibits enhanced resilience against red-teaming attacks. |
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