Scaling Text-Rich Image Understanding via Code-Guided Synthetic Multimodal Data Generation (2025.acl-long)
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Yue Yang, Ajay Patel, Matt Deitke, Tanmay Gupta, Luca Weihs, Andrew Head, Mark Yatskar, Chris Callison-Burch, Ranjay Krishna, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Christopher Clark
| Challenge: | Vision-language models struggle to understand text-rich images due to the scarcity of diverse text-only large language data. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages the coding capabilities of text-only large language models to create synthetic text-rich multimodal data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can generate high-quality instruction-tuning data using Python, HTML, LaTeX and other languages. |
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