VisualWebInstruct: Scaling up Multimodal Instruction Data through Web Search (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing vision-language models struggle with reasoning-focused tasks due to the lack of high-quality training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach that leverages search engines to create a multimodal multimodal dataset . they use a set of 30,000 seed images to extract HTML data from 700K unique URLs . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves the best known performance on MMMU-Pro (40.7), MathVerse (42.6), and DynaMath (55.7). |
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