MultimodalUW-Madison, Microsoft (Liu et al.)Microsoft

LLaVA

LLaVA — visual instruction tuning

Why it matters

The starting point of the open VLM lineage

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08485

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