OLA-VLM distills target visual information into the intermediate representations of the LLM from a set of target encoders. It adopts a predictive embedding optimization approach at selected LLM layers during training to minimize the embedding losses along with the next token prediction (NTP) objective, resulting in a vision-centric approach to training the Multimodal Large Language Model.

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@article{jain2024ola_vlm,
    title={{OLA-VLM: Elevating Visual Perception in Multimodal LLMs with Auxiliary Embedding Distillation}},
    author={Jitesh Jain and Zhengyuan Yang and Humphrey Shi and Jianfeng Gao and Jianwei Yang},
    journal={arXiv},
    year={2024}
}