Meta and Oxford Find 5% Image Data Unlocks Multimodal Capabilities

A joint study by Meta and Oxford reveals a counterintuitive finding: only about 5% of image generation data is needed to unlock strong multimodal capabilities. The research suggests that early joint training of language and vision allows language understanding to significantly drive visual comprehension and generation.

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