<p><h1> BakLLaVA-1 </h1></p>

Thank you to our compute sponsors Together Compute (www.together.ai). In collaboration with Ontocord (www.ontocord.ai) and LAION (www.laion.ai).

BakLLaVA 1 is a Mistral 7B base augmented with the LLaVA 1.5 architecture. In this first version, we showcase that a Mistral 7B base outperforms Llama 2 13B on several benchmarks. You can run BakLLaVA-1 on our repo. We are currently updating it to make it easier for you to finetune and inference. (https://github.com/SkunkworksAI/BakLLaVA).

Note: BakLLaVA-1 is fully open-source but was trained on certain data that includes LLaVA's corpus which is not commercially permissive. We will fix this in the upcoming release.

BakLLaVA 2 is cooking with a significantly larger (commercially viable) dataset and a novel architecture that expands beyond the current LLaVA method. BakLLaVA-2 will do away with the restrictions of BakLLaVA-1.

Evaluations

Training dataset

• 558K filtered image-text pairs from LAION/CC/SBU, captioned by BLIP.
• 158K GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data.
• 450K academic-task-oriented VQA data mixture.
• 40K ShareGPT data.
• Additional private data (permissive)