Aligning MAGMA by Few-Shot Learning and Finetuning

Abstract: The goal of vision-language modeling is to allow models to tie language understanding with visual inputs. The aim of this paper is to evaluate and align the Visual LLM (VLM) called Multimodal Augmentation of Generative Models through Adapter-based finetuning (MAGMA) with human values. MAGMA is a VLM that is capable of image captioning and visual question-answering. We will evaluate its alignment in three different scenarios. To begin, we assess MAGMA's out-of-the-box alignment through the checkpoint provided by Hugging Face. Then, we measure if few-shot learning manages to improve the results. Finally, we finetune the model on aligned examples and evaluate its behavior.