Updates: Mini-Gemini is comming! We release the paper, code, data, models, and demo for Mini-Gemini.

In this work, we introduce Mini-Gemini, a simple and effective framework enhancing multi-modality Vision Language Models (VLMs). Despite the advancements in VLMs facilitating basic visual dialog and reasoning, a performance gap persists compared to advanced models like GPT-4 and Gemini. We try to narrow the gap by mining the potential of VLMs for better performance and any-to-any workflow from three aspects, i.e., high-resolution visual tokens, high-quality data, and VLM-guided generation. To enhance visual tokens, we propose to utilize an additional visual encoder for high-resolution refinement without increasing the visual token count. We further construct a high-quality dataset that promotes precise image comprehension and reasoning-based generation, expanding the operational scope of current VLMs. In general, Mini-Gemini further mines the potential of VLMs and empowers current framework with image understanding, reasoning, and generation simultaneously. Mini-Gemini supports a series of dense and MoE Large Language Models (LLMs) from 2B to 34B. It is demonstrated to achieve leading performance in several zero-shot benchmarks and even surpass the developed private models.

The framework of Mini-Gemini is conceptually simple: dual vision encoders are utilized to provide low-resolution visual embedding and high-resolution candidates; patch info mining is proposed to conduct patch-level mining between high-resolution regions and low-resolution visual queries; LLM is utilized to marry text with images for both comprehension and generation at the same time.