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Lumos : Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Scene Text Recognition
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science - Computation and Language
Computer Science - Machine Learning
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Abstract
We introduce Lumos, the first end-to-end multimodal question-answering system with text understanding capabilities. At the core of Lumos is a Scene Text Recognition (STR) component that extracts text from first person point-of-view images, the output of which is used to augment input to a Multimodal Large Language Model (MM-LLM). While building Lumos, we encountered numerous challenges related to STR quality, overall latency, and model inference. In this paper, we delve into those challenges, and discuss the system architecture, design choices, and modeling techniques employed to overcome these obstacles. We also provide a comprehensive evaluation for each component, showcasing high quality and efficiency.
Comment: Accepted to KDD 2024 (ADS Track)