🚄 SRT

i-SRT:Aligning Large Multimodal Models for Videos by Iterative Self-Retrospective Judgment,
Daechul Ahn*^1,3, Yura Choi*^1,3, San Kim^1,3, Youngjae Yu¹, Dongyeop Kang², Jonghyun Choi^3,†(*Equal Contribution)
¹Yonsei University, ²University of Minnesota, ³Seoul National University
^†Corresponding Author

Abstract: Aligning Video Large Multimodal Models (VLMMs) face challenges such as modality misalignment and verbose responses. Although iterative approaches such as self-rewarding or iterative direct preference optimization (DPO) recently showed a significant improvement in language model alignment, particularly on reasoning tasks, self-aligned models applied to large video-language models often result in lengthy and irrelevant responses. To address these challenges, we propose a novel method that employs self-retrospection to enhance both response generation and preference modeling, and call iterative self-retrospective judgment (i-SRT). By revisiting and evaluating already generated content and preference in loop, i-SRT improves the alignment between textual and visual modalities, reduce verbosity, and enhances content relevance. Our empirical evaluations across diverse video question answering benchmarks demonstrate that i-SRT significantly outperforms prior arts. We are committed to opensourcing our code, models, and datasets to encourage further investigation.

Release

• [07/02] Upload model checkpoint & evaluation code
• [06/17] Create repository, update README

Evaluation

Prepare evaluation dataset

• using the script from LLaVA-Hound-DPO

  TEST_VIDEO_DIR=YOUR_PATH bash setup/setup_test_data.sh
  

• or, download manually from this link

Evaluating the model

# out-domain video question answering
bash Evaluation/pipeline/outdomain_test_pipeline.sh \
    results \
    SNUMPR/isrt_video_llava_7b_9th

Building Preference Data w/ Model

• Coming soon

Training

• Coming soon

License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Acknowledgement

• LLaVA-Hound-DPO: Our code is built upon the codebase from LLaVA-Hound-DPO