Introducing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for Better Interpreting Visual and Written Inputs
The latest development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which can interpret and comprehend visual and written inputs. Incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) into VLMs has enhanced their comprehension of complex inputs. But there are still concerns about their effectiveness in challenging settings, which has raised questions about potential risks associated with VLMs.
To ensure the safe deployment of VLMs, comprehensive red teaming stress tests are necessary. However, there is no systematic red teaming benchmark for current VLMs. That’s why a recent innovative dataset called The Red Teaming Visual Language Model (RTVLM) has been introduced, focusing on red teaming situations, including image-text input, in order to fill this gap in VLM testing.
The dataset includes ten subtasks grouped under four main categories: faithfulness, privacy, safety, and fairness. Researchers have found that when exposed to red teaming, ten well-known open-sourced VLMs struggled to differing degrees, with performance differences of up to 31%. To address this, the team applied Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT) with RTVLM on LLaVA-v1.5, effectively improving its performance, providing new insights and suggestions for the further development of VLMs.
In conclusion, the RTVLM dataset is a valuable tool for comparing the performance of existing VLMs in a variety of important areas. And the results emphasize the crucial importance of red teaming alignment in enhancing VLM robustness.
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By Tanya Malhotra