---
datasets:
- starriver030515/FUSION-Pretrain-10M
- starriver030515/FUSION-Finetune-12M
base_model:
- microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
- google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384
license: apache-2.0
---
# Model Card for FUSION
This is the checkpoint after Stage 1 training of FUSION-Phi3.5-3B.
## Model Details
**Model Description**
FUSION is a family of multimodal large language models that adopts a fully integrated vision-language architecture, enabling comprehensive and fine-grained cross-modal understanding. In contrast to prior approaches that primarily perform shallow or late-stage modality fusion during the LLM decoding phase, FUSION achieves deep, dynamic integration across the entire vision-language processing pipeline.
To enable this, FUSION utilizes Text-Guided Unified Vision Encoding, which incorporates textual context directly into the vision encoder. This design allows for pixel-level vision-language alignment and facilitates early-stage cross-modal interaction.
During decoding, FUSION employs Context-Aware Recursive Alignment Decoding strategy. This component dynamically aggregates and refines visual features based on the evolving textual context at each decoding step, allowing the model to capture question-level semantics with high precision.
To further enhance alignment and reduce the semantic gap between modalities, FUSION integrates Dual-Supervised Semantic Mapping Loss, which provides simultaneous supervision in both visual and textual embedding spaces. This dual-path guidance strengthens the consistency and semantic coherence of the fused representations.
**Base Model**
**LLM**: [microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct)
**Vision Encoder**: [google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384](https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384)
## Training Details
**Training Strategies**
FUSION is trained with a three-stage training framework, ensuring comprehensive alignment and integration between visual and linguistic modalities.
- **Stage1: Foundational Semantic Alignment**: We pretrain the vision encoder using extensive image-caption datasets to establish precise semantic alignment be- tween visual and textual representations.
- **Stage1.5: Contextual Multimodal Fusion**: In contrast to Stage 1, this intermediate stage incorporates various types of QA data along with image-caption pairs. This phase is designed to enhance the model’s adaptability in aligning vision and language representations across a broad spectrum of scenarios.
- **Stage2: Visual Instruction Tuning**: At this stage, we expose the model to various visual tasks, enabling it to answer downstream vision-related questions effectively.
**Training Data**
- [10M FUSION Alignment Data](https://huggingface.co/datasets/starriver030515/FUSION-Pretrain-10M) For Stage1
- [12M FUSION Curated Instruction Tuning Data](https://huggingface.co/datasets/starriver030515/FUSION-Finetune-12M) For Stage1.5 and Stage2
## Performance
**Where to send questions or comments about the model:**
https://github.com/starriver030515/FUSION/issues
## Paper or resources for more information
- https://github.com/starriver030515/FUSION
- Coming soon~