Chinese researchers unveil LLaVA-o1 to challenge OpenAI’s o1 model

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OpenAI‘s o1 model has shown that inference-time scaling—using more compute during inference—can significantly boost a language model’s reasoning abilities. LLaVA-o1, a new model developed by researchers from multiple universities in China, brings this paradigm to open-source vision language models (VLMs).

Early open-source VLMs typically use a direct predict...