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+ ---
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+ language: en
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+ license: other
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+ library_name: transformers
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+ tags:
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+ - vision
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+ - vlm
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+ - vision-language-model
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+ - image-text
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+ - instruction-tuning
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+ - dpo
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+ - lora
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+ - custom-architecture
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+ pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
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+ ---
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+
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+ # Keural VLM — Vision-Language Model <sub>(PoC · V0.1)</sub>
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+
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+ **##Keural VLM is a proof-of-concept vision-language model developed to explore lightweight multimodal learning using a custom vision encoder. Unlike many existing VLMs, the model does not rely on a pretrained CLIP backbone. Instead, the visual encoder is trained from scratch and connected to Mistral-7B-Instruct through a lightweight projection module.
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+ .**
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+
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+ <p>
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MKD_Co.,_Ltd.-Keural-6d28d9?style=for-the-badge" alt="MKD">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/status-V0.1_PoC-16a34a?style=for-the-badge" alt="Status">
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <p>
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/vision_encoder-24.7M-8b5cf6" alt="Params">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/LLM-Mistral--7B--Instruct-f59e0b" alt="LLM">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-2.x-ee4c2c?logo=pytorch&logoColor=white" alt="PyTorch">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/_Transformers-integrated-fcd34d" alt="Transformers">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PEFT-LoRA_+_DPO-38bdf8" alt="PEFT">
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+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/trained_on-1×_RTX_5090-22d3ee" alt="Hardware">
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+ </p>
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+
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+ <br>
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+
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+ <img src="assets/keural_vision_encoder.gif" alt="Keural VLM architecture animation" width="98%">
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+
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+ <br>
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+
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+ *Image → CNN Stem → Adaptive Token Budget → Spatial Transformer → LevelAware Projector → Mistral-7B → Answer*
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+
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+ </div>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Highlights
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+
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+ | | |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | **From scratch** | 24.7M vision encoder — **12.4× smaller** than LLaVA's CLIP encoder (307M) |
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+ | **Adaptive Token Budget (ATB)** | Token count is a runtime knob — dense regions get more tokens, blank regions fewer |
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+ | **Hierarchical Concept Tokenization (HCT)** | Every token carries a semantic level: global / region / detail |
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+ | **3-phase pipeline** | Vision pretraining → projector alignment → SFT + DPO |
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+ | **DPO improved every benchmark** | e.g. VQAv2 **+30.7pp**, ScienceQA **+14.0pp** |
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## What This Is
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+
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+ A complete Vision-Language Model (VLM) proof-of-concept built entirely from scratch — no CLIP, no pretrained vision backbone.
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+
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+ | Component | Details |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | **Vision Encoder** | 24.7M params, trained from scratch on CC3M + CC12M (~15M pairs) |
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+ | **Projector** | `LevelAwareProjector` (384 → 2048 → 4096) |
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+ | **LLM** | `Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3` (4-bit NF4 QLoRA) |
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+ | **SFT** | LLaVA-Instruct-150K, 30,000 steps |
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+ | **DPO** | RLHF-V dataset, 5,733 pairs, 3,000 steps |
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Architecture
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+
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+ ```
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+ Image (256×256)
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+ ↓
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+ CNN Stem → ATB Tokenizer → Spatial Transformer (12 layers, embed_dim=384)
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+ ↓
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+ KeuralEncoderOutput {tokens, level_ids, spatial_metadata, saliency_scores, pooled}
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+ ↓
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+ LevelAwareProjector (384 → 2048 → 4096)
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+ ↓
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+ Visual Tokens (N_vis × 4096)
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+ ↓
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+ Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 + SFT LoRA + DPO LoRA
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+ ↓
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+ Text Response
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+ ```
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+ <img src="assets/keural_vlm_ieee.png" alt="Keural VLM detailed architecture" width="92%">
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+ </div>
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+
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+ ### Key Innovations
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+
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+ **Adaptive Token Budget (ATB) Tokenization** — token count is a runtime parameter; dense regions get more tokens, blank regions fewer.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ out = encoder(image, token_budget=64) # fast / cheap
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+ out = encoder(image, token_budget=256) # default
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+ out = encoder(image, token_budget=1024) # full fidelity
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+ ```
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+
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+ **Hierarchical Concept Tokenization (HCT)** — every token carries a semantic level tag.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ out = encoder(image)
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+ print(out.level_ids) # {0=global, 1=region, 2=detail}
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Training Pipeline
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+
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+ <table>
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+ <tr><th>Phase</th><th>What trains</th><th>Data</th><th>Steps</th><th>Result</th></tr>
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+ <tr><td><b>1 · Vision Encoder</b> </td><td>Encoder from scratch</td><td>CC3M + CC12M (~15.3M)</td><td>~75,000</td><td>24.7M params · 1× RTX 5090</td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><b>2A · Projector Align</b> </td><td>Projector + LLM LoRA (r=64), encoder frozen</td><td>LLaVA-Instruct-150K</td><td>10,000</td><td>—</td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><b>2B · SFT</b> </td><td>LLM LoRA (r=64, α=128)</td><td>LLaVA-Instruct-150K</td><td>30,000</td><td>final loss <b>1.022</b></td></tr>
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+ <tr><td><b>2B · DPO</b> </td><td>DPO LoRA (r=16, α=32)</td><td>RLHF-V (5,733 pairs)</td><td>3,000</td><td>loss <b>0.235</b> · reward acc <b>95%</b> · margin <b>2.11</b></td></tr>
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+ </table>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Benchmark Results
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+
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+ Evaluated on 1,000 samples each (where applicable). The vision encoder is **12.4× smaller** than LLaVA's CLIP encoder (307M).
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+
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+ | Benchmark | Keural SFT-30K | Keural SFT+DPO | LLaVA 1.5 <sub>(307M enc)</sub> | LLaVA 1.6 <sub>(307M enc)</sub> |
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+ |---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
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+ | VQAv2 Accuracy | 12.9% | **43.6%** | 78.5% | 81.8% |
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+ | POPE F1 | 66.9% | **67.0%** | 85.9% | 86.5% |
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+ | MME Total Score | 704.3 | **838.8** | 1510.7 | 1519.3 |
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+ | TextVQA Accuracy | 0.8% | **6.6%** | 58.2% | 64.9% |
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+ | ScienceQA Accuracy | 39.7% | **53.7%** | 66.8% | 70.6% |
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+
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+ > **POPE F1 (67.0%)** is the standout — within 19pp of LLaVA 1.6 using a **12× smaller** encoder.
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+ > **DPO improved every benchmark**, most dramatically VQAv2 (+30.7pp) and ScienceQA (+14.0pp).
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+ > **TextVQA** is low by design — no OCR training. EasyOCR integration in the GUI bridges this gap.
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+ <img src="assets/fig_all_benchmarks.png" alt="All benchmarks" width="90%">
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+ </div>
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+
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+ | | |
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+ |:---:|:---:|
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+ | <img src="assets/fig_vqav2.png" width="100%"> | <img src="assets/fig_pope.png" width="100%"> |
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+ | <img src="assets/fig_mme.png" width="100%"> | <img src="assets/fig_scienceqa.png" width="100%"> |
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Qualitative & Saliency
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+
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+ The ATB tokenizer concentrates tokens on salient regions. Left → right: original · saliency heatmap · token placement.
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+ <img src="assets/cat_saliency.png" alt="Saliency — cat" width="80%">
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+ <img src="assets/qualitative_examples.png" alt="Qualitative examples" width="90%">
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+ </div>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## DPO Training Curves
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+
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+ | Metric | Step 0 | Step 3000 |
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+ |---|:---:|:---:|
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+ | Loss | 0.694 | **0.235** |
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+ | Reward Accuracy | ~50% | **95%** |
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+ | Reward Margin | 0.0 | **2.11** |
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+ <img src="assets/dpo_training_curves.png" alt="DPO training curves" width="80%">
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+ </div>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Repository Structure
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+
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+ ```
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+ keural-vlm-poc/
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+ ├── vision_encoder/ # Keural encoder weights (config + safetensors)
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+ ├── sft_adapter/ # SFT LoRA (30K steps)
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+ ├── dpo_adapter/ # DPO LoRA (3K steps, RLHF-V) — stacks on SFT
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+ ├── assets/ # figures, diagrams, animation
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+ └── tokenizer.json … # Mistral tokenizer + chat template
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+ ```
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+
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+ For inference, load: **Vision Encoder → Projector → Mistral-7B + SFT LoRA + DPO LoRA**.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Usage
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import torch
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+ from transformers import AutoModel, AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, BitsAndBytesConfig
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+ from peft import PeftModel
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+ from alignment.projectors import LevelAwareProjector
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+
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+ device = "cuda"
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+
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+ # 1. Vision encoder (frozen)
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+ encoder = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
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+ "mkd-hika/keural-vision-encoder-poc",
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+ trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
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+ ).to(device).eval()
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+
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+ # 2. Projector
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+ projector = LevelAwareProjector(encoder_dim=384, hidden_dim=2048, llm_dim=4096)
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+ projector.load_state_dict(torch.load("projector.pt", map_location=device))
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+ projector = projector.to(device, dtype=torch.bfloat16).eval()
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+
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+ # 3. LLM + SFT LoRA + DPO LoRA
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+ bnb_cfg = BitsAndBytesConfig(load_in_4bit=True, bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
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+ bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True, bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4")
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+ base_llm = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
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+ "mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3",
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+ quantization_config=bnb_cfg, device_map="auto", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
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+ )
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+ llm = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_llm, "sft_adapter") # SFT LoRA
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+ llm = PeftModel.from_pretrained(llm, "dpo_adapter") # DPO LoRA
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+ llm.eval()
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Roadmap
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+
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+ | Phase | Encoder Params | Hardware | Status |
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+ |---|:---:|:---:|:---:|
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+ | **PoC** (this model) | 24.7M | 1× RTX 5090 | Complete (SFT + DPO) |
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+ | Mid-level | ~183.5 | 8× H100 80 GB | Planned |
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+ | Commercial | ~1.1B | 64× H100 80 GB | Future |
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## Citation
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+
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+ ```bibtex
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+ @misc{keural_vlm_2026,
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+ title = {Keural VLM: Vision-Language Model with Content-Adaptive Encoding via Saliency-Guided Token Budgets},
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+ author = {Hika Barki and MKD Co., Ltd.},
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+ year = {2026},
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+ },
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📄 License
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+
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+ See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
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+
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+ *Training data: CC3M, CC12M, LLaVA-Instruct-150K, RLHF-V — respective data licenses apply.*
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+
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+ <div align="center">
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+
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+ **MKD Co., Ltd. — 2026**
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+
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+ </div>
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