InstructionGPT-4: A 200-Instruction Paradigm for Fine-Tuning MiniGPT-4

Multimodal LLMs are typically trained in two stages: first pre-training on image-text pairs, and then fine-tuning using supervised vision-language instruction data. Recent studies have shown that LLMs can achieve satisfactory results even with a limited amount of high-quality instruction-following data. In this paper, we introduce InstructionGPT-4, which is fine-tuned on a small dataset comprising only 200 examples, amounting to approximately 6\% of the instruction-following data used in the alignment dataset for MiniGPT-4. To achieve this, we first propose several metrics to access the quality of multimodal instruction data. Based on these metrics, we present an effective and trainable data selector to automatically identify and filter low-quality vision-language data. By employing this method, InstructionGPT-4 outperforms the original MiniGPT-4 on various evaluations. Overall, our findings demonstrate that less but high-quality instruction tuning data is efficient in enabling multimodal LLMs to generate better output. Our code is available at https://github.com/waltonfuture/InstructionGPT-4.