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Enabling multimodal functionality for Phi Silica
- Microsoft has enhanced Phi Silica with vision-based multimodal capabilities, enabling new possibilities for local SLMs on Windows.
- The introduction of image understanding support in Windows brings a built-in multimodal SLM available on specific Copilot+ PCs.
- The addition of vision capability to Phi Silica does not require a separate vision SLM, maintaining resource efficiency on devices.
- By integrating vision capabilities into Phi Silica, Microsoft aims to reuse existing components and optimize memory usage.
- The multimodal functionality of Phi Silica improves accessibility by generating high-quality image descriptions for screen readers.
- The system extracts vision embeddings using the Florence image encoder and a modality projector model aligned with Phi Silica's embedding space.
- Post-training quantization is performed on Phi Silica for memory optimization, allowing it to run with 4-bit weight precision.
- Multimodal Phi Silica can generate short and detailed image descriptions, enhancing interactions with images for users on Copilot+ PCs.
- The evaluation of image descriptions by multimodal Phi Silica shows improved accuracy and completeness compared to existing models.
- The NPU-enabled multimodal functionality for Phi Silica enhances Alt Text generation and accessibility for visually impaired users within the Windows ecosystem.
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