  In the realm of large multi-modal models (LMMs), efficient modality alignment
is crucial yet often constrained by the scarcity of high-quality image-text
data. To address this bottleneck, we introduce the ShareGPT4V dataset, a
pioneering large-scale resource featuring 1.2 million highly descriptive
captions, which surpasses existing datasets in diversity and information
content, covering world knowledge, object properties, spatial relationships,
and aesthetic evaluations. Specifically, ShareGPT4V originates from a curated
100K high-quality captions collected from advanced GPT4-Vision and has been
expanded to 1.2M with a superb caption model trained on this subset. ShareGPT4V
first demonstrates its effectiveness for the Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
phase, by substituting an equivalent quantity of detailed captions in existing
SFT datasets with a subset of our high-quality captions, significantly
enhancing the LMMs like LLaVA-7B, LLaVA-1.5-13B, and Qwen-VL-Chat-7B on the MME
and MMBench benchmarks, with respective gains of 222.8/22.0/22.3 and
2.7/1.3/1.5. We further incorporate ShareGPT4V data into both the pre-training
and SFT phases, obtaining ShareGPT4V-7B, a superior LMM based on a simple
architecture that has remarkable performance across a majority of the
multi-modal benchmarks. This project is available at
https://ShareGPT4V.github.io to serve as a pivotal resource for advancing the
LMMs community.
