AMALIA-VL: A Native European Portuguese Open-Source Vision and Language Model
Researchers have introduced AMALIA-VL, a new open-source vision and language model specifically designed for European Portuguese. Existing models often overlook or misrepresent this language variant. AMALIA-VL utilizes a high-resolution vision encoder and a language model optimized for European Portuguese, developed through a three-stage training process. The project aims to democratize the development of European Portuguese large vision and language models by releasing model weights, training data, and evaluation benchmarks. AI
IMPACT This release provides a dedicated resource for European Portuguese, potentially improving multimodal AI capabilities for this language group.