https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.07704/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38745720urn:hackerpapers:mention:2310.07704:38745720Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:01:57 GMT<p>Maybe the abstract of the paper is a better introduction to what this is: &gt; We introduce Ferret, a new Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) capable of understanding spatial referring of any shape or granularity within an image and accurately grounding open-vocabulary descriptions. To unify referring and grounding in the LLM paradigm, Ferret employs a novel and powerful hybrid region representation that integrates discrete coordinates and continuous features jointly to represent a region in the image. To extract the continuous features of versatile regions, we propose a spatial-aware visual…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2310.07704/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CV