Keito Sasagawa


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2025

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Constructing Multimodal Datasets from Scratch for Rapid Development of a Japanese Visual Language Model
Keito Sasagawa | Koki Maeda | Issa Sugiura | Shuhei Kurita | Naoaki Okazaki | Daisuke Kawahara
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations)

To develop high-performing Visual Language Models (VLMs), it is essential to prepare multimodal resources, such as image-text pairs, interleaved data, and instruction data. While multimodal resources for English are abundant, there is a significant lack of corresponding resources for non-English languages, such as Japanese. To address this problem, we take Japanese as a non-English language and propose Japanese multimodal datasets for rapidly developing a Japanese multimodal model. We collect Japanese image-text pairs and interleaved data from web archives and generate Japanese instruction data using an existing large language model and a VLM. Our experimental results show that a VLM trained on these native datasets outperforms those relying on machine-translated content. The resulting VLM, dataset and code used for training is publicly available.