AMALIA-VL: A Native European Portuguese Open-Source Vision and Language Model
Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet European Portuguese (pt-PT) remains systematically underserved by existing open-source multimodal models, which either conflate it with Brazilian Portuguese or severely under-represent it in their training data mixes. We introduce AMALIA-VL, the first open-source instruction-tuned LVLM built natively for pt-PT, pairing a high-resolution vision encoder with dynamic image tiling and a fully open pt-PT-optimized language model via a learned connector. We contribute with a purposefully designed three-stage training process - vision-language alignment, general visual instruction tuning, and preference optimization - together w...
| Authors | Diogo Glória-Silva, João Cardeira, Manuel Letras da Luz et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 17 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 15 September 2026 |
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- amalia-llm/AMALIA-VL-DPOModel · cited by
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- amalia-llm/AMALIA-VL-DPOModel
- amalia-llm/SEED-Bench-PTDataset
- amalia-llm/InfographicVQA-PTDataset
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