COMM (which has already been on Arxiv on 2023.10 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08825.pdf) already proposed to merge the features of CLIP and DINOv2 to realize MLLM, maybe this paper should cite this reference.

[YuchenLiu98]

Many thanks for your excellent work!
COMM (which has already been on Arxiv on 2023.10 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.08825.pdf) already proposed to merge the features of CLIP and DINOv2 to realize MLLM, maybe this paper should cite this reference.

[cnxupupup]

Thank you for your insightful suggestion and valuable feedback!
We will cite this important reference in the related work section of our future versions.