# Parameter-Efficient Quantized Mixture-of-Experts Meets Vision-Language Instruction Tuning for Semiconductor Electron Micrograph Analysis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15305 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.15305/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Efficient MoE training and inference systems, one of 12 directions in Mixture-of-experts.
- Builds on 60 of its 72 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Aug 2024.

## Placed in

- Mixture-of-experts / [Efficient MoE training and inference systems](https://mlsanity.com/moe/efficient-moe-training-and-inference-systems/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 60)

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- [Visual Instruction Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.08485/) (2023)
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- [Barlow Twins: Self-Supervised Learning via Redundancy Reduction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.03230/) (2021)
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- [SimMIM: A Simple Framework for Masked Image Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.09886/) (2021)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Scientific Images without AI-Ready Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.24039/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Semiconductors, crucial to modern electronics, are generally under-researched in foundational models. It highlights the need for research to enhance the semiconductor device technology portfolio and aid in high-end device fabrication. In this paper, we introduce sLAVA, a small-scale vision-language assistant tailored for semiconductor manufacturing, with a focus on electron microscopy image analysis. It addresses challenges of data scarcity and acquiring high-quality, expert-annotated data. We employ a teacher-student paradigm, using a foundational vision language model like GPT-4 as a teacher to create instruction-following multimodal data for customizing the student model, sLAVA, for electron microscopic image analysis tasks on consumer hardware with limited budgets. Our approach allows enterprises to further fine-tune the proposed framework with their proprietary data securely within their own infrastructure, protecting intellectual property. Rigorous experiments validate that our framework surpasses traditional methods, handles data shifts, and enables high-throughput screening.