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+# Code of Conduct
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+## Our Pledge
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+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
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+## Our Standards
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+## Attribution
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+available at [https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html)

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contribution Guide
+
+Thanks for your interest in contributing. This project was released to accompany a research paper for purposes of reproducability, and beyond its publication there are limited plans for future development of the repository.
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+While we welcome new pull requests and issues please note that our response may be limited. Forks and out-of-tree improvements are strongly encouraged.
+
+## Before you get started
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+
+We ask that all community members read and observe our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

LICENSE

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README.md

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+<!-- # Project Name
+
+This software project accompanies the research paper, [Paper title](https://arxiv.org).
+
+Brief description of the project.
+
+## Documentation
+
+## Getting Started  -->
+
+# <img src="figs/ferret_icon.png" alt="Alt text for the image" width="40" height="45"> Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity
+
+An end-to-end MLLM that can accept any-form referring and ground anything in response.*
+
+[Haoxuan You*](https://hxyou.github.io/), [Haotian Zhang*](https://haotian-zhang.github.io/), [Zhe Gan](https://zhegan27.github.io/), [Xianzhi Du](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l1hP40AAAAAJ&hl=en), [Bowen Zhang](https://zbwglory.github.io/), [Zirui Wang](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ziruiw/), [Liangliang Cao](http://llcao.net/), [Shih-Fu Chang](https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~sfchang/), [Yinfei Yang](https://sites.google.com/site/yinfeiyang/) 
+[*: equal contribution]
+
+## Overview
+
+<p align="center">
+    <img src="figs/ferret_fig_diagram_v2.png" width="100%"></a> <br>
+    Diagram of Ferret Model.
+</p>
+
+Key Contributions:
+* Ferret Model - **Hybrid Region Representation + Spatial-aware Visual Sampler** enable fine-grained and open-vocabulary referring and grounding in MLLM.
+* GRIT Dataset (~1.1M) - A **Large-scale, Hierarchical, Robust** ground-and-refer instruction tuning dataset.
+* Ferret-Bench - A multimodal evaluation benchmark that jointly requires **Referring/Grounding, Semantics, Knowledge, and Reasoning**.