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ORBIX – Enhancing OpenAI’s GPT-OSS with Multimodal Vision Capabilities extensible to ISRO EO Data

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Orbix: Augmenting GPT-OSS – Multimodal Architecture & Workflow for Vision-Enabled LLMs (Open-Source)

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Orbix: Augmenting GPT-OSS – Multimodal Architecture & Workflow
This video presents the “Orbix” project, which outlines a technical approach to augment OpenAI’s powerful GPT-OSS (20B / 120B) language models with visual perception capabilities. While GPT-OSS excels in text-based reasoning, Orbix aims to bridge the gap by integrating vision understanding, enabling advanced multimodal applications like image captioning, visual question answering (VQA), and multimodal instruction-following.

What you’ll find in this video:

Orbix Architecture Diagram: A clear, comprehensive visual breakdown of the proposed system. This diagram illustrates the key components, including the data layer, vision encoder (e.g., OpenCLIP ViT), the lightweight projection & alignment module (Q-former style) that connects vision embeddings to GPT-OSS, and the training & optimization frameworks used. It also highlights the application and EO integration, demonstrating how Orbix can be used for Earth Observation data analysis.

Orbix Workflow Diagram: A step-by-step visual guide detailing the entire process from multimodal data ingestion and preprocessing, through model training and fine-tuning with techniques like PEFT/LoRA, to deployment and application for generating natural language outputs and performing EO data analysis.

Key Challenges Orbix Addresses:

Aligning vision embeddings with LLM’s text embedding space without degrading textual capabilities.

Sourcing high-quality, open, and permissive multimodal datasets.

Achieving competitive multimodal performance within reasonable compute budgets.

Expected Outcomes & Impact:
Orbix provides a reproducible framework for creating a multimodal GPT-OSS model trained with publicly available datasets and efficient strategies. This project is a foundation for extending GPT-OSS into more advanced multimodal reasoning domains, with significant potential for:

ISRO EO Data Linkage: Highly accurate & automated Land-cover classification, change detection, and environmental monitoring from satellite imagery.

Conversational Geospatial Analytics: Enabling conversational exploration of large geospatial archives, interactive Q&A over time-series imagery, and generation of rich, human-readable reports that combine spatial analytics with domain-specific reasoning.

Technical Stack Highlights:

Language Model: GPT-OSS (20B / 120B) via Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT / LoRA.

Vision Encoder: OpenCLIP ViT / Swin Transformer.

Data: COCO Captions, VQAv2, Visual Genome, Conceptual Captions, LAION-5B, BigEarthNet, EuroSAT, Sentinel-2 / Landsat.

Frameworks: PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning / Hugging Face Accelerate, DeepSpeed / FSDP.

EO Tools: Rasterio, Geopandas, SentinelHub-Py, Google Earth Engine Python API.

Deployment: vLLM, FastAPI, Gradio / Streamlit.

This project represents a significant step towards creating powerful, open-source multimodal AI systems capable of understanding and interacting with both text and visual information, particularly in specialized domains like Earth Observation.

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