Salesforce AI Research Propose ‘BLIP’: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

Just how humans use vision and language to experience the environment, AI models are built on the foundations of vision and language.

Vision-language pre-training has been widely adopted to enable AI agents to understand the world and communicate with humans. This approach involves training a model on image-text data to teach how to grasp both visual and written information. The model is pretrained before fine-tuning it. Skipping this step would reduce the model’s performance because the model then must be …

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