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author Bordes, Florian
Pang, Richard Yuanzhe
Ajay, Anurag
Li, Alexander C.
Bardes, Adrien
Petryk, Suzanne
Mañas, Oscar
Lin, Zhiqiu
Mahmoud, Anas
Jayaraman, Bargav
Ibrahim, Mark
Hall, Melissa
Xiong, Yunyang
Lebensold, Jonathan
Ross, Candace
Jayakumar, Srihari
Guo, Chuan
Bouchacourt, Diane
Al-Tahan, Haider
Padthe, Karthik
Sharma, Vasu
Xu, Hu
Tan, Xiaoqing Ellen
Richards, Megan
Lavoie, Samuel
Astolfi, Pietro
Hemmat, Reyhane Askari
Chen, Jun
Tirumala, Kushal
Assouel, Rim
Moayeri, Mazda
Talattof, Arjang
Chaudhuri, Kamalika
Liu, Zechun
Chen, Xilun
Garrido, Quentin
Ullrich, Karen
Agrawal, Aishwarya
Saenko, Kate
Celikyilmaz, Asli
Chandra, Vikas
author_facet Bordes, Florian
Pang, Richard Yuanzhe
Ajay, Anurag
Li, Alexander C.
Bardes, Adrien
Petryk, Suzanne
Mañas, Oscar
Lin, Zhiqiu
Mahmoud, Anas
Jayaraman, Bargav
Ibrahim, Mark
Hall, Melissa
Xiong, Yunyang
Lebensold, Jonathan
Ross, Candace
Jayakumar, Srihari
Guo, Chuan
Bouchacourt, Diane
Al-Tahan, Haider
Padthe, Karthik
Sharma, Vasu
Xu, Hu
Tan, Xiaoqing Ellen
Richards, Megan
Lavoie, Samuel
Astolfi, Pietro
Hemmat, Reyhane Askari
Chen, Jun
Tirumala, Kushal
Assouel, Rim
Moayeri, Mazda
Talattof, Arjang
Chaudhuri, Kamalika
Liu, Zechun
Chen, Xilun
Garrido, Quentin
Ullrich, Karen
Agrawal, Aishwarya
Saenko, Kate
Celikyilmaz, Asli
Chandra, Vikas
contents Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models that produce images using only a high-level text description, the vision-language model (VLM) applications will significantly impact our relationship with technology. However, there are many challenges that need to be addressed to improve the reliability of those models. While language is discrete, vision evolves in a much higher dimensional space in which concepts cannot always be easily discretized. To better understand the mechanics behind mapping vision to language, we present this introduction to VLMs which we hope will help anyone who would like to enter the field. First, we introduce what VLMs are, how they work, and how to train them. Then, we present and discuss approaches to evaluate VLMs. Although this work primarily focuses on mapping images to language, we also discuss extending VLMs to videos.
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spellingShingle An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling
Bordes, Florian
Pang, Richard Yuanzhe
Ajay, Anurag
Li, Alexander C.
Bardes, Adrien
Petryk, Suzanne
Mañas, Oscar
Lin, Zhiqiu
Mahmoud, Anas
Jayaraman, Bargav
Ibrahim, Mark
Hall, Melissa
Xiong, Yunyang
Lebensold, Jonathan
Ross, Candace
Jayakumar, Srihari
Guo, Chuan
Bouchacourt, Diane
Al-Tahan, Haider
Padthe, Karthik
Sharma, Vasu
Xu, Hu
Tan, Xiaoqing Ellen
Richards, Megan
Lavoie, Samuel
Astolfi, Pietro
Hemmat, Reyhane Askari
Chen, Jun
Tirumala, Kushal
Assouel, Rim
Moayeri, Mazda
Talattof, Arjang
Chaudhuri, Kamalika
Liu, Zechun
Chen, Xilun
Garrido, Quentin
Ullrich, Karen
Agrawal, Aishwarya
Saenko, Kate
Celikyilmaz, Asli
Chandra, Vikas
Machine Learning
Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models that produce images using only a high-level text description, the vision-language model (VLM) applications will significantly impact our relationship with technology. However, there are many challenges that need to be addressed to improve the reliability of those models. While language is discrete, vision evolves in a much higher dimensional space in which concepts cannot always be easily discretized. To better understand the mechanics behind mapping vision to language, we present this introduction to VLMs which we hope will help anyone who would like to enter the field. First, we introduce what VLMs are, how they work, and how to train them. Then, we present and discuss approaches to evaluate VLMs. Although this work primarily focuses on mapping images to language, we also discuss extending VLMs to videos.
title An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17247