#vision-language-model

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AS Asim Shah

Building a NanoVLM from Scratch: Understanding Vision-Language Models and Contrastive Learning

*How do you teach a neural network that a picture of a red circle and the words “red circle” describe the same thing?*

Aug 13, 2026 · 23 min read · 0 claps #nanovision-language-model #vision-language-model #nano-clip

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AR Arpit Neewaliya

How I Fine-Tuned a Vision Language Model for Drone Image Understanding

A few months ago, if someone had asked me to fine-tune a Vision Language Model (VLM), I probably would have spent the next hour browsing…

Aug 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 51 claps #drones #python #machine-learning

AI SCI

JE Jennifer D'Souza, Ph.D.

In this Age of Generative AI, we still need High-Quality, Domain-expert Annotated Datasets!

Synthetic data can multiply examples, but it cannot decide what a scientific figure means…

Aug 05, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #artificial-intelligence #computer-vision #vision-language-model

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AD Advait Shinde

VLMs: Paradigms and Trade-offs

LLMs live in a tidy universe. Every input gets sliced into discrete tokens, each one a pointer into a finite vocabulary matrix ………

Aug 04, 2026 · 9 min read · 4 claps #vlm #computer-vision #llm-training

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TO Toufiq Musah

Vision-Language Models in the Operating Room!

The Surgical Operating-Room is a very complicated, fast-moving environment. Doctors, nurses, technicians, and tools; cutting, sewing and…

Jul 31, 2026 · 7 min read · 73 claps #computer-vision #vision-language-model #medical-image-analysis

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SA Sanjana Dubey · Towards AI

Vision Language Grounding: How AI Connects “Dog” to Pixels, and Where It Falls Apart

A research grounded deep dive

Jul 30, 2026 · 17 min read · 33 claps #vision-language-model #clip #multimodal-ai

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AR Arpit Neewaliya

Introduction to VLMs

A few years ago, AI could either look at images or understand text but not both.

Jul 30, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #machine-learning #artificial-intelligence

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PR PrajnaAI

Speed vs Accuracy Is the Wrong Debate for Vision-Language Models

The real challenge is not choosing one metric over the other. It is designing a vision-language system that produces the right answer, at…

Jul 27, 2026 · 10 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #key-performance-metrics #llm

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JO Josephscharpf

An Introduction to Token Pruning for VLMs

Why VLM Efficiency Matters

Jul 22, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #machine-learning #ai #artificial-intelligence

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NI Nisarg Jasani

Building a Vision Language Model From Scratch: What I Learned Reimplementing PaliGemma in PyTorch

A deep dive into the design decisions, engineering trade-offs, and unexpected lessons from building a production-grade VLM from the ground…

Jul 21, 2026 · 13 min read · 0 claps #machine-learning #vision-language-model #pytorch

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AI AIPaperReading

Meta AI’s Blockbuster Release: DINOv3–7 Billion Parameters, Mastering Omnipotent Vision!

Affiliations: Meta AI Research, Inria, WRI

Jun 26, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #computer-vision #artificial-intelligence #foundation-models

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ED 黃仁和 Edward Huang

LocateAnything：VLM Reasoning 的第一步，是先看對地方

從逐 token 生成座標，到一次解碼完整 bounding box：理解 Parallel Box Decoding 如何改善 VLM 的 視覺定位

Jun 15, 2026 · 22 min read · 0 claps #computer-vision #vision-language-model #multimodal-ai

AI MDA

SE Sepehr Norouzi

The Compression Paradox: How Xiaomi EV Taught Autonomous Cars to Reason Faster by Reasoning Less

Two papers. One shared insight. A deep dive into the engineering hidden beneath the diagrams.

Jun 11, 2026 · 8 min read · 5 claps #vision-language-model #chain-of-thought #diffusion-transformer

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SA Samuel Adeyeye

Teaching a Vision Model to Read Retail Leaflets: How We Built Production VLM Inference

A practical architecture for document-style vision extraction — without treating the model as your business logic engine.

Jun 11, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #fastapi #vllm-serving

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AB Abonia Sojasingarayar

Hands-on : Vision-Language Models — MultimodalAI

From Foundations to a Fully Local SmolVLM Demo

Jun 08, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps #vision-language-model #multimodal-ai #llm

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NI Nirmalesaniya

Can AI Imagine What It Cannot See?

Paper : Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators

Jun 07, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #artificial-intelligence #computer-vision #machine-learning

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ML ML Point

CVPR 2026: Research Direction from Accepted Work

Source Image

Jun 05, 2026 · 4 min read · 50 claps paywalled #vision-language-model #foundation-models #embodied-ai

AI SCI

ML ML Point

LocateAnything by Nvidia AI

Recent vision-language models rely on a single concept: treating absolutely everything as a text generation problem. Images, user prompts…

Jun 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 100 claps paywalled #vision-language-model #bounding-box #localization

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PI Pietro Angelici

OCR + Vision-Language Models: The Future of Document Intelligence

For years, OCR was seen as a useful but limited technology.

May 31, 2026 · 2 min read · 1 claps #ocr #vision-language-model #document-intelligence

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SU Sumit Pandey · Towards Deep Learning

NVIDIA’s 3B Model Just Embarrassed 30B Vision Models

It detects anything you can describe, runs 10x faster than its rivals, and fits in a third of the size. The trick: it stopped spelling out…

May 29, 2026 · 11 min read · 517 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #deep-learning #machine-learning

AI

SO Sobhan Hota

CXVisionQA: Building a Secure, Self-Hosted Vision Language Model Assistant

CXVisionQA

May 27, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #computer-vision #large-language-models #vision-language-model

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SH Shaip · Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

VLM vs VLA: Key Differences Every Robotics Team Should Know | Shaip

Two model classes get conflated in robotics conversations: vision-language models and vision-language-action models. They sound similar…

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #vlm-vs-vla #vlm #vla

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SH Shahzeb Ali

Why Vision-Language Models Are Replacing Traditional Computer Vision Pipelines

A few years ago, building a computer vision system felt like assembling a machine from dozens of disconnected parts.

May 26, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #vlm #vision-language-model #computer-vision

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AR Arpit Kulsreshtha | Mobile Architect | Author

Prompt Experiments to Production Pipelines: How Hugging Face Playground and Inference Chat Can…

AI engineering is no longer only about training models from scratch. A large part of modern AI work is about selecting the right model…

May 23, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #hugging-face #machine-learning #artificial-intelligence

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MA Mandar Chiplunkar

How Product Managers Can Leverage Gemma 4 and Vision Language Models for Real-World AI

As a Product Leader with over a decade of experience driving zero-to-one product development, I constantly evaluate how new technologies…

May 21, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #generative-ai-solution #product-management #gemma-4

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CA Carlos Hugo Galaz Campos

Por qué dos cámaras no me alcanzaron

Sol pleno, sombra del árbol, las dos cámaras coincidiendo en lo equivocado. Cuando dos testigos no son dos testigos: la trampa de los…

May 21, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #computer-vision #artificial-intelligence #vision-language-model

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AM Amin Fadaeinejad

Fine-Tuning Qwen3-VL: A Practical Guide for Vision-Language Model Adaptation

A complete walkthrough architecture, dataset preparation, LoRA configuration, training, and evaluation that should be enough to fine-tune…

May 18, 2026 · 17 min read · 175 claps #deep-learning #machine-learning #computer-vision

AI HUM SCI

LA Laiba Ijaz

Fine-Tuning Vision Language Models with QLoRA for Document-to-Markdown Generation

Introduction Converting scanned documents, research papers, and forms into structured, machine-readable Markdown is a powerful use case at…

May 08, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #deep-learning #generative-ai #multimodel-ai

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AD Aditi S · Bootcamp

Your Vision Model Doesn’t Know Why And That’s a Serious Problem — Teaching Your Vision Model How to…

AI could see almost everything, but ask it why a car crashed, or what would happen if the road were dry, and it fell apart. Here’s how…

May 03, 2026 · 13 min read · 0 claps #causal-inference #causal-ai #vision-language-model

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NI Nitin Tiwari · Google Developer Experts

Serve and Inference Gemma 4 on TPU

Introduction

Apr 28, 2026 · 5 min read · 72 claps #gemma #google-cloud-platform #tpu

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PR Priyadarshini Chavan

I Built a 9x Faster SAM 3 Inference Engine — Here’s How I Migrated Meta’s Segment Anything Model to…

A deep technical walkthrough of exporting SAM 3 to ONNX, building a TensorRT engine, writing custom CUDA kernels for real-time…

Apr 20, 2026 · 9 min read · 8 claps #hugging-face #sam-3 #meta

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MA Max Waterhout · Sopra Steria NL Data & AI

Bringing foundation models into robotic manipulation

From GraspNet to OpenVLA in our lab

Mar 24, 2026 · 4 min read · 1 claps #foundation-models #robotica #vision-language-model

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BI Bibek Poudel · Towards AI

Seeing the Unseen: How DeepStack Revolutionizes Vision Language Models

“The devil is in the details.”

Mar 18, 2026 · 5 min read · 3 claps #multimodal-learning #artificial-intelligence #vision-language-model

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BI Bibek Poudel · Towards AI

VLM Validation and Document Intelligence

Can AI actually read old documents?

Feb 27, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #ocr #document-intelligence #vision-language-model

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MY My Social · 𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐬.𝐢𝐨

Qwen3.5: Scaling 17B Activation for Expert Visual Coding Logic

Introduction

Feb 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #qwen3-5 #visual-coding #open-source-ai

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BI Bibek Poudel · Towards AI

Sequence Packing and Token Weighting

References

Jan 23, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #multimodal-learning #llm

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RI Rinn

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) Insights (Part 3)

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to follow human language instructions to navigate within unfamiliar…

Jan 06, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #vision-language-action #nvl

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RI Rinn

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) Insights (Part 2)

In Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, an agent must navigate through an environment by following natural language instructions…

Jan 05, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #vision-language-action #nvl

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RI Rinn

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) Insights (Part 1)

Architecture advantages of VLN-specific models: In VLN tasks, both historical frames and the current frame are important, but the current…

Jan 05, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #vision-language-action #nvl

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RI Rinn

Comparison of End-to-End (E2E) Models and Agentic System Approaches for Vision-Language Navigation…

End-to-End (E2E) Approaches: Strengths and Limitations

Jan 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #nvl #robotics

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RA RAKTIM SINGH · Stackademic

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models: The AI Brain Behind the Next Generation of Robots & Physical…

From RT-2 and OpenVLA to SmolVLA and Gemini Robotics — how a new class of foundation models is teaching robots to see, understand, and act…

Nov 26, 2025 · 15 min read · 26 claps #vla-models #physical-ai #robotics

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SI Sindhu Pasupuleti

Stress-Testing AI: A Toolkit to Expose Hidden Fragility in Vision Models

Deep learning models perform brilliantly until the world stops behaving like their training data.

Oct 26, 2025 · 7 min read · 2 claps #ai #computer-vision #vision-language-model

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DR Dr. Shouke Wei

LitePali: Revolutionizing Document Retrieval with Lightweight Vision Language Models

A Streamlined Wrapper for ColPali, Empowering Efficient Image-Based Search in AI-Driven Workflows

Oct 19, 2025 · 4 min read · 2 claps paywalled #litepali #revolutionize #document-retrieval

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FR Frederik vom Lehn · Self-Supervised Learning

Understanding SIGLIP, the more efficient vision encoder

Siglip [1] is an improved version of the contrastive CLIP image encoder.

Oct 04, 2025 · 6 min read · 54 claps paywalled #siglip #vision-language-model #deep-learning

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DU Duong Tran

Askmore: Building a VQA Model from Scratch in PyTorch — Part 3: Q-Former Projector

“Borrowing a BLIP trick: let a mini-Transformer do the talking between vision and text.”

Sep 22, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #visual-question-answering

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EV Evergreen Technologies · State of the art technology

How to build an AI Damage Inspector: Fine-tuning LLaVA on Colab

Imagine running a large e-commerce warehouse where thousands of packages pass through every day. Some packages get dented, torn, or crushed…

Sep 13, 2025 · 24 min read · 0 claps paywalled #llava #vision-language-model #multimodal-ai

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DU Duong Tran

Askmore: Building a VQA Model from Scratch in PyTorch — Part 2: Transformer-based model

Swapping the GRU for a Transformer, because 2014 called and wants its RNNs back.

Sep 12, 2025 · 7 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #visual-question-answering

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DU Duong Tran

Askmore: Building a VQA Model from Scratch in PyTorch — Part 1: GRU-based model

TL;DR: In this first part I implement a toy Visual Question Answering (VQA) model in pure PyTorch, built from a CNN image encoder and a…

Sep 12, 2025 · 7 min read · 9 claps #vision-language-model #visual-question-answering

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AR Arjun Agarwal

Understanding LLaVa 1.5: Improvements in Training Recipes and Benchmarks

Paper: Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03744) May 2024, UW-Madison, Microsoft Research

Aug 18, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #vision-language-model #llava #llama-3

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SI Sik-Ho Tsang

Brief Review — DeepSeek-VL: Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding

Vision-Language Model for DeepSeek

Aug 05, 2025 · 5 min read · 9 claps #deep-learning #artificial-intelligence #deepseek