Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) Training Course
Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is a specialized skill used to enhance multimodal AI systems that process both visual and textual inputs for real-world applications.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level computer vision engineers and AI developers who wish to fine-tune VLMs such as CLIP and Flamingo to improve performance on industry-specific visual-text tasks.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the architecture and pretraining methods of vision-language models.
- Fine-tune VLMs for classification, retrieval, captioning, or multimodal QA.
- Prepare datasets and apply PEFT strategies to reduce resource usage.
- Evaluate and deploy customized VLMs in production environments.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
Introduction to Vision-Language Models
- Overview of VLMs and their role in multimodal AI
- Popular architectures: CLIP, Flamingo, BLIP, etc.
- Use cases: search, captioning, autonomous systems, content analysis
Preparing the Fine-Tuning Environment
- Setting up OpenCLIP and other VLM libraries
- Dataset formats for image-text pairs
- Preprocessing pipelines for vision and language inputs
Fine-Tuning CLIP and Similar Models
- Contrastive loss and joint embedding spaces
- Hands-on: fine-tuning CLIP on custom datasets
- Handling domain-specific and multilingual data
Advanced Fine-Tuning Techniques
- Using LoRA and adapter-based methods for efficiency
- Prompt tuning and visual prompt injection
- Zero-shot vs. fine-tuned evaluation trade-offs
Evaluation and Benchmarking
- Metrics for VLMs: retrieval accuracy, BLEU, CIDEr, recall
- Visual-text alignment diagnostics
- Visualizing embedding spaces and misclassifications
Deployment and Use in Real Applications
- Exporting models for inference (TorchScript, ONNX)
- Integrating VLMs into pipelines or APIs
- Resource considerations and model scaling
Case Studies and Applied Scenarios
- Media analysis and content moderation
- Search and retrieval in e-commerce and digital libraries
- Multimodal interaction in robotics and autonomous systems
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- An understanding of deep learning for vision and NLP
- Experience with PyTorch and transformer-based models
- Familiarity with multimodal model architectures
Audience
- Computer vision engineers
- AI developers
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