VLM
Technology & Computing abbreviation · Artificial Intelligence
| Stands for | Vision-language model |
|---|---|
| Categories | Technology & Computing |
VLM stands for Vision-language model, an artificial intelligence abbreviation.
A model that processes both images and text, so it can describe photos, answer questions about charts or screenshots, read documents and follow visual instructions. Many frontier chatbots are now VLMs.
Example: The VLM reads the scanned invoice and returns the vendor, date and total as JSON.
Usage notes
Influential early work includes OpenAI's CLIP (2021) and DeepMind's Flamingo (2022). Most VLMs pair an image encoder, often a vision transformer, with a language model. Benchmarks test chart reading, document understanding and visual reasoning.
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