Vision Language Model

Vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual information to perform complex tasks, aiming to bridge the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Current research focuses on improving VLM efficiency and robustness through techniques like prompt tuning, which optimizes textual or visual prompts for specific tasks, and sparse token optimization to reduce computational overhead. These advancements are significant because they enable VLMs to be applied to diverse real-world applications, including robotics, autonomous driving, medical image analysis, and fake news detection, while addressing challenges like hallucinations and model miscalibration.