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Home/Glossary/Vision-Language Model (VLM)
AI Glossary Term

What does “Vision-Language Model (VLM)” mean?

Definition

A multimodal model that jointly processes visual and textual information.

Related terms

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The broad field of building systems that perform tasks requiring pattern recognition, reasoning, language, or decision-making.
CLIP
A multimodal model architecture that learns shared representations between text and images.
Computer Vision
The branch of AI that extracts meaning from images and video.
Context Window
The maximum amount of input tokens a language model can process at once.
Hallucination
When a model generates fluent but false or unsupported information.
Large Language Model (LLM)
A language model trained on massive text corpora to generate and analyze text.

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