LLaVA (2023) by UW / Wisconsin + collaborators

Record 056 · Vision · 2023

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LLaVA

UW / Wisconsin + collaborators

“The open vision-language model that made 'look at this screenshot' a local call.”

LLaVA connected a vision encoder to a Llama-class LLM. Moondream, Llama 3.2 Vision, and Qwen-VL sit on this idea.

Opened local multimodal chat.

Official site
  • Open VLM architecture
  • Visual instruction tuning
  • Screenshot/document VQA

A pair of eyes on the local model.