# PaliGemma 2 Mix - New Instruction Vision Language Models by Google

DevFeed: [PaliGemma 2 Mix - New Instruction Vision Language Models by Google](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/paligemma-2-mix-new-instruction-vision-language-models-by-google-7437.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/paligemma2mix>)

Author: merve; Aritra Roy Gosthipaty; Andreas P. Steiner

Published: 2025-02-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vlm.md>), [Fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fine-tuning.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [gemma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gemma.md>), [object-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/object-detection.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>)

Tags: [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [demo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/demo.md>), [fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fine-tuning.md>), [gemma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemma.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [object-detection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-detection.md>), [ocr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ocr.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [vlms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlms.md>)

## AI overview

Google's PaliGemma 2 mix models are fine-tuned on a mixture of vision-language tasks, including OCR, image captioning, visual question answering, document understanding, object detection, and image segmentation. The article explains how the mix models indicate the performance of pretrained PaliGemma 2 checkpoints after fine-tuning and describes their prompting approach.

## Source excerpt

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