# Vision Language Models Explained

DevFeed: [Vision Language Models Explained](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/vision-language-models-explained-7560.md>)

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

Author: merve; Edward Beeching

Published: 2024-04-11T00:00:00Z

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>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [trl](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/trl.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [hallucinations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hallucinations.md>), [hugging-face](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugging-face.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [leaderboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leaderboard.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [trl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/trl.md>), [vision](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vision.md>), [vlm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vlm.md>), [zero-shot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zero-shot.md>)

## AI overview

An introduction to vision language models that explains their architecture, capabilities, use cases, model selection, inference, and fine-tuning with trl.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.