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How BERT pre-trains a deep bidirectional Transformer with masked language modeling and next-sentence prediction, then fine-tunes the same model to state-of-the-art results across a wide range of NLP tasks.
How BLIP unifies vision-language understanding and generation in one model, and bootstraps noisy web data with CapFilt — a captioner that synthesizes captions and a filter that removes noisy image-text pairs.
How CoCa trains a single image-text foundation model with both a contrastive loss and a generative captioning loss by splitting the text decoder into unimodal and multimodal halves, computed in one forward pass.
How Flamingo bridges a frozen vision encoder and a frozen language model with a Perceiver Resampler and gated cross-attention layers, enabling few-shot learning from interleaved image-text sequences.
How Florence-2 turns detection, segmentation, grounding, captioning, and OCR into one sequence-to-sequence problem driven by task prompts, expressing spatial outputs as location tokens in the text vocabulary.
How GANs frame generative modeling as a two-player minimax game: a generator turns noise into samples while a discriminator learns to tell real from fake, driving the generator toward the true data distribution.