Introduction to Flamingo VLM: Understanding the architecture and running inference

Join the pro version to get access to code files, hand-written notes, PDF booklets, Vizuara's certificate and more: https://vizuara.ai/courses/transformers-for-vision-and-multimodal-llms-pro/ In this lecture, we take a deep and careful look at Flamingo, one of the most important Vision Language Models, and the goal here is not just to say what Flamingo is, but to really understand why its architecture is designed the way it is and how those design choices make it both powerful and scalable in practice. We start with a clean introduction to Flamingo as a multimodal model that connects frozen …