AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal
What is BLIP?
BLIP: A family of vision-language models (BLIP and BLIP-2) for captioning, question answering and retrieval. BLIP bootstraps cleaner captions from noisy web data, and BLIP-2 links frozen image and language models via a Q-Former.
BLIP: an example
BLIP captions a batch of product photos to build searchable alt text for an online catalogue.
Related terms
More Generative media multimodal terms
- Classifier-free guidance
- CLIP score
- Codebook
- Conditional GAN
- Consistency model
- Content provenance
- ControlNet
- Cross-attention conditioning
Where you learn it
BLIP is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.