AI engineering glossary · Generative media multimodal

What is visual instruction tuning?

Visual instruction tuning: Fine-tuning a vision-language model on images paired with instructions and responses, so it follows user requests about pictures. The data are often generated with a strong language model to describe image content.

Level: advancedTopic: Generative media multimodal

Visual instruction tuning: an example

Training examples show a chart image, the instruction 'Summarise the trend', and a written answer.

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Where you learn it

Visual instruction tuning is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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