BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models

The cost of vision-and-language pre-training has become increasingly prohibitive due to end-to-end training of large-scale models. For example, our model outperforms Flamingo80B by 8.7% on zero-shot VQAv2 with 54x fewer trainable parameters.

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• 1 This paper proposes BLIP-2, a generic and efficient pre-training strategy that bootstraps vision-language pre-training from off-the-shelf frozen pre-trained image encoders and frozen large language models.
• 2 BLIP-2 bridges the modality gap with a lightweight Querying Transformer, which is pre-trained in two stages.
• 3 The first stage bootstraps vision-language representation learning from a frozen image encoder.

This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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