Table of Contents Running SmolVLM Locally in Your Browser with Transformers.js Introduction SmolVLM: A Small But Capable Vision-Language Model Transformers.js: Hugging Face Runtime for the Web Why This Pair Is Powerful (and Practical Caveats) Configuring Your Development Environment What Are…

Table of Contents Preparing the BLIP Backend for Deployment with Redis Caching and FastAPI Introduction What We’re Building in This Lesson Why Redis Caching Matters for Inference What Is Caching? What Is Redis? Configuring Your Development Environment Running a Local…

Table of Contents Meet BLIP: The Vision-Language Model Powering Image Captioning What Is Image Captioning and Why Is It Challenging? Why It’s Challenging Why Traditional Vision Tasks Aren’t Enough Configuring Your Development Environment A Brief History of Image Captioning Models…

Table of Contents Synthetic Data Generation Using the BLIP and PaliGemma Models Why VLM-as-Judge and Synthetic VQA Configuring Your Development Environment Set Up and Imports Download Images Locally Inference with the Salesforce BLIP Model Convert JSON File to the Hugging…

Table of Contents SmolVLM to SmolVLM2: Compact Models for Multi-Image VQA SmolVLM 1: A Compact Yet Capable Vision-Language Model What Is SmolVLM? Why SmolVLM? The Three Variants of SmolVLM Architecture Overview Vision Encoder: SigLIP Variants Pixel Shuffle (Space-to-Depth) for Image…

Table of Contents Deploy Gradio Apps on Hugging Face Spaces What Is Hugging Face Spaces? Setup Creating Files in Hugging Face Spaces Adding Code to the Files requirements.txt app.py Finalizing the App Summary Citation Information Deploy Gradio Apps on Hugging…

Table of Contents Fine Tune PaliGemma with QLoRA for Visual Question Answering What Is PaliGemma? What Is a Vision-Language Model? Architecture of PaliGemma How Is PaliGemma Trained? Available Model Checkpoints Use Cases of PaliGemma Why PaliGemma? Inference with PaliGemma Setup…

Table of Contents Exploring Oobabooga Text Generation Web UI: Installation, Features, and Fine-Tuning Llama Model with LoRA Introduction What’s in Store for You? Overview of Oobabooga Text Generation Web UI Interface Overview User Interaction Model Response Action Buttons Why Is…

Table of Contents Automatic License Plate Reader Using OCR in Python License Plate Reader A Small Survey of License Plate Reader Methods Modern-Day Object Detectors Owlv2 PaddleOCR Architecture of PaddleOCR Configuring Your Development Environment Setup and Imports Object Detection OCR…