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BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation research paper by Salesforce, 2022

Salesforce · Multimodal and robotics · Jan 28, 2022 · 7,655 citations · 5 upvotes

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BLIP, a Vision-Language Pre-training framework, improves performance across both understanding and generation tasks by bootstrapping captions from noisy web data, achieving state-of-the-art results on image-text retrieval, image captioning, and VQA, and showing strong generalization to video-language tasks.

By JunnanLi, Dongxu Li, Caiming Xiong and 1 more · arXiv 2201.12086 · PDF

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International Conference on Machine Learning
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7,655, 773 influential · Semantic Scholar
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5 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 9, 2026Citations rose from 7,611 to 7,655.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Influential citations rose from 758 to 773.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 7,410 to 7,611.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Influential citations rose from 755 to 758.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Citations rose from 7,367 to 7,410.
CitationsSep 28, 2026A first count of 755 influential citations.
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