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Vision & Multimodal

Hands-on work with computer vision, vision-language models, object detection, visual grounding, and multimodal systems.

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Teaching PaliGemma 2 to Spot Construction-Site Hazards

Fine-tune PaliGemma 2 with Transformers 5, QLoRA, and a construction safety dataset so a vision-language model can return object labels and bounding boxes for job-site hazards.

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Preference-Aligning Vision Models: DPO Fine-Tuning Qwen3.5-4B in Transformers 5.12.1

A modern rewrite of an older SmolVLM notebook: align Qwen3.5-4B with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), LoRA adapters, and current Transformers + TRL APIs.

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Multimodal AI Changes the Shape of Software

How text, image, audio, video, and document models change product design by letting users ask, point, upload, inspect, and correct.

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Modern Visual Question Answering Fine-Tuning: Qwen3-VL-4B with QLoRA in Transformers 5.12.1

A current replacement for an older PaliGemma notebook: fine-tune Qwen3-VL-4B on a small VQAv2 split with QLoRA, modern Transformers APIs, and a cleaner multimodal training loop.

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Moderating Memes with Qwen2.5-VL: Zero-Shot Hateful Content Detection in Transformers 5.12.1

A cleaned-up multimodal moderation walkthrough that uses Qwen2.5-VL with Transformers 5.12.1, the Hateful Memes validation split, and a reproducible zero-shot evaluation script.

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Human Preference Tuning for Small VLMs: SmolVLM2 + DPO in Transformers 5.12.1

A modern guide to preference-tuning SmolVLM2 with Direct Preference Optimization, TRL, PEFT LoRA adapters, and the current Transformers image-text API.

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From Prompt to Pixels: Generate Images with Qwen-Image, Diffusers, and Transformers

A current text-to-image tutorial using Qwen-Image, Hugging Face Diffusers, and the latest Transformers stack, with reproducible prompts, aspect ratios, seeds, and a fast FLUX.1-schnell fallback.

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From Messy Labels to Production Boxes: Ultralytics YOLO26 + Transformers 5.12.1

A modern, reproducible object detection workflow that replaces legacy SuperGradients/YOLO-NAS setups with Ultralytics YOLO26 and current Transformers tooling.

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Train a Modern VLM on One GPU: Qwen3-VL with Unsloth and Transformers 5.12.1

A current vision-language fine-tuning guide that replaces an old Qwen2-VL notebook with a cleaner Qwen3-VL workflow, modern Transformers APIs, and a practical DocumentVQA example.

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Fine-Tuning Qwen3.6-VL for Brain Tumor MRI Detection with Transformers 5

A practical, up-to-date tutorial for adapting Qwen3.6-VL to brain tumor MRI yes/no detection with Transformers 5, QLoRA, and reproducible multimodal training.

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Fine-Tune ViTPose++ for Keypoint Detection with Transformers

A practical Transformers-native guide to fine-tuning ViTPose++ on COCO-style keypoints with generated heatmap targets, RT-DETR inference, and current pose-estimation caveats.

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Find What You Mean: Zero-Shot Visual Grounding with Qwen3-VL and Transformers

Use Qwen3-VL with the latest Transformers API to detect objects, ground natural-language phrases, and visualize bounding boxes from structured multimodal outputs.

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DETR Explained: Set Prediction Object Detection in Transformers 5.12.1

Learn DETR object detection with a modern Transformers 5.12.1 example, pinned requirements, and a clean explanation of set prediction, Hungarian matching, and object queries.

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Detect What You Can Name: PaliGemma 2 Object Detection with Transformers

A practical tutorial for using current PaliGemma 2 mix checkpoints with Transformers 5 to run prompt-driven object detection and draw bounding boxes from generated location tokens.

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Caption by Consensus: Ranking Image Descriptions with SigLIP2 and Transformers

Use SigLIP2 with the latest Transformers APIs to score candidate image captions, choose the best description, and understand when a contrastive vision-language encoder is the right tool.

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YOLOv12 in Practice: A Real-Time Object Detection Guide

A practical guide to YOLOv12's attention-centric real-time detector, with a current install path, an inference example, and notes on the official detection, segmentation, and classification weights.

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