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Table of Contents Introduction to KV Cache Optimization Using Grouped Query Attention Understanding the KV Cache Grouped Query Attention What Is Grouped Query Attention? How Grouped Query Attention Reduces KV Cache? Implementing KV Caching via Grouped Query Attention Grouped Query…

Table of Contents Building a Streamlit Python UI for LLaVA with OpenAI API Integration Why Streamlit Python for Multimodal Apps? What Is Streamlit Python? The Streamlit Python-Based UI We Will Build in This Lesson Why Not FastAPI or Django? Configuring…

Table of Contents Setting Up LLaVA/BakLLaVA with vLLM: Backend and API Integration Why vLLM for Multimodal Inference The Challenges of Serving Image + Text Prompts at Scale Why Vanilla Approaches Fall Short How vLLM Solves Real-World Production Workloads Configuring Your…

Table of Contents The Rise of Multimodal LLMs and Efficient Serving with vLLM Introduction to Multimodal LLMs What Are Multimodal LLMs? Milestones in Multimodal LLM Evolution Flamingo (DeepMind, 2022) GPT-4V (OpenAI, 2023) LLaVA (Large Language and Vision Assistant, 2023) BakLLaVA…

Table of Contents Post Training Qwen3 for Math Reasoning Using GRPO Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) Challenges with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)? Computational Overhead and Memory Requirements Value Function Instability and Representation Collapse Hyperparameter Sensitivity and Training Instability Bias in…

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 VLM-as-Judge Method Configuring Your Development Environment Set Up and Imports Downloading Images Locally Using Qwen as VLM-as-Judge Converting the JSON File to the Hugging Face Dataset Format Inspecting the Dataset Pushing the…

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…