A vision encoder is a necessary component for allowing many leading LLMs to be able to work with images uploaded by users.

In 2025, this isn’t just a futuristic dream; it’s the reality powered by innovative vision ... being an older model, continues to deliver competitive results. Its encoder-decoder architecture ...

These models ... vision encoder and the language model. Training an instruction-following LMM usually involves a two-stage process. The first stage, vision-language alignment pretraining, uses ...

Hugging Face has introduced two new models in its SmolVLM series, which it claims are the smallest Vision Language ... Hugging Face claims the encoder can process images at a larger resolution ...

It employs a vision transformer encoder alongside a large language model (LLM). The vision encoder converts images into tokens, which an attention-based extractor then aligns with the LLM.