LAVIS: A Library for Language-Vision Intelligence
This library addresses the need for accessible tools in language-vision AI for researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing advancements.
The authors introduced LAVIS, an open-source library for language-vision research that provides a unified interface for state-of-the-art models and datasets, enabling training and evaluation on tasks like classification and captioning.
We introduce LAVIS, an open-source deep learning library for LAnguage-VISion research and applications. LAVIS aims to serve as a one-stop comprehensive library that brings recent advancements in the language-vision field accessible for researchers and practitioners, as well as fertilizing future research and development. It features a unified interface to easily access state-of-the-art image-language, video-language models and common datasets. LAVIS supports training, evaluation and benchmarking on a rich variety of tasks, including multimodal classification, retrieval, captioning, visual question answering, dialogue and pre-training. In the meantime, the library is also highly extensible and configurable, facilitating future development and customization. In this technical report, we describe design principles, key components and functionalities of the library, and also present benchmarking results across common language-vision tasks. The library is available at: https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS.