## BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

This is the PyTorch implementation of the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07651">BLIP paper</a>.

Catalog:
- [x] Inference demo
- [x] Pre-trained and finetuned checkpoints
- [x] Pre-training code
- [x] Finetuning code for Image-Text Retrieval, Image Captioning, VQA, and NLVR2
- [x] Download of bootstrapped image-text dataset 


### Inference demo (Image Captioning and VQA):
Run our interactive demo using Colab notebook (no GPU needed):