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Vision-language pre-training framework bridging frozen image encoders and LLMs. Use when you need image captioning, visual question answering, image-text retrieval, or multimodal chat with state-of-the-art zero-shot performance.

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# BLIP-2: Vision-Language Pre-training

Comprehensive guide to using Salesforce's BLIP-2 for vision-language tasks with frozen image encoders and large language models.

## When to use BLIP-2

**Use BLIP-2 when:**
- Need high-quality image captioning with natural descriptions
- Building visual question answering (VQA) systems
- Require zero-shot image-text understanding without task-specific training
- Want to leverage LLM reasoning for visual tasks
- Building multimodal conversational AI
- Need image-text retrieval or matching