AI Book Club: Vision Language Models (VLMs)

September's book is "Vision Language Models!" (due to travel its pushed out 1 week from normal date) This is a casual-style event. Not a structured presentation on topics. Sometimes, the discussion even drifts away from the chapters, but feel free to grab the mic to help steer it back. Feel free to join the discussion even if you have not read the book chapters! :) Want to discuss the contents during the reading week? Join the Flyte MLOps Slack group https://slack.flyte.org/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- About the book: Title: Vision Language Models Authors: Merve Noyan, Andrés Marafioti, Miquel Farré, Orr Zohar Published: June 2026 O'rielly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/vision-language-models/9798341624030/ Chapters: 1\. Introduction to Vision and Language 2\. Vision Language Model Applications 3\. Vision Language Model Training 4\. Training Data and Preprocessing for VLMs 5\. Post\-Training Vision Language Models 6\. Core Architectures of Vision Language Models 7\. Deploying Models for Inference at Scale 8\. Document AI 9\. Video\-Language Models 10\. Any\-to\-Any Models 11\. Advanced Topics and Cutting\-Edge Research Book Description Vision language models (VLMs) combine computer vision and natural language processing to create powerful systems that can interpret, generate, and respond in multimodal contexts. Vision Language Models is a hands-on guide to building real-world VLMs using the most up-to-date stack of machine learning tools from Hugging Face, Meta (PyTorch), NVIDIA (Cuda), and others, written by leading researchers and practitioners Merve Noyan, Miquel Farré, Andrés Marafioti, and Orr Zohar. From image captioning and document understanding to advanced zero-shot inference and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), this book covers the full VLM application and development lifecycle. Designed for ML engineers, data scientists, and developers, this guide di