# Multimodal understanding and generation

VARGPT is a unified multimodal model that combines visual understanding and generation capabilities, achieving understanding by predicting the next token and generation by predicting the next scale.

BLIP is a unified vision-language pretraining framework, excelling in tasks like image caption generation and visual question answering, with performance enhanced by innovative data filtering mechanisms

BLIP is a unified vision-language pretraining framework, excelling in image captioning and understanding tasks, effectively utilizing noisy web data through guided caption generation