nanoVLM: The simplest repository to train your VLM in pure PyTorch

nanoVLM provides a minimal PyTorch toolkit to train a Vision Language Model on a free Colab tier. It fuses a SigLIP-based vision transformer with a Llama 3 language backbone, using a Modality Projection (pixel shuffle + linear) to align image and text embeddings for decoding. The post offers quickstart steps: clone the repo and run train.py, or use the Colab notebook to begin training without local setup.

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MAY 21, 2025 · 19:10

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