Exploring VLMs and Cross-Modal Learning with DeepSeek OCR

This presentation explores Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and the innovative DeepSeek OCR, focusing on bridging computer vision and NLP through advanced mechanisms like Vision Transformers, cross-attention, and contrastive learning. It delves into encoding pipelines, fusion strategies, and pretraining methods while highlighting applications in OCR and document parsing. The DeepSeek OCR pipeline is presented with comparisons to CLIP, emphasizing state-of-the-art benchmarks and real-world use...