# salesforce/BLIP

PyTorch code for BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

Repository: https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/blip
Language: Jupyter Notebook
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: vision-language, vision-and-language-pre-training, image-text-retrieval, image-captioning, visual-question-answering, visual-reasoning, vision-language-transformer
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-03-03T12:43:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 70, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1682, "days_push": 183, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5717, forks 763 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:28.228584+00:00)

## What it is
PyTorch implementation of BLIP, a vision-language pre-training model for unified image understanding and text generation tasks. The repository is deprecated and its functionality has been integrated into the LAVIS library.

## Use cases
- generate captions for images
- answer questions about image content
- retrieve images matching a text query
- extract multimodal feature embeddings
- fine-tune a vision-language model on custom data
- bootstrap noisy image-text datasets with CapFilt

## When to choose
- studying the BLIP paper's original implementation
- reproducing research results on image captioning, VQA, or retrieval
- needing pre-trained checkpoints for vision-language experiments

## When to avoid
- building anything for production (repo is officially deprecated)
- new projects - use LAVIS or Hugging Face transformers instead
- users needing ongoing support or updated dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: machine-learning, deep-learning, nlp, image-processing, rag
- domain: machine-learning, deep-learning, computer-vision, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python
- tags: vision-language, image-captioning, visual-question-answering, image-text-retrieval, pytorch, multimodal, deprecated, natural-language-processing, gpu

## Member repositories
- salesforce/BLIP (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:28.228584+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:53:28.698203+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:28.228584+00:00, sha f28ef3d604a4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.