CAREER: Democratizing the Pretraining of Vision Foundation Models: A Developmentally Plaus — NSF Award to Trustees of Boston Unive
Vision foundation models (VFMs) are artificial intelligence systems for "all-purpose" understanding of images and videos. They are currently extremely expensive to create. This high cost restricts their creation to a few highly resourced institutions and leaves independent researchers and the public unable to fully exp
| Award title | CAREER: Democratizing the Pretraining of Vision Foundation Models: A Developmentally Plaus |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2540851 |
| Awardee | Trustees of Boston University |
| City | BOSTON |
| State | MA |
| Amount obligated | $371,191 |
| Principal investigator | Boqing Gong |
| Program | Robust Intelligence |
| Start date | 09/01/2026 |
| Abstract | Vision foundation models (VFMs) are artificial intelligence systems for "all-purpose" understanding of images and videos. They are currently extremely expensive to create. This high cost restricts their creation to a few highly resourced institutions and leaves independent researchers and the public unable to fully explore how these systems learn. This project seeks to democratize this research by creating a highly efficient training method inspired by how human infants learn. A human child acqu |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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