Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) Training Course

Vertex AI offers sophisticated tools for fine-tuning large models and managing prompts, empowering developers and data teams to optimize model accuracy, streamline iteration workflows, and ensure rigorous evaluation using built-in libraries and services.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or on-site) is designed for intermediate to advanced practitioners seeking to enhance the performance and reliability of generative AI applications through supervised fine-tuning, prompt versioning, and evaluation services within Vertex AI.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Apply supervised fine-tuning techniques to Gemini models in Vertex AI.
• Implement prompt management workflows, including versioning and testing.
• Leverage evaluation libraries to benchmark and optimize AI performance.
• Deploy and monitor improved models in production environments.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Hands-on labs utilizing Vertex AI fine-tuning and prompt tools.
• Case studies focused on enterprise model optimization.

Course Customization Options

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level machine learning professionals who wish to master cutting-edge transfer learning techniques and apply them to complex real-world problems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand advanced concepts and methodologies in transfer learning.
• Implement domain-specific adaptation techniques for pre-trained models.
• Apply continual learning to manage evolving tasks and datasets.
• Master multi-task fine-tuning to enhance model performance across tasks.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for advanced AI maintenance engineers and MLOps professionals looking to implement robust continual learning pipelines and effective update strategies for deployed, fine-tuned models.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Design and implement continual learning workflows for deployed models.
• Address catastrophic forgetting through effective training and memory management.
• Automate monitoring and update triggers based on model drift or data changes.
• Integrate model update strategies into existing CI/CD and MLOps pipelines.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level professionals who wish to deploy fine-tuned models reliably and efficiently.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the challenges of deploying fine-tuned models into production.
• Containerize and deploy models using tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement monitoring and logging for deployed models.
• Optimize models for latency and scalability in real-world scenarios.

This instructor-led live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to gain practical skills in customizing AI models for critical financial tasks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of fine-tuning for finance applications.
• Leverage pre-trained models for domain-specific tasks in finance.
• Apply techniques for fraud detection, risk assessment, and financial advice generation.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations such as GDPR and SOX.
• Implement data security and ethical AI practices in financial applications.

This instructor-led live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate to advanced professionals looking to customize pre-trained models for specific tasks and datasets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of fine-tuning and its applications.
• Prepare datasets for fine-tuning pre-trained models.
• Fine-tune large language models (LLMs) for NLP tasks.
• Optimize model performance and address common challenges.

This live, instructor-led training the Netherlands (online or in-person) is designed for intermediate developers and AI practitioners who aim to implement fine-tuning strategies for large models without the need for substantial computational resources.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Grasp the fundamental principles of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA).
• Apply LoRA for the efficient fine-tuning of large models.
• Optimize fine-tuning processes within resource-constrained settings.
• Assess and deploy models fine-tuned with LoRA for real-world applications.

This instructor-led live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for advanced professionals aiming to master multimodal fine-tuning for innovative AI solutions.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the architecture of multimodal models such as CLIP and Flamingo.
• Effectively prepare and preprocess multimodal datasets.
• Fine-tune multimodal models for specific use cases.
• Optimize models for real-world deployment and performance.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to enhance their NLP projects through the effective fine-tuning of pre-trained language models.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of fine-tuning for NLP tasks.
• Fine-tune pre-trained models such as GPT, BERT, and T5 for specific NLP applications.
• Optimize hyperparameters for improved model performance.
• Evaluate and deploy fine-tuned models in real-world scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for advanced-level data scientists and AI engineers in the financial sector who want to fine-tune models for applications like credit scoring, fraud detection, and risk modeling using domain-specific financial data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Fine-tune AI models on financial datasets to improve fraud and risk prediction.
• Apply techniques such as transfer learning, LoRA, and regularization to enhance model efficiency.
• Integrate financial compliance considerations into the AI modeling workflow.
• Deploy fine-tuned models for production use in financial services platforms.

This instructor-led, live training session in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate to advanced medical AI developers and data scientists who aim to refine models for clinical diagnosis, disease prediction, and patient outcome forecasting using both structured and unstructured medical data.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Fine-tune AI models on healthcare datasets, including EMRs, imaging, and time-series data.
• Implement transfer learning, domain adaptation, and model compression within medical contexts.
• Navigate privacy concerns, bias mitigation, and regulatory compliance during model development.
• Deploy and monitor fine-tuned models in practical healthcare settings.

This live, instructor-led training session (available online or onsite) is designed for advanced-level AI researchers, machine learning engineers, and developers. The goal is to enable participants to fine-tune DeepSeek LLM models, thereby creating specialized AI applications that address the specific needs of particular industries, domains, or businesses.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and capabilities of DeepSeek models, including DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3.
• Prepare datasets and preprocess data for fine-tuning.
• Fine-tune DeepSeek LLM for domain-specific applications.
• Optimize and deploy fine-tuned models efficiently.

This instructor-led live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for advanced defense AI engineers and military technology developers who aim to fine-tune deep learning models for use in autonomous vehicles, drones, and surveillance systems while adhering to stringent security and reliability standards.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Fine-tune computer vision and sensor fusion models for surveillance and targeting tasks.
• Adapt autonomous AI systems to changing environments and mission profiles.
• Implement robust validation and fail-safe mechanisms in model pipelines.
• Ensure alignment with defense-specific compliance, safety, and security standards.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level legal tech engineers and AI developers who want to fine-tune language models for tasks such as contract analysis, clause extraction, and automated legal research in legal service environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Prepare and clean legal documents for fine-tuning NLP models.
• Apply fine-tuning strategies to improve model accuracy on legal tasks.
• Deploy models to assist with contract review, classification, and research.
• Ensure compliance, auditability, and traceability of AI outputs in legal contexts.

This instructor-led, live training in the Netherlands (online or onsite) is designed for machine learning engineers, AI developers, and data scientists at an intermediate to advanced level who wish to learn how to utilize QLoRA to efficiently fine-tune large models for specific tasks and customizations.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the theory behind QLoRA and quantization techniques for LLMs.
• Implement QLoRA in fine-tuning large language models for domain-specific applications.
• Optimize fine-tuning performance on limited computational resources using quantization.
• Deploy and evaluate fine-tuned models in real-world applications efficiently.