Fine-tuning a 450M VLM on 50K browser screenshots boosts score to 44/100
ButtercupLyn100 · reddit · 2026-08-23
The author documents the process of fine-tuning a 450M parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) on 50,000 browser screenshots. The evaluation score improved significantly from 1/100 to 44/100, demonstrating the potential of small-scale model fine-tuning for specific UI/web understanding tasks.
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