
Faster VLM Fine-Tuning With Materialized Model Features in LanceDB
How Lance format and LanceDB's Enterprise feature engineering platform make VLM fine-tuning faster by materializing expensive multimodal features once and training from those columns.
Engineering
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Lance × Hugging Face: A New Era of Sharing Multimodal Data on the Hub
Announcing native read support for Lance format on Hugging Face Hub. You can now distribute your large multimodal datasets as a single, searchable artifact (including blobs, embeddings and indexes) all in one place!
Engineering
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Keep Your Data Fresh with CocoIndex and LanceDB
Store a multimodal dataset of recipes in LanceDB, a multimodal lakehouse for AI, and keep it fresh with CocoIndex, a declarative data transformation framework for AI with incremental processing capabilities.
Engineering
Applications
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From BI to AI: A Modern Lakehouse Stack with Lance and Iceberg
A comparison of where Iceberg and Lance sit in the modern lakehouse stack. We highlight emerging architectures that are bridging the worlds of analytics and AI/ML workloads using these two formats, while being built on the same data foundation.
Engineering
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