Unlocking the potential of vision language models on satellite imagery through fine-tuning
Mistral fine-tuned Pixtral-12B with LoRA, substantially outperforming the untuned baseline on Aerial Image Dataset (AID) satellite classification and reducing hallucinated invalid class names. Fine-tuning uses Mistral's API or LaPlateforme UI without extensive hyperparameter tuning, with 8,000 training and 2,000 test samples.