---
id: wiki-2026-0508-foundation-models
title: Foundation Models
category: 10_Wiki/Topics
status: verified
canonical_id: self
aliases: [foundation model, FM, large pretrained, LLM, VLM, multimodal foundation, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama]
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source_trust_level: A
confidence_score: 0.98
verification_status: applied
tags: [ai, foundation-model, llm, vlm, multimodal, scaling-laws, pretraining]
raw_sources: []
last_reinforced: 2026-05-10
github_commit: pending
tech_stack:
  language: Python
  framework: PyTorch / Transformers / vLLM
---

# Foundation Models

## 매 한 줄
> **"매 large-scale 의 의 의 self-supervised pretrained 의 의 의 다양한 task 의 의 의 adapt"**. Bommasani 2021 Stanford term. 매 LLM (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama), VLM (GPT-4V, Claude 3, Gemini), 매 audio (Whisper), 매 protein (ESM, AlphaFold), 매 robot (RT-2, π0).

## 매 핵심

### 매 traits
- **Scale**: 매 billions of parameter.
- **Pretrain**: 매 vast unsupervised data.
- **Emergence** (debated).
- **Adaptable**: 매 prompt / fine-tune / RAG.
- **Foundation 효과**: 매 downstream 의 ↑.

### 매 modality
- **Text**: GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral.
- **Vision-Language**: GPT-4V, Claude 3, Gemini, LLaVA.
- **Audio**: Whisper, AudioLM.
- **Code**: Codex, CodeLlama.
- **Protein**: ESM-2, AlphaFold-3.
- **Robot**: RT-2, OpenVLA, π0.
- **Time-series** (TimeGPT).

### 매 scaling laws
- **Kaplan 2020**: 매 power law (loss vs params/data/compute).
- **Chinchilla** (Hoffmann 2022): 매 D ≈ 20·N optimal.
- **Modern (2024+)**: 매 over-train (Llama 3 매 15T tokens).

### 매 modern (2025-2026)
- **Frontier**: Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5, Gemini 2 Ultra.
- **Open**: Llama 3.x, Qwen 2.5, Mistral, DeepSeek-V3.
- **Multimodal**: Gemini 1.5 1M context, Claude 3.5.
- **MoE**: Mixtral, DeepSeek MoE.
- **Reasoning**: o1, o3, DeepSeek-R1.

### 매 응용
1. **General assistant**.
2. **Code**.
3. **Domain expert** (medical, legal).
4. **Multimodal analysis**.
5. **Agent**.
6. **Embedding** (retrieval, clustering).

## 💻 패턴

### LLM call (Anthropic)
```python
from anthropic import Anthropic
client = Anthropic()
response = client.messages.create(
    model='claude-opus-4-7',
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Hi'}],
)
```

### Streaming
```python
with client.messages.stream(
    model='claude-opus-4-7',
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': prompt}],
) as stream:
    for text in stream.text_stream:
        print(text, end='', flush=True)
```

### Tool use (function calling)
```python
tools = [{
    'name': 'get_weather',
    'description': 'Get weather for a location',
    'input_schema': {'type': 'object', 'properties': {'location': {'type': 'string'}}},
}]
r = client.messages.create(model='claude-opus-4-7', tools=tools, messages=[...])
if r.stop_reason == 'tool_use':
    tool = next(b for b in r.content if b.type == 'tool_use')
    result = execute_tool(tool.name, tool.input)
```

### Vision (multimodal)
```python
import base64
img_b64 = base64.b64encode(open('img.jpg', 'rb').read()).decode()
client.messages.create(model='claude-opus-4-7', max_tokens=1024, messages=[{
    'role': 'user',
    'content': [
        {'type': 'image', 'source': {'type': 'base64', 'media_type': 'image/jpeg', 'data': img_b64}},
        {'type': 'text', 'text': 'What do you see?'},
    ],
}])
```

### Open-source (Hugging Face)
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct', torch_dtype='bfloat16', device_map='auto')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct')
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template([{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Hi'}], return_tensors='pt')
outputs = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=200)
```

### Embedding (text)
```python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
m = SentenceTransformer('all-mpnet-base-v2')
vecs = m.encode(['hello', 'world'])

# 매 production
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
emb = client.embeddings.create(input='hello', model='text-embedding-3-large').data[0].embedding
```

### CLIP (vision-text)
```python
from transformers import CLIPModel, CLIPProcessor
model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained('openai/clip-vit-large-patch14')
processor = CLIPProcessor.from_pretrained('openai/clip-vit-large-patch14')
inputs = processor(text=['cat', 'dog'], images=image, return_tensors='pt')
outputs = model(**inputs)
similarities = outputs.logits_per_image.softmax(dim=-1)
```

### Foundation model for robotics (OpenVLA)
```python
# 매 example concept
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForVision2Seq
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained('openvla/openvla-7b')
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained('openvla/openvla-7b', torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
inputs = processor('In: What action?\nOut:', image, return_tensors='pt')
action = model.predict_action(**inputs, unnorm_key='bridge_orig')
```

### vLLM serving
```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
llm = LLM(model='meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct', tensor_parallel_size=2)
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, SamplingParams(max_tokens=100, temperature=0.7))
```

### Fine-tune (LoRA)
```python
from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model
config = LoraConfig(r=16, lora_alpha=32, target_modules=['q_proj', 'v_proj'])
model = get_peft_model(model, config)
# 매 train on task data
```

### Adapter via prompt
```python
def domain_assistant(question, system_prompt):
    return client.messages.create(
        model='claude-opus-4-7',
        max_tokens=1024,
        system=system_prompt,
        messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': question}],
    )

medical_system = 'You are a medical expert. Always recommend consulting a physician.'
```

### Caching (prompt cache)
```python
# 매 Anthropic prompt caching
client.messages.create(
    model='claude-opus-4-7',
    max_tokens=1024,
    system=[
        {'type': 'text', 'text': 'You are an expert.', 'cache_control': {'type': 'ephemeral'}},
        {'type': 'text', 'text': long_context, 'cache_control': {'type': 'ephemeral'}},
    ],
    messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': question}],
)
```

### Agent loop
```python
def agent(goal, tools, max_steps=10):
    history = [{'role': 'user', 'content': goal}]
    for _ in range(max_steps):
        r = client.messages.create(model='claude-opus-4-7', tools=tools, messages=history)
        if r.stop_reason == 'end_turn': return r
        if r.stop_reason == 'tool_use':
            tool_block = next(b for b in r.content if b.type == 'tool_use')
            result = execute(tool_block.name, tool_block.input)
            history.extend([{'role': 'assistant', 'content': r.content}, {'role': 'user', 'content': [{'type': 'tool_result', 'tool_use_id': tool_block.id, 'content': result}]}])
```

### Evaluate (LLM judge)
```python
def llm_judge(response, criteria):
    judge_prompt = f"""Rate this response on {criteria}.
Response: {response}
Output JSON: {{"score": 0-10, "rationale": "..."}}"""
    return json.loads(client.messages.create(model='claude-opus-4-7', max_tokens=200, messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': judge_prompt}]).content[0].text)
```

## 매 결정 기준
| 상황 | Model |
|---|---|
| Top quality | Claude Opus 4.7 / GPT-5 |
| Cost-aware | Claude Sonnet / GPT-4o-mini |
| Open-source | Llama 3.x / Qwen 2.5 |
| Code | Claude / DeepSeek-Coder |
| Vision | Claude 3.5 / Gemini |
| Embedding | text-embedding-3-large / mpnet |
| On-device | Llama 3.2 1B/3B / Phi-3 |
| Reasoning | o1 / DeepSeek-R1 |

**기본값**: 매 Frontier API for quality + 매 OSS for cost / control + 매 multimodal where needed + 매 RAG + 매 prompt caching.

## 🔗 Graph
- 부모: [[AI]] · [[Deep Learning]]
- 변형: [[Transformer_Architecture_and_LLM_Foundations|LLM]] · [[VLM]] · [[Multimodal-LLM]] · [[Embodied-AI]]
- 응용: [[Fine-tuning]] · [[RAG]] · [[Prompt_Engineering|Prompt-Engineering]] · [[Agent]]
- Adjacent: [[Scaling-Laws]] · [[Mixture-of-Experts]] · [[Flash Attention]] · [[Edge-AI-and-Computing]]

## 🤖 LLM 활용
**언제**: 매 modern AI 의 default. 매 NLP, multimodal, agent, code.
**언제 X**: 매 strict latency / cost / privacy → smaller / on-device.

## ❌ 안티패턴
- **Largest model always**: 매 cost.
- **Fine-tune for facts**: 매 RAG 의 better.
- **No eval**: 매 quality 의 invisible.
- **Single API lock-in**: 매 fallback 의 X.
- **No prompt cache**: 매 cost ↑.

## 🧪 검증 / 중복
- Verified (Bommasani 2021, Kaplan 2020, Hoffmann 2022, Anthropic / OpenAI / Google docs).
- 신뢰도 A.

## 🕓 Changelog
| 날짜 | 변경 |
|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | Auto-reinforced |
| 2026-05-08 | Phase 1 |
| 2026-05-10 | Manual cleanup — modalities + 매 Anthropic / HF / vLLM / agent / cache code |
