Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce the Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models <https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/> (VLMs-4-All) workshop at CVPR 2025, featuring an outstanding lineup of nine speakers. This workshop will bring together researchers to discuss geo-diverse and culturally aware vision-language models. We invite you to: 1. Participate in our two challenges. We host two challenges on the recently developed CulturalVQA <http://culturalvqa.org> and GlobalRG <http://globalrg.github.io> benchmarks, where the former focuses on evaluating cultural understanding of VLMs, while the latter focuses on evaluating cultural diversity in VLMs’ outputs. Both challenges will be hosted on Hugging Face challenges. The results of the challenges and winning entries will be presented at the workshop. Participate here: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges Start date: March 14, 2025 End date: April 15, 2025 2. Submit your papers of up to 4 pages that discuss identifying effective evaluation tasks, benchmarks, and metrics to assess cultural awareness and alignment in VLMs; and new methodology for improving cultural awareness of AI systems. For more details see the Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers. Useful links:: - Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/ - Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers - Challenges: https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges We encourage you to contribute and foster meaningful discussions in this important area. Please feel free to share this with colleagues who may be interested. We look forward to your participation. For any workshop-related queries, please drop an email at vlms4all@gmail.com. For inquiries about the CulturalVQA challenge, contact culturalvqa@gmail.com. For GlobalRG-related questions, reach out to globalrg@gmail.com. Yours sincerely, Workshop organizers