h=self.tokenizer.model_max_length,
            padding="max_length",
            truncation=True,
            return_tensors="pt",
        )
        return {"input_ids": inputs.input_ids.to(device)}

    def encode_image(self, image):
        preprocessed_image = self.preprocess_image(image)
        image_features = self.image_encoder(**preprocessed_image).image_embeds
        image_features = image_features / image_features.norm(dim=1, keepdim