LLaVA-Onevision Model Card

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Below is the model card of 0.5B LLaVA-Onevision model which is copied from the original LLaVA-Onevision model card that you can find here.

Model details

Model type: LLaVA-Onevision is an open-source multimodal LLM trained by fine-tuning Qwen2 on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data. LLaVA-OneVision is the first single model that can simultaneously push the performance boundaries of open LMMs in three important computer vision scenarios: single-image, multi-image, and video scenarios. Importantly, the design of LLaVA-OneVision allows strong transfer learning across different modalities/scenarios, yielding new emerging capabilities. In particular, strong video understanding and cross-scenario capabilities are demonstrated through task transfer from images to videos.

Model date: LLaVA-Onevision-0.5-ov was added in August 2024.

Paper or resources for more information: https://llava-vl.github.io/

• Architecture: SO400M + Qwen2
• Pretraining Stage: LCS-558K, 1 epoch, projector
• Mid Stage: A mixture of 4.7M high-quality synthetic data, 1 epoch, full model
• Final-Image Stage: A mixture of 3.6M single-image data, 1 epoch, full model
• OneVision Stage: A mixture of 1.6M single-image/multi-image/video data, 1 epoch, full model
• Precision: bfloat16

How to use the model

First, make sure to have transformers installed from branch or transformers >= 4.45.0. The model supports multi-image and multi-prompt generation. Meaning that you can pass multiple images in your prompt. Make sure also to follow the correct prompt template by applying chat template:

Using pipeline:

Below we used "llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf" checkpoint.

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf")
messages = [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
          {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg"},
          {"type": "text", "text": "What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud"},
        ],
    },
]

out = pipe(text=messages, max_new_tokens=20)
print(out)
>>> [{'input_text': [{'role': 'user', 'content': [{'type': 'image', 'url': 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg'}, {'type': 'text', 'text': 'What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud'}]}], 'generated_text': 'Lava'}]

Using pure transformers:

Below is an example script to run generation in float16 precision on a GPU device:

import requests
from PIL import Image

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration

model_id = "llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf"
model = LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True, 
).to(0)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Define a chat history and use `apply_chat_template` to get correctly formatted prompt
# Each value in "content" has to be a list of dicts with types ("text", "image") 
conversation = [
    {

      "role": "user",
      "content": [
          {"type": "text", "text": "What are these?"},
          {"type": "image"},
        ],
    },
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)

image_file = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(image_file, stream=True).raw)
inputs = processor(images=raw_image, text=prompt, return_tensors='pt').to(0, torch.float16)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False)
print(processor.decode(output[0][2:], skip_special_tokens=True))

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From transformers>=v4.48, you can also pass image/video url or local path to the conversation history, and let the chat template handle the rest. Chat template will load the image for you and return inputs in torch.Tensor which you can pass directly to model.generate()

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://www.ilankelman.org/stopsigns/australia.jpg"}
            {"type": "text", "text": "What is shown in this image?"},
        ],
    },
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors"pt")
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)

Model optimization

4-bit quantization through bitsandbytes library

First make sure to install bitsandbytes, pip install bitsandbytes and make sure to have access to a CUDA compatible GPU device. Simply change the snippet above with:

model = LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   load_in_4bit=True
)

Use Flash-Attention 2 to further speed-up generation

First make sure to install flash-attn. Refer to the original repository of Flash Attention regarding that package installation. Simply change the snippet above with:

model = LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   use_flash_attention_2=True
).to(0)

Usage w/ Transformers.js

If you haven't already, you can install the Transformers.js JavaScript library from NPM using:

npm i @huggingface/transformers

Example: Multi-round conversations w/ PKV caching

import { AutoProcessor, AutoTokenizer, LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration, RawImage } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// Load tokenizer, processor and model
const model_id = 'llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf';

const tokenizer = await AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id);
const processor = await AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id);
const model = await LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_id, {
    dtype: {
        embed_tokens: 'fp16', // or 'fp32' or 'q8'
        vision_encoder: 'fp16', // or 'fp32' or 'q8'
        decoder_model_merged: 'q4', // or 'q8'
    },
    // device: 'webgpu',
});

// Prepare text inputs
const prompt = 'What does the text say?';
const messages = [
    { role: 'system', content: 'Answer the question.' },
    { role: 'user', content: `<image>\n${prompt}` }
]
const text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, { tokenize: false, add_generation_prompt: true });
const text_inputs = tokenizer(text);

// Prepare vision inputs
const url = 'https://huggingface.co/qnguyen3/nanoLLaVA/resolve/main/example_1.png';
const image = await RawImage.fromURL(url);
const vision_inputs = await processor(image);

// Generate response
const { past_key_values, sequences } = await model.generate({
    ...text_inputs,
    ...vision_inputs,
    do_sample: false,
    max_new_tokens: 64,
    return_dict_in_generate: true,
});

// Decode output
const answer = tokenizer.decode(
    sequences.slice(0, [text_inputs.input_ids.dims[1], null]),
    { skip_special_tokens: true },
);
console.log(answer);
// The text says "small but mighty" in a playful font.

const new_messages = [
    ...messages,
    { role: 'assistant', content: answer },
    { role: 'user', content: 'How does the text correlate to the context of the image?' }
]
const new_text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(new_messages, { tokenize: false, add_generation_prompt: true });
const new_text_inputs = tokenizer(new_text);

// Generate another response
const output = await model.generate({
    ...new_text_inputs,
    past_key_values,
    do_sample: false,
    max_new_tokens: 256,
});
const new_answer = tokenizer.decode(
    output.slice(0, [new_text_inputs.input_ids.dims[1], null]),
    { skip_special_tokens: true },
);
console.log(new_answer);
// The text "small but mighty" is likely a playful or humorous reference to the image of the blue mouse with the orange dumbbell. It could be used as a motivational phrase or a playful way to express the idea that even small things can be impressive or powerful.

Citation

@misc{li2024llavaonevisioneasyvisualtask,
      title={LLaVA-OneVision: Easy Visual Task Transfer}, 
      author={Bo Li and Yuanhan Zhang and Dong Guo and Renrui Zhang and Feng Li and Hao Zhang and Kaichen Zhang and Yanwei Li and Ziwei Liu and Chunyuan Li},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2408.03326},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03326}, 
}