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deepseek-vl is an open-weight language model from deepseek-ai. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Maker | deepseek-ai |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Vision + text |
| Parameters (lead) | 7.3B |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2024-03-07 |
| Popularity | 9k downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
Introducing DeepSeek-VL, an open-source Vision-Language (VL) Model designed for real-world vision and language understanding applications. DeepSeek-VL possesses general multimodal understanding capabilities, capable of processing logical diagrams, web pages, formula recognition, scientific literature, natural images, and embodied intelligence in complex scenarios.
DeepSeek-VL: Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding
Haoyu Lu*, Wen Liu*, Bo Zhang**, Bingxuan Wang, Kai Dong, Bo Liu, Jingxiang Sun, Tongzheng Ren, Zhuoshu Li, Hao Yang, Yaofeng Sun, Chengqi Deng, Hanwei Xu, Zhenda Xie, Chong Ruan (*Equal Contribution, **Project Lead)
DeepSeek-VL-7b-base uses the SigLIP-L and SAM-B as the hybrid vision encoder supporting 1024 x 1024 image input and is constructed based on the DeepSeek-LLM-7b-base which is trained on an approximate corpus of 2T text tokens. The whole DeepSeek-VL-7b-base model is finally trained around 400B vision-language tokens. DeekSeel-VL-7b-chat is an instructed version based on DeepSeek-VL-7b-base.
On the basis of Python >= 3.8 environment, install the necessary dependencies by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-VL
cd DeepSeek-VL
pip install -e .
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
from deepseek_vl.models import VLChatProcessor, MultiModalityCausalLM
from deepseek_vl.utils.io import load_pil_images
# specify the path to the model
model_path = "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl-7b-chat"
vl_chat_processor: VLChatProcessor = VLChatProcessor.from_pretrained(model_path)
tokenizer = vl_chat_processor.tokenizer
vl_gpt: MultiModalityCausalLM = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_path, trust_remote_code=True)
vl_gpt = vl_gpt.to(torch.bfloat16).cuda().eval()
conversation = [
{
"role": "User",
"content": "Describe each stage of this image.",
"images": ["./images/training_pipelines.png"]
},
{
"role": "Assistant",
"content": ""
}
]
# load images and prepare for inputs
pil_images = load_pil_images(conversation)
prepare_inputs = vl_chat_processor(
conversations=conversation,
images=pil_images,
force_batchify=True
).to(vl_gpt.device)
# run image encoder to get the image embeddings
inputs_embeds = vl_gpt.prepare_inputs_embeds(**prepare_inputs)
# run the model to get the response
outputs = vl_gpt.language_model.generate(
inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
attention_mask=prepare_inputs.attention_mask,
pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
max_new_tokens=512,
do_sample=False,
use_cache=True
)
answer = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0].cpu().tolist(), skip_special_tokens=True)
print(f"{prepare_inputs['sft_format'][0]}", answer)
python cli_chat.py --model_path "deepseek-ai/deepseek-vl-7b-chat"
# or local path
python cli_chat.py --model_path "local model path"
This code repository is licensed under the MIT License. The use of DeepSeek-VL Base/Chat models is subject to DeepSeek Model License. DeepSeek-VL series (including Base and Chat) supports commercial use.
@misc{lu2024deepseekvl,
title={DeepSeek-VL: Towards Real-World Vision-Language Understanding},
author={Haoyu Lu and Wen Liu and Bo Zhang and Bingxuan Wang and Kai Dong and Bo Liu and Jingxiang Sun and Tongzheng Ren and Zhuoshu Li and Yaofeng Sun and Chengqi Deng and Hanwei Xu and Zhenda Xie and Chong Ruan},
year={2024},
eprint={2403.05525},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.AI}
}
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Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys deepseek-vl for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (deepseek-vl below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"deepseek-vl","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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