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donut

donut is an open-weight language model from naver-clova-ix, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs naver-clova-ix 1 variants 55k downloads/mo
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About

What donut is

Donut (base-sized model, pre-trained only) Donut model pre-trained-only. It was introduced in the paper OCR-free Document Understanding Transformer by Geewok et al. and first released in this repository. Disclaimer: The team releasing Donut did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team. Model description Donut consists of a vision encoder (Swin Transformer) and a text decoder (BART). Given an image, the encoder first encodes the image into a tensor of embeddings (of shape batchsize, seqlen, hiddensize), after which the decoder autoregressively generates text, conditioned on the encoding of the encoder. Intended uses & limitations This model is meant to be fine-tuned on a downstream task, like document image classification or document parsing. See the model hub to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you. How to use We refer to the documentation which includes code examples. BibTeX entry and citation info

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makernaver-clova-ix
TypeLanguage models
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-07-19
Popularity55k downloads / month
Likes254
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
donut-baseBF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys donut for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (donut 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":"donut","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers pytorch vision-encoder-decoder image-text-to-text donut image-to-text vision endpoints_compatible

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under mit — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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