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im2latex

Available as managed deployment LLMs DGurgurov · community Image→text 1 variants 550 dl/mo

im2latex is an open-weight language model from DGurgurov. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released byDGurgurov
TypeLanguage models
TaskImage→text
Parameters (lead)240M
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-07-15
Popularity550 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What im2latex is

This model is a base VisionEncoderDecoderModel fine-tuned on a dataset for generating LaTeX formulas from images.

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Model Details

  • Encoder: Swin Transformer
  • Decoder: GPT-2
  • Framework: PyTorch
  • DDP (Distributed Data Parallel): Used for training

Training Data

The data is taken from OleehyO/latex-formulas. The data was divided into 80:10:10 for train, val and test. The splits were made as follows:

dataset = load_dataset(OleehyO/latex-formulas, cleaned_formulas)
train_val_split = dataset["train"].train_test_split(test_size=0.2, seed=42)
train_ds = train_val_split["train"]
val_test_split = train_val_split["test"].train_test_split(test_size=0.5, seed=42)
val_ds = val_test_split["train"]
test_ds = val_test_split["test"]

Evaluation Metrics

The model was evaluated on a test set with the following results:

  • Test Loss: 0.10
  • Test BLEU Score: 0.67

Usage

You can use the model directly with the transformers library:

from transformers import VisionEncoderDecoderModel, AutoTokenizer, AutoFeatureExtractor
import torch
from PIL import Image

# load model, tokenizer, and feature extractor
model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("DGurgurov/im2latex")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("DGurgurov/im2latex")
feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained("microsoft/swin-base-patch4-window7-224-in22k") # using the original feature extractor for now

# prepare an image
image = Image.open("path/to/your/image.png")
pixel_values = feature_extractor(images=image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values

# generate LaTeX formula
generated_ids = model.generate(pixel_values)
generated_texts = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

print("Generated LaTeX formula:", generated_texts[0])

Training Script

The training script for this model can be found in the following repository: GitHub

Citation:

  • If you use this work in your research, please cite our paper:
@misc{gurgurov2024imagetolatexconvertermathematicalformulas,
      title={Image-to-LaTeX Converter for Mathematical Formulas and Text},
      author={Daniil Gurgurov and Aleksey Morshnev},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2408.04015},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04015},
}

License [MIT]

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys im2latex for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (im2latex 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":"im2latex","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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