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instructblip-vicuna

Available as managed deployment Licence fee LLMs Salesforce Vision + text 1 variants 7k dl/mo

instructblip-vicuna is an open-weight language model from Salesforce. 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

MakerSalesforce
TypeLanguage models
TaskVision + text
Parameters (lead)7.9B
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-05-22
Popularity7k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What instructblip-vicuna is

InstructBLIP model using Vicuna-7b as language model. InstructBLIP was introduced in the paper InstructBLIP: Towards General-purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning by Dai et al.

Disclaimer: The team releasing InstructBLIP did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.

Model description

InstructBLIP is a visual instruction tuned version of BLIP-2. Refer to the paper for details.

Intended uses & limitations

Usage is as follows:

from transformers import InstructBlipProcessor, InstructBlipForConditionalGeneration
import torch
from PIL import Image
import requests

model = InstructBlipForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/instructblip-vicuna-7b")
processor = InstructBlipProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/instructblip-vicuna-7b")

device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
model.to(device)

url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/salesforce/LAVIS/main/docs/_static/Confusing-Pictures.jpg"
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw).convert("RGB")
prompt = "What is unusual about this image?"
inputs = processor(images=image, text=prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(device)

outputs = model.generate(
        **inputs,
        do_sample=False,
        num_beams=5,
        max_length=256,
        min_length=1,
        top_p=0.9,
        repetition_penalty=1.5,
        length_penalty=1.0,
        temperature=1,
)
generated_text = processor.batch_decode(outputs, skip_special_tokens=True)[0].strip()
print(generated_text)

Ethical Considerations

This release is for research purposes only in support of an academic paper. Our models, datasets, and code are not specifically designed or evaluated for all downstream purposes. We strongly recommend users evaluate and address potential concerns related to accuracy, safety, and fairness before deploying this model. We encourage users to consider the common limitations of AI, comply with applicable laws, and leverage best practices when selecting use cases, particularly for high-risk scenarios where errors or misuse could significantly impact people’s lives, rights, or safety. For further guidance on use cases, refer to our AUP and AI AUP.

How to use

For code examples, we refer to the documentation.

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

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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