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instructblip-vicuna

LLMs Salesforce Vision + text 1 build Its own licence terms 7k dl/mo

instructblip-vicuna is an open-weight language model from Salesforce. instructblip-vicuna-7b (FP32) weighs 15.8 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4090 24 GB.

  • InstructBLIP-vicuna is a 7.9B parameter image-text-to-text model developed by Salesforce.
  • It uses Vicuna-7b as its language model and is designed for visual instruction tuning tasks in English.
  • The model is released under an "other" licence and is intended for research purposes only.

Summary of the Salesforce/instructblip-vicuna-7b model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bySalesforce
Released2023-05-22
Parameters7.9B
VRAM15.8 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for instructblip-vicuna-7b (FP32)

15.8 GBweights, file size
524 MBcache per 1K tokens
1.9 GBruntime overhead, at least
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
———
RTX 3090 24 GB1—10K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB1—10K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB3—24K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB6148K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB143112K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB133106K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB174128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified205128K107 GB
H200 141 GB276128K138 GB
B200 180 GB369128K176 GB
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
2—20K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
9278K31.0 GB a card
2× L40S 48 GB
tensor parallel
153127K44.0 GB a card
4× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
164128K23.4 GB a card
4× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
164128K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
122.0 GB34.9 GB
539.2 GB104 GB
852.1 GB155 GB
1686.5 GB293 GB
32155 GB567 GB
64293 GB1117 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What Salesforce says about instructblip-vicuna

Read the model card

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.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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