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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
| Maker | Salesforce |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Vision + text |
| Parameters (lead) | 7.9B |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2023-05-22 |
| Popularity | 7k downloads / month |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
About
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.
InstructBLIP is a visual instruction tuned version of BLIP-2. Refer to the paper for details.
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)
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.
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
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.