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InternVL-5

Available as managed deployment LLMs OpenGVLab Vision + text 2 variants 10k dl/mo

InternVL-5 is an open-weight language model from OpenGVLab. 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

MakerOpenGVLab
TypeLanguage models
TaskVision + text
Parameters (lead)25.5B
Runs withtransformers
Based onOpenGVLab/InternViT-6B-448px-V1-5, internlm/internlm2-chat-20b
Released2024-04-18
Popularity10k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What InternVL-5 is

[📂 GitHub] [📜 InternVL 1.0] [📜 InternVL 1.5] [📜 Mini-InternVL] [📜 InternVL 2.5]

[🆕 Blog] [🗨️ Chat Demo] [🤗 HF Demo] [🚀 Quick Start] [📖 Documents]

Introduction

Two interns holding hands, symbolizing the integration of InternViT and InternLM.

We introduce InternVL 1.5, an open-source multimodal large language model (MLLM) to bridge the capability gap between open-source and proprietary commercial models in multimodal understanding.

We introduce three simple designs:

  1. Strong Vision Encoder: we explored a continuous learning strategy for the large-scale vision foundation model---InternViT-6B, boosting its visual understanding capabilities, and making it can be transferred and reused in different LLMs.
  2. Dynamic High-Resolution: we divide images into tiles ranging from 1 to 40 of 448 × 448 pixels according to the aspect ratio and resolution of the input images, which supports up to 4K resolution input during inference.
  3. High-Quality Bilingual Dataset: we carefully collected a high-quality bilingual dataset that covers common scenes, document images, and annotated them with English and Chinese question-answer pairs, significantly enhancing performance in OCR- and Chinese-related tasks.

Model Details

  • Model Type: multimodal large language model (MLLM)

  • Model Stats:

  • Training Strategy:

    • Learnable component in the pre-training stage: ViT + MLP
    • Learnable component in the fine-tuning stage: ViT + MLP + LLM
    • For more details on training hyperparameters, please see our blog.

Architecture

Performance

  • We simultaneously use InternVL and VLMEvalKit repositories for model evaluation. Specifically, the results reported for DocVQA, ChartQA, InfoVQA, TextVQA, MME, AI2D, MMBench, CCBench, MMVet, and SEED-Image were tested using the InternVL repository. OCRBench, RealWorldQA, HallBench, and MathVista were evaluated using the VLMEvalKit.

Limitations: Although we have made efforts to ensure the safety of the model during the training process and to encourage the model to generate text that complies with ethical and legal requirements, the model may still produce unexpected outputs due to its size and probabilistic generation paradigm. For example, the generated responses may contain biases, discrimination, or other harmful content. Please do not propagate such content. We are not responsible for any consequences resulting from the dissemination of harmful information.

Examples

Quick Start

We provide an example code to run InternVL-Chat-V1-5 using transformers.

Please use transformers>=4.37.2 to ensure the model works normally.

Model Loading

16-bit (bf16 / fp16)

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
path = "OpenGVLab/InternVL-Chat-V1-5"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=True,
    trust_remote_code=True).eval().cuda()

BNB 8-bit Quantization

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
path = "OpenGVLab/InternVL-Chat-V1-5"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    load_in_8bit=True,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=True,
    trust_remote_code=True).eval()

BNB 4-bit Quantization

⚠️ Warning: Due to significant quantization errors with BNB 4-bit quantization on InternViT-6B, the model may produce nonsensical outputs and fail to understand images. Therefore, please avoid using BNB 4-bit quantization.

Multiple GPUs

The reason for writing the code this way is to avoid errors that occur during multi-GPU inference due to tensors not being on the same device. By ensuring that the first and last layers of the large language model (LLM) are on the same device, we prevent such errors.

import math
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

def split_model(model_name):
    device_map = {}
    world_size = torch.cuda.device_count()
    num_layers = {'Mini-InternVL-2B-V1-5': 24, 'Mini-InternVL-4B-V1-5': 32, 'InternVL-Chat-V1-5': 48}[model_name]
    # Since the first GPU will be used for ViT, treat it as half a GPU.
    num_layers_per_gpu = math.ceil(num_layers / (world_size - 0.5))
    num_layers_per_gpu = [num_layers_per_gpu] * world_size
    num_layers_per_gpu[0] = math.ceil(num_layers_per_gpu[0] * 0.5)
    layer_cnt = 0
    for i, num_layer in enumerate(num_layers_per_gpu):
        for j in range(num_layer):
            device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{layer_cnt}'] = i
            layer_cnt += 1
    device_map['vision_model'] = 0
    device_map['mlp1'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.tok_embeddings'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.embed_tokens'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.output'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.norm'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.rotary_emb'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.lm_head'] = 0
    device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{num_layers - 1}'] = 0

    return device_map

path = "OpenGVLab/InternVL-Chat-V1-5"
device_map = split_model('InternV

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Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys internvl-5 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (internvl-5 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":"internvl-5","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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