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llava-mistral

Available as managed deployment LLMs liuhaotian · community Vision + text 1 variants 61k dl/mo

llava-mistral is an open-weight language model from liuhaotian. 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

Released byliuhaotian
TypeLanguage models
TaskVision + text
Parameters (lead)7.6B
Context32k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-01-31
Popularity61k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What llava-mistral is

Model details

Model type: LLaVA is an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLM on multimodal instruction-following data. It is an auto-regressive language model, based on the transformer architecture. Base LLM: mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

Model date: LLaVA-v1.6-Mistral-7B was trained in December 2023.

Read the full model card

Paper or resources for more information: https://llava-vl.github.io/

License

mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 license.

Where to send questions or comments about the model: https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA/issues

Intended use

Primary intended uses: The primary use of LLaVA is research on large multimodal models and chatbots.

Primary intended users: The primary intended users of the model are researchers and hobbyists in computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Training dataset

  • 558K filtered image-text pairs from LAION/CC/SBU, captioned by BLIP.
  • 158K GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data.
  • 500K academic-task-oriented VQA data mixture.
  • 50K GPT-4V data mixture.
  • 40K ShareGPT data.

Evaluation dataset

A collection of 12 benchmarks, including 5 academic VQA benchmarks and 7 recent benchmarks specifically proposed for instruction-following LMMs.

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

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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