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llava

Available as managed deployment LLMs liuhaotian · community Vision + text 2 variants 278k dl/mo

llava 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
Context4k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-10-05
Popularity278k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What llava is

Model details

Model type: LLaVA is an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA/Vicuna on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data. It is an auto-regressive language model, based on the transformer architecture.

Model date: LLaVA-v1.5-7B was trained in September 2023.

Read the full model card

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

License

Llama 2 is licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License, Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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.
  • 450K academic-task-oriented VQA 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 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (liuhaotian-llava 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","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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