Model reference · open weights
llava-1.5 is an open-weight language model from llava-hf. llava-1.5-13b-hf (FP16) weighs 26.7 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is L40S 48 GB.
Summary of the llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | llava-hf |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-12-05 |
| Parameters | 7.1B |
| VRAM | 26.7 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4090 24 GB 4 smaller cards | — | — | |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | — | 2K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 4 | all 4K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 14 | all 4K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 13 | all 4K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 18 | all 4K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 22 | all 4K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 31 | all 4K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 42 | all 4K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 9 | all 4K | 31.0 GB a card |
| 2× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 17 | all 4K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 17 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 17 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 4K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 32.0 GB |
| 5 | 45.4 GB |
| 8 | 55.5 GB |
| 16 | 82.3 GB |
| 32 | 136 GB |
| 64 | 243 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| llava-1.5-7b-hf ↗ | 7.1B | FP16 | 14.1 GB | RTX 4090 24 GB |
| llava-1.5-13b-hf (above) ↗ | 13.4B | FP16 | 26.7 GB | L40S 48 GB |
From the model card
Below is the model card of Llava model 7b, which is copied from the original Llava model card that you can find here.
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.
Paper or resources for more information: https://llava-vl.github.io/
First, make sure to have transformers >= 4.35.3.
The model supports multi-image and multi-prompt generation. Meaning that you can pass multiple images in your prompt. Make sure also to follow the correct prompt template (USER: xxx\nASSISTANT:) and add the token `` to the location where you want to query images:
pipeline:Below we used "llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf" checkpoint.
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf")
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg"},
{"type": "text", "text": "What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud"},
],
},
]
out = pipe(text=messages, max_new_tokens=20)
print(out)
>>> [{'input_text': [{'role': 'user', 'content': [{'type': 'image', 'url': 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg'}, {'type': 'text', 'text': 'What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud'}]}], 'generated_text': 'Lava'}]
transformers:Below is an example script to run generation in float16 precision on a GPU device:
import requests
from PIL import Image
import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, LlavaForConditionalGeneration
model_id = "llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf"
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
model_id,
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
).to(0)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
# Define a chat history and use `apply_chat_template` to get correctly formatted prompt
# Each value in "content" has to be a list of dicts with types ("text", "image")
conversation = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "text", "text": "What are these?"},
{"type": "image"},
],
},
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)
image_file = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(image_file, stream=True).raw)
inputs = processor(images=raw_image, text=prompt, return_tensors='pt').to(0, torch.float16)
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False)
print(processor.decode(output[0][2:], skip_special_tokens=True))
From transformers>=v4.48, you can also pass image url or local path to the conversation history, and let the chat template handle the rest.
Chat template will load the image for you and return inputs in torch.Tensor which you can pass directly to model.generate()
messages = [
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{"type": "image", "url": "https://www.ilankelman.org/stopsigns/australia.jpg"}
{"type": "text", "text": "What is shown in this image?"},
],
},
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors"pt")
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
bitsandbytes libraryFirst make sure to install bitsandbytes, pip install bitsandbytes and make sure to have access to a CUDA compatible GPU device. Simply change the snippet above with:
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
model_id,
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+ load_in_4bit=True
)
First make sure to install flash-attn. Refer to the original repository of Flash Attention regarding that package installation. Simply change the snippet above with:
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
model_id,
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+ use_flash_attention_2=True
).to(0)
Llama 2 is licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License, Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.