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llava-1.5

LLMs llava-hf Vision + text 2 builds Open, with conditions 2.1M dl/mo

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.

  • llava-1.5 is an open-source image-text-to-text model developed by llava-hf.
  • It is a 7.1B parameter auto-regressive language model based on the transformer architecture, trained in September 2023 by fine-tuning LLaMA or Vicuna on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data.
  • The model supports multi-image and multi-prompt generation in English and is distributed under the LLAMA 2 Community License.

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 byllava-hf
Released2023-12-05
Parameters7.1B
VRAM26.7 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for llava-1.5-13b-hf (FP16)

26.7 GBweights, file size
819 MBcache per 1K tokens
1.9 GBruntime overhead, at least
4,096 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
4K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4090 24 GB
4 smaller cards
——
RTX 5090 32 GB—2K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB4all 4K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB14all 4K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB13all 4K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB18all 4K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified22all 4K107 GB
H200 141 GB31all 4K138 GB
B200 180 GB42all 4K176 GB
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
9all 4K31.0 GB a card
2× L40S 48 GB
tensor parallel
17all 4K44.0 GB a card
4× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
17all 4K23.4 GB a card
4× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
17all 4K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once4K tokens each
132.0 GB
545.4 GB
855.5 GB
1682.3 GB
32136 GB
64243 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
llava-1.5-7b-hf ↗ 7.1BFP16 14.1 GBRTX 4090 24 GB
llava-1.5-13b-hf (above) ↗ 13.4BFP16 26.7 GBL40S 48 GB

From the model card

What llava-hf says about llava-1.5

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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.

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

How to use the model

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:

Using 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'}]

Using pure 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)

Model optimization

4-bit quantization through bitsandbytes library

First 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
)
Use Flash-Attention 2 to further speed-up generation

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)

License

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

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