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magi

Available as managed deployment Embeddings ragavsachdeva · community Embeddings 1 variants 3k dl/mo

magi is an open-weight embedding model from ragavsachdeva. 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 byragavsachdeva
TypeEmbedding models
TaskEmbeddings
Parameters (lead)516M
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-01-18
Popularity3k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What magi is

.title-container { display: flex; flex-direction: column; /* Stack elements vertically */ justify-content: center; align-items: center; }

.title { font-size: 2em; text-align: center; color: #333; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; /* Use Comic Sans MS font */ text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.1em; padding: 0.5em 0 0.2em; background: transparent; }

.title span { background: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, #6495ED, #4169E1); /* Blue gradient */ -webkit-background-clip: text; -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; }

.subheading { font-size: 1.5em; /* Adjust the size as needed / text-align: center; color: #555; / Adjust the color as needed / font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; / Use Comic Sans MS font */ }

.authors { font-size: 1em; /* Adjust the size as needed / text-align: center; color: #777; / Adjust the color as needed / font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; / Use Comic Sans MS font */ padding-top: 1em; }

.affil { font-size: 1em; /* Adjust the size as needed / text-align: center; color: #777; / Adjust the color as needed / font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; / Use Comic Sans MS font */ }

The Manga Whisperer
Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics
Ragav Sachdeva and Andrew Zisserman
University of Oxford
 
Read the full model card

Usage

from transformers import AutoModel
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image
import torch
import os

images = [
        "path_to_image1.jpg",
        "path_to_image2.png",
    ]

def read_image_as_np_array(image_path):
    with open(image_path, "rb") as file:
        image = Image.open(file).convert("L").convert("RGB")
        image = np.array(image)
    return image

images = [read_image_as_np_array(image) for image in images]

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("ragavsachdeva/magi", trust_remote_code=True).cuda()
with torch.no_grad():
    results = model.predict_detections_and_associations(images)
    text_bboxes_for_all_images = [x["texts"] for x in results]
    ocr_results = model.predict_ocr(images, text_bboxes_for_all_images)

for i in range(len(images)):
    model.visualise_single_image_prediction(images[i], results[i], filename=f"image_{i}.png")
    model.generate_transcript_for_single_image(results[i], ocr_results[i], filename=f"transcript_{i}.txt")

License and Citation

The provided model and datasets are available for unrestricted use in personal, research, non-commercial, and not-for-profit endeavors. For any other usage scenarios, kindly contact me via email, providing a detailed description of your requirements, to establish a tailored licensing arrangement. My contact information can be found on my website: ragavsachdeva [dot] github [dot] io

@misc{sachdeva2024manga,
      title={The Manga Whisperer: Automatically Generating Transcriptions for Comics},
      author={Ragav Sachdeva and Andrew Zisserman},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2401.10224},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

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 magi for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (magi below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/embeddings \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"magi","input":"text to embed"}'

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