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Mini-InternVL-5

Available as managed deployment LLMs OpenGVLab Vision + text 1 variants 6k dl/mo

Mini-InternVL-5 is an open-weight language model from OpenGVLab. 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

MakerOpenGVLab
TypeLanguage models
TaskVision + text
Parameters (lead)2.2B
Runs withtransformers
Based onOpenGVLab/InternViT-300M-448px, internlm/internlm2-chat-1_8b
Released2024-05-13
Popularity6k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What Mini-InternVL-5 is

[📂 GitHub] [📜 InternVL 1.0] [📜 InternVL 1.5] [📜 Mini-InternVL] [📜 InternVL 2.5]

[🆕 Blog] [🗨️ Chat Demo] [🤗 HF Demo] [🚀 Quick Start] [📖 Documents]

Introduction

You can run multimodal large models using a 1080Ti now.

We are delighted to introduce the Mini-InternVL-Chat series. In the era of large language models, many researchers have started to focus on smaller language models, such as Gemma-2B, Qwen-1.8B, and InternLM2-1.8B. Inspired by their efforts, we have distilled our vision foundation model InternViT-6B-448px-V1-5 down to 300M and used InternLM2-Chat-1.8B or Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct as our language model. This resulted in a small multimodal model with excellent performance.

As shown in the figure below, we adopted the same model architecture as InternVL 1.5. We simply replaced the original InternViT-6B with InternViT-300M and InternLM2-Chat-20B with InternLM2-Chat-1.8B / Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct. For training, we used the same data as InternVL 1.5 to train this smaller model. Additionally, due to the lower training costs of smaller models, we used a context length of 8K during training.

Model Details

  • Model Type: multimodal large language model (MLLM)

  • Model Stats:

  • Training Strategy:

    • Learnable component in the pre-training stage: ViT + MLP
    • Learnable component in the fine-tuning stage: ViT + MLP + LLM
    • For more details on training hyperparameters, please see our blog.

Performance

  • We simultaneously use InternVL and VLMEvalKit repositories for model evaluation. Specifically, the results reported for DocVQA, ChartQA, InfoVQA, TextVQA, MME, AI2D, MMBench, CCBench, MMVet, and SEED-Image were tested using the InternVL repository. OCRBench, RealWorldQA, HallBench, and MathVista were evaluated using the VLMEvalKit.

Limitations: Although we have made efforts to ensure the safety of the model during the training process and to encourage the model to generate text that complies with ethical and legal requirements, the model may still produce unexpected outputs due to its size and probabilistic generation paradigm. For example, the generated responses may contain biases, discrimination, or other harmful content. Please do not propagate such content. We are not responsible for any consequences resulting from the dissemination of harmful information.

Quick Start

We provide an example code to run Mini-InternVL-Chat-2B-V1-5 using transformers.

Please use transformers>=4.37.2 to ensure the model works normally.

Model Loading

16-bit (bf16 / fp16)

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
path = "OpenGVLab/Mini-InternVL-Chat-2B-V1-5"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=True,
    trust_remote_code=True).eval().cuda()

BNB 8-bit Quantization

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
path = "OpenGVLab/Mini-InternVL-Chat-2B-V1-5"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    load_in_8bit=True,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=True,
    trust_remote_code=True).eval()

BNB 4-bit Quantization

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
path = "OpenGVLab/Mini-InternVL-Chat-2B-V1-5"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    load_in_4bit=True,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=True,
    trust_remote_code=True).eval()

Multiple GPUs

The reason for writing the code this way is to avoid errors that occur during multi-GPU inference due to tensors not being on the same device. By ensuring that the first and last layers of the large language model (LLM) are on the same device, we prevent such errors.

import math
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

def split_model(model_name):
    device_map = {}
    world_size = torch.cuda.device_count()
    num_layers = {'Mini-InternVL-2B-V1-5': 24, 'Mini-InternVL-4B-V1-5': 32, 'InternVL-Chat-V1-5': 48}[model_name]
    # Since the first GPU will be used for ViT, treat it as half a GPU.
    num_layers_per_gpu = math.ceil(num_layers / (world_size - 0.5))
    num_layers_per_gpu = [num_layers_per_gpu] * world_size
    num_layers_per_gpu[0] = math.ceil(num_layers_per_gpu[0] * 0.5)
    layer_cnt = 0
    for i, num_layer in enumerate(num_layers_per_gpu):
        for j in range(num_layer):
            device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{layer_cnt}'] = i
            layer_cnt += 1
    device_map['vision_model'] = 0
    device_map['mlp1'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.tok_embeddings'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.embed_tokens'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.output'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.norm'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.rotary_emb'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.lm_head'] = 0
    device_map[f'langu

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Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys mini-internvl-5 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (mini-internvl-5 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":"mini-internvl-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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