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Phi-3.5-vision

Phi-3.5-vision is an open-weight language model from microsoft, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What Phi-3.5-vision is

Model Summary Phi-3.5-vision is a lightweight, state-of-the-art open multimodal model built upon datasets which include - synthetic data and filtered publicly available websites - with a focus on very high-quality, reasoning dense data both on text and vision. The model belongs to the Phi-3 model family, and the multimodal version comes with 128K context length (in tokens) it can support. The model underwent a rigorous enhancement process, incorporating both supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization to ensure precise instruction adherence and robust safety measures. 🏡 Phi-3 Portal <br 📰 Phi-3 Microsoft Blog <br 📖 Phi-3 Technical Report <br 👩‍🍳 Phi-3 Cookbook <br 🖥️ Try It <br Phi-3.5: [[mini-instruct]](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct); [[MoE-instruct]](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct) ; [[vision-instruct]](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct) Intended Uses Primary Use Cases The model is intended for broad commercial and research use in English. The model provides uses for general purpose AI systems and applications with visual and text input capabilities which require: 1) Memory/compute constrained environments 2) Latency bound scenarios 3) General image understanding 4) Optical character recognition 5) Chart and table understanding 6) Multiple image comparison 7) Multi-image or video clip summarization Our model is designed to accelerate research on language and multimodal models, for use as a building block for generative AI powered features. Use Case Considerations Our models are not specifically designed or evaluated for all downstream purposes. Developers should consider common limitations of language models as they select use cases, and evaluate and mitigate for accuracy, safety, and fariness before using within a specific downstream use case, particularly for high risk scenarios. Developers should be aware of and adhere to applicable laws or regulations (including privacy, trade compliance laws, etc.) that are relevant to their use case. Nothing contained in this Model Card should be interpreted as or deemed a restriction or modification to the license the model is released

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makermicrosoft
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)4.1B
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-08-16
Popularity698k downloads / month
Likes738
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct4.1BBF16~9.5 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys phi-3-5-vision for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (phi-3-5-vision 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":"phi-3-5-vision","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

multilingual

Tags

transformers safetensors phi3_v text-generation nlp code vision image-text-to-text conversational custom_code multilingual

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under mit — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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