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uform-gen2-qwen

Available as managed deployment LLMs unum-cloud Image→text 1 variants 510 dl/mo

uform-gen2-qwen is an open-weight language model from unum-cloud. 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 byunum-cloud
TypeLanguage models
TaskImage→text
Parameters (lead)1.3B
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-02-15
Popularity510 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What uform-gen2-qwen is

Pocket-Sized Multimodal AI For Content Understanding and Generation

Description

UForm-Gen is a small generative vision-language model primarily designed for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering. The model consists of two parts:

  1. CLIP-like ViT-H/14
  2. Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

The model was pre-trained on the internal image captioning dataset and fine-tuned on public instructions datasets: SVIT, LVIS, VQAs datasets. The model took one day to train on a DGX-H100 with 8x H100 GPUs. Thanks to Nebius.ai for providing the compute 🤗

Read the full model card

Usage

The generative model can be used to caption images, answer questions about them. Also it is suitable for a multimodal chat.

from transformers import AutoModel, AutoProcessor

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("unum-cloud/uform-gen2-qwen-500m", trust_remote_code=True)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("unum-cloud/uform-gen2-qwen-500m", trust_remote_code=True)

prompt = "Question or Instruction"
image = Image.open("image.jpg")

inputs = processor(text=[prompt], images=[image], return_tensors="pt")
with torch.inference_mode():
     output = model.generate(
        **inputs,
        do_sample=False,
        use_cache=True,
        max_new_tokens=256,
        eos_token_id=151645,
        pad_token_id=processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id
    )

prompt_len = inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]
decoded_text = processor.batch_decode(output[:, prompt_len:])[0]

You can check examples of different prompts in our demo space.

Evaluation

ModelLLM SizeSQAMMEMMBenchAverage¹
UForm-Gen2-Qwen-500m0.5B45.5880.142.029.31
MobileVLM v21.4B52.11302.857.736.81
LLaVA-Phi2.7B68.41335.159.842.95

¹MME scores were divided by 2000 before averaging.

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 uform-gen2-qwen for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (uform-gen2-qwen 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":"uform-gen2-qwen","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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