Model reference · open weights
VisRAG-Ret is an open-weight embedding model from openbmb. 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 by | openbmb |
|---|---|
| Type | Embedding models |
| Task | Embeddings |
| Parameters (lead) | 3.4B |
| Context | 4k tokens |
| Based on | openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2 |
| Released | 2024-10-14 |
| Popularity | 589 downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
VisRAG is a novel vision-language model (VLM)-based RAG pipeline. In this pipeline, instead of first parsing the document to obtain text, the document is directly embedded using a VLM as an image and then retrieved to enhance the generation of a VLM.Compared to traditional text-based RAG, VisRAG maximizes the retention and utilization of the data information in the original documents, eliminating the information loss introduced during the parsing process.
VisRAG-Ret is a document embedding model built on MiniCPM-V 2.0, a vision-language model that integrates SigLIP as the vision encoder and MiniCPM-2B as the language model.
In the paper, We use MiniCPM-V 2.0, MiniCPM-V 2.6 and GPT-4o as the generators. Actually you can use any VLMs you like!
Our training dataset of 362,110 Query-Document (Q-D) Pairs for VisRAG-Ret is comprised of train sets of openly available academic datasets (34%) and a synthetic dataset made up of pages from web-crawled PDF documents and augmented with VLM-generated (GPT-4o) pseudo-queries (66%). It can be found in the VisRAG Collection on Hugging Face, which is referenced at the beginning of this page.
The generation part does not use any fine-tuning; we directly use off-the-shelf LLMs/VLMs for generation.
torch==2.1.2
torchvision==0.16.2
transformers==4.40.2
sentencepiece==0.1.99
decord==0.6.0
Pillow==10.1.0
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from PIL import Image
import requests
from io import BytesIO
def weighted_mean_pooling(hidden, attention_mask):
attention_mask_ = attention_mask * attention_mask.cumsum(dim=1)
s = torch.sum(hidden * attention_mask_.unsqueeze(-1).float(), dim=1)
d = attention_mask_.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).float()
reps = s / d
return reps
@torch.no_grad()
def encode(text_or_image_list):
if (isinstance(text_or_image_list[0], str)):
inputs = {
"text": text_or_image_list,
'image': [None] * len(text_or_image_list),
'tokenizer': tokenizer
}
else:
inputs = {
"text": [''] * len(text_or_image_list),
'image': text_or_image_list,
'tokenizer': tokenizer
}
outputs = model(**inputs)
attention_mask = outputs.attention_mask
hidden = outputs.last_hidden_state
reps = weighted_mean_pooling(hidden, attention_mask)
embeddings = F.normalize(reps, p=2, dim=1).detach().cpu().numpy()
return embeddings
model_name_or_path = "openbmb/VisRAG-Ret"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, trust_remote_code=True).cuda()
model.eval()
queries = ["What does a dog look like?"]
INSTRUCTION = "Represent this query for retrieving relevant documents: "
queries = [INSTRUCTION + query for query in queries]
print("Downloading images...")
passages = [
Image.open(BytesIO(requests.get(
'https://github.com/OpenBMB/VisRAG/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/demo/retriever/test_image/cat.jpeg'
).content)).convert('RGB'),
Image.open(BytesIO(requests.get(
'https://github.com/OpenBMB/VisRAG/raw/refs/heads/master/scripts/demo/retriever/test_image/dog.jpg'
).content)).convert('RGB')
]
print("Images downloaded.")
embeddings_query = encode(queries)
embeddings_doc = encode(passages)
scores = (embeddings_query @ embeddings_doc.T)
print(scores.tolist())
@misc{yu2024visragvisionbasedretrievalaugmentedgeneration,
title={VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents},
author={Shi Yu and Chaoyue Tang and Bokai Xu and Junbo Cui and Junhao Ran and Yukun Yan and Zhenghao Liu and Shuo Wang and Xu Han and Zhiyuan Liu and Maosong Sun},
year={2024},
eprint={2410.10594},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.IR},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10594},
}
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys visrag-ret for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (visrag-ret 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":"visrag-ret","input":"text to embed"}'
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