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vsft-llava-1.5-trl

LLMs HuggingFaceH4 Image→text 1 build Licence not stated 45 dl/mo

vsft-llava-1.5-trl is an open-weight language model from Hugging Face. vsft-llava-1.5-7b-hf-trl (FP32) weighs 14.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4090 24 GB.

  • vsft-llava-1.5-trl is a 7.1B parameter vision language model developed by Hugging Face for image-to-text tasks.
  • It was created by performing VSFT on the llava-1.5-7b-hf model using 260k image and conversation pairs.
  • The model supports English and is licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License.

Summary of the HuggingFaceH4/vsft-llava-1.5-7b-hf-trl model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byHugging Face
Released2024-04-11
Parameters7.1B
VRAM14.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for vsft-llava-1.5-7b-hf-trl (FP32)

14.1 GBweights, file size
2.1 GBruntime overhead, at least

How much memory each request adds isn't estimated yet for this architecture. The weights need at least the cards below, plus room for the context.

CardWeights alone
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
does not fit
RTX 3090 24 GBfits
RTX 4090 24 GBfits
RTX 5090 32 GBfits
L40S 48 GBfits
A100 80 GBfits
H100 80 GBfits
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits
H200 141 GBfits
B200 180 GBfits

From the model card

What Hugging Face says about vsft-llava-1.5-trl

Read the model card

HuggingFaceH4/vsft-llava-1.5-7b-hf-trl is a Vision Language Model, created by performing VSFT on the llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf model with 260k image and conversation pairs from the HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft dataset.

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Model details

Model type: LLaVA is an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA/Vicuna on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data. It is an auto-regressive language model, based on the transformer architecture.

Model date: The model was trained on April the 11th 2024

Example training script Train a VLM yourself with our TRL example

How to use the model

The model supports multi-image and multi-prompt generation. Meaning that you can pass multiple images in your prompt. Make sure also to follow the correct prompt template (USER: xxx\nASSISTANT:) and add the token `` to the location where you want to query images:

Using pipeline:

from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image
import requests

model_id = "HuggingFaceH4/vsft-llava-1.5-7b-hf-trl"
pipe = pipeline("image-to-text", model=model_id)
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg"

image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
prompt = "A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. USER: \nWhat does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud\nASSISTANT:"

outputs = pipe(image, prompt=prompt, generate_kwargs={"max_new_tokens": 200})
print(outputs)
>>> {"generated_text": "\nUSER: What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud\nASSISTANT: Lava"}

Using pure transformers:

Below is an example script to run generation in float16 precision on a GPU device:

import requests
from PIL import Image

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, LlavaForConditionalGeneration

model_id = "HuggingFaceH4/vsft-llava-1.5-7b-hf-trl"

prompt = "A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. USER: \nWhat are these?\nASSISTANT:"
image_file = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"

model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
).to(0)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)

raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(image_file, stream=True).raw)
inputs = processor(prompt, raw_image, return_tensors='pt').to(0, torch.float16)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False)
print(processor.decode(output[0][2:], skip_special_tokens=True))

Model optimization

4-bit quantization through bitsandbytes library

First make sure to install bitsandbytes, pip install bitsandbytes and make sure to have access to a CUDA compatible GPU device. Simply change the snippet above with:

model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   load_in_4bit=True
)
Use Flash-Attention 2 to further speed-up generation

First make sure to install flash-attn. Refer to the original repository of Flash Attention regarding that package installation. Simply change the snippet above with:

model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   use_flash_attention_2=True
).to(0)

License

Llama 2 is licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License, Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Citation

@misc{vonwerra2022trl,
  author = {Leandro von Werra and Younes Belkada and Lewis Tunstall and Edward Beeching and Tristan Thrush and Nathan Lambert and Shengyi Huang},
  title = {TRL: Transformer Reinforcement Learning},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/huggingface/trl}}
}

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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