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Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b
BLIP-2, OPT-2.7b, pre-trained only
BLIP-2, OPT-2.7b, pre-trained only
BLIP-2 model, leveraging OPT-2.7b (a large language model with 2.7 billion parameters). It was introduced in the paper BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models by Li et al. and first released in this repository.
Disclaimer: The team releasing BLIP-2 did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.
Model description
BLIP-2 consists of 3 models: a CLIP-like image encoder, a Querying Transformer (Q-Former) and a large language model.
The authors initialize the weights of the image encoder and large language model from pre-trained checkpoints and keep them frozen while training the Querying Transformer, which is a BERT-like Transformer encoder that maps a set of "query tokens" to query embeddings, which bridge the gap between the embedding space of the image encoder and the large language model.
The goal for the model is simply to predict the next text token, giving the query embeddings and the previous text.
This allows the model to be used for tasks like:
- image captioning
- visual question answering (VQA)
- chat-like conversations by feeding the image and the previous conversation as prompt to the model
What this model is for
Image-text-to-text model for image captioning, visual question answering, and chat-like conversations.
Direct Use and Downstream Use
You can use the raw model for conditional text generation given an image and optional text. See the model hub to look for fine-tuned versions on a task that interests you.
Bias, Risks, Limitations, and Ethical Considerations
BLIP2-OPT uses off-the-shelf OPT as the language model. It inherits the same risks and limitations as mentioned in Meta's model card.
Like other large language models for which the diversity (or lack thereof) of training data induces downstream impact on the quality of our model, OPT-175B has limitations in terms of bias and safety. OPT-175B can also have quality issues in terms of generation diversity and hallucination. In general, OPT-175B is not immune from the plethora of issues that plague modern large language models.
BLIP2 is fine-tuned on image-text datasets (e.g. LAION ) collected from the internet. As a result the model itself is potentially vulnerable to generating equivalently inappropriate content or replicating inherent biases in the underlying data.
BLIP2 has not been tested in real world applications. It should not be directly deployed in any applications. Researchers should first carefully assess the safety and fairness of the model in relation to the specific context they’re being deployed within.
Safety notes
The model card says BLIP2-OPT inherits OPT's bias and safety limitations, is trained on internet image-text data, and should not be directly deployed without careful evaluation.
Ethical Considerations
This release is for research purposes only in support of an academic paper. Our models, datasets, and code are not specifically designed or evaluated for all downstream purposes. We strongly recommend users evaluate and address potential concerns related to accuracy, safety, and fairness before deploying this model. We encourage users to consider the common limitations of AI, comply with applicable laws, and leverage best practices when selecting use cases, particularly for high-risk scenarios where errors or misuse could significantly impact people’s lives, rights, or safety. For further guidance on use cases, refer to our AUP and AI AUP.
How to use
For code examples, we refer to the documentation.
Implementation options
The page includes Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, and Docker Model Runner usage paths, plus CPU and GPU code examples.
Memory requirements
The memory requirements differ based on the precision one uses. One can use 4-bit inference using Bitsandbytes, which greatly reduce the memory requirements.
| dtype | Largest Layer or Residual Group | Total Size | Training using Adam |
|---|---|---|---|
| float32 | 490.94 MB | 14.43 GB | 57.72 GB |
| float16/bfloat16 | 245.47 MB | 7.21 GB | 28.86 GB |
| int8 | 122.73 MB | 3.61 GB | 14.43 GB |
| int4 | 61.37 MB | 1.8 GB | 7.21 GB |
Running the model on CPU
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import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import Blip2Processor, Blip2ForConditionalGeneration
processor = Blip2Processor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b")
model = Blip2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
question = "how many dogs are in the picture?"
inputs = processor(raw_image, question, return_tensors="pt")
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True).strip())Running the model on GPU
# pip install accelerate
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import Blip2Processor, Blip2ForConditionalGeneration
processor = Blip2Processor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b")
model = Blip2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b", device_map="auto")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
question = "how many dogs are in the picture?"
inputs = processor(raw_image, question, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True).strip())# pip install accelerate
import torch
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import Blip2Processor, Blip2ForConditionalGeneration
processor = Blip2Processor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b")
model = Blip2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b", torch_dtype=torch.float16, device_map="auto")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
question = "how many dogs are in the picture?"
inputs = processor(raw_image, question, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda", torch.float16)
out = model.generate(**inputs)
print(processor.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True).strip())# pip install accelerate bitsandbytes
import torch
import requests
from PIL import Image
from transformers import Blip2Processor, Blip2ForConditionalGeneration
processor = Blip2Processor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b")
model = Blip2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b", load_in_8bit=True, device_map="auto")
img_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/demo.jpg'
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(img_url, stream=True).raw).convert('RGB')
question = "how many dogs are in the picture?"
inputs = processor(raw_image, question, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda", torch.float16)
out = model.generate(**inputs)
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- Libraries
- Transformers How to use Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b with Transformers: # Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b") # Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b", device_map="auto")
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
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- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM How to use Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b with vLLM: Install from pip and serve model # Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' Use Docker docker model run hf.co/Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b
- SGLang How to use Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b with SGLang: Install from pip and serve model # Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' Use Docker images docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model
- Docker Model Runner How to use Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b with Docker Model Runner: docker model run hf.co/Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b
