You can run multimodal large models using a 1080Ti now.
We are delighted to introduce the Mini-InternVL-Chat series. In the era of large language models, many researchers have started to focus on smaller language models, such as Gemma-2B, Qwen-1.8B, and InternLM2-1.8B. Inspired by their efforts, we have distilled our vision foundation model [InternViT-6B-448px-V1-5](https://huggingface.co/OpenGVLab/InternViT-6B-448px-V1-5) down to 300M and used [InternLM2-Chat-1.8B](https://huggingface.co/internlm/internlm2-chat-1_8b) or [Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct) as our language model. This resulted in a small multimodal model with excellent performance.
As shown in the figure below, we adopted the same model architecture as InternVL 1.5. We simply replaced the original InternViT-6B with InternViT-300M and InternLM2-Chat-20B with InternLM2-Chat-1.8B / Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct. For training, we used the same data as InternVL 1.5 to train this smaller model. Additionally, due to the lower training costs of smaller models, we used a context length of 8K during training.
- We simultaneously use [InternVL](https://github.com/OpenGVLab/InternVL) and [VLMEvalKit](https://github.com/open-compass/VLMEvalKit) repositories for model evaluation. Specifically, the results reported for DocVQA, ChartQA, InfoVQA, TextVQA, MME, AI2D, MMBench, CCBench, MMVet, and SEED-Image were tested using the InternVL repository. OCRBench, RealWorldQA, HallBench, and MathVista were evaluated using the VLMEvalKit.
Limitations: Although we have made efforts to ensure the safety of the model during the training process and to encourage the model to generate text that complies with ethical and legal requirements, the model may still produce unexpected outputs due to its size and probabilistic generation paradigm. For example, the generated responses may contain biases, discrimination, or other harmful content. Please do not propagate such content. We are not responsible for any consequences resulting from the dissemination of harmful information.
The reason for writing the code this way is to avoid errors that occur during multi-GPU inference due to tensors not being on the same device. By ensuring that the first and last layers of the large language model (LLM) are on the same device, we prevent such errors.
# Initialize an empty string to store the generated text
generated_text = ''
# Loop through the streamer to get the new text as it is generated
for new_text in streamer:
if new_text == model.conv_template.sep:
break
generated_text += new_text
print(new_text, end='', flush=True) # Print each new chunk of generated text on the same line
```
## Finetune
Many repositories now support fine-tuning of the InternVL series models, including [InternVL](https://github.com/OpenGVLab/InternVL), [SWIFT](https://github.com/modelscope/ms-swift), [XTurner](https://github.com/InternLM/xtuner), and others. Please refer to their documentation for more details on fine-tuning.
## Deployment
### LMDeploy
LMDeploy is a toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs & VLMs.
```sh
pip install lmdeploy>=0.5.3
```
LMDeploy abstracts the complex inference process of multi-modal Vision-Language Models (VLM) into an easy-to-use pipeline, similar to the Large Language Model (LLM) inference pipeline.
#### A 'Hello, world' Example
```python
from lmdeploy import pipeline, TurbomindEngineConfig
If `ImportError` occurs while executing this case, please install the required dependency packages as prompted.
#### Multi-images Inference
When dealing with multiple images, you can put them all in one list. Keep in mind that multiple images will lead to a higher number of input tokens, and as a result, the size of the context window typically needs to be increased.
> Warning: Due to the scarcity of multi-image conversation data, the performance on multi-image tasks may be unstable, and it may require multiple attempts to achieve satisfactory results.
```python
from lmdeploy import pipeline, TurbomindEngineConfig
prompts = [('describe this image', load_image(img_url)) for img_url in image_urls]
response = pipe(prompts)
print(response)
```
#### Multi-turn Conversation
There are two ways to do the multi-turn conversations with the pipeline. One is to construct messages according to the format of OpenAI and use above introduced method, the other is to use the `pipeline.chat` interface.
```python
from lmdeploy import pipeline, TurbomindEngineConfig, GenerationConfig
sess = pipe.chat(('describe this image', image), gen_config=gen_config)
print(sess.response.text)
sess = pipe.chat('What is the woman doing?', session=sess, gen_config=gen_config)
print(sess.response.text)
```
#### Service
LMDeploy's `api_server` enables models to be easily packed into services with a single command. The provided RESTful APIs are compatible with OpenAI's interfaces. Below are an example of service startup:
This project is released under the MIT License. This project uses the pre-trained Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct as a component, which is also licensed under the MIT License.
## Citation
If you find this project useful in your research, please consider citing:
```BibTeX
@article{chen2024expanding,
title={Expanding Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Multimodal Models with Model, Data, and Test-Time Scaling},
author={Chen, Zhe and Wang, Weiyun and Cao, Yue and Liu, Yangzhou and Gao, Zhangwei and Cui, Erfei and Zhu, Jinguo and Ye, Shenglong and Tian, Hao and Liu, Zhaoyang and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05271},
year={2024}
}
@article{gao2024mini,
title={Mini-internvl: A flexible-transfer pocket multimodal model with 5\% parameters and 90\% performance},
author={Gao, Zhangwei and Chen, Zhe and Cui, Erfei and Ren, Yiming and Wang, Weiyun and Zhu, Jinguo and Tian, Hao and Ye, Shenglong and He, Junjun and Zhu, Xizhou and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.16261},
year={2024}
}
@article{chen2024far,
title={How Far Are We to GPT-4V? Closing the Gap to Commercial Multimodal Models with Open-Source Suites},
author={Chen, Zhe and Wang, Weiyun and Tian, Hao and Ye, Shenglong and Gao, Zhangwei and Cui, Erfei and Tong, Wenwen and Hu, Kongzhi and Luo, Jiapeng and Ma, Zheng and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16821},
year={2024}
}
@inproceedings{chen2024internvl,
title={Internvl: Scaling up vision foundation models and aligning for generic visual-linguistic tasks},
author={Chen, Zhe and Wu, Jiannan and Wang, Wenhai and Su, Weijie and Chen, Guo and Xing, Sen and Zhong, Muyan and Zhang, Qinglong and Zhu, Xizhou and Lu, Lewei and others},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
