Visual instruction tuning towards large language and vision models with GPT-4 level capabilities.
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Visual Instruction Tuning
Haotian Liu*, Chunyuan Li*, Qingyang Wu, Yong Jae Lee (*Equal Contribution)
Generated by GLIGEN via "a cute lava llama with glasses" and box prompt
- [7/19] 🔥 We release a major upgrade, including support for LLaMA-2, LoRA training, 4-/8-bit inference, higher resolution (336x336), and a lot more. We release LLaVA Bench for benchmarking open-ended visual chat with results from Bard and Bing-Chat. We also support and verify training with RTX 3090 and RTX A6000. Check out LLaVA-from-LLaMA-2, release notes, and our model zoo!
- [6/26] CVPR 2023 Tutorial on Large Multimodal Models: Towards Building and Surpassing Multimodal GPT-4! Please check out [Slides] [Notes] [YouTube] [Bilibli].
- [6/11] We released the preview for the mostly requested feature: DeepSpeed and LoRA support! Please see documentations here.
- [6/1] We released LLaVA-Med: Large Language and Vision Assistant for Biomedicine, a step towards building biomedical domain large language and vision models with GPT-4 level capabilities. Checkout the paper and page.
- [5/13] Interested in quantifying the emerged zero-shot OCR performance of LLaVA and open-sourced LMM? Please check out the paper "On the Hidden Mystery of OCR in Large Multimodal Models", where LLaVA consistently outperforms miniGPT4 on 17 out of 18 datasets, despite LlaVA being trained with an order of magnitude smaller training data.
- [5/6] We are releasing LLaVA-Lighting-MPT-7B-preview, based on MPT-7B-Chat! See here for more details.
- [5/2] 🔥 We are releasing LLaVA-Lighting! Train a lite, multimodal GPT-4 with just $40 in 3 hours! See here for more details.
- [5/2] We upgrade LLaVA package to v0.1 to support Vicuna v0 and v1 checkpoints, please upgrade following instructions here.
- [4/30] Our checkpoint with Vicuna-7b-v0 has been released here! This checkpoint is more accessible and device friendly. Stay tuned for a major upgrade next week!
- [4/27] Thanks to the community effort, LLaVA-13B with 4-bit quantization allows you to run on a GPU with as few as 12GB VRAM! Try it out here.
- [4/17] 🔥 We released LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant. We propose visual instruction tuning, towards building large language and vision models with GPT-4 level capabilities. Checkout the paper and demo.
Usage and License Notices: The data, code and checkpoint is intended and licensed for research use only. They are also restricted to uses that follow the license agreement of LLaMA, Vicuna and GPT-4. The dataset is CC BY NC 4.0 (allowing only non-commercial use) and models trained using the dataset should not be used outside of research purposes.
- Clone this repository and navigate to LLaVA folder
git clone https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA.git
cd LLaVA
- Install Package
conda create -n llava python=3.10 -y
conda activate llava
pip install --upgrade pip # enable PEP 660 support
pip install -e .
- Install additional packages for training cases
pip install ninja
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
git pull
pip uninstall transformers
pip install -e .
Please check out our Model Zoo for all public LLaVA checkpoints, and the instructions of how to use the weights.
To run our demo, you need to prepare LLaVA checkpoints locally. Please follow the instructions here to download the checkpoints.
To launch a Gradio demo locally, please run the following commands one by one. If you plan to launch multiple model workers to compare between different checkpoints, you only need to launch the controller and the web server ONCE.
python -m llava.serve.controller --host 0.0.0.0 --port 10000
python -m llava.serve.gradio_web_server --controller http://localhost:10000 --model-list-mode reload
You just launched the Gradio web interface. Now, you can open the web interface with the URL printed on the screen. You may notice that there is no model in the model list. Do not worry, as we have not launched any model worker yet. It will be automatically updated when you launch a model worker.
This is the actual worker that performs the inference on the GPU. Each worker is responsible for a single model specified in --model-path
.
python -m llava.serve.model_worker --host 0.0.0.0 --controller http://localhost:10000 --port 40000 --worker http://localhost:40000 --model-path ./checkpoints/LLaVA-13B-v0
Wait until the process finishes loading the model and you see "Uvicorn running on ...". Now, refresh your Gradio web UI, and you will see the model you just launched in the model list.
You can launch as many workers as you want, and compare between different model checkpoints in the same Gradio interface. Please keep the --controller
the same, and modify the --port
and --worker
to a different port number for each worker.
python -m llava.serve.model_worker --host 0.0.0.0 --controller http://localhost:10000 --port <different from 40000, say 40001> --worker http://localhost:<change accordingly, i.e. 40001> --model-path <ckpt2>
If your the VRAM of your GPU is less than 24GB (e.g., RTX 3090, RTX 4090, etc.), you may try running it with multiple GPUs. Our latest code base will automatically try to use multiple GPUs if you have more than one GPU. You can specify which GPUs to use with CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
. Below is an example of running with the first two GPUs.
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 python -m llava.serve.model_worker --host 0.0.0.0 --controller http://localhost:10000 --port 40000 --worker http://localhost:40000 --model-path ./checkpoints/LLaVA-13B-v0
You can launch the model worker with quantized bits (4-bit, 8-bit), which allows you to run the inference with reduced GPU memory footprint, potentially allowing you to run on a GPU with as few as 12GB VRAM. Note that inference with quantized bits may not be as accurate as the full-precision model. Simply append --load-4bit
or --load-8bit
to the model worker command that you are executing. Below is an example of running with 4-bit quantization.
python -m llava.serve.model_worker --host 0.0.0.0 --controller http://localhost:10000 --port 40000 --worker http://localhost:40000 --model-path liuhaotian/llava-llama-2-13b-chat-lightning-preview --load-4bit
Chat about images using LLaVA without the need of Gradio interface. It also supports multiple GPUs, 4-bit and 8-bit quantized inference. With 4-bit quantization, for our LLaVA-Lightning-MPT-7B, it uses less than 8GB VRAM on a single GPU.
python -m llava.serve.cli \
--model-path liuhaotian/LLaVA-Lightning-MPT-7B-preview \
--image-file "https://llava-vl.github.io/static/images/view.jpg" \
--load-4bit
LLaVA training consists of two stages: (1) feature alignment stage: use approximately 600K filtered CC3M to connect a frozen pretrained vision encoder to a frozen LLM; (2) visual instruction tuning stage: use 150K GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following to teach the model to follow multimodal instructions.
LLaVA is trained on 8 A100 GPUs with 80GB memory. To train on fewer GPUs, you can reduce the per_device_train_batch_size
and increase the gradient_accumulation_steps
accordingly. Always keep the global batch size the same: per_device_train_batch_size
x gradient_accumulation_steps
x num_gpus
.
We use a similar set of hyperparameters as Vicuna in finetuning. Both hyperparameters used in pretraining and finetuning are provided below.
- Pretraining
Hyperparameter | Global Batch Size | Learning rate | Epochs | Max length | Weight decay |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LLaVA-13B | 128 | 2e-3 | 1 | 2048 | 0 |
- Finetuning
Hyperparameter | Global Batch Size | Learning rate | Epochs | Max length | Weight decay |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LLaVA-13B | 32 | 2e-5 | 3 | 2048 | 0 |
Before you start, prepare our base model Vicuna, which is an instruction-tuned chatbot. Please download its weights here.
Vicuna has two versions: v0 and v1, the main difference between them is the prompt of format. We support both. To ensure the best performance, you need to specify the correct prompt version corresponding to the weights you download: v0
for v0
weights, and v1
for all Vicuna v1.x
models.
Please download the subset of the CC3M dataset we use in the paper here.
Pretrain takes around 4 hours for LLaVA-13B on 8x A100 (80G). It takes around 2 hours for 7B checkpoints.
We recommend training with DeepSpeed as it can save a lot of GPU RAM. We provide training script with DeepSpeed here.
You may run this with a single A100 GPU with the following code. Please note that the per_device_train_batch_size
* gradient_accumulation_steps
should be equal to 128 to keep the global batch size the same.
Pretrain: LLaVA-13B, 1x A100 (80G). Time: ~33 hours.
python llava/train/train_mem.py \
--model_name_or_path ./checkpoints/vicuna-13b \
--version [v0 or v1] \
--data_path /path/to/cc3m_595k.json \
--image_folder /path/to/cc3m_595k_images \
--vision_tower openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 \
--tune_mm_mlp_adapter True \
--mm_vision_select_layer -2 \
--mm_use_im_start_end False \
--mm_use_im_patch_token False \
--bf16 True \
--output_dir ./checkpoints/llava-13b-pretrain \
--num_train_epochs 1 \
--per_device_train_batch_size 16 \
--per_device_eval_batch_size 4 \
--gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \
--evaluation_strategy "no" \
--save_strategy "steps" \
--save_steps 2400 \
--save_total_limit 1 \
--learning_rate 2e-3 \
--weight_decay 0. \
--warmup_ratio 0.03 \
--lr_scheduler_type "cosine" \
--logging_steps 1 \
--tf32 True \
--model_max_length 2048 \
--gradient_checkpointing True \
--lazy_preprocess True \
--report_to wandb
- Prepare data
Please download the annotation of our instruction tuning data llava_instruct_158k.json, and download the COCO train2017 images here.
- Start training!
You may download our pretrained projectors in Model Zoo. It is not recommended to use legacy projectors, as they may be trained with a different version of the codebase, and if any option is off, the model will not function/train as we expected.
When we initially released our paper, we used a full 3-epoch schedule on the LLaVA-Instruct-158K dataset. The scripts are provided here.
In our later exploration, we introduced LLaVA-Lightning, as we find that a much faster 1-epoch schedule on LLaVA-Instruct-80K can achieve fast convergence and good performance. With LLaVA Lightning, we are able to train, validate, and release LLaVA-LLaMA-2 checkpoints preview on the same day as LLaMA-2 release. If you are interested to learn more about LLaVA Lightning, please continue to the following section.
LLaVA-Lightning can be trained on 8x A100 GPUs in just 3 hours, including both pretraining and finetuning. When using spot instances, it costs just ~$40.
For LLaVA Lightning, we create two distilled subset to ensure both a broad concept coverage, and the efficiency in training. Furthermore, we only perform instruction tuning for 1 epoch, in contrast to 3 epochs in the paper. We find such schedule is effective and can achieve fast convergence and good performance.
For pretraining, we create a concept-balanced subset of LAION-CC-SBU. It consists of 558K images. Download data here.
For instruction tuning, we create a subset of LLaVA-Instruct-150K. It consists of 80K image-instruction pairs, consisting of 40K conversation and 40K complex reasoning data, with non-overlapping images. Download llava_instruct_80k.json
here.
- Pretraining (script)
Hyperparameter | Global Batch Size | Learning rate | Epochs | Max length | Weight decay |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LLaVA-Lightning | 128 | 2e-3 | 1 | 2048 | 0 |
- Visual Instruction Tuning (script)
Hyperparameter | Global Batch Size | Learning rate | Epochs | Max length | Weight decay |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LLaVA-Lightning | 128 | 2e-5 | 1 | 2048 | 0 |
Thanks to LLaVA-Lightning, we are able to train a checkpoint based on MPT-7B-Chat on 8x A100 GPUs in just 3 hours, including both pretraining and finetuning.
NOTE: This is a research preview of the LLaVA-Lightning based on MPT-7B-chat checkpoint. The usage of the model should comply with MPT-7B-chat license and agreements.
- Usage
You do not need to download our checkpoint, it will directly load from our Hugging Face model: liuhaotian/LLaVA-Lightning-MPT-7B-preview
.
python -m llava.serve.controller --host 0.0.0.0 --port 10000
python -m llava.serve.model_worker --host 0.0.0.0 --controller http://localhost:10000 --port 40000 --worker http://localhost:40000 --model-path liuhaotian/LLaVA-Lightning-MPT-7B-preview
python -m llava.serve.gradio_web_server --controller http://localhost:10000
- Training
We use the same set of training dataset, and the hyperparameters as other Lightning checkpoints.
Our GPT-assisted evaluation pipeline for multimodal modeling is provided for a comprehensive understanding of the capabilities of vision-language models. Please see our paper for more details.
- Generate LLaVA responses
python model_vqa.py \
--model-path ./checkpoints/LLaVA-13B-v0 \
--question-file \
playground/data/coco2014_val_qa_eval/qa90_questions.jsonl \
--image-folder \
/path/to/coco2014_val \
--answers-file \
/path/to/answer-file-our.jsonl
- Evaluate the generated responses. In our case,
answer-file-ref.jsonl
is the response generated by text-only GPT-4 (0314), with the context captions/boxes provided.
OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-***********************************" python llava/eval/eval_gpt_review_visual.py \
--question playground/data/coco2014_val_qa_eval/qa90_questions.jsonl \
--context llava/eval/table/caps_boxes_coco2014_val_80.jsonl \
--answer-list \
/path/to/answer-file-ref.jsonl \
/path/to/answer-file-our.jsonl \
--rule llava/eval/table/rule.json \
--output /path/to/review.json
- Summarize the evaluation results
python summarize_gpt_review.py
Please check out the documentation here.
If you find LLaVA useful for your your research and applications, please cite using this BibTeX:
@misc{liu2023llava,
title={Visual Instruction Tuning},
author={Liu, Haotian and Li, Chunyuan and Wu, Qingyang and Lee, Yong Jae},
publisher={arXiv:2304.08485},
year={2023},
}
- Vicuna: the codebase we built upon, and our base model Vicuna-13B that has the amazing language capabilities!
- Instruction Tuning with GPT-4
- LLaVA-Med: Training a Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Biomedicine in One Day
- Otter: In-Context Multi-Modal Instruction Tuning
For future project ideas, pleae check out:
- SEEM: Segment Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Grounded-Segment-Anything to detect, segment, and generate anything by marrying Grounding DINO and Segment-Anything.