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🚀 PaliGemma 2 Model Card
PaliGemma 2 is a vision - language model that takes both image and text as input and generates text output, supporting multiple languages. It is designed for excellent fine - tune performance on a wide range of vision - language tasks.
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Model page: PaliGemma
Transformers PaliGemma 2 10B weights are pre - trained with 448*448 input images and 512 token input/output text sequences. The model is available in the bfloat16
format for fine - tuning.
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Authors: Google
✨ Features
Model information
Model summary
PaliGemma 2 is an update of the PaliGemma vision - language model (VLM) which incorporates the capabilities of the Gemma 2 models. The PaliGemma family of models is inspired by PaLI - 3 and based on open components such as the SigLIP vision model and Gemma 2 language models. It takes both image and text as input and generates text as output, supporting multiple languages. It is designed for class - leading fine - tune performance on a wide range of vision - language tasks such as image and short video caption, visual question answering, text reading, object detection and object segmentation.
Model architecture
PaliGemma 2 is the composition of a Transformer decoder and a Vision Transformer image encoder. The text decoder is initialized from Gemma 2 in the 2B, 9B, and 27B parameter sizes. The image encoder is initialized from SigLIP - So400m/14. Similar to the original PaliGemma model, PaliGemma 2 is trained following the PaLI - 3 recipes.
Inputs and outputs
- Input: Image and text string, such as a prompt to caption the image, or a question.
- Output: Generated text in response to the input, such as a caption of the image, an answer to a question, a list of object bounding box coordinates, or segmentation codewords.
Citation
@article{
title={PaliGemma 2: A Family of Versatile VLMs for Transfer},
author={Andreas Steiner and André Susano Pinto and Michael Tschannen and Daniel Keysers and Xiao Wang and Yonatan Bitton and Alexey Gritsenko and Matthias Minderer and Anthony Sherbondy and Shangbang Long and Siyang Qin and Reeve Ingle and Emanuele Bugliarello and Sahar Kazemzadeh and Thomas Mesnard and Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin and Lucas Beyer and Xiaohua Zhai},
year={2024},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03555}
}
Model data
Pre - train datasets
PaliGemma 2 is pre - trained on the following mixture of datasets:
- WebLI: WebLI (Web Language Image) is a web - scale multilingual image - text dataset built from the public web. A wide range of WebLI splits are used to acquire versatile model capabilities, such as visual semantic understanding, object localization, visually - situated text understanding, and multilinguality.
- CC3M - 35L: Curated English image - alt_text pairs from webpages (Sharma et al., 2018). We used the Google Cloud Translation API to translate into 34 additional languages.
- VQ²A - CC3M - 35L/VQG - CC3M - 35L: A subset of VQ2A - CC3M (Changpinyo et al., 2022a), translated into the same additional 34 languages as CC3M - 35L, using the Google Cloud Translation API.
- OpenImages: Detection and object - aware questions and answers (Piergiovanni et al. 2022) generated by handcrafted rules on the OpenImages dataset.
- WIT: Images and texts collected from Wikipedia (Srinivasan et al., 2021).
PaliGemma 2 is based on Gemma 2, and you can find information on the pre - training datasets for Gemma 2 in the Gemma 2 model card.
Data responsibility filtering
The following filters are applied to WebLI, with the goal of training PaliGemma 2 on safe and responsible data:
- Pornographic image filtering: This filter removes images deemed to be of pornographic nature.
- Text safety filtering: We identify and filter out images that are paired with unsafe text. Unsafe text is any text deemed to contain or be about child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI), pornography, vulgarities, or is otherwise offensive.
- Text toxicity filtering: We further use the Perspective API to identify and filter out images that are paired with text deemed insulting, obscene, hateful or otherwise toxic.
- Text personal information filtering: We filtered certain personal information and other sensitive data using the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to protect the privacy of individuals. Identifiers such as social security numbers and other sensitive information types were removed.
- Additional methods: Filtering based on content quality and safety in line with our policies and practices.
💻 Usage Examples
Basic Usage
The following snippet uses model google/paligemma2-10b-pt-448
for reference purposes. It is a base model and is recommended to use after fine - tuning it on a downstream task.
Here is a notebook that showcases fine - tuning PaliGemma 2.
from transformers import (
PaliGemmaProcessor,
PaliGemmaForConditionalGeneration,
)
from transformers.image_utils import load_image
import torch
model_id = "google/paligemma2-10b-pt-448"
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/car.jpg"
image = load_image(url)
model = PaliGemmaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto").eval()
processor = PaliGemmaProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
# Leaving the prompt blank for pre-trained models
prompt = ""
model_inputs = processor(text=prompt, images=image, return_tensors="pt").to(torch.bfloat16).to(model.device)
input_len = model_inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]
with torch.inference_mode():
generation = model.generate(**model_inputs, max_new_tokens=100, do_sample=False)
generation = generation[0][input_len:]
decoded = processor.decode(generation, skip_special_tokens=True)
print(decoded)
🔧 Technical Details
Hardware
PaliGemma 2 was trained using the latest generation of Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware (TPUv5e).
Software
Training was completed using JAX, Flax, TFDS and big_vision
.
JAX allows researchers to take advantage of the latest generation of hardware, including TPUs, for faster and more efficient training of large models.
TFDS is used to access datasets and Flax is used for model architecture. The PaliGemma 2 fine - tune code and inference code are released in the big_vision
GitHub repository.
📚 Documentation
Benchmark results
In order to verify the transferability of PaliGemma 2 to a wide variety of academic tasks, we fine - tune the pretrained models on each task. We report results on different resolutions to provide an impression of which tasks benefit from increased resolution. Importantly, none of these tasks or datasets are part of the pretraining data mixture, and their images are explicitly removed from the web - scale pre - training data.
PaliGemma 2 results by model resolution and size
Benchmark | 224 - 3B | 224 - 10B | 224 - 28B | 448 - 3B | 448 - 10B | 448 - 28B |
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[AI2D][ai2d] | 74.7 | 83.1 | 83.2 | 76.0 | 84.4 | 84.6 |
[AOKVQA - DA][aokvqa - da] (val) | 64.2 | 68.9 | 70.2 | 67.9 | 70.8 | 71.2 |
[AOKVQA - MC][aokvqa - mc] (val) | 79.7 | 83.7 | 84.7 | 82.5 | 85.9 | 87.0 |
[ActivityNet - CAP][anet - cap] | 34.2 | 35.9 | - | - | - | - |
[ActivityNet - QA][anet - qa] | 51.3 | 53.2 | - | - | - | - |
[COCO - 35L][coco - 35l] (avg34) | 113.9 | 115.8 | 116.5 | 115.8 | 117.2 | 117.2 |
[COCO - 35L][coco - 35l] (en) | 138.4 | 140.8 | 142.4 | 140.4 | 142.4 | 142.3 |
[COCOcap][coco - cap] | 141.3 | 143.7 | 144.0 | 143.4 | 145.0 | 145.2 |
[ChartQA][chartqa] (aug) | 74.4 | 74.2 | 68.9 | 89.2 | 90.1 | 85.1 |
[ChartQA][chartqa] (human) | 42.0 | 48.4 | 46.8 | 54.0 | 66.4 | 61.3 |
[CountBenchQA][countbenchqa] | 81.0 | 84.0 | 86.4 | 82.0 | 85.3 | 87.4 |
[DocVQA][docvqa] (val) | 39.9 | 43.9 | 44.9 | 73.6 | 76.6 | 76.1 |
[GQA][gqa] | 66.2 | 67.2 | 67.3 | 68.1 | 68.3 | 68.3 |
[InfoVQA][info - vqa] (val) | 25.2 | 33.6 | 36.4 | 37.5 | 47.8 | 46.7 |
[MARVL][marvl] (avg5) | 83.5 | 89.5 | 90.6 | 82.7 | 89.1 | 89.7 |
[MSRVTT - CAP][msrvtt] | 68.5 | 72.1 | - | - | - | - |
[MSRVTT - QA][msrvtt] | 50.5 | 51.9 | - | - | - | - |
[MSVD - QA][msvd - qa] | 61.1 | 62.5 | - | - | - | - |
[NLVR2][nlvr2] | 91.4 | 93.9 | 94.2 | 91.6 | 93.7 | 94.1 |
[NoCaps][nocaps] | 123.1 | 126.3 | 127.1 | 123.5 | 126.9 | 127.0 |
[OCR - VQA][ocr - vqa] | 73.4 | 74.7 | 75.3 | 75.7 | 76.3 | 76.6 |
[OKVQA][okvqa] | 64.2 | 68.0 | 71.2 | 64.1 | 68.6 | 70.6 |
[RSVQA - hr][rsvqa - hr] (test) | 92.7 | 92.6 | 92.7 | 92.8 | 92.8 | 92.8 |
[RSVQA - hr][rsvqa - hr] (test2) | 90.9 | 90.8 | 90.9 | 90.7 | 90.7 | 90.8 |
[RSVQA - lr][rsvqa - lr] | 93.0 | 92.8 | 93.5 | 92.7 | 93.1 | 93.7 |
[RefCOCO][refcoco] (testA) | 75.7 | 77.2 | 76.8 | 78.6 | 79.7 | 79.3 |
[RefCOCO][refcoco] (testB) | 71.0 | 74.2 | 73.9 | 73.5 | 76.2 | 74.8 |
[RefCOCO][refcoco] (val) | 73.4 | 75.9 | 75.0 | 76.3 | 78.2 | 77.3 |
[RefCOCO+][refcoco+] (testA) | 72.7 | 74.7 | 73.6 | 76.1 | 77.7 | 76.6 |
[RefCOCO+][refcoco+] (testB) | 64.2 | 68.4 | 67.1 | 67.0 | 71.1 | 68.6 |
[RefCOCO+][refcoco+] (val) | 68.6 | 72.0 | 70.3 | 72.1 | 74.4 | 72.8 |
[RefCOCOg][refcocog] (test) | 69.0 | 71.9 | 70.7 | 72.7 | 74.8 | 73.7 |
[RefCOCOg][refcocog] (val) | 68.3 | 71.4 | 70.5 | 72.3 | 74.4 | 73.0 |
[ST - VQA][st - vqa] (val) | 61.9 | 64.3 | 65.1 | 80.5 | 82.0 | 81.8 |
[SciCap][scicap] | 165.1 | 159.5 | 156.9 | 183.3 | 177.2 | 172.7 |
[ScienceQA][scienceqa] | 96.1 | 98.2 | 98.2 | 96.2 | 98.5 | 98.6 |
[Screen2Words][screen2words] | 113.3 | 117.8 | 122.8 | 114.0 | 119.1 | 123.4 |
[TallyQA][tallyqa] (complex) | 70.3 | 73.4 | 74.2 | 73.6 | 76.7 | 76.8 |
[TallyQA][tallyqa] (simple) | 81.8 | 83.2 | 83.4 | 85.3 | 86.2 | 85.7 |
[TextCaps][textcaps] | 127.5 | 137.9 | 139.9 | 152.1 | 157.7 | 153.6 |
[TextVQA][textvqa] (val) | 59.6 | 64.0 | 64.7 | 75.2 | 76.6 | 76.2 |
[VATEX][vatex] | 80.8 | 82.7 | - | - | - | - |
📄 License
The license for this model is gemma.






