Xgen Mm Phi3 Mini Instruct Singleimg R V1.5

🚀 xGen-MM: A Series of Large Multimodal Models

xGen-MM is a series of the latest foundational Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) developed by Salesforce AI Research. It builds on the successful designs of the BLIP series, with fundamental enhancements for a more robust and superior foundation. These models are trained at scale on high - quality image caption datasets and interleaved image - text data.

🚀 Quick Start

To use our model, check out our inference notebook for example code. We also offer an example script for batch inference.

✨ Features

Model Variants

In the v1.5 (08/2024) release, we present the following XGen-MM models:

• 🤖 xGen-MM-instruct-interleave (our main instruct model): xgen-mm-phi3-mini-instruct-interleave-r-v1.5
  • This model outperforms xGen-MM-instruct on both single - image and multi - image benchmarks.
• 🤖 xGen-MM-base: xgen-mm-phi3-mini-base-r-v1.5
• 🤖 xGen-MM-instruct: xgen-mm-phi3-mini-instruct-singleimg-r-v1.5
• 🤖 xGen-MM-instruct-dpo: xgen-mm-phi3-mini-instruct-dpo-r-v1.5

For more details, refer to our tech report, fine - tuning code, and project page (coming soon).

📚 Documentation

Results

Single - image benchmarks

* GPT - 4V(gpt - 4 - 1106 - preview) results are taken from this third - party leaderborad.
** Model results are tested with our evaluation code for a fair comparison.

Reproducibility

Our evaluation is implemented based on [open - compass/VLMEvalKit](https://github.com/open - compass/VLMEvalKit). We will create a PR to that repo to support XGen - MM evaluation.

Bias, Risks, Limitations, and Ethical Considerations

⚠️ Important Note

The main data sources are from the internet, including webpages, image stock sites, and curated datasets released by the research community. We have excluded certain data, such as LAION, due to known CSAM concerns. The model may be subject to bias from the original data source, as well as bias from LLMs and commercial APIs. We strongly recommend users assess safety and fairness before applying to downstream applications.

💡 Usage Tip

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.

📄 License

Our code and weights are released under the [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE - 2.0.txt) license.

🔧 Technical Details

Code Acknowledgment

Our training code is based on OpenFlamingo: An open - source framework for training large multimodal models., and part of our data preprocessing code is adapted from [LLaVA](https://github.com/haotian - liu/LLaVA). The evaluation code for the instruct models is based on [VLMEvalKit: Open - source evaluation toolkit of large vision - language models (LVLMs)](https://github.com/open - compass/VLMEvalKit). We thank the authors for their open - source implementations.

Citation

@misc{blip3 - xgenmm,
  author          = {Le Xue, Manli Shu, Anas Awadalla, Jun Wang, An Yan, Senthil Purushwalkam, Honglu Zhou, Viraj Prabhu, Yutong Dai, Michael S Ryoo, Shrikant Kendre, Jieyu Zhang, Can Qin, Shu Zhang, Chia - Chih Chen, Ning Yu, Juntao Tan, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Yejin Choi, Ludwig Schmidt, Zeyuan Chen, Silvio Savarese, Juan Carlos Niebles, Caiming Xiong, Ran Xu},
  title           = {xGen - MM (BLIP - 3): A Family of Open Large Multimodal Models},
  year            = {2024},
  eprint          = {2408.08872},
  archivePrefix   = {arXiv},
  primaryClass    = {cs.CV},
  url             = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08872}, 
}

Troubleshoot

If you missed any packages, consider the following:

pip install torch==2.2.1 torchvision==0.17.1 torchaudio==2.2.1 --index - url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121
pip install open_clip_torch==2.24.0
pip install einops
pip install einops - exts
pip install transformers==4.41.1