---
base_model: llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
license: llama2
tags:
- multimodal
- llava
- vision
- unsloth
---

# Finetune Llama 3.2, Qwen 2.5, Gemma 2, Mistral 2-5x faster with 70% less memory via Unsloth!

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llava 1.5 (7B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

And a free notebook for [Llama 3.2 Vision (11B) here](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1j0N4XTY1zXXy7mPAhOC1_gMYZ2F2EBlk?usp=sharing)

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# unsloth/llava-1.5-7b-hf
For more details on the model, please go to the original [model card](https://huggingface.co/llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf/)

## ✨ Finetune for Free

All notebooks are **beginner friendly**! Add your dataset, click "Run All", and you'll get a 2x faster finetuned model which can be exported to GGUF, vLLM or uploaded to Hugging Face.

| Unsloth supports          |    Free Notebooks                                                                                           | Performance | Memory use |
|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|----------|
| **Llama-3.2 (3B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing)               | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| **Llama-3.2 (11B vision)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1j0N4XTY1zXXy7mPAhOC1_gMYZ2F2EBlk?usp=sharing)               | 2x faster | 40% less |
| **Qwen2 VL (7B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing)               | 1.8x faster | 40% less |
| **Qwen2.5 (7B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Kose-ucXO1IBaZq5BvbwWieuubP7hxvQ?usp=sharing)               | 2x faster | 60% less |
| **Llama-3.1 (8B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing)               | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| **Phi-3.5 (mini)** | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1lN6hPQveB_mHSnTOYifygFcrO8C1bxq4?usp=sharing)               | 2x faster | 50% less |
| **Gemma 2 (9B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1vIrqH5uYDQwsJ4-OO3DErvuv4pBgVwk4?usp=sharing)               | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| **Mistral (7B)**    | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Dyauq4kTZoLewQ1cApceUQVNcnnNTzg_?usp=sharing)               | 2.2x faster | 62% less |
| **DPO - Zephyr**     | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15vttTpzzVXv_tJwEk-hIcQ0S9FcEWvwP?usp=sharing)               | 1.9x faster | 19% less |

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- This [conversational notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Aau3lgPzeZKQ-98h69CCu1UJcvIBLmy2?usp=sharing) is useful for ShareGPT ChatML / Vicuna templates.
- This [text completion notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ef-tab5bhkvWmBOObepl1WgJvfvSzn5Q?usp=sharing) is for raw text. This [DPO notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15vttTpzzVXv_tJwEk-hIcQ0S9FcEWvwP?usp=sharing) replicates Zephyr.
- \* Kaggle has 2x T4s, but we use 1. Due to overhead, 1x T4 is 5x faster.


### Llava 1.5 Details

**Model type:**
LLaVA is an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA/Vicuna on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data.
It is an auto-regressive language model, based on the transformer architecture.

**Model date:**
LLaVA-v1.5-7B was trained in September 2023.

**Paper or resources for more information:**
https://llava-vl.github.io/

## How to use the model

First, make sure to have `transformers >= 4.35.3`. 
The model supports multi-image and multi-prompt generation. Meaning that you can pass multiple images in your prompt. Make sure also to follow the correct prompt template (`USER: xxx\nASSISTANT:`) and add the token `<image>` to the location where you want to query images:

### Using `pipeline`:

Below we used [`"llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf"`](https://huggingface.co/llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf) checkpoint.

```python
from transformers import pipeline, AutoProcessor
from PIL import Image    
import requests

model_id = "llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf"
pipe = pipeline("image-to-text", model=model_id)
url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg"
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

# Define a chat history and use `apply_chat_template` to get correctly formatted prompt
# Each value in "content" has to be a list of dicts with types ("text", "image") 
conversation = [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
          {"type": "text", "text": "What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud"},
          {"type": "image"},
        ],
    },
]
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)

prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)

outputs = pipe(image, prompt=prompt, generate_kwargs={"max_new_tokens": 200})
print(outputs)
>>> {"generated_text": "\nUSER: What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud\nASSISTANT: Lava"}
```

### Using pure `transformers`:

Below is an example script to run generation in `float16` precision on a GPU device:

```python
import requests
from PIL import Image

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, LlavaForConditionalGeneration

model_id = "llava-hf/llava-1.5-7b-hf"
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True, 
).to(0)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Define a chat histiry and use `apply_chat_template` to get correctly formatted prompt
# Each value in "content" has to be a list of dicts with types ("text", "image") 
conversation = [
    {

      "role": "user",
      "content": [
          {"type": "text", "text": "What are these?"},
          {"type": "image"},
        ],
    },
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)

image_file = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(image_file, stream=True).raw)
inputs = processor(images=raw_image, text=prompt, return_tensors='pt').to(0, torch.float16)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False)
print(processor.decode(output[0][2:], skip_special_tokens=True))
```

### Model optimization

#### 4-bit quantization through `bitsandbytes` library

First make sure to install `bitsandbytes`, `pip install bitsandbytes` and make sure to have access to a CUDA compatible GPU device. Simply change the snippet above with: 

```diff
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   load_in_4bit=True
)
```

#### Use Flash-Attention 2 to further speed-up generation

First make sure to install `flash-attn`. Refer to the [original repository of Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention) regarding that package installation. Simply change the snippet above with: 

```diff
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id, 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   use_flash_attention_2=True
).to(0)
```

## License
Llama 2 is licensed under the LLAMA 2 Community License, 
Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.