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---
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- vidore
base_model: google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384
---
# BiSigLip: Visual Retriever based on PaliGemma-3B with ColBERT strategy
ColPali is a model based on a novel model architecture and training strategy based on Vision Language Models (VLMs) to efficiently index documents from their visual features.
It is a [PaliGemma-3B](https://huggingface.co/google/paligemma-3b-mix-448) extension that generates [ColBERT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12832)- style multi-vector representations of text and images.
It was introduced in the paper [ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models[add link]]() and first released in [this repository](https://github.com/ManuelFay/colpali)
## Model Description
This model is built iteratively, starting from an off-the-shelf [Siglip](https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384) model. We finetuned it to create *BiSigLip*.
## Model Training
### Dataset
Our training dataset of 127,460 query-page pairs is comprised of train sets of openly available academic datasets (63%) and a synthetic dataset made up of pages from web-crawled PDF documents and augmented with VLM-generated (Claude-3 Sonnet) pseudo-questions (37%).
Our training set is fully English by design, enabling us to study zero-shot generalization to non-English languages. We explicitly verify no multi-page PDF document is used both [*ViDoRe*](https://huggingface.co/collections/vidore/vidore-benchmark-667173f98e70a1c0fa4db00d) and in the train set to prevent evaluation contamination.
A validation set is created with 2% of the samples to tune hyperparameters.
*Note: Multilingual data is present in the pretraining corpus of the language model (Gemma-2B) and potentially occurs during PaliGemma-3B's multimodal training.*
### Parameters
All models are trained for 1 epoch on the train set. Unless specified otherwise, we train models in `bfloat16` format, use low-rank adapters ([LoRA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685))
with `alpha=32` and `r=32` on the transformer layers from the language model,
as well as the final randomly initialized projection layer, and use a `paged_adamw_8bit` optimizer.
We train on an 8 GPU setup with data parallelism, a learning rate of 5e-5 with linear decay with 2.5% warmup steps, and a batch size of 32.
## Intended uses
#TODO
## Limitations
- **Focus**: The model primarily focuses on PDF-type documents and high-ressources languages, potentially limiting its generalization to other document types or less represented languages.
- **Support**: The model relies on multi-vector retreiving derived from the ColBERT late interaction mechanism, which may require engineering efforts to adapt to widely used vector retrieval frameworks that lack native multi-vector support.
## License
ColPali based model (PaliGemma) is under `gemma` license as specified in its [model card](https://huggingface.co/google/paligemma-3b-mix-448). The adapters attached to the model are under MIT license.
## Contact
- Manuel Faysse: [email protected]
- Hugues Sibille: [email protected]
- Tony Wu: [email protected]
## Citation
If you use any datasets or models from this organization in your research, please cite the original dataset as follows:
```bibtex
@misc{faysse2024colpaliefficientdocumentretrieval,
title={ColPali: Efficient Document Retrieval with Vision Language Models},
author={Manuel Faysse and Hugues Sibille and Tony Wu and Gautier Viaud and Céline Hudelot and Pierre Colombo},
year={2024},
eprint={2407.01449},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.IR},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449},
}
```