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Today (September 17th, 2024), we introduce NVLM 1.0 , a family of frontier-class multimodal large language models (LLMs) that achieve state-of-the-art results on vision-language tasks, rivaling the leading proprietary models (e.g., GPT-4o) and open-access models (e.g., Llama 3-V 405B and InternVL 2). Remarkably, NVLM 1.0 shows improved text-only performance over its LLM backbone after multimodal training.

In this repo, we are open-sourcing NVLM-1.0-D-72B (decoder-only architecture), the decoder-only model weights and code for the community.

Other Resources

Inference Code (HF) Training Code (Coming soon) Website Paper

Benchmark Results

We train our model with legacy Megatron-LM and adapt the codebase to Huggingface for model hosting, reproducibility, and inference. We observe numerical differences between the Megatron and Huggingface codebases, which are within the expected range of variation. We provide the results from both the Huggingface codebase and the Megatron codebase for reproducibility and comparison with other models.

Results (as of September 17th, 2024) in the multimodal benchmarks are as follows:

Benchmark MMMU (val / test) MathVista OCRBench AI2D ChartQA DocVQA TextVQA RealWorldQA VQAv2
NVLM-D 1.0 72B (Huggingface) 58.7 / 54.9 65.2 852 94.2 86.0 92.6 82.6 69.5 85.4
NVLM-D 1.0 72B (Megatron) 59.7 / 54.6 65.2 853 94.2 86.0 92.6 82.1 69.7 85.4
Llama 3.2 90B 60.3 / - 57.3 - 92.3 85.5 90.1 - - 78.1
Llama 3-V 70B 60.6 / - - - 93.0 83.2 92.2 83.4 - 79.1
Llama 3-V 405B 64.5 / - - - 94.1 85.8 92.6 84.8 - 80.2
InternVL2-Llama3-76B 55.2 / - 65.5 839 94.8 88.4 94.1 84.4 72.2 -
GPT-4V 56.8 / 55.7 49.9 645 78.2 78.5 88.4 78.0 61.4 77.2
GPT-4o 69.1 / - 63.8 736 94.2 85.7 92.8 - - -
Claude 3.5 Sonnet 68.3 / - 67.7 788 94.7 90.8 95.2 - - -
Gemini 1.5 Pro (Aug 2024) 62.2 / - 63.9 754 94.4 87.2 93.1 78.7 70.4 80.2
How to use

When converting Megatron checkpoint to Huggingface, we adapt InternVL codebase to support model loading and multi-GPU inference in HF. For training, please refer to Megatron-LM (Coming soon) .

Prepare the environment

We provide a docker build file in the Dockerfile for reproduction.

The docker image is based on nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:23.09-py3 .

Note: We observe that different transformer versions / CUDA versions / docker versions can lead to slight benchmark number differences. We recommend using the Dockerfile above for precise reproduction.

Model loading
import torch
from transformers import AutoModel

path = "nvidia/NVLM-D-72B"
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=False,
    trust_remote_code=True).eval()
Multiple GPUs

The model can be loaded on multiple GPUs as follows:

import torch
import math
from transformers import AutoModel

def split_model():
    device_map = {}
    world_size = torch.cuda.device_count()
    num_layers = 80
    # Since the first GPU will be used for ViT, treat it as half a GPU.
    num_layers_per_gpu = math.ceil(num_layers / (world_size - 0.5))
    num_layers_per_gpu = [num_layers_per_gpu] * world_size
    num_layers_per_gpu[0] = math.ceil(num_layers_per_gpu[0] * 0.5)
    layer_cnt = 0
    for i, num_layer in enumerate(num_layers_per_gpu):
        for j in range(num_layer):
            device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{layer_cnt}'] = i
            layer_cnt += 1
    device_map['vision_model'] = 0
    device_map['mlp1'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.tok_embeddings'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.embed_tokens'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.output'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.norm'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.lm_head'] = 0
    device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{num_layers - 1}'] = 0

    return device_map

path = "nvidia/NVLM-D-72B"
device_map = split_model()
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=False,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    device_map=device_map).eval()
Inference
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
import math
from PIL import Image
import torchvision.transforms as T
from torchvision.transforms.functional import InterpolationMode


def split_model():
    device_map = {}
    world_size = torch.cuda.device_count()
    num_layers = 80
    # Since the first GPU will be used for ViT, treat it as half a GPU.
    num_layers_per_gpu = math.ceil(num_layers / (world_size - 0.5))
    num_layers_per_gpu = [num_layers_per_gpu] * world_size
    num_layers_per_gpu[0] = math.ceil(num_layers_per_gpu[0] * 0.5)
    layer_cnt = 0
    for i, num_layer in enumerate(num_layers_per_gpu):
        for j in range(num_layer):
            device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{layer_cnt}'] = i
            layer_cnt += 1
    device_map['vision_model'] = 0
    device_map['mlp1'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.tok_embeddings'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.embed_tokens'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.output'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.model.norm'] = 0
    device_map['language_model.lm_head'] = 0
    device_map[f'language_model.model.layers.{num_layers - 1}'] = 0

    return device_map


IMAGENET_MEAN = (0.485, 0.456, 0.406)
IMAGENET_STD = (0.229, 0.224, 0.225)


def build_transform(input_size):
    MEAN, STD = IMAGENET_MEAN, IMAGENET_STD
    transform = T.Compose([
        T.Lambda(lambda img: img.convert('RGB') if img.mode != 'RGB' else img),
        T.Resize((input_size, input_size), interpolation=InterpolationMode.BICUBIC),
        T.ToTensor(),
        T.Normalize(mean=MEAN, std=STD)
    ])
    return transform


def find_closest_aspect_ratio(aspect_ratio, target_ratios, width, height, image_size):
    best_ratio_diff = float('inf')
    best_ratio = (1, 1)
    area = width * height
    for ratio in target_ratios:
        target_aspect_ratio = ratio[0] / ratio[1]
        ratio_diff = abs(aspect_ratio - target_aspect_ratio)
        if ratio_diff < best_ratio_diff:
            best_ratio_diff = ratio_diff
            best_ratio = ratio
        elif ratio_diff == best_ratio_diff:
            if area > 0.5 * image_size * image_size * ratio[0] * ratio[1]:
                best_ratio = ratio
    return best_ratio


def dynamic_preprocess(image, min_num=1, max_num=12, image_size=448, use_thumbnail=False):
    orig_width, orig_height = image.size
    aspect_ratio = orig_width / orig_height

    # calculate the existing image aspect ratio
    target_ratios = set(
        (i, j) for n in range(min_num, max_num + 1) for i in range(1, n + 1) for j in range(1, n + 1) if
        i * j <= max_num and i * j >= min_num)
    target_ratios = sorted(target_ratios, key=lambda x: x[0] * x[1])

    # find the closest aspect ratio to the target
    target_aspect_ratio = find_closest_aspect_ratio(
        aspect_ratio, target_ratios, orig_width, orig_height, image_size)

    # calculate the target width and height
    target_width = image_size * target_aspect_ratio[0]
    target_height = image_size * target_aspect_ratio[1]
    blocks = target_aspect_ratio[0] * target_aspect_ratio[1]

    # resize the image
    resized_img = image.resize((target_width, target_height))
    processed_images = []
    for i in range(blocks):
        box = (
            (i % (target_width // image_size)) * image_size,
            (i // (target_width // image_size)) * image_size,
            ((i % (target_width // image_size)) + 1) * image_size,
            ((i // (target_width // image_size)) + 1) * image_size
        )
        # split the image
        split_img = resized_img.crop(box)
        processed_images.append(split_img)
    assert len(processed_images) == blocks
    if use_thumbnail and len(processed_images) != 1:
        thumbnail_img = image.resize((image_size, image_size))
        processed_images.append(thumbnail_img)
    return processed_images


def load_image(image_file, input_size=448, max_num=12):
    image = Image.open(image_file).convert('RGB')
    transform = build_transform(input_size=input_size)
    images = dynamic_preprocess(image, image_size=input_size, use_thumbnail=True, max_num=max_num)
    pixel_values = [transform(image) for image in images]
    pixel_values = torch.stack(pixel_values)
    return pixel_values

path = "nvidia/NVLM-D-72B"
device_map = split_model()
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
    path,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    use_flash_attn=False,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    device_map=device_map).eval()

print(model)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path, trust_remote_code=True, use_fast=False)
generation_config = dict(max_new_tokens=1024, do_sample=False)

# pure-text conversation
question = 'Hello, who are you?'
response, history = model.chat(tokenizer, None, question, generation_config, history=None, return_history=True)
print(f'User: {question}\nAssistant: {response}')

# single-image single-round conversation
pixel_values = load_image('path/to/your/example/image.jpg', max_num=6).to(
    torch.bfloat16)
question = '<image>\nPlease describe the image shortly.'
response = model.chat(tokenizer, pixel_values, question, generation_config)
print(f'User: {question}\nAssistant: {response}')
Correspondence to

Wenliang Dai* ( [email protected] ), Nayeon Lee* ( [email protected] ), Boxin Wang* ( [email protected] ), Zhuolin Yang* ( [email protected] ), Wei Ping* ( [email protected] )

*Equal contribution

Citation
@article{nvlm2024,
  title={NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs},
  author={Dai, Wenliang and Lee, Nayeon and Wang, Boxin and Yang, Zhuolin and Liu, Zihan and Barker, Jon and Rintamaki, Tuomas and Shoeybi, Mohammad and Catanzaro, Bryan and Ping, Wei},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2024}}
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