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PE Video

PE Video is the video branch of Meta’s Perception Encoder family. It contrastively aligns video clips with text into a shared embedding space, enabling zero-shot video classification and video–text retrieval from a single pretrained backbone.

The encoder’s rotary embeddings and patch embedder treat the temporal axis as a first-class dimension, so variable-length clips can be encoded without tiling each frame independently.

You can find all the official PE Audio checkpoints under the perception-encoder-audio-visual collection.

Quickstart

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, PeVideoModel
from transformers.video_utils import load_video

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("facebook/pe-av-large")
model = PeVideoModel.from_pretrained(
    "facebook/pe-av-large",
    device_map="auto",
)

video, _ = load_video("https://huggingface.co/datasets/hf-internal-testing/fixtures_videos/resolve/main/tennis.mp4")
labels = ["a person playing tennis", "a person cooking", "a cat sleeping"]

video_inputs = processor.video_processor(video, num_frames=16, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
text_inputs = processor.tokenizer(labels, padding=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
inputs = {**video_inputs, **text_inputs}

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model(**inputs)

probs = outputs.logits_video_text.sigmoid()
print({label: p.item() for label, p in zip(labels, probs[0])})

Usage tips and notes

Variable-length videos use padding_mask_videos (not attention_mask). The video processor only pads and returns this mask when return_tensors is set — without it you get a list of per-clip tensors and no mask.
Pass num_frames to the video processor for fixed-length uniform sampling across [0, total_frames-1]. Omit it to fall back to fps-based sampling from the base class. Checkpoints are usually trained at a specific frame count, so match what the checkpoint expects.
Encoder input is pixel_values_videos. The encoder’s main_input_name is "pixel_values_videos" while the full model’s is "input_ids", which matters when routing through generic utilities that inspect main_input_name.

PeVideoConfig

class transformers.PeVideoConfig

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Parameters

text_config (Union[dict, ~configuration_utils.PreTrainedConfig], optional) — The config object or dictionary of the text backbone.
video_config (dict or PreTrainedConfig, optional) — Configuration for the video encoder component.

This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a PeVideoModel. It is used to instantiate a Pe Video model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. Instantiating a configuration with the defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the facebook/pe-av-large

Configuration objects inherit from PreTrainedConfig and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the documentation from PreTrainedConfig for more information.

>>> from transformers import PeVideoModel, PeVideoConfig

>>> # Initializing a PeVideoModel style configuration
>>> configuration = PeVideoConfig()

>>> # Initializing a model from the pe-av-large style configuration
>>> model = PeVideoModel(configuration)

>>> # Accessing the model configuration
>>> configuration = model.config

PeVideoEncoderConfig

class transformers.PeVideoEncoderConfig

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( transformers_version: str | None = None architectures: list[str] | None = None output_hidden_states: bool | None = False return_dict: bool | None = True dtype: typing.Union[str, ForwardRef('torch.dtype'), NoneType] = None chunk_size_feed_forward: int = 0 is_encoder_decoder: bool = False id2label: dict[int, str] | dict[str, str] | None = None label2id: dict[str, int] | dict[str, str] | None = None problem_type: typing.Optional[typing.Literal['regression', 'single_label_classification', 'multi_label_classification']] = None vision_config: dict | transformers.configuration_utils.PreTrainedConfig | None = None hidden_size: int = 1792 intermediate_size: int = 4800 num_hidden_layers: int = 6 num_attention_heads: int = 14 num_key_value_heads: int | None = None head_dim: int = 128 hidden_act: str = 'silu' max_position_embeddings: int = 10000 initializer_range: float = 0.02 rms_norm_eps: float = 1e-05 rope_parameters: transformers.modeling_rope_utils.RopeParameters | dict | None = None attention_bias: bool = False attention_dropout: float | int = 0.0 )

Parameters

vision_config (Union[dict, ~configuration_utils.PreTrainedConfig], optional) — The config object or dictionary of the vision backbone.
hidden_size (int, optional, defaults to 1792) — Dimension of the hidden representations.
intermediate_size (int, optional, defaults to 4800) — Dimension of the MLP representations.
num_hidden_layers (int, optional, defaults to 6) — Number of hidden layers in the Transformer decoder.
num_attention_heads (int, optional, defaults to 14) — Number of attention heads for each attention layer in the Transformer decoder.
num_key_value_heads (int, optional) — This is the number of key_value heads that should be used to implement Grouped Query Attention. If num_key_value_heads=num_attention_heads, the model will use Multi Head Attention (MHA), if num_key_value_heads=1 the model will use Multi Query Attention (MQA) otherwise GQA is used. When converting a multi-head checkpoint to a GQA checkpoint, each group key and value head should be constructed by meanpooling all the original heads within that group. For more details, check out this paper. If it is not specified, will default to num_attention_heads.
head_dim (int, optional, defaults to 128) — The attention head dimension. If None, it will default to hidden_size // num_attention_heads
hidden_act (str, optional, defaults to silu) — The non-linear activation function (function or string) in the decoder. For example, "gelu", "relu", "silu", etc.
max_position_embeddings (int, optional, defaults to 10000) — The maximum sequence length that this model might ever be used with.
initializer_range (float, optional, defaults to 0.02) — The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer for initializing all weight matrices.
rms_norm_eps (float, optional, defaults to 1e-05) — The epsilon used by the rms normalization layers.
rope_parameters (Union[~modeling_rope_utils.RopeParameters, dict], optional) — Dictionary containing the configuration parameters for the RoPE embeddings. The dictionary should contain a value for rope_theta and optionally parameters used for scaling in case you want to use RoPE with longer max_position_embeddings.
attention_bias (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether to use a bias in the query, key, value and output projection layers during self-attention.
attention_dropout (Union[float, int], optional, defaults to 0.0) — The dropout ratio for the attention probabilities.

Configuration objects inherit from PreTrainedConfig and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the documentation from PreTrainedConfig for more information.

Example:

>>> from transformers import PeAudioEncoder, PeAudioEncoderConfig

>>> # Initializing a PeAudioEncoder style configuration
>>> configuration = PeAudioEncoderConfig()

>>> # Initializing a model from the pe-av-large style configuration
>>> model = PeAudioEncoder(configuration)

>>> # Accessing the model configuration
>>> configuration = model.config

PeVideoVideoProcessor

class transformers.PeVideoVideoProcessor

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( **kwargs: typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.processing_utils.VideosKwargs] )

PeVideoProcessor

class transformers.PeVideoProcessor

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( *args **kwargs )

PeVideoEncoder

class transformers.PeVideoEncoder

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( config: PeVideoEncoderConfig )

Parameters

config (PeVideoEncoderConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

The PeVideo Encoder model.

This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

forward

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( pixel_values_videos: Tensor padding_mask_videos: torch.Tensor | None = None **kwargs )

PeVideoModel

class transformers.PeVideoModel

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( config: PeVideoConfig )

forward

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( input_ids: Tensor pixel_values_videos: Tensor attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None padding_mask_videos: torch.Tensor | None = None return_loss: bool | None = None **kwargs )

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