Instructions to use unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf

SGLang

How to use unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Unsloth Desktop
Docker Model Runner
How to use unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf
```

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 1.6 (7B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

And a free notebook for Llama 3.2 Vision (11B) here

unsloth/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf

For more details on the model, please go to the original model card

✨ 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	2.4x faster	58% less
Llama-3.2 (11B vision)	▶️ Start on Colab	2x faster	40% less
Qwen2 VL (7B)	▶️ Start on Colab	1.8x faster	40% less
Qwen2.5 (7B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2x faster	60% less
Llama-3.1 (8B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Phi-3.5 (mini)	▶️ Start on Colab	2x faster	50% less
Gemma 2 (9B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.4x faster	58% less
Mistral (7B)	▶️ Start on Colab	2.2x faster	62% less
DPO - Zephyr	▶️ Start on Colab	1.9x faster	19% less

This conversational notebook is useful for ShareGPT ChatML / Vicuna templates.
This text completion notebook is for raw text. This DPO notebook replicates Zephyr.
* Kaggle has 2x T4s, but we use 1. Due to overhead, 1x T4 is 5x faster.

LLaVa-Next, leveraging mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 as LLM

The LLaVA-NeXT model was proposed in LLaVA-NeXT: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge by Haotian Liu, Chunyuan Li, Yuheng Li, Bo Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Sheng Shen, Yong Jae Lee. LLaVa-NeXT (also called LLaVa-1.6) improves upon LLaVa-1.5 by increasing the input image resolution and training on an improved visual instruction tuning dataset to improve OCR and common sense reasoning.

Disclaimer: The team releasing LLaVa-NeXT did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team.

Model description

LLaVa combines a pre-trained large language model with a pre-trained vision encoder for multimodal chatbot use cases. LLaVA 1.6 improves on LLaVA 1.5 BY:

Using Mistral-7B (for this checkpoint) and Nous-Hermes-2-Yi-34B which has better commercial licenses, and bilingual support
More diverse and high quality data mixture
Dynamic high resolution

Intended uses & limitations

You can use the raw model for tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, multimodal chatbot use cases. See the model hub to look for other versions on a task that interests you.

How to use

Here's the prompt template for this model:

"[INST] <image>\nWhat is shown in this image? [/INST]"

You can load and use the model like following:

from transformers import LlavaNextProcessor, LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration
import torch
from PIL import Image
import requests

processor = LlavaNextProcessor.from_pretrained("llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf")

model = LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf", torch_dtype=torch.float16, low_cpu_mem_usage=True) 
model.to("cuda:0")

# prepare image and text prompt, using the appropriate prompt template
url = "https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA/blob/1a91fc274d7c35a9b50b3cb29c4247ae5837ce39/images/llava_v1_5_radar.jpg?raw=true"
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 is shown in this image?"},
          {"type": "image"},
        ],
    },
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)

inputs = processor(images=image, text=prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda:0")

# autoregressively complete prompt
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)

print(processor.decode(output[0], 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:

model = LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration.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 regarding that package installation. Simply change the snippet above with:

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

BibTeX entry and citation info

@misc{liu2023improved,
      title={Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning}, 
      author={Haotian Liu and Chunyuan Li and Yuheng Li and Yong Jae Lee},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2310.03744},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

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