---
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
datasets:
- liuhaotian/LLaVA-Pretrain
- liuhaotian/LLaVA-Instruct-150K
---
# 😈 Imp
\[[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12107)\]  [[Demo](https://xmbot.net/imp/)\]  [[Github](https://github.com/MILVLG/imp)\]

## Introduction

The Imp project aims to provide a family of  a strong multimodal `small` language models (MSLMs). Our `Imp-v1.5-3B-Phi2` is a strong MSLM with only **3B** parameters, which is build upon a small yet powerful SLM [Phi-2 ](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-2)(2.7B) and a powerful visual encoder [SigLIP ](https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384)(0.4B), and trained on 1M mixed dataset.  

As shown in the Table below, `Imp-v1.5-3B-Phi2` significantly outperforms the counterparts of similar model sizes, and even achieves slightly better performance than the strong LLaVA-7B model on various multimodal benchmarks. 

We release our model weights and provide an example below to run our model . Detailed technical report and corresponding training/evaluation code will be released soon on our [GitHub repo](https://github.com/MILVLG/imp). We will persistently improve our model and release the next versions to further improve model performance :) 


## How to use


**Install dependencies**
```bash
pip install transformers # latest version is ok, but we recommend v4.36.0
pip install -q pillow accelerate einops
```

You can use the following code for model inference. The format of text instruction is similar to [LLaVA](https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA). A Colab page to run this example is provided [here](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1EBYky6xIPjnlPppo2gZaiNK6gEsjXgom?usp=drive_link#scrollTo=2-VpU6QzWCVZ). Note that the example can only be run on GPUs currently.

```Python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from PIL import Image

torch.set_default_device("cuda")

#Create model
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "MILVLG/Imp-v1.5-3B-Phi2", 
    torch_dtype=torch.float16, 
    device_map="auto",
    trust_remote_code=True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("MILVLG/Imp-v1.5-3B-Phi2", trust_remote_code=True)

#Set inputs
text = "A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. USER: <image>\nWhat are the colors of the bus in the image? ASSISTANT:"
image = Image.open("images/bus.jpg")

input_ids = tokenizer(text, return_tensors='pt').input_ids
image_tensor = model.image_preprocess(image)

#Generate the answer
output_ids = model.generate(
    input_ids,
    max_new_tokens=100,
    images=image_tensor,
    use_cache=True)[0]
print(tokenizer.decode(output_ids[input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True).strip())
```

## Model evaluation
We conduct evaluation on 9 commonly-used benchmarks, including 5 academic VQA benchmarks and 4 popular MLLM benchmarks, to compare our Imp model with LLaVA (7B) and existing MSLMs of similar model sizes.

| Models | Size | VQAv2 | GQA | SQA(IMG) | TextVQA | POPE |  MME(P) | MMB  |MMBCN  |MM-Vet|
|:--------:|:-----:|:----:|:-------------:|:--------:|:-----:|:----:|:-------:|:-------:|:-------:|:-------:|
| [LLaVA-v1.5-lora](https://huggingface.co/liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-7b) | 7B |79.1 | 63.0|  68.4 |58.2| 86.4 | 1476.9 | 66.1 |- |30.2|
| [TinyGPT-V-3B](https://huggingface.co/Tyrannosaurus/TinyGPT-V) | 3B | - | 38.9  |    -   |    -  | -| - | - |- |-|
| [LaVA-Phi-3B](https://github.com/zhuyiche/llava-phi) | 3B | 71.4  | - |    68.4   |    48.6  | 85.0 | 1335.1 | 59.8 |-|28.9|
| [MobileVLM-3B](https://huggingface.co/mtgv/MobileVLM-3B) | 3B | - | 59.0  |    61.0   |    47.5   | 84.9 | 1288.9 | 59.6 |- |-|
| [MiniCPM-V-3B](https://huggingface.co/mtgv/MobileVLM-3B) | 3B | - |-  | - | - | - |  1452.0 |  67.9 | **65.3**|-|
| [Bunny-3B](https://huggingface.co/visheratin/MC-LLaVA-3b) | 3B |  79.8 |  62.5  |   70.9  |    -  | 86.8| 1488.8 | 68.6 |- |-|
| **Imp-v1.5-3B-Phi2** | 3B | **81.2**  | **63.5** | **72.8**| **59.8** | **88.9**| **1446.4** | **72.9**| 46.7 |**43.3**|

## License
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the [LICENSE](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) file for details.

## About us
This project is maintained by the [MILVLG](https://github.com/MILVLG)@Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU) led by Prof. Zhou Yu and Jun Yu, and is mainly developed by Zhenwei Shao and Xuecheng Ouyang. We hope our model may serve as a strong baseline to inspire future research on MSLM, as well as its derivative applications on mobile devices and robots. 

## Citation

If you use our model or refer our work in your studies, please cite:

```bibtex
@article{imp2024,
  title={Imp: Highly Capable Large Multimodal Models for Mobile Devices},
  author={Shao, Zhenwei and Yu, Zhou and Yu, Jun and Ouyang, Xuecheng and Lihao, Zheng and Zhenbiao, Gai and Mingyang, Wang and Jiajun, Ding},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12107},
  year={2024}
}
```