VILA Model Card

Model details

Model type: VILA is a visual language model (VLM) pretrained with interleaved image-text data at scale, enabling multi-image VLM. VILA is deployable on the edge, including Jetson Orin and laptop by AWQ 4bit quantization through TinyChat framework. We find: (1) image-text pairs are not enough, interleaved image-text is essential; (2) unfreezing LLM during interleaved image-text pre-training enables in-context learning; (3)re-blending text-only instruction data is crucial to boost both VLM and text-only performance. VILA unveils appealing capabilities, including: multi-image reasoning, in-context learning, visual chain-of-thought, and better world knowledge.

Model date: VILA1.5-40b was trained in May 2024.

Paper or resources for more information: https://github.com/NVLabs/VILA

@misc{lin2023vila,
      title={VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models},
      author={Ji Lin and Hongxu Yin and Wei Ping and Yao Lu and Pavlo Molchanov and Andrew Tao and Huizi Mao and Jan Kautz and Mohammad Shoeybi and Song Han},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2312.07533},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

License

• The code is released under the Apache 2.0 license as found in the LICENSE file.
• The pretrained weights are released under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.
• The service is a research preview intended for non-commercial use only, and is subject to the following licenses and terms:
  • Model License of LLaMA
  • Terms of Use of the data generated by OpenAI
  • Dataset Licenses for each one used during training.

Where to send questions or comments about the model: https://github.com/NVLabs/VILA/issues

Intended use

Primary intended uses: The primary use of VILA is research on large multimodal models and chatbots.

Primary intended users: The primary intended users of the model are researchers and hobbyists in computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformer Network Architecture: siglip, shearedllama

Input:

Input Type: Image, Video, Text Input Format: Red, Green, Blue; MP4 ;String Input Parameters: 2D, 3D

Output:

Output Type: Text Output Format: String

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• Ampere
• Jetson
• Hopper
• Lovelace

[Preferred/Supported] Operating System(s): Linux

Model Version(s):

• VILA1.5-3B
• VILA1.5-3B-s2
• Llama-3-VILA1.5-8B
• VILA1.5-13B
• VILA1.5-40B
• VILA1.5-3B-AWQ
• VILA1.5-3B-s2-AWQ
• Llama-3-VILA1.5-8B-AWQ
• VILA1.5-13B-AWQ
• VILA1.5-40B-AWQ

Training dataset

See Dataset Preparation for more details.

** Data Collection Method by dataset

• [Hybrid: Automated, Human]

** Labeling Method by dataset

• [Hybrid: Automated, Human]

Properties (Quantity, Dataset Descriptions, Sensor(s)): 53 million image-text pairs or interleaved image text content.

Evaluation dataset

A collection of 12 benchmarks, including 5 academic VQA benchmarks and 7 recent benchmarks specifically proposed for instruction-following LMMs.

Inference:

Engine: [Tensor(RT), Triton, Or List Other Here]

• PyTorch
• TensorRT-LLM
• TinyChat

Test Hardware:

• A100
• Jetson Orin
• RTX 4090

Ethical Considerations

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