llama.cpp/examples/llava/README.md

# LLaVA

Currently this implementation supports [llava-v1.5](https://huggingface.co/liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-7b) variants,
as well as llava-1.6 [llava-v1.6](https://huggingface.co/collections/liuhaotian/llava-16-65b9e40155f60fd046a5ccf2) variants.

The pre-converted [7b](https://huggingface.co/mys/ggml_llava-v1.5-7b)
and [13b](https://huggingface.co/mys/ggml_llava-v1.5-13b)
models are available.
For llava-1.6 a variety of prepared gguf models are available as well [7b-34b](https://huggingface.co/cmp-nct/llava-1.6-gguf)

After API is confirmed, more models will be supported / uploaded.

## Usage
Build with cmake or run `make llava-cli` to build it.

After building, run: `./llava-cli` to see the usage. For example:

```sh
./llava-cli -m ../llava-v1.5-7b/ggml-model-f16.gguf --mmproj ../llava-v1.5-7b/mmproj-model-f16.gguf --image path/to/an/image.jpg
```

**note**: A lower temperature like 0.1 is recommended for better quality. add `--temp 0.1` to the command to do so.
**note**: For GPU offloading ensure to use the `-ngl` flag just like usual

## LLaVA 1.5

- Clone a LLaVA and a CLIP model ([available options](https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA/blob/main/docs/MODEL_ZOO.md)). For example:

```sh
git clone https://huggingface.co/liuhaotian/llava-v1.5-7b

git clone https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336
```

2. Install the required Python packages:

```sh
pip install -r examples/llava/requirements.txt
```

3. Use `llava-surgery.py` to split the LLaVA model to LLaMA and multimodel projector constituents:

```sh
python ./examples/llava/llava-surgery.py -m ../llava-v1.5-7b
```

4. Use `convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py` to convert the LLaVA image encoder to GGUF:

```sh
python ./examples/llava/convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py -m ../clip-vit-large-patch14-336 --llava-projector ../llava-v1.5-7b/llava.projector --output-dir ../llava-v1.5-7b
```

5. Use `convert.py` to convert the LLaMA part of LLaVA to GGUF:

```sh
python ./convert.py ../llava-v1.5-7b --skip-unknown
```

Now both the LLaMA part and the image encoder is in the `llava-v1.5-7b` directory.

## LLaVA 1.6 gguf conversion

1) Backup your pth/safetensor model files as llava-surgery modifies them
2) Use `python llava-surgery-v2.py -C -m /path/to/hf-model` which also supports llava-1.5 variants pytorch as well as safetensor models:
- you will find a llava.projector and a llava.clip file in your model directory
3) Copy the llava.clip file into a subdirectory (like vit), rename it to pytorch_model.bin and add a fitting vit configuration to the directory (https://huggingface.co/cmp-nct/llava-1.6-gguf/blob/main/config_vit.json) and rename it to config.json.
4) Create the visual gguf model: `python ./examples/llava/convert-image-encoder-to-gguf.py -m ../path/to/vit --llava-projector ../path/to/llava.projector --output-dir ../path/to/output --clip-model-is-vision`
- This is similar to llava-1.5, the difference is that we tell the encoder that we are working with the pure vision model part of CLIP
5) Everything else as usual: convert.py the hf model, quantize as needed
**note** llava-1.6 needs more context than llava-1.5, at least 3000 is needed (just run it at -c 4096)
**note** llava-1.6 greatly benefits from batched prompt processing (defaults work)

## llava-cli templating and llava-1.6 prompting

llava-1.5 models all use the same vicuna prompt, here you can just add your image question like `-p "Provide a full description."`
For llava-1.5 models which are not vicuna (mistral and Yi) you need to adapt system prompt as well as user prompt, for this purpose llava-cli has a basic templating system:

**For Mistral and using llava-cli binary:**
Add this: `-p "<image>\nUSER:\nProvide a full description.\nASSISTANT:\n"`
The mistral template for llava-1.6 seems to be no system print and a USER/ASSISTANT role

**For the 34B this should work:**
Add this: `-e -p <|im_start|>system\nAnswer the questions.<|im_end|><|im_start|>user\n<image>\nProvide a full description.<|im_end|><|im_start|>assistant\n`


## How to know if you are running in llava-1.5 or llava-1.6 mode

When running llava-cli you will see a visual information right before the prompt is being processed:

**Llava-1.5:**
`encode_image_with_clip: image embedding created: 576 tokens`

**Llava-1.6 (anything above 576):**
`encode_image_with_clip: image embedding created: 2880 tokens`


Alternatively just pay notice to how many "tokens" have been used for your prompt, it will also show 1000+ tokens for llava-1.6




## TODO

- [x] Support non-CPU backend for the image encoding part.
- [ ] Support different sampling methods.
- [ ] Support more model variants.