---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- VILA
- VLM
---

# 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](./LICENSE) file.
- The pretrained weights are released under the [CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en).
- The service is a research preview intended for non-commercial use only, and is subject to the following licenses and terms:
    - [Model License](https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md) of LLaMA
    - [Terms of Use](https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use) of the data generated by OpenAI
    - [Dataset Licenses](https://github.com/Efficient-Large-Model/VILA/blob/main/data_prepare/LICENSE) 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):** <br>
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](https://github.com/NVLabs/VILA/blob/main/data_prepare/README.md) 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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