---
tags:
- Mantis
- VLM
- LMM
- Multimodal LLM
- bakllava
base_model: llava-hf/bakLlava-v1-hf
model-index:
- name: Mantis-bakllava-7b
  results: []
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
---

# Mantis: Interleaved Multi-Image Instruction Tuning (Deprecated)

**Mantis** is a multimodal conversational AI model that can chat with users about images and text. It's optimized for multi-image reasoning, where interleaved text and images can be used to generate responses.

**Note that this is an older version of Mantis**, please refer to our newest version at [mantis-Siglip-llama3](https://huggingface.co/TIGER-Lab/Mantis-8B-siglip-llama3). The newer version improves significantly over both multi-image and single-image tasks.

Mantis is trained on the newly curated dataset **Mantis-Instruct**, a large-scale multi-image QA dataset that covers various multi-image reasoning tasks.

|[Demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/Mantis) | [Github](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis) |  [Models](https://huggingface.co/collections/TIGER-Lab/mantis-6619b0834594c878cdb1d6e4) |  

![Mantis](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis/main/docs/assets/images/overall_barchart.jpeg)

## Inference

You can install Mantis's GitHub codes as a Python package
```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis.git
```
then run inference with codes here: [examples/run_mantis.py](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis/blob/main/examples/run_mantis_hf.py)

```python
from mantis.models.mllava import chat_mllava
from PIL import Image
import torch


image1 = "image1.jpg"
image2 = "image2.jpg"
images = [Image.open(image1), Image.open(image2)]

# load processor and model
from mantis.models.mllava import MLlavaProcessor, LlavaForConditionalGeneration
processor = MLlavaProcessor.from_pretrained("TIGER-Lab/Mantis-bakllava-7b")
model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("TIGER-Lab/Mantis-bakllava-7b", device_map="auto", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2")

# chat
text = "<image> <image> What's the difference between these two images? Please describe as much as you can."
response, history = chat_mllava(text, images, model, processor)

print("USER: ", text)
print("ASSISTANT: ", response)
# The image on the right has a larger number of wallets displayed compared to the image on the left. The wallets in the right image are arranged in a grid pattern, while the wallets in the left image are displayed in a more scattered manner. The wallets in the right image have various colors, including red, purple, and brown, while the wallets in the left image are primarily brown.

text = "How many items are there in image 1 and image 2 respectively?"
response, history = chat_mllava(text, images, model, processor, history=history)

print("USER: ", text)
print("ASSISTANT: ", response)
# There are two items in image 1 and four items in image 2.
```

Or, you can run the model without relying on the mantis codes, using pure hugging face transformers. See [examples/run_mantis_hf.py](https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/Mantis/blob/main/examples/run_mantis_hf.py) for details.