Repository: huggingface/transformers
Pull request: Update altCLIP model card

# What does this PR do?

As suggested in this issue - https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/36979#issuecomment-2902300855 - this PR rewrites the altCLIP model card so it matches the standardized template that @stevhliu introduced in #36979.

Key points:

- Friend-style overview + sidebar badges.
- <hfoptions> usage tabs — Pipeline tab explains why it’s missing, AutoModel tab contains a runnable similarity example, transformers-cli tab shows one-liner quantisation.
- Quantisation section with dynamic INT-8 snippet (Linear-only, Embeddings left FP32) and link to the Quantization guide.
- Attention visualisation section: explains current AttentionMaskVisualizer limitation and shows a manual ViT-attention workaround; embeds a PNG heat-map (CLS attention, last layer, head 
- All text follows Steve’s template verbatim where required.

Check list

- [DONE] Brief model description
- [ DONE] Ready-to-use code examples (Pipeline ✗, AutoModel ✓, transformers-cli ✓)
- [ DONE] Quantisation example for a large model (dynamic INT-8)
- [DONE ] Attention mask visualiser (note + workaround ) # I did not provide an image because it is not produced from the HF visualizer, but I can if required.


# Who can review?
Hi @stevhliu !

I updated the altCLIP model card following the standard format. 

Let me know what you think of it.

Happy to revise. Thanks!


Changed files:
filename: docs/source/en/model_doc/altclip.md
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+<div style="float: right;">
+  <div class="flex flex-wrap space-x-1">
+    <img alt="PyTorch" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-DE3412?style=flat&logo=pytorch&logoColor=white">
+</div>
+
 # AltCLIP
 
-<div class="flex flex-wrap space-x-1">
-<img alt="PyTorch" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-DE3412?style=flat&logo=pytorch&logoColor=white">
-</div>
+[AltCLIP](https://huggingface.co/papers/2211.06679v2) replaces the [CLIP](./clip) text encoder with a multilingual XLM-R encoder and aligns image and text representations with teacher learning and contrastive learning.
+
+You can find all the original AltCLIP checkpoints under the [AltClip](https://huggingface.co/collections/BAAI/alt-clip-diffusion-66987a97de8525205f1221bf) collection.
+
+> [!TIP]
+> Click on the AltCLIP models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply AltCLIP to different tasks.
+
+The examples below demonstrates how to calculate similarity scores between an image and one or more captions with the [`AutoModel`] class.
 
-## Overview
+<hfoptions id="usage">
+<hfoption id="AutoModel">
 
-The AltCLIP model was proposed in [AltCLIP: Altering the Language Encoder in CLIP for Extended Language Capabilities](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06679v2) by Zhongzhi Chen, Guang Liu, Bo-Wen Zhang, Fulong Ye, Qinghong Yang, Ledell Wu. AltCLIP
-(Altering the Language Encoder in CLIP) is a neural network trained on a variety of image-text and text-text pairs. By switching CLIP's
-text encoder with a pretrained multilingual text encoder XLM-R, we could obtain very close performances with CLIP on almost all tasks, and extended original CLIP's capabilities such as multilingual understanding.
+```python
+import torch
+import requests
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers import AltCLIPModel, AltCLIPProcessor
 
-The abstract from the paper is the following:
+model = AltCLIPModel.from_pretrained("BAAI/AltCLIP", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+processor = AltCLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("BAAI/AltCLIP")
 
-*In this work, we present a conceptually simple and effective method to train a strong bilingual multimodal representation model. 
-Starting from the pretrained multimodal representation model CLIP released by OpenAI, we switched its text encoder with a pretrained 
-multilingual text encoder XLM-R, and aligned both languages and image representations by a two-stage training schema consisting of 
-teacher learning and contrastive learning. We validate our method through evaluations of a wide range of tasks. We set new state-of-the-art 
-performances on a bunch of tasks including ImageNet-CN, Flicker30k- CN, and COCO-CN. Further, we obtain very close performances with 
-CLIP on almost all tasks, suggesting that one can simply alter the text encoder in CLIP for extended capabilities such as multilingual understanding.*
+url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg"
+image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
 
-This model was contributed by [jongjyh](https://huggingface.co/jongjyh).
+inputs = processor(text=["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"], images=image, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
 
-## Usage tips and example
+outputs = model(**inputs)
+logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image  # this is the image-text similarity score
+probs = logits_per_image.softmax(dim=1)  # we can take the softmax to get the label probabilities
 
-The usage of AltCLIP is very similar to the CLIP. the difference between CLIP is the text encoder. Note that we use bidirectional attention instead of casual attention
-and we take the [CLS] token in XLM-R to represent text embedding.
+labels = ["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"]
+for label, prob in zip(labels, probs[0]):
+    print(f"{label}: {prob.item():.4f}")
+```
 
-AltCLIP is a multi-modal vision and language model. It can be used for image-text similarity and for zero-shot image
-classification. AltCLIP uses a ViT like transformer to get visual features and a bidirectional language model to get the text
-features. Both the text and visual features are then projected to a latent space with identical dimension. The dot
-product between the projected image and text features is then used as a similar score.
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
 
-To feed images to the Transformer encoder, each image is split into a sequence of fixed-size non-overlapping patches,
-which are then linearly embedded. A [CLS] token is added to serve as representation of an entire image. The authors
-also add absolute position embeddings, and feed the resulting sequence of vectors to a standard Transformer encoder.
-The [`CLIPImageProcessor`] can be used to resize (or rescale) and normalize images for the model.
+Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the [Quantization](../quantization/overview) overview for more available quantization backends.
 
-The [`AltCLIPProcessor`] wraps a [`CLIPImageProcessor`] and a [`XLMRobertaTokenizer`] into a single instance to both
-encode the text and prepare the images. The following example shows how to get the image-text similarity scores using
-[`AltCLIPProcessor`] and [`AltCLIPModel`].
+The example below uses [torchao](../quantization/torchao) to only quantize the weights to int4.
 
 ```python
->>> from PIL import Image
->>> import requests
+# !pip install torchao
+import torch
+import requests
+from PIL import Image
+from transformers import AltCLIPModel, AltCLIPProcessor, TorchAoConfig
 
->>> from transformers import AltCLIPModel, AltCLIPProcessor
+model = AltCLIPModel.from_pretrained(
+    "BAAI/AltCLIP",
+    quantization_config=TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128),
+    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+)
 
->>> model = AltCLIPModel.from_pretrained("BAAI/AltCLIP")
->>> processor = AltCLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("BAAI/AltCLIP")
+processor = AltCLIPProcessor.from_pretrained("BAAI/AltCLIP")
 
->>> url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
->>> image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
+url = "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/pipeline-cat-chonk.jpeg"
+image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
 
->>> inputs = processor(text=["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"], images=image, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
+inputs = processor(text=["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"], images=image, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
 
->>> outputs = model(**inputs)
->>> logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image  # this is the image-text similarity score
->>> probs = logits_per_image.softmax(dim=1)  # we can take the softmax to get the label probabilities
-```
+outputs = model(**inputs)
+logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image  # this is the image-text similarity score
+probs = logits_per_image.softmax(dim=1)  # we can take the softmax to get the label probabilities
 
-<Tip>
+labels = ["a photo of a cat", "a photo of a dog"]
+for label, prob in zip(labels, probs[0]):
+    print(f"{label}: {prob.item():.4f}")
+```
 
-This model is based on `CLIPModel`, use it like you would use the original [CLIP](clip).
+## Notes
 
-</Tip>
+- AltCLIP uses bidirectional attention instead of causal attention and it uses the `[CLS]` token in XLM-R to represent a text embedding.
+- Use [`CLIPImageProcessor`] to resize (or rescale) and normalize images for the model.
+- [`AltCLIPProcessor`] combines [`CLIPImageProcessor`] and [`XLMRobertaTokenizer`] into a single instance to encode text and prepare images.
 
 ## AltCLIPConfig
-
 [[autodoc]] AltCLIPConfig
-    - from_text_vision_configs
 
 ## AltCLIPTextConfig
-
 [[autodoc]] AltCLIPTextConfig
 
 ## AltCLIPVisionConfig
-
 [[autodoc]] AltCLIPVisionConfig
 
-## AltCLIPProcessor
-
-[[autodoc]] AltCLIPProcessor
-
 ## AltCLIPModel
-
 [[autodoc]] AltCLIPModel
-    - forward
-    - get_text_features
-    - get_image_features
 
 ## AltCLIPTextModel
-
 [[autodoc]] AltCLIPTextModel
-    - forward
 
 ## AltCLIPVisionModel
-
 [[autodoc]] AltCLIPVisionModel
-    - forward
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+
+## AltCLIPProcessor
+[[autodoc]] AltCLIPProcessor