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---
language:
- multilingual
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
- nlp
- code
- vision
- chemistry
- engineering
- biology
- bio-inspired
- text-generation-inference
- materials science
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
inference:
  parameters:
    temperature: 0.3
widget:
- messages:
  - role: user
    content: <|image_1|>Can you describe what you see in the image?
---
## Model Summary

Cephalo is a series of multimodal materials science focused vision large language models (V-LLMs) designed to integrate visual and linguistic data for advanced understanding and interaction in human-AI or multi-agent AI frameworks. 

A novel aspect of Cephalo's development is the innovative dataset generation method. The extraction process employs advanced algorithms to accurately detect and separate images and their corresponding textual descriptions from complex PDF documents. It involves extracting images and captions from PDFs to create well-reasoned image-text pairs, utilizing large language models (LLMs) for natural language processing. These image-text pairs are then refined and validated through LLM-based NLP processing, ensuring high-quality and contextually relevant data for training. 

Cephalo can interpret complex visual scenes and generating contextually accurate language descriptions and answer queries. 

The model is developed to process diverse inputs, including images and text, facilitating a broad range of applications such as image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal content generation. The architecture combines a vision encoder model and an autoregressive transformer to process complex natural language understanding. 

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/623ce1c6b66fedf374859fe7/kl5GWBP9WS0D4uwd1t3S7.png)

Cephalo provides a robust framework for multimodal interaction and understanding, including the development of complex generative pipelines to create 2D and 3D renderings of material microstructures as input for additive manufacturing methods.

This version of Cephalo, lamm-mit/Cephalo-Idefics-2-vision-8b-beta, is based on the HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b-chatty model. The model was trained on a combination of scientific text-image data extracted from Wikipedia and scientific papers. For further details on the base model, see: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b-chatty. More details about technical aspects of the model, training and example applications to materials science problems are provided in the paper (reference at the bottom).

### Chat Format

The lamm-mit/Cephalo-Idefics-2-vision-8b-beta is suiteable for one or more image inputs, wih prompts using the chat format as follows:

```raw
User: You carefully study the image, and respond accurately, but succinctly. Think step-by-step.
<image>What is shown in this image, and what is the relevance for materials design? Include a discussion of multi-agent AI.<end_of_utterance>
Assistant:
```
where the model generates the text after `Assistant:` . For multi-turn conversations, the prompt should be formatted as follows:

```raw
User: You carefully study the image, and respond accurately, but succinctly. Think step-by-step.
<image>What is shown in this image, and what is the relevance for materials design? Include a discussion of multi-agent AI.<end_of_utterance>
Assistant: The image depicts ants climbing a vertical surface using their legs and claws. This behavior is observed in nature and can inspire the design of multi-agent AI systems that mimic the coordinated movement of these insects. The relevance lies in the potential application of such systems in robotics and materials science, where efficient and adaptive movement is crucial.<end_of_utterance>
User: How could this be used to design a fracture resistant material?<end_of_utterance>
Assistant:
```

If you need to manually set the chat template:

```
IDEFICS2_CHAT_TEMPLATE = """{% if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}{% set add_generation_prompt = false %}{% endif %}A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. {% for message in messages %}{% if message['role'] == 'user' %}USER: {% else %}ASSISTANT: {% endif %}{% for item in message['content'] %}{% if item['type'] == 'text' %}{{ item['text'] }}{% elif item['type'] == 'image' %}<image>{% endif %}{% endfor %}{% if message['role'] == 'user' %} {% else %}{{eos_token}}{% endif %}{% endfor %}{% if add_generation_prompt %}ASSISTANT: {% endif %}"""
```

### Sample inference code

This code snippets show how to get quickly started on a GPU:

```python
from PIL import Image 
import requests 

DEVICE='cuda:0'

from transformers import AutoProcessor, Idefics2ForConditionalGeneration 
from tqdm.notebook import tqdm
 
model_id='lamm-mit/Cephalo-Idefics-2-vision-8b-beta'

model = Idefics2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(  model_id,
                                                           torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, #if your GPU allows
                                                           _attn_implementation="flash_attention_2", #make sure Flash Attention 2 is installed
                                                           trust_remote_code=True,
                                                        ).to (DEVICE)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
    f"{model_id}",
    do_image_splitting=True
)
```
See section towards the end for more comments on model optimization, including quantization.


If you need to manually set the chat template:

```python
IDEFICS2_CHAT_TEMPLATE = """{% if not add_generation_prompt is defined %}{% set add_generation_prompt = false %}{% endif %}A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. {% for message in messages %}{% if message['role'] == 'user' %}USER: {% else %}ASSISTANT: {% endif %}{% for item in message['content'] %}{% if item['type'] == 'text' %}{{ item['text'] }}{% elif item['type'] == 'image' %}<image>{% endif %}{% endfor %}{% if message['role'] == 'user' %} {% else %}{{eos_token}}{% endif %}{% endfor %}{% if add_generation_prompt %}ASSISTANT: {% endif %}"""
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model_id, use_fast=True)
tokenizer.chat_template = IDEFICS2_CHAT_TEMPLATE
processor.tokenizer = tokenizer
```

Simple inference example:

```
from transformers.image_utils import load_image

image = load_image("https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/02/Ants_Lede1300.jpg")

# Create inputs
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What is shown in this image, and what is the relevance for materials design? Include a discussion of multi-agent AI."},
        ]
    },
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True)

# Get inputs using the processor
inputs = processor(text=prompt, images=[image], return_tensors="pt")
inputs = {k: v.to(DEVICE) for k, v in inputs.items()}

# Generate
generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=500)
generated_texts = processor.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

print(generated_texts)
```

Next we provide a convenience function for inference. This function takes the model, processor, question, and images, along with messages and images objects for repeated chat-like interactions with the model.

```python
def ask_about_image (model, processor, question, 
                     images_input=[], 
                     verbatim=False,
                     temperature=0.1,
                     show_image=False,
                     system="You are a biomaterials scientist who responds accurately. ", 
                     init_instr = "",
                     show_conversation=True,
                     max_new_tokens=256, 
                     messages=[], 
                     images=[], 
                     use_Markdown=False,
                    ):
    
   
    query = question
    images_input=ensure_list(images_input)
    if len (images)==0:
        if len (images_input)>0:
            for image in tqdm (images_input) :
                if is_url(image):
                    image= load_image(image)
                images.append (image)
                
                if show_image:
                    display ( image )
    if len (messages)==0:
       
        base_message = {
            "role": "user",
            "content": [
                {"type": "text", "text": system + init_instr},
                # Image messages will be added dynamically here
                {"type": "text", "text": query}
            ]
        }
        
        # Ensure the images_input is a list
        images_input = ensure_list(images_input)
        
        # Add image messages dynamically
        image_messages = [{"type": "image"} for _ in images_input]
        base_message["content"][1:1] = image_messages  # Insert image messages before the last text message
        
        # Append the constructed message to messages list
        messages.append(base_message)

    else:
        messages.append (
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": [
                    {"type": "text", "text": query
                    }
                ]
            }
        )
    if verbatim:
        print (messages)
        
    text = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True)
    inputs = processor(text=[text.strip()], images=images, return_tensors="pt", padding=True).to(DEVICE)
     
    generated_ids = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens, temperature=temperature, do_sample=True)
    generated_texts = processor.batch_decode(generated_ids[:, inputs["input_ids"].size(1):], skip_special_tokens=True)

    messages.append (
        {
            "role": "assistant",
            "content": [ {"type": "text", "text": generated_texts[0]}, ]
        }
    )
    formatted_conversation = format_conversation(messages, images)
    
    # Display the formatted conversation, e.g. in Jupyter Notebook
    if show_conversation:
     
        if use_Markdown:
            display(Markdown(formatted_conversation))
        else:
            display(HTML(formatted_conversation))

    return generated_texts, messages, images

question = "What is shown in this image, and what is the relevance for materials design? Include a discussion of multi-agent AI."

url1 = "https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/02/Ants_Lede1300.jpg" 

response, messages,images= ask_about_image ( model, processor, question, 
                                             images_input=[url1,],
                                             temperature=0.1,
                                             system= '', init_instr='You carefully study the image, and respond accurately, but succinctly. Think step-by-step.\n\n', 
                                             show_conversation=True,
                                             max_new_tokens=512, messages=[], images=[])
```

Sample output:

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/623ce1c6b66fedf374859fe7/5n6oRNHrfwHkBX0QertZp.png)
<small>Image by [Vaishakh Manohar](https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-simple-algorithm-that-ants-use-to-build-bridges-20180226/)</small>

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
The image depicts a group of ants moving in a coordinated manner, demonstrating their ability to navigate complex environments and adapt to changing conditions. This behavior is relevant for materials design because it highlights the potential of multi-agent AI systems to mimic natural systems and develop new materials with enhanced properties.

Multi-agent AI refers to the use of multiple autonomous agents working together to solve complex problems. These agents can learn from each other and adapt to new situations, similar to how ants can navigate their environment and communicate with one another. By applying these principles to materials design, researchers can develop new materials that exhibit improved performance, such as enhanced strength, flexibility, and adaptability.

The relevance of this image for materials design lies in the inspiration it provides for developing new materials that can mimic the natural efficiency and adaptability of ants. By studying the behavior of ants, researchers can gain insights into how to design materials that can respond dynamically to changes in their environment, leading to improved performance and functionality.
</pre>

## Dataset generation

The schematic below shows a visualization of the approach to generate datasets for training the vision model. The extraction process employs advanced algorithms to accurately detect and separate images and their corresponding textual descriptions from complex PDF documents. It involves extracting images and captions from PDFs to create well-reasoned image-text pairs, utilizing large language models (LLMs) for natural language processing. These image-text pairs are then refined and validated through LLM-based NLP processing, ensuring high-quality and contextually relevant data for training.

The image below shows reproductions of two representative pages of the scientific article (here, Spivak, Buehler, et al., 2011), and how they are used to extract visual scientific data for training the Cephalo model.

![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/623ce1c6b66fedf374859fe7/qHURSBRWEDgHy4o56escN.png)

# Further model optimizations

If your GPU allows, load and run inference in half precision (`torch.float16` or `torch.bfloat16`).

```diff
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(
    "lamm-mit/Cephalo-Idefics-2-vision-8b-beta",
+    torch_dtype=torch.float16,    
).to(DEVICE)
```

**Vision encoder efficiency**

Given the high resolution supported, the vision part of the model can be memory hungry depending on your configuration. If you are GPU-memory-constrained, you can:
- **deactivate the image splitting.** To do so, add `do_image_splitting=False` when initializing the processor (`AutoProcessor.from_pretrained`). There are no changes required on the model side. Note that only the sft model has been trained with image splitting.
- **decrease the maximum image resolution.** To do so, add `size= {"longest_edge": 448, "shortest_edge": 378}` when initializing the processor (`AutoProcessor.from_pretrained`). In particular, the `longest_edge` value can be adapted to fit the need (the default value is `980`). We recommend using values that are multiples of 14. There are no changes required on the model side.

`do_image_splitting=True` is especially needed to boost performance on complex tasks where a very large image is used as input. The model was fine-tuned with image splitting turned on. For simple tasks, this argument can be safely set to `False`.

**Using Flash-attention 2 to speed up generation**

<details><summary>Click to expand.</summary>

Mke sure to install `flash-attn`. Refer to the [original repository of Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention) for the package installation. Simply change the snippet above with: 

```diff
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(
    "lamm-mit/Cephalo-Idefics-2-vision-8b-beta",
+    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,    
+    _attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
).to(DEVICE)
```

</details>

**4 bit quantization with bitsandbytes**

<details><summary>Click to expand.</summary>
It is possible to load Idefics2 in 4bits with `bitsandbytes`. Make sure that you have `accelerate` and `bitsandbytes` installed.

```diff
+ from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig

quantization_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_4bit=True,
    bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
    bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
    bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16
)
model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(
    "lamm-mit/Cephalo-Idefics-2-vision-8b-beta",
+    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,    
+    quantization_config=quantization_config,
).to(DEVICE)
```

</details>


## Citation

Please cite as:

```bibtex
@article{Buehler_Cephalo_2024,
    title   = {Cephalo, a series of multi-modal vision-language models for bio-inspired materials and mechanics},
    author  = {M.J. Buehler},
    journal = {},
    year    = {2024},
    volume  = {},
    pages   = {},
    url     = {}
}
```