README.md

---
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:**
VILA-7b was trained in Feb 2024.

**Paper or resources for more information:**
https://github.com/Efficient-Large-Model/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/Efficient-Large-Model/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.

## Training dataset
See [Dataset Preparation](https://github.com/Efficient-Large-Model/VILA/blob/main/data_prepare/README.md) for more details.

## Evaluation dataset
A collection of 12 benchmarks, including 5 academic VQA benchmarks and 7 recent benchmarks specifically proposed for instruction-following LMMs.