README.md

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language:
- zh
- en
tags:
- qwen
pipeline_tag: text-generation
inference: false
---

# Qwen-VL

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        Qwen-VL <a href="https://modelscope.cn/models/qwen/Qwen-VL/summary">🤖 <a> | <a href="https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL">🤗</a>&nbsp ｜ Qwen-VL-Chat <a href="https://modelscope.cn/models/qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat/summary">🤖 <a>| <a href="https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat">🤗</a>&nbsp ｜ &nbsp<a href="https://modelscope.cn/studios/qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat-Demo/summary">Demo</a>&nbsp ｜ &nbsp<a href="https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-VL/blob/main/visual_memo.md">Report</a>&nbsp&nbsp | &nbsp&nbsp<a href="https://discord.gg/9bjvspyu">Discord</a>

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**Qwen-VL** (Qwen Large Vision Language Model) is the visual multimodal version of the large model series, Qwen (abbr. Tongyi Qianwen), proposed by Alibaba Cloud. Qwen-VL accepts image, text, and bounding box as inputs, outputs text and bounding box. The features of Qwen-VL include:
- **Strong performance**: It significantly surpasses existing open-source Large Vision Language Models (LVLM) under similar scale settings on multiple English evaluation benchmarks (including Zero-shot caption, VQA, DocVQA, and Grounding).
- **Multi-lingual LVLM support text recognization**: Qwen-VL naturally supports multi-lingual conversation, and it promotes end-to-end recognition of Chinese and English bi-lingual text in images.
- **Multi-image interleaved conversations**: This feature allows for the input and comparison of multiple images, as well as the ability to specify questions related to the images and engage in multi-image storytelling.
- **First generalist model support grounding in Chinese**: Detecting bounding boxes through open-domain language expression in both Chinese and English.
- **Fine-grained recognization and understanding**: Compared to the 224 resolution currently used by other open-source LVLM, the 448 resolution promotes fine-grained text recognition, document QA, and bounding box annotation.

We release two models of the Qwen-VL series:
- Qwen-VL: The pre-trained LVLM model uses Qwen-7B as the initialization of the LLM, and [Openclip ViT-bigG](https://github.com/mlfoundations/open_clip) as the initialization of the visual encoder. And connects them with a randomly initialized cross-attention layer. Qwen-VL was trained on about 1.5B image-text paired data. The final image input resolution is 448.
- Qwen-VL-Chat: A multimodal LLM-based AI assistant, which is trained with alignment techniques.

For more details about Qwen-VL, please refer to our [technical memo](visual_memo.md).

## Evaluation

We evaluated the model's ability from two perspectives:
1. **Standard Benchmarks**: We evaluate the model's basic task capabilities on four major categories of multimodal tasks:
   - Zero-shot Caption: Evaluate model's zero-shot image captioning ability on unseen datasets;
   - General VQA: Evaluate the general question-answering ability of pictures, such as the judgment, color, number, category, etc;
   - Text-based VQA: Evaluate the model's ability to recognize text in pictures, such as document QA, chart QA, etc;
   - Referring Expression Comprehension: Evaluate the ability to localize a target object in an image described by a referring expression.

2. **TouchStone**: To evaluate the overall text-image dialogue capability and alignment level with humans, we have constructed a benchmark called TouchStone, which is based on scoring with GPT4 to evaluate the LVLM model.
   - The TouchStone benchmark covers a total of 300+ images, 800+ questions, and 27 categories. Such as attribute-based Q&A, celebrity recognition, writing poetry, summarizing multiple images, product comparison, math problem solving, etc;
   - In order to break the current limitation of GPT4 in terms of direct image input, TouchStone provides fine-grained image annotations by human labeling. These detailed annotations, along with the questions and the model's output, are then presented to GPT4 for scoring.
   - The benchmark includes both English and Chinese versions.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Qwen-VL outperforms current SOTA generalist models on multiple VL tasks and has a more comprehensive coverage in terms of capability range.

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    <img src="https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/radar.png" width="600"/>
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### Zero-shot Caption & General VQA
<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th rowspan="2">Model type</th>
    <th rowspan="2">Model</th>
    <th colspan="2">Zero-shot Caption</th>
    <th colspan="5">General VQA</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>NoCaps</th>
    <th>Flickr30K</th>
    <th>VQAv2<sup>dev</sup></th>
    <th>OK-VQA</th>
    <th>GQA</th>
    <th>SciQA-Img<br>(0-shot)</th>
    <th>VizWiz<br>(0-shot)</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody align="center">
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="12">Generalist<br>Models</td>
    <td>Flamingo-9B</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>61.5</td>
    <td>51.8</td>
    <td>44.7</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>28.8</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Flamingo-80B</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>67.2</td>
    <td>56.3</td>
    <td>50.6</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>31.6</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Unified-IO-XL</td>
    <td>100.0</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>77.9</td>
    <td>54.0</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kosmos-1</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>67.1</td>
    <td>51.0</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>29.2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Kosmos-2</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>66.7</td>
    <td>45.6</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>BLIP-2 (Vicuna-13B)</td>
    <td>103.9</td>
    <td>71.6</td>
    <td>65.0</td>
    <td>45.9</td>
    <td>32.3</td>
    <td>61.0</td>
    <td>19.6</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>InstructBLIP (Vicuna-13B)</td>
    <td><strong>121.9</strong></td>
    <td>82.8</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>49.5</td>
    <td>63.1</td>
    <td>33.4</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Shikra (Vicuna-13B)</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>73.9</td>
    <td>77.36</td>
    <td>47.16</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><strong>Qwen-VL (Qwen-7B)</strong></td>
    <td>121.4</td>
    <td><b>85.8</b></td>
    <td><b>78.8</b></td>
    <td><b>58.6</b></td>
    <td><b>59.3</b></td>
    <td><b>67.1</b></td>
    <td><b>34.3</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Qwen-VL (4-shot)</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>63.6</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>39.1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Qwen-VL-Chat</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>81.5</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>56.69</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>68.22</td>
    <td>37.05</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Qwen-VL-Chat (4-shot)</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>60.6</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>45.5</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Previous SOTA<br>(Per Task Fine-tuning)</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>127.0<br>(PALI-17B)</td>
    <td>84.5<br>(InstructBLIP<br>-FlanT5-XL)</td>
    <td>86.1<br>(PALI-X<br>-55B)</td>
    <td>66.1<br>(PALI-X<br>-55B)</td>
    <td>72.1<br>(CFR)</td>
    <td>92.53<br>(LLaVa+<br>GPT-4)</td>
    <td>70.9<br>(PALI-X<br>-55B)</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

- For zero-shot image captioning, Qwen-VL achieves the **SOTA** on Flickr30K and competitive results on Nocaps with InstructBlip.
- For general VQA, Qwen-VL achieves the **SOTA** under the same generalist LVLM scale settings.

### Text-based VQA (focuse on text understanding capabilities in images)

<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th>Model type</th>
    <th>Model</th>
    <th>TextVQA</th>
    <th>DocVQA</th>
    <th>ChartQA</th>
    <th>AI2D</th>
    <th>OCR-VQA</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody align="center">
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="5">Generalist Models</td>
    <td>BLIP-2 (Vicuna-13B)</td>
    <td>42.4</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>InstructBLIP (Vicuna-13B)</td>
    <td>50.7</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>mPLUG-DocOwl (LLaMA-7B)</td>
    <td>52.6</td>
    <td>62.2</td>
    <td>57.4</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Pic2Struct-Large (1.3B)</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td><b>76.6</b></td>
    <td>58.6</td>
    <td>42.1</td>
    <td>71.3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Qwen-VL (Qwen-7B)</td>
    <td><b>63.8</b></td>
    <td>65.1</td>
    <td><b>65.7</b></td>
    <td><b>62.3</b></td>
    <td><b>75.7</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Specialist SOTAs<br>(Specialist/Finetuned)</td>
    <td>PALI-X-55B (Single-task FT)<br>(Without OCR Pipeline)</td>
    <td>71.44</td>
    <td>80.0</td>
    <td>70.0</td>
    <td>81.2</td>
    <td>75.0</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

- In text-related recognition/QA evaluation, Qwen-VL achieves the SOTA under the generalist LVLM scale settings.
- Resolution is important for several above evaluations. While most open-source LVLM models with 224 resolution are incapable of these evaluations or can only solve these by cutting images, Qwen-VL scales the resolution to 448 so that it can be evaluated end-to-end. Qwen-VL even outperforms Pic2Struct-Large models of 1024 resolution on some tasks.

### Referring Expression Comprehension
<table>
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th rowspan="2">Model type</th>
    <th rowspan="2">Model</th>
    <th colspan="3">RefCOCO</th>
    <th colspan="3">RefCOCO+</th>
    <th colspan="2">RefCOCOg</th>
    <th>GRIT</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>val</th>
    <th>test-A</th>
    <th>test-B</th>
    <th>val</th>
    <th>test-A</th>
    <th>test-B</th>
    <th>val-u</th>
    <th>test-u</th>
    <th>refexp</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody align="center">
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="8">Generalist Models</td>
    <td>GPV-2</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>51.50</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>OFA-L*</td>
    <td>79.96</td>
    <td>83.67</td>
    <td>76.39</td>
    <td>68.29</td>
    <td>76.00</td>
    <td>61.75</td>
    <td>67.57</td>
    <td>67.58</td>
    <td>61.70</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Unified-IO</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td><b>78.61</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>VisionLLM-H</td>
    <td></td>
    <td>86.70</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Shikra-7B</td>
    <td>87.01</td>
    <td>90.61</td>
    <td>80.24 </td>
    <td>81.60</td>
    <td>87.36</td>
    <td>72.12</td>
    <td>82.27</td>
    <td>82.19</td>
    <td>69.34</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Shikra-13B</td>
    <td>87.83 </td>
    <td>91.11</td>
    <td>81.81</td>
    <td>82.89</td>
    <td>87.79</td>
    <td>74.41</td>
    <td>82.64</td>
    <td>83.16</td>
    <td>69.03</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Qwen-VL-7B</td>
    <td><b>89.36</b></td>
    <td>92.26</td>
    <td><b>85.34</b></td>
    <td><b>83.12</b></td>
    <td>88.25</td>
    <td><b>77.21</b></td>
    <td><b>85.58</b></td>
    <td><b>85.48</b></td>
    <td>78.22</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Qwen-VL-7B-Chat</td>
    <td><b>88.55</b></td>
    <td><b>92.27</b></td>
    <td>84.51</td>
    <td>82.82</td>
    <td><b>88.59</b></td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td rowspan="3">Specialist SOTAs<br>(Specialist/Finetuned)</td>
    <td>G-DINO-L</td>
    <td>90.56&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
    <td>93.19</td>
    <td>88.24</td>
    <td>82.75</td>
    <td>88.95</td>
    <td>75.92</td>
    <td>86.13</td>
    <td>87.02</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>UNINEXT-H</td>
    <td>92.64 </td>
    <td>94.33</td>
    <td>91.46</td>
    <td>85.24</td>
    <td>89.63</td>
    <td>79.79</td>
    <td>88.73</td>
    <td>89.37</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>ONE-PEACE</td>
    <td>92.58 </td>
    <td>94.18</td>
    <td>89.26</td>
    <td>88.77</td>
    <td>92.21</td>
    <td>83.23</td>
    <td>89.22</td>
    <td>89.27</td>
    <td>-</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

- Qwen-VL achieves the **SOTA** in all above referring expression comprehension benchmarks.
- Qwen-VL has not been trained on any Chinese grounding data, but it can still generalize to the Chinese Grounding tasks in a zero-shot way by training Chinese Caption data and English Grounding data.

We provide all of the above evaluation scripts for reproducing our experimental results. Please read [eval/EVALUATION.md](eval/EVALUATION.md) for more information.

### Chat evaluation

TouchStone is a benchmark based on scoring with GPT4 to evaluate the abilities of the LVLM model on text-image dialogue and alignment levels with humans. It covers a total of 300+ images, 800+ questions, and 27 categories, such as attribute-based Q&A, celebrity recognition, writing poetry, summarizing multiple images, product comparison, math problem solving, etc. Please read [touchstone/README_CN.md](touchstone/README.md) for more information.

#### English evaluation

| Model         | Score |
|---------------|-------|
| PandaGPT      | 488.5 |
| MiniGPT4      | 531.7 |
| InstructBLIP  | 552.4 |
| LLaMA-AdapterV2 | 590.1 |
| mPLUG-Owl     | 605.4 |
| LLaVA         | 602.7 |
| Qwen-VL-Chat   | 645.2 |

#### Chinese evaluation

| Model         | Score |
|---------------|-------|
| VisualGLM     | 247.1 |
| Qwen-VL-Chat   | 401.2 |

Qwen-VL-Chat has achieved the best results in both Chinese and English alignment evaluation.

## Requirements

* python 3.8 and above
* pytorch 1.12 and above, 2.0 and above are recommended
* CUDA 11.4 and above are recommended (this is for GPU users)

## Quickstart

Below, we provide simple examples to show how to use Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat with 🤖 ModelScope and 🤗 Transformers.

Before running the code, make sure you have setup the environment and installed the required packages. Make sure you meet the above requirements, and then install the dependent libraries.

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Now you can start with ModelScope or Transformers. More usage aboue vision encoder, please refer to [FAQ](FAQ.md).

#### 🤗 Transformers

To use Qwen-VL for the inference, all you need to do is to input a few lines of codes as demonstrated below. However, **please make sure that you are using the latest code.**

```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from transformers.generation import GenerationConfig
import torch
torch.manual_seed(1234)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-VL", trust_remote_code=True)

# use bf16
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-VL", device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True, bf16=True).eval()
# use fp16
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-VL", device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True, fp16=True).eval()
# use cpu only
# model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-VL", device_map="cpu", trust_remote_code=True).eval()
# use cuda device
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-VL", device_map="cuda", trust_remote_code=True).eval()

# Specify hyperparameters for generation
model.generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen-VL", trust_remote_code=True)

query = tokenizer.from_list_format([
    {'image': 'https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg'},
    {'text': 'Generate the caption in English with grounding:'},
])
inputs = tokenizer(query, return_tensors='pt')
inputs = inputs.to(model.device)
pred = model.generate(**inputs)
response = tokenizer.decode(pred.cpu()[0], skip_special_tokens=False)
print(response)
# <img>https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo.jpeg</img>Generate the caption in English with grounding:<ref> Woman</ref><box>(451,379),(731,806)</box> and<ref> her dog</ref><box>(219,424),(576,896)</box> playing on the beach<|endoftext|>
image = tokenizer.draw_bbox_on_latest_picture(response)
if image:
  image.save('2.jpg')
else:
  print("no box")
```

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    <img src="https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-VL/assets/demo_spotting_caption.jpeg" width="500"/>
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## FAQ

If you meet problems, please refer to [FAQ](FAQ.md) and the issues first to search a solution before you launch a new issue.


## License Agreement

Researchers and developers are free to use the codes and model weights of both Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat. We also allow their commercial use. Check our license at [LICENSE](LICENSE) for more details.

## Contact Us

If you are interested to leave a message to either our research team or product team, feel free to send an email to qianwen[email protected].