Instructions to use liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b")
messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"},
            {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"}
        ]
    },
]
pipe(text=messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b", device_map="auto")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b

SGLang

How to use liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": [
					{
						"type": "text",
						"text": "Describe this image in one sentence."
					},
					{
						"type": "image_url",
						"image_url": {
							"url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg"
						}
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/liuhaotian/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b
```
Browse Quantizations to use this model in llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible app.

LLaVA Model Card

Model details

Model type: LLaVA is an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLM on multimodal instruction-following data. It is an auto-regressive language model, based on the transformer architecture. Base LLM: mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

Model date: LLaVA-v1.6-Mistral-7B was trained in December 2023.

Paper or resources for more information: https://llava-vl.github.io/

License

mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 license.

Where to send questions or comments about the model: https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA/issues

Intended use

Primary intended uses: The primary use of LLaVA 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.