Instructions to use microsoft/Florence-2-large with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="microsoft/Florence-2-large", trust_remote_code=True)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/Florence-2-large", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Florence-2-large", trust_remote_code=True)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "microsoft/Florence-2-large"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "microsoft/Florence-2-large",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large

SGLang

How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large 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 "microsoft/Florence-2-large" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "microsoft/Florence-2-large",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

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 "microsoft/Florence-2-large" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "microsoft/Florence-2-large",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large
```

Limitations of Handling Large Quantities of Objects

#96

by gmdogft - opened Feb 27, 2025

Discussion

gmdogft

Feb 27, 2025

Hi everyone,

I'm working on fine-tuning Florence for an object detection task, but I’ve encountered some limitations when dealing with a large number of objects in an image. My domain involves detecting products on shelves, and I realized that Florence might not be the best fit due to its token limitations.

For instance, if the model has a maximum limit of 4096 characters, and a single detected object is represented as Product, that already takes up 45 tokens/characters. This means that, on average, I can only detect around 90 objects per image before hitting constraints.

Given these limitations, what strategies could be applied to improve performance in this scenario? Would modifying the output format or adjusting to would be viable solutions?

Thanks!

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