Any plans to bring llava support?

[vshapenko]

Hi! Are there any plans to support llava as well? As i see, it is merged to llama.cpp about month ago and gives possibility to work with image recognition aswell.

[SignalRT]

I have a prototype working. I will see if I can clean and finish the project this weekend.

[vshapenko]

I have a prototype working. I will see if I can clean and finish the project this weekend.

Hello! Are there any news?

[philippjbauer]

Looking forward to the change! Just discussed how this will help significantly to solve a use-case for our internal application. Do you have it available in your fork already? I'd like to pull it into mine and play around with it.

[vshapenko]

I would like to help too. This is very promising Чт, 7 дек. 2023 г. в 22:01, Philipp Bauer ***@***.***>:

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[SignalRT]

I will try to finish the library a little more this weekend before make this public. Until know, only tested on osx-arm64.

[philippjbauer]

Cool, thank you! I'm on osx-arm64 and can do some testing (have my colleague do it perhaps too) after implementing it in our app.

[AshD]

Is there any update on this? One Use case is OCR.

Thanks,
Ash

[SignalRT]

I have a branch in my fork with part of the changes. Build binaries, include runtime, etc. Those are things that I don't have done before. I first make the development with manually build binaries.

With the first versions of January, it worked.

With this prompt: What is unusual about this image? and this picture:

This is the output:

But since PR #445 it crashes on llama.cpp. I'm trying to identify the root cause and get this working again.

[AshD]

Thanks for the update @SignalRT

Happy to test this when you have it working.

[dcostea]

@SignalRT
If there is any progress with this, I would be very glad to evaluate.

Btw, where is the code repo with the working branch you mentioned above?

[IntptrMax]

I have also tried to do it and have a very simple demo. I‘m trying to rewrite my code using llamasharp.

The demo is like this:
Prompt: describe the image in detail.
Input Image:

Output:

[SignalRT]

I will work this weekend to try to publish my work. The work will be in my branch: https://github.com/SignalRT/LLamaSharp/tree/MultiModal until PR.

[dcostea]

@SignalRT For now I switched to plan B, OllamaSharp, but I'm happy to hear that I will be able to switch back soon.
Good luck!

[zsogitbe]

@SignalRT please put the code you have (LLava) into your branch that we can help you finalizing it (better calling it LLava instead of LLavaSharp).

[zsogitbe]

@IntptrMax, I have looked at your example. It is a very good attempt! I have noticed a few bugs with marshaling the cpp output, for example,

public extern static llava_image_embed llava_image_embed_make_with_filename(IntPtr clip_ctx, int n_threads, string image);

should be changed to

public extern static IntPtr llava_image_embed_make_with_filename(IntPtr clip_ctx, int n_threads, string image);

because cpp returns a pointer to the structure and if you do not do this, then you will get some random problems...
You can marshal the IntPtr like this:

llava_image_embed image_embed = (llava_image_embed)Marshal.PtrToStructure(intptr_to_image_embed, typeof(llava_image_embed));

where intptr_to_image_embed is the output from llava_image_embed_make_with_filename.
Maybe look at all of your functions and make sure that the marshaling is OK everywhere (I did not check all).

Also, there is a problem with the context size. If the number of tokens in the image embedding is higher, then the context size (n_ctx), then the program will crash in the function llava_eval_image_embed. For example, the default 2048 will not work using my model with your example image because it has 2880 tokens! We need to adjust the contexts size based on the model.