| ## BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation |
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| ## Announcement: BLIP is now officially integrated into [LAVIS](https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS) - a one-stop library for language-and-vision research and applications! |
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| <img src="BLIP.gif" width="700"> |
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| This is the PyTorch code of the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12086">BLIP paper</a> [[blog](https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/blip-bootstrapping-language-image-pretraining/)]. The code has been tested on PyTorch 1.10. |
| To install the dependencies, run <pre/>pip install -r requirements.txt</pre> |
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| Catalog: |
| - [x] Inference demo |
| - [x] Pre-trained and finetuned checkpoints |
| - [x] Finetuning code for Image-Text Retrieval, Image Captioning, VQA, and NLVR2 |
| - [x] Pre-training code |
| - [x] Zero-shot video-text retrieval |
| - [x] Download of bootstrapped pre-training datasets |
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| ### Inference demo: |
| Run our interactive demo using [Colab notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/salesforce/BLIP/blob/main/demo.ipynb) (no GPU needed). |
| The demo includes code for: |
| 1. Image captioning |
| 2. Open-ended visual question answering |
| 3. Multimodal / unimodal feature extraction |
| 4. Image-text matching |
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| Try out the [Web demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/BLIP), integrated into [Huggingface Spaces 🤗](https://huggingface.co/spaces) using [Gradio](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio). |
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| Replicate web demo and Docker image is also available at [](https://replicate.com/salesforce/blip) |
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| ### Pre-trained checkpoints: |
| Num. pre-train images | BLIP w/ ViT-B | BLIP w/ ViT-B and CapFilt-L | BLIP w/ ViT-L |
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| 14M | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_14M.pth">Download</a>| - | - |
| 129M | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base.pth">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_capfilt_large.pth">Download</a> | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_large.pth">Download</a> |
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| ### Finetuned checkpoints: |
| Task | BLIP w/ ViT-B | BLIP w/ ViT-B and CapFilt-L | BLIP w/ ViT-L |
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| Image-Text Retrieval (COCO) | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_retrieval_coco.pth">Download</a>| - | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_large_retrieval_coco.pth">Download</a> |
| Image-Text Retrieval (Flickr30k) | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_retrieval_flickr.pth">Download</a>| - | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_large_retrieval_flickr.pth">Download</a> |
| Image Captioning (COCO) | - | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_caption_capfilt_large.pth">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_large_caption.pth">Download</a> | |
| VQA | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_vqa.pth">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_vqa_capfilt_large.pth">Download</a> | - |
| NLVR2 | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_nlvr.pth">Download</a>| - | - |
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| ### Image-Text Retrieval: |
| 1. Download COCO and Flickr30k datasets from the original websites, and set 'image_root' in configs/retrieval_{dataset}.yaml accordingly. |
| 2. To evaluate the finetuned BLIP model on COCO, run: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 train_retrieval.py \ |
| --config ./configs/retrieval_coco.yaml \ |
| --output_dir output/retrieval_coco \ |
| --evaluate</pre> |
| 3. To finetune the pre-trained checkpoint using 8 A100 GPUs, first set 'pretrained' in configs/retrieval_coco.yaml as "https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base.pth". Then run: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 train_retrieval.py \ |
| --config ./configs/retrieval_coco.yaml \ |
| --output_dir output/retrieval_coco </pre> |
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| ### Image-Text Captioning: |
| 1. Download COCO and NoCaps datasets from the original websites, and set 'image_root' in configs/caption_coco.yaml and configs/nocaps.yaml accordingly. |
| 2. To evaluate the finetuned BLIP model on COCO, run: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 train_caption.py --evaluate</pre> |
| 3. To evaluate the finetuned BLIP model on NoCaps, generate results with: (evaluation needs to be performed on official server) |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 eval_nocaps.py </pre> |
| 4. To finetune the pre-trained checkpoint using 8 A100 GPUs, first set 'pretrained' in configs/caption_coco.yaml as "https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_capfilt_large.pth". Then run: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 train_caption.py </pre> |
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| ### VQA: |
| 1. Download VQA v2 dataset and Visual Genome dataset from the original websites, and set 'vqa_root' and 'vg_root' in configs/vqa.yaml. |
| 2. To evaluate the finetuned BLIP model, generate results with: (evaluation needs to be performed on official server) |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 train_vqa.py --evaluate</pre> |
| 3. To finetune the pre-trained checkpoint using 16 A100 GPUs, first set 'pretrained' in configs/vqa.yaml as "https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_capfilt_large.pth". Then run: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=16 train_vqa.py </pre> |
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| ### NLVR2: |
| 1. Download NLVR2 dataset from the original websites, and set 'image_root' in configs/nlvr.yaml. |
| 2. To evaluate the finetuned BLIP model, run |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 train_nlvr.py --evaluate</pre> |
| 3. To finetune the pre-trained checkpoint using 16 A100 GPUs, first set 'pretrained' in configs/nlvr.yaml as "https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base.pth". Then run: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=16 train_nlvr.py </pre> |
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| ### Finetune with ViT-L: |
| In order to finetune a model with ViT-L, simply change the config file to set 'vit' as large. Batch size and learning rate may also need to be adjusted accordingly (please see the paper's appendix for hyper-parameter details). <a href="https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale">Gradient checkpoint</a> can also be activated in the config file to reduce GPU memory usage. |
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| ### Pre-train: |
| 1. Prepare training json files where each json file contains a list. Each item in the list is a dictonary with two key-value pairs: {'image': path_of_image, 'caption': text_of_image}. |
| 2. In configs/pretrain.yaml, set 'train_file' as the paths for the json files . |
| 3. Pre-train the model using 8 A100 GPUs: |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 pretrain.py --config ./configs/Pretrain.yaml --output_dir output/Pretrain </pre> |
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| ### Zero-shot video-text retrieval: |
| 1. Download MSRVTT dataset following the instructions from https://github.com/salesforce/ALPRO, and set 'video_root' accordingly in configs/retrieval_msrvtt.yaml. |
| 2. Install [decord](https://github.com/dmlc/decord) with <pre>pip install decord</pre> |
| 3. To perform zero-shot evaluation, run |
| <pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 eval_retrieval_video.py</pre> |
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| ### Pre-training datasets download: |
| We provide bootstrapped pre-training datasets as json files. Each json file contains a list. Each item in the list is a dictonary with two key-value pairs: {'url': url_of_image, 'caption': text_of_image}. |
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| Image source | Filtered web caption | Filtered synthetic caption by ViT-B | Filtered synthetic caption by ViT-L |
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| CC3M+CC12M+SBU | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/datasets/ccs_filtered.json">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/datasets/ccs_synthetic_filtered.json">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/datasets/ccs_synthetic_filtered_large.json">Download</a> |
| LAION115M | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/datasets/laion_filtered.json">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/datasets/laion_synthetic_filtered.json">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/datasets/laion_synthetic_filtered_large.json">Download</a> |
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| ### Citation |
| If you find this code to be useful for your research, please consider citing. |
| <pre> |
| @inproceedings{li2022blip, |
| title={BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation}, |
| author={Junnan Li and Dongxu Li and Caiming Xiong and Steven Hoi}, |
| year={2022}, |
| booktitle={ICML}, |
| }</pre> |
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| ### Acknowledgement |
| The implementation of BLIP relies on resources from <a href="https://github.com/salesforce/ALBEF">ALBEF</a>, <a href="https://github.com/huggingface/transformers">Huggingface Transformers</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/rwightman/pytorch-image-models/tree/master/timm">timm</a>. We thank the original authors for their open-sourcing. |
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