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BLIP-2

The BLIP-2 model is a multimodal model capable of processing both image and text inputs. It is primarily used for tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) and image captioning. RBLN NPUs can accelerate BLIP-2 model inference using RBLN Optimum.

API Reference

RBLNBlip2VisionModel

Bases: RBLNModel

RBLN optimized BLIP-2 vision encoder model.

This class provides hardware-accelerated inference for BLIP-2 vision encoders on RBLN devices, supporting image encoding for multimodal vision-language tasks.

forward(pixel_values, interpolate_pos_encoding=False, return_dict=None)

Forward pass for the RBLN-optimized Blip2VisionModel model.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
pixel_values torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, num_channels, height, width)

The tensors corresponding to the input images.

 required
interpolate_pos_encoding bool

Whether to interpolate the positional encoding of the image embeddings. Defaults to False.

 False
return_dict bool

Whether to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.

 None

Returns:

Type Description
tuple | BaseModelOutputWithPooling

BaseModelOutputWithPooling or tuple(torch.FloatTensor): The model outputs. If return_dict=False is passed, returns a tuple of tensors. Otherwise, returns a BaseModelOutputWithPooling object.

from_pretrained(model_id, export=None, rbln_config=None, **kwargs) classmethod

The from_pretrained() function is utilized in its standard form as in the HuggingFace transformers library. User can use this function to load a pre-trained model from the HuggingFace library and convert it to a RBLN model to be run on RBLN NPUs.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model_id str | Path

The model id of the pre-trained model to be loaded. It can be downloaded from the HuggingFace model hub or a local path, or a model id of a compiled model using the RBLN Compiler.

 required
export bool | None

A boolean flag to indicate whether the model should be compiled. If None, it will be determined based on the existence of the compiled model files in the model_id.

 None
rbln_config dict | RBLNModelConfig | None

Configuration for RBLN model compilation and runtime. This can be provided as a dictionary or an instance of the model's configuration class (e.g., RBLNLlamaForCausalLMConfig for Llama models). For detailed configuration options, see the specific model's configuration class documentation.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments. Arguments with the prefix rbln_ are passed to rbln_config, while the remaining arguments are passed to the HuggingFace library.

 {}

Returns:

Type Description
RBLNModel

A RBLN model instance ready for inference on RBLN NPU devices.

get_hf_class() classmethod

Lazily load and cache the HuggingFace class this model wraps.

The class is looked up in hf_library_name under the name without the RBLN prefix (e.g. RBLNLlamaForCausalLM -> LlamaForCausalLM).

save_pretrained(save_directory, push_to_hub=False, **kwargs)

Saves a model and its configuration file to a directory, so that it can be re-loaded using the [~optimum.rbln.modeling_base.RBLNBaseModel.from_pretrained] class method.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
save_directory str | Path

Directory where to save the model file.

 required
push_to_hub bool

Whether or not to push your model to the HuggingFace model hub after saving it.

 False

from_model(model, config=None, rbln_config=None, model_save_dir=None, subfolder='', **kwargs) classmethod

Converts and compiles a pre-trained HuggingFace library model into a RBLN model. This method performs the actual model conversion and compilation process.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model PreTrainedModel | ModelMixin

The PyTorch model to be compiled. The object must be a HuggingFace transformers PreTrainedModel or a Diffusers component based on diffusers.ModelMixin, such as a VAE, UNet or ControlNet.

 required
config PretrainedConfig | None

The configuration object associated with the model.

 None
rbln_config RBLNModelConfig | dict | None

Configuration for RBLN model compilation and runtime. This can be provided as a dictionary or an instance of the model's configuration class (e.g., RBLNLlamaForCausalLMConfig for Llama models). For detailed configuration options, see the specific model's configuration class documentation.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments. Arguments with the prefix rbln_ are passed to rbln_config, while the remaining arguments are passed to the HuggingFace library.

 {}

The method performs the following steps:

  1. Compiles the PyTorch model into an optimized RBLN graph
  2. Configures the model for the specified NPU device
  3. Creates the necessary runtime objects if requested
  4. Saves the compiled model and configurations

Returns:

Type Description
RBLNModel

A RBLN model instance ready for inference on RBLN NPU devices.

RBLNBlip2QFormerModel

Bases: RBLNModel

RBLN optimized BLIP-2 Q-Former model.

This class provides hardware-accelerated inference for BLIP-2 Q-Former models on RBLN devices, which bridge vision and language modalities through cross-attention mechanisms for multimodal understanding tasks.

forward(query_embeds, encoder_hidden_states=None, encoder_attention_mask=None, return_dict=None)

The forward pass for the RBLN-optimized Blip2QFormerModel model.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
query_embeds FloatTensor

Hidden states to be used in the attention computation.

 required
encoder_hidden_states FloatTensor

Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the encoder. Used in the cross-attention if the model is configured as a decoder.

 None
encoder_attention_mask FloatTensor

Mask to avoid performing attention on the padding token indices of the encoder input. This mask is used in the cross-attention if the model is configured as a decoder.

 None
return_dict bool

Whether to return a ModelOutput instead of a plain tuple.

 None

Returns:

Type Description
tuple[Tensor] | BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions

BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions or tuple(torch.FloatTensor): The model outputs. If return_dict=False is passed, returns a tuple of tensors. Otherwise, returns a BaseModelOutputWithPoolingAndCrossAttentions object.

from_pretrained(model_id, export=None, rbln_config=None, **kwargs) classmethod

The from_pretrained() function is utilized in its standard form as in the HuggingFace transformers library. User can use this function to load a pre-trained model from the HuggingFace library and convert it to a RBLN model to be run on RBLN NPUs.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model_id str | Path

The model id of the pre-trained model to be loaded. It can be downloaded from the HuggingFace model hub or a local path, or a model id of a compiled model using the RBLN Compiler.

 required
export bool | None

A boolean flag to indicate whether the model should be compiled. If None, it will be determined based on the existence of the compiled model files in the model_id.

 None
rbln_config dict | RBLNModelConfig | None

Configuration for RBLN model compilation and runtime. This can be provided as a dictionary or an instance of the model's configuration class (e.g., RBLNLlamaForCausalLMConfig for Llama models). For detailed configuration options, see the specific model's configuration class documentation.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments. Arguments with the prefix rbln_ are passed to rbln_config, while the remaining arguments are passed to the HuggingFace library.

 {}

Returns:

Type Description
RBLNModel

A RBLN model instance ready for inference on RBLN NPU devices.

get_hf_class() classmethod

Lazily load and cache the HuggingFace class this model wraps.

The class is looked up in hf_library_name under the name without the RBLN prefix (e.g. RBLNLlamaForCausalLM -> LlamaForCausalLM).

save_pretrained(save_directory, push_to_hub=False, **kwargs)

Saves a model and its configuration file to a directory, so that it can be re-loaded using the [~optimum.rbln.modeling_base.RBLNBaseModel.from_pretrained] class method.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
save_directory str | Path

Directory where to save the model file.

 required
push_to_hub bool

Whether or not to push your model to the HuggingFace model hub after saving it.

 False

from_model(model, config=None, rbln_config=None, model_save_dir=None, subfolder='', **kwargs) classmethod

Converts and compiles a pre-trained HuggingFace library model into a RBLN model. This method performs the actual model conversion and compilation process.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model PreTrainedModel | ModelMixin

The PyTorch model to be compiled. The object must be a HuggingFace transformers PreTrainedModel or a Diffusers component based on diffusers.ModelMixin, such as a VAE, UNet or ControlNet.

 required
config PretrainedConfig | None

The configuration object associated with the model.

 None
rbln_config RBLNModelConfig | dict | None

Configuration for RBLN model compilation and runtime. This can be provided as a dictionary or an instance of the model's configuration class (e.g., RBLNLlamaForCausalLMConfig for Llama models). For detailed configuration options, see the specific model's configuration class documentation.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments. Arguments with the prefix rbln_ are passed to rbln_config, while the remaining arguments are passed to the HuggingFace library.

 {}

The method performs the following steps:

  1. Compiles the PyTorch model into an optimized RBLN graph
  2. Configures the model for the specified NPU device
  3. Creates the necessary runtime objects if requested
  4. Saves the compiled model and configurations

Returns:

Type Description
RBLNModel

A RBLN model instance ready for inference on RBLN NPU devices.

RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGeneration

Bases: RBLNModel, RBLNDecoderOnlyGenerationMixin

RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGeneration is a multi-modal model that integrates vision and language processing capabilities, optimized for RBLN NPUs. It is designed for conditional generation tasks that involve both image and text inputs.

This model inherits from [RBLNModel]. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the library implements for all its models.

Important Note

This model includes a Large Language Model (LLM) as a submodule. For optimal performance, it is highly recommended to use tensor parallelism for the language model. This can be achieved by using the rbln_config parameter in the from_pretrained method. Refer to the from_pretrained documentation and the RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGeneration class for details.

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from optimum.rbln import RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGeneration

model = RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "Salesforce/blip2-opt-2.7b",
    export=True,
    rbln_config={
        "language_model": {
            "batch_size": 1,
            "max_seq_len": 2048,
            "num_devices": 1,
            "use_inputs_embeds": True,
        },
    },
)

model.save_pretrained("compiled-blip2-opt-2.7b")

generate(pixel_values, input_ids=None, attention_mask=None, inputs_embeds=None, interpolate_pos_encoding=False, **generate_kwargs)

The generate function is utilized in its standard form as in the HuggingFace transformers library. User can use this function to generate text from the model. Check the HuggingFace transformers documentation for more details.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
pixel_values FloatTensor

Input images to be processed.

 required
input_ids LongTensor

The sequence used as a prompt for the generation.

 None
attention_mask LongTensor

Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices

 None
inputs_embeds FloatTensor

Embedded representation of the inputs. Should be float, not int tokens.

 None
interpolate_pos_encoding bool, optional, defaults to False

Whether to interpolate the positional encoding of the image embeddings.

 False

Returns: torch.LongTensor: Generated token IDs of shape (batch_size, sequence_length). For decoder-only language models such as OPT, the sequence includes the image placeholder and prompt tokens before the generated ones. Decode it with processor.batch_decode(outputs, skip_special_tokens=True).

from_pretrained(model_id, export=None, rbln_config=None, **kwargs) classmethod

The from_pretrained() function is utilized in its standard form as in the HuggingFace transformers library. User can use this function to load a pre-trained model from the HuggingFace library and convert it to a RBLN model to be run on RBLN NPUs.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model_id str | Path

The model id of the pre-trained model to be loaded. It can be downloaded from the HuggingFace model hub or a local path, or a model id of a compiled model using the RBLN Compiler.

 required
export bool | None

A boolean flag to indicate whether the model should be compiled. If None, it will be determined based on the existence of the compiled model files in the model_id.

 None
rbln_config dict | RBLNModelConfig | None

Configuration for RBLN model compilation and runtime. This can be provided as a dictionary or an instance of the model's configuration class (e.g., RBLNLlamaForCausalLMConfig for Llama models). For detailed configuration options, see the specific model's configuration class documentation.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments. Arguments with the prefix rbln_ are passed to rbln_config, while the remaining arguments are passed to the HuggingFace library.

 {}

Returns:

Type Description
RBLNModel

A RBLN model instance ready for inference on RBLN NPU devices.

get_hf_class() classmethod

Lazily load and cache the HuggingFace class this model wraps.

The class is looked up in hf_library_name under the name without the RBLN prefix (e.g. RBLNLlamaForCausalLM -> LlamaForCausalLM).

save_pretrained(save_directory, push_to_hub=False, **kwargs)

Saves a model and its configuration file to a directory, so that it can be re-loaded using the [~optimum.rbln.modeling_base.RBLNBaseModel.from_pretrained] class method.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
save_directory str | Path

Directory where to save the model file.

 required
push_to_hub bool

Whether or not to push your model to the HuggingFace model hub after saving it.

 False

from_model(model, config=None, rbln_config=None, model_save_dir=None, subfolder='', **kwargs) classmethod

Converts and compiles a pre-trained HuggingFace library model into a RBLN model. This method performs the actual model conversion and compilation process.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
model PreTrainedModel | ModelMixin

The PyTorch model to be compiled. The object must be a HuggingFace transformers PreTrainedModel or a Diffusers component based on diffusers.ModelMixin, such as a VAE, UNet or ControlNet.

 required
config PretrainedConfig | None

The configuration object associated with the model.

 None
rbln_config RBLNModelConfig | dict | None

Configuration for RBLN model compilation and runtime. This can be provided as a dictionary or an instance of the model's configuration class (e.g., RBLNLlamaForCausalLMConfig for Llama models). For detailed configuration options, see the specific model's configuration class documentation.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments. Arguments with the prefix rbln_ are passed to rbln_config, while the remaining arguments are passed to the HuggingFace library.

 {}

The method performs the following steps:

  1. Compiles the PyTorch model into an optimized RBLN graph
  2. Configures the model for the specified NPU device
  3. Creates the necessary runtime objects if requested
  4. Saves the compiled model and configurations

Returns:

Type Description
RBLNModel

A RBLN model instance ready for inference on RBLN NPU devices.

RBLNBlip2VisionModelConfig

Bases: RBLNModelConfig

Configuration class for RBLNBlip2VisionModel.

This configuration class stores the configuration parameters specific to RBLN-optimized BLIP-2 vision encoder models for multimodal tasks.

__init__(batch_size=None, **kwargs)

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
batch_size int | None

The batch size for inference. Defaults to 1.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional arguments passed to the parent RBLNModelConfig.

 {}

from_pretrained(path, rbln_config=None, return_unused_kwargs=False, **kwargs) classmethod

Load a RBLNModelConfig from a path.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
path str

Path to the RBLNModelConfig file or directory containing the config file.

 required
rbln_config dict[str, Any] | None

Additional configuration to override.

 None
return_unused_kwargs bool

Whether to return unused kwargs.

 False
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments to override configuration values. Keys starting with 'rbln_' will have the prefix removed and be used to update the configuration.

 {}

Returns:

Name Type Description
RBLNModelConfig Self | tuple[Self, dict[str, Any]]

The loaded configuration instance.
Note

This method loads the configuration from the specified path and applies any provided overrides. If the loaded configuration class doesn't match the expected class, a warning will be logged.

Examples:

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config = RBLNResNetForImageClassificationConfig.from_pretrained("/path/to/model")

initialize_submodule_config(submodule_config=None, force_kwargs=False, **kwargs)

Build the config of a submodule from the parent's runtime options and kwargs.

Returns the submodule config instance when its class is known (an instance was passed, or cls_name was given), otherwise the merged kwargs dict for the model class to resolve later.

get_load_overrides()

Extract the options that must cross the load boundary, for passing to from_pretrained.

Returns the explicitly-set runtime options (device, device_map, create_runtimes, activate_profiler, timeout) and the subclass-specific non-save attributes (load-behavior flags such as _load_visual_runtime, which are never serialized so they can only travel with the caller), recursively including submodules. Compile-time attributes are not included: when loading a compiled model they come from the artifact's rbln_config.json, and this dict is merged on top of it.

Returns:

Type Description
dict[str, Any]

Dictionary of load overrides, keyed like the rbln_config dict accepted by from_pretrained.

RBLNBlip2QFormerModelConfig

Bases: RBLNModelConfig

Configuration class for RBLNBlip2QFormerModel.

This configuration class stores the configuration parameters specific to RBLN-optimized BLIP-2 Q-Former models that bridge vision and language modalities.

__init__(batch_size=None, num_query_tokens=None, image_text_hidden_size=None, **kwargs)

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
num_query_tokens int | None

The number of query tokens passed through the Transformer.

 None
image_text_hidden_size int | None

Dimensionality of the hidden state of the image-text fusion layer.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional arguments passed to the parent RBLNModelConfig.

 {}

from_pretrained(path, rbln_config=None, return_unused_kwargs=False, **kwargs) classmethod

Load a RBLNModelConfig from a path.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
path str

Path to the RBLNModelConfig file or directory containing the config file.

 required
rbln_config dict[str, Any] | None

Additional configuration to override.

 None
return_unused_kwargs bool

Whether to return unused kwargs.

 False
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments to override configuration values. Keys starting with 'rbln_' will have the prefix removed and be used to update the configuration.

 {}

Returns:

Name Type Description
RBLNModelConfig Self | tuple[Self, dict[str, Any]]

The loaded configuration instance.
Note

This method loads the configuration from the specified path and applies any provided overrides. If the loaded configuration class doesn't match the expected class, a warning will be logged.

Examples:

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config = RBLNResNetForImageClassificationConfig.from_pretrained("/path/to/model")

initialize_submodule_config(submodule_config=None, force_kwargs=False, **kwargs)

Build the config of a submodule from the parent's runtime options and kwargs.

Returns the submodule config instance when its class is known (an instance was passed, or cls_name was given), otherwise the merged kwargs dict for the model class to resolve later.

get_load_overrides()

Extract the options that must cross the load boundary, for passing to from_pretrained.

Returns the explicitly-set runtime options (device, device_map, create_runtimes, activate_profiler, timeout) and the subclass-specific non-save attributes (load-behavior flags such as _load_visual_runtime, which are never serialized so they can only travel with the caller), recursively including submodules. Compile-time attributes are not included: when loading a compiled model they come from the artifact's rbln_config.json, and this dict is merged on top of it.

Returns:

Type Description
dict[str, Any]

Dictionary of load overrides, keyed like the rbln_config dict accepted by from_pretrained.

RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGenerationConfig

Bases: RBLNModelConfig

Configuration class for RBLNBlip2ForConditionalGeneration.

This configuration class stores the configuration parameters specific to RBLN-optimized BLIP-2 models for conditional generation tasks that involve both image and text inputs.

__init__(batch_size=None, vision_model=None, qformer=None, language_model=None, **kwargs)

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
batch_size int | None

The batch size for inference. Defaults to 1.

 None
vision_model RBLNModelConfig | None

Configuration for the vision encoder component.

 None
qformer RBLNModelConfig | None

Configuration for the RBLN-optimized BLIP-2 Q-Former model.

 None
language_model RBLNModelConfig | None

Configuration for the language model component.

 None
kwargs Any

Additional arguments passed to the parent RBLNModelConfig.

 {}

Raises:

Type Description
ValueError

If batch_size is not a positive integer.

from_pretrained(path, rbln_config=None, return_unused_kwargs=False, **kwargs) classmethod

Load a RBLNModelConfig from a path.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
path str

Path to the RBLNModelConfig file or directory containing the config file.

 required
rbln_config dict[str, Any] | None

Additional configuration to override.

 None
return_unused_kwargs bool

Whether to return unused kwargs.

 False
kwargs Any

Additional keyword arguments to override configuration values. Keys starting with 'rbln_' will have the prefix removed and be used to update the configuration.

 {}

Returns:

Name Type Description
RBLNModelConfig Self | tuple[Self, dict[str, Any]]

The loaded configuration instance.
Note

This method loads the configuration from the specified path and applies any provided overrides. If the loaded configuration class doesn't match the expected class, a warning will be logged.

Examples:

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config = RBLNResNetForImageClassificationConfig.from_pretrained("/path/to/model")

initialize_submodule_config(submodule_config=None, force_kwargs=False, **kwargs)

Build the config of a submodule from the parent's runtime options and kwargs.

Returns the submodule config instance when its class is known (an instance was passed, or cls_name was given), otherwise the merged kwargs dict for the model class to resolve later.

get_load_overrides()

Extract the options that must cross the load boundary, for passing to from_pretrained.

Returns the explicitly-set runtime options (device, device_map, create_runtimes, activate_profiler, timeout) and the subclass-specific non-save attributes (load-behavior flags such as _load_visual_runtime, which are never serialized so they can only travel with the caller), recursively including submodules. Compile-time attributes are not included: when loading a compiled model they come from the artifact's rbln_config.json, and this dict is merged on top of it.

Returns:

Type Description
dict[str, Any]

Dictionary of load overrides, keyed like the rbln_config dict accepted by from_pretrained.