Instructions to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft 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-ft", trust_remote_code=True)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft", trust_remote_code=True) model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft", trust_remote_code=True) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft 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-ft" # 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-ft", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft
- SGLang
How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft 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-ft" \ --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-ft", "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-ft" \ --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-ft", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/microsoft/Florence-2-large-ft
Fine Tuning for VQA
I am attempting to fine-tune the Florence-2 model for a VQA (Visual Question Answering) task using a dataset of medical images. However, I am not getting consistent results with question-answer pairs alone. The goal is to be able to ask questions such as whether there is a specific object in the image or if a specific object is missing.
What kind of dataset structure should I create for this? Should it include location information such as bounding boxes (bbox)?
In my current approach, I am planning to train by combining two different task prompts: question and label+bbox.
For context, here is the structure I am considering:
I have also tried training each prompt individually, such as using only question-answer pairs or only the format, but I did not achieve better results. Additionally, I tested the following structures without success:
I am looking for advice on how to structure the dataset effectively. Any suggestions or insights on improving my approach would be greatly appreciated.

