Instructions to use microsoft/Florence-2-large with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
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, device_map="auto") - 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
VRAM consumption when using GPU (CUDA)
I noticed that the VRAM usage increases by around the model size when loading the model, which is expected. However, it then increases again by roughly twice the model size during inference. This means the VRAM consumption is approximately three times the model size overall. Furthermore, this additional utilization is not released after inference, only at model unload. Is this normal and expected behavior?
Yes, it's normal and expected. Transformers consume memory proportional to the square of the tokens number in sequence.
Suggest wrapping the call to model.generate() into a torch.no_grad() context manager to see if that helps:
with torch.no_grad():
generated_ids = model.generate(
input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
pixel_values=inputs["pixel_values"],
max_new_tokens=1024,
do_sample=False,
num_beams=3,
)
Thank you for the feedback!