Visual Document Retrieval
Safetensors
sentence-transformers
colpali-engine
qwen3_5
vision-language
colbert
late-interaction
multi-vector
matryoshka
vidore
token-compression
Instructions to use tencent/EVIE-4.5B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- sentence-transformers
How to use tencent/EVIE-4.5B with sentence-transformers:
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer model = SentenceTransformer("tencent/EVIE-4.5B") sentences = [ "The weather is lovely today.", "It's so sunny outside!", "He drove to the stadium." ] embeddings = model.encode(sentences) similarities = model.similarity(embeddings, embeddings) print(similarities.shape) # [3, 3] - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| """Minimal local ColQwen3.5 LoRA trainer for explicit train-only sources.""" | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| import argparse | |
| import json | |
| import os | |
| import time | |
| import sys | |
| from pathlib import Path | |
| _SHARED = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "shared" | |
| if str(_SHARED) not in sys.path: | |
| sys.path.insert(0, str(_SHARED)) | |
| import torch | |
| from peft import LoraConfig | |
| from torch.distributed.elastic.multiprocessing.errors import record | |
| from transformers import TrainingArguments, set_seed | |
| from data_loader import ( | |
| ALLOWED_SOURCES, | |
| _default_dataset_cache_dir, | |
| build_hardneg_dataset, | |
| build_train_dataset, | |
| ) | |
| from paths import forbid_venv_path | |
| from colpali_engine.loss.late_interaction_losses import ColbertLoss, ColbertNegativeCELoss | |
| from colpali_engine.models import ColQwen3_5, ColQwen3_5Processor | |
| from transformers.models.qwen3_5 import Qwen3_5Config | |
| from colpali_engine.trainer.colmodel_training import ColModelTraining, ColModelTrainingConfig | |
| TARGET_MODULES = ( | |
| r"(.*(model)(?!.*visual).*(down_proj|gate_proj|up_proj|k_proj|q_proj|v_proj|o_proj|" | |
| r"in_proj_qkv|in_proj_z|in_proj_b|in_proj_a|out_proj).*$)" | |
| ) | |
| def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace: | |
| parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) | |
| parser.add_argument("--base-model", default="") | |
| parser.add_argument("--data-root", default="./data") | |
| parser.add_argument("--output-dir", required=True) | |
| parser.add_argument("--sources", nargs="*", default=[], choices=ALLOWED_SOURCES, | |
| help="Optional ablation filter on the source column; empty = full corpus.") | |
| parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42) | |
| parser.add_argument("--epochs", type=float, default=1.0) | |
| parser.add_argument("--max-steps", type=int, default=-1) | |
| parser.add_argument("--max-samples-per-source", type=int, default=0) | |
| parser.add_argument("--per-device-batch-size", type=int, default=2) | |
| parser.add_argument("--grad-accum", type=int, default=1) | |
| parser.add_argument("--learning-rate", type=float, default=4.57e-5) | |
| parser.add_argument("--weight-decay", type=float, default=0.02) | |
| parser.add_argument("--warmup-ratio", type=float, default=0.08) | |
| parser.add_argument("--max-visual-tokens", type=int, default=1024) | |
| parser.add_argument("--col-dim", type=int, default=512, | |
| help="custom_text_proj output dim (4096 for EVIE-8B).") | |
| parser.add_argument("--dataloader-workers", type=int, default=2) | |
| parser.add_argument( | |
| "--dataloader-prefetch-factor", | |
| type=int, | |
| default=4, | |
| help="Batches prefetched by each DataLoader worker; ignored when workers=0.", | |
| ) | |
| parser.add_argument("--save-steps", type=int, default=500) | |
| parser.add_argument("--logging-steps", type=int, default=10) | |
| parser.add_argument("--lora-r", type=int, default=32) | |
| parser.add_argument("--lora-alpha", type=int, default=128) | |
| parser.add_argument("--lora-dropout", type=float, default=0.197) | |
| parser.add_argument("--loss-temperature", type=float, default=0.02) | |
| parser.add_argument("--hardneg-in-batch-weight", type=float, default=0.5) | |
| parser.add_argument("--resume-from-checkpoint", default="", | |
| help="Checkpoint path, or 'latest' to resume the newest output checkpoint.") | |
| parser.add_argument("--attn", choices=("flash_attention_2", "sdpa", "eager"), default="flash_attention_2") | |
| parser.add_argument("--grad-checkpointing", choices=("on", "off"), default="off") | |
| parser.add_argument( | |
| "--bidirectional-attention", | |
| choices=("on", "off"), | |
| default="on", | |
| help="on = encoder-ize full-attention layers (ColEmbed V2).", | |
| ) | |
| parser.add_argument( | |
| "--hardneg-root", | |
| default="", | |
| help="Hardneg output with queries/. corpus/ is optional; without it images load from --data-root.", | |
| ) | |
| parser.add_argument("--num-hard-negs", type=int, default=2) | |
| parser.add_argument( | |
| "--use-hardnegatives", | |
| choices=("on", "off"), | |
| default="on", | |
| help="When --hardneg-root is set: on=ColbertNegativeCELoss; off=same rows, in-batch only.", | |
| ) | |
| parser.add_argument( | |
| "--report-to", | |
| default="none", | |
| help="Comma-separated metric trackers, e.g. wandb,tensorboard.", | |
| ) | |
| parser.add_argument("--logging-dir", default=None, help="TensorBoard event output directory.") | |
| parser.add_argument("--run-name", default=None, help="Run name for the tracker (e.g. wandb).") | |
| return parser.parse_args() | |
| def resolve_pretrained(spec: str) -> str: | |
| path = Path(spec) | |
| return str(path.resolve()) if path.exists() else spec | |
| def prepare_output(path: Path, resume_requested: bool) -> None: | |
| path = forbid_venv_path(path, "output-dir") | |
| prepared_by_launcher = os.environ.get("EVIE_OUTPUT_PREPARED") == "1" | |
| if path.exists() and any(path.iterdir()) and not resume_requested and not prepared_by_launcher: | |
| raise FileExistsError(f"Refusing to overwrite a non-empty output directory: {path}") | |
| path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) | |
| def main() -> None: | |
| args = parse_args() | |
| output_dir = Path(args.output_dir).resolve() | |
| base_model = resolve_pretrained(args.base_model) | |
| data_root = Path(args.data_root).resolve() | |
| if not data_root.is_dir(): | |
| raise FileNotFoundError(f"Data root is missing: {data_root}") | |
| if args.hardneg_root: | |
| hn = Path(args.hardneg_root).resolve() | |
| subdir = os.environ.get("HARDNEG_SUBDIR", "judged") | |
| if not (hn / subdir).is_dir(): | |
| raise FileNotFoundError(f"hardneg-root needs {subdir}/: {hn}") | |
| prepare_output(output_dir, resume_requested=bool(args.resume_from_checkpoint)) | |
| os.environ.setdefault("HF_DATASETS_CACHE", str(_default_dataset_cache_dir())) | |
| set_seed(args.seed) | |
| print("== building train-only query/image pairs ==") | |
| use_hardneg = bool(args.hardneg_root) and args.use_hardnegatives == "on" | |
| if args.hardneg_root: | |
| train_dataset = build_hardneg_dataset( | |
| hardneg_root=args.hardneg_root, | |
| data_root=data_root, | |
| num_negatives=args.num_hard_negs, | |
| max_samples=args.max_samples_per_source, | |
| use_negatives=use_hardneg, | |
| ) | |
| else: | |
| train_dataset = build_train_dataset( | |
| data_root=data_root, | |
| sources=args.sources, | |
| max_samples_per_source=args.max_samples_per_source, | |
| ) | |
| print("== loading processor and bf16 base model ==") | |
| processor = ColQwen3_5Processor.from_pretrained( | |
| base_model, | |
| max_num_visual_tokens=args.max_visual_tokens, | |
| ) | |
| # Raw Qwen3.5 has no ColBERT head. Set config.dim before build so | |
| # custom_text_proj is created at --col-dim; missing keys stay randomly | |
| # initialized. Forward L2-normalizes each token, so init scale washes out. | |
| model_config = Qwen3_5Config.from_pretrained(base_model) | |
| model_config.dim = args.col_dim | |
| model = ColQwen3_5.from_pretrained( | |
| base_model, | |
| config=model_config, | |
| torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, | |
| attn_implementation=args.attn, | |
| ) | |
| print(f"[model] custom_text_proj = Linear(-> {args.col_dim}), fresh full-rank head") | |
| try: | |
| model.rope_deltas = None | |
| except AttributeError: | |
| pass | |
| if args.bidirectional_attention == "on": | |
| model.enable_bidirectional_attention() | |
| print("[model] bidirectional attention enabled on full-attention layers") | |
| use_gc = args.grad_checkpointing == "on" | |
| if use_gc: | |
| model.enable_input_require_grads() | |
| report_to = [item.strip() for item in args.report_to.split(",") if item.strip()] | |
| if not report_to or report_to == ["none"]: | |
| report_to = [] | |
| training_args = TrainingArguments( | |
| output_dir=str(output_dir), | |
| num_train_epochs=args.epochs, | |
| max_steps=args.max_steps, | |
| per_device_train_batch_size=args.per_device_batch_size, | |
| gradient_accumulation_steps=args.grad_accum, | |
| gradient_checkpointing=use_gc, | |
| gradient_checkpointing_kwargs={"use_reentrant": False} if use_gc else None, | |
| dataloader_num_workers=args.dataloader_workers, | |
| dataloader_pin_memory=True, | |
| dataloader_persistent_workers=args.dataloader_workers > 0, | |
| dataloader_prefetch_factor=args.dataloader_prefetch_factor if args.dataloader_workers > 0 else None, | |
| dataloader_drop_last=True, | |
| save_steps=args.save_steps, | |
| save_total_limit=2, | |
| logging_steps=args.logging_steps, | |
| learning_rate=args.learning_rate, | |
| lr_scheduler_type="cosine", | |
| warmup_ratio=args.warmup_ratio, | |
| weight_decay=args.weight_decay, | |
| bf16=True, | |
| seed=args.seed, | |
| data_seed=args.seed, | |
| ddp_find_unused_parameters=False, | |
| report_to=report_to, | |
| logging_dir=args.logging_dir, | |
| run_name=args.run_name, | |
| ) | |
| lora = LoraConfig( | |
| r=args.lora_r, | |
| lora_alpha=args.lora_alpha, | |
| lora_dropout=args.lora_dropout, | |
| init_lora_weights="gaussian", | |
| bias="none", | |
| task_type="FEATURE_EXTRACTION", | |
| target_modules=TARGET_MODULES, | |
| modules_to_save=["custom_text_proj"], # fresh head: full-rank, not LoRA | |
| ) | |
| if use_hardneg: | |
| judged = bool(getattr(train_dataset, "judged_pos", False)) | |
| all_pos = bool(getattr(train_dataset, "all_pos", False)) | |
| mode = ", judged-pos" if judged else (", all-pos" if all_pos else "") | |
| print( | |
| f"== Loss: ColbertNegativeCELoss (hard_negs={args.num_hard_negs}{mode}) ==" | |
| ) | |
| loss_func = ColbertNegativeCELoss( | |
| temperature=args.loss_temperature, | |
| normalize_scores=True, | |
| use_smooth_max=False, | |
| pos_aware_negative_filtering=True, | |
| in_batch_term_weight=args.hardneg_in_batch_weight, | |
| ) | |
| else: | |
| print("== Loss: ColbertLoss (in-batch only) ==") | |
| loss_func = ColbertLoss( | |
| temperature=args.loss_temperature, | |
| normalize_scores=True, | |
| use_smooth_max=False, | |
| ) | |
| trainer = ColModelTraining( | |
| ColModelTrainingConfig( | |
| output_dir=str(output_dir), | |
| processor=processor, | |
| model=model, | |
| train_dataset=train_dataset, | |
| eval_dataset=None, | |
| run_eval=False, | |
| loss_func=loss_func, | |
| tr_args=training_args, | |
| peft_config=lora, | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| print("== training ==") | |
| started = time.time() | |
| resume = args.resume_from_checkpoint or None | |
| if resume == "latest": | |
| checkpoints = sorted( | |
| output_dir.glob("checkpoint-*"), | |
| key=lambda p: int(p.name.rsplit("-", 1)[-1]), | |
| ) | |
| if not checkpoints: | |
| raise FileNotFoundError(f"no checkpoint-* found under {output_dir}") | |
| resume = str(checkpoints[-1]) | |
| training_args.resume_from_checkpoint = resume | |
| trainer.train() | |
| trainer.save() | |
| world_size = int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", 1)) | |
| try: | |
| n_samples = len(train_dataset) | |
| except TypeError: | |
| n_samples = None | |
| config = vars(args) | { | |
| "base_model": str(base_model), | |
| "data_root": str(data_root), | |
| "framework": "minimal-colqwen35-lora", | |
| "hardneg_subdir": ( | |
| os.environ.get("HARDNEG_SUBDIR", "judged") if args.hardneg_root else None | |
| ), | |
| "judged_pos": bool(getattr(train_dataset, "judged_pos", False)), | |
| "all_pos": bool(getattr(train_dataset, "all_pos", False)), | |
| "world_size": world_size, | |
| "effective_batch_size": args.per_device_batch_size * args.grad_accum * world_size, | |
| "train_samples": n_samples, | |
| "train_runtime_seconds": round(time.time() - started, 1), | |
| "total_params": sum(p.numel() for p in trainer.model.parameters()), | |
| "trainable_params": sum( | |
| p.numel() for p in trainer.model.parameters() if p.requires_grad | |
| ), | |
| } | |
| if int(os.environ.get("RANK", "0")) == 0: | |
| (output_dir / "run_config.json").write_text( | |
| json.dumps(config, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2) + "\n", | |
| encoding="utf-8", | |
| ) | |
| if torch.distributed.is_available() and torch.distributed.is_initialized(): | |
| torch.distributed.barrier() | |
| print(f"== complete: {output_dir} ==") | |
| def run_with_error_recording() -> None: | |
| """Persist the original failing DDP rank's traceback for torchrun.""" | |
| try: | |
| main() | |
| finally: | |
| if torch.distributed.is_available() and torch.distributed.is_initialized(): | |
| torch.distributed.destroy_process_group() | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| run_with_error_recording() | |