Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
qwen3_5
qwen3.5
video
video-captioning
data-engine
conversational
Instructions to use nvidia/Flora-Captioner with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use nvidia/Flora-Captioner with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="nvidia/Flora-Captioner") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("nvidia/Flora-Captioner") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("nvidia/Flora-Captioner", device_map="auto") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use nvidia/Flora-Captioner with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "nvidia/Flora-Captioner" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "nvidia/Flora-Captioner", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Flora-Captioner
- SGLang
How to use nvidia/Flora-Captioner 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 "nvidia/Flora-Captioner" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "nvidia/Flora-Captioner", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'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 "nvidia/Flora-Captioner" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "nvidia/Flora-Captioner", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use nvidia/Flora-Captioner with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/nvidia/Flora-Captioner
Download batch_utils/vendor/verify_gdn.py from nvidia/Flora-Captioner: direct link, hf CLI and curl.
- Browser
- Download file 2.15 kB
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https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Flora-Captioner/resolve/main/batch_utils/vendor/verify_gdn.py
- Command line
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hf download hf://nvidia/Flora-Captioner/batch_utils/vendor/verify_gdn.py
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curl -L -o verify_gdn.py https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Flora-Captioner/resolve/main/batch_utils/vendor/verify_gdn.py
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| from collections import Counter, defaultdict | |
| import hashlib, json | |
| from pathlib import Path | |
| def verify(model, path, *, peft_prefix=False): | |
| import torch | |
| from safetensors import safe_open | |
| path = Path(path) | |
| mapping = json.loads((path / 'model.safetensors.index.json').read_text())['weight_map'] | |
| wanted = {name for name in mapping if name.endswith(('.A_log', '.dt_bias'))} | |
| assert wanted | |
| actual = {} | |
| for name, p in model.named_parameters(): | |
| if not name.endswith(('.A_log', '.dt_bias')): | |
| continue | |
| if peft_prefix: | |
| assert name.startswith('base_model.model.') | |
| name = name[len('base_model.model.'):] | |
| assert name not in actual | |
| actual[name] = p | |
| assert set(actual) == wanted, {'missing': sorted(wanted - set(actual)), 'extra': sorted(set(actual) - wanted)} | |
| groups = defaultdict(list) | |
| for name in wanted: | |
| groups[mapping[name]].append(name) | |
| evidence = [] | |
| for filename, names in sorted(groups.items()): | |
| with safe_open(str(path / filename), framework='pt', device='cpu') as source: | |
| for name in sorted(names): | |
| saved = source.get_tensor(name) | |
| p = actual[name] | |
| assert p.dtype == torch.float32, (name, str(p.dtype), 'must preserve FP32 before loading') | |
| assert p.device.type == 'cuda', (name, 'must verify final device placement') | |
| value = p.detach().cpu() | |
| assert torch.equal(value, saved.float()), (name, 'checkpoint bits changed; upcasting rounded BF16 is insufficient') | |
| evidence.append(dict(name=name, elements=p.numel(), source_dtype=str(saved.dtype), runtime_dtype=str(p.dtype), device=str(p.device), fp32_value_sha256=hashlib.sha256(value.contiguous().view(torch.uint8).numpy().tobytes()).hexdigest(), saved_value_exact=True)) | |
| return dict(status='PASS_NATIVE_GDN_FP32_CHECKPOINT_VALUES', tensors=len(evidence), source_dtypes=dict(Counter((r['source_dtype'] for r in evidence))), all_runtime_fp32=True, all_values_equal_saved_checkpoint=True, checked_after_final_device_placement=True, values=evidence) | |