ColPali: Visual Retriever based on PaliGemma-3B with ColBERT strategy
Model Description
This model is built iteratively starting from an off-the-shelf SigLIP model. We finetuned it to create BiSigLIP and fed the patch-embeddings output by SigLIP to an LLM, PaliGemma-3B to create BiPali.
One benefit of inputting image patch embeddings through a language model is that they are natively mapped to a latent space similar to textual input (query). This enables leveraging the ColBERT strategy to compute interactions between text tokens and image patches, which enables a step-change improvement in performance compared to BiPali.
Model Training
Dataset
Our training dataset of 127,460 query-page pairs is comprised of train sets of openly available academic datasets (63%) and a synthetic dataset made up of pages from web-crawled PDF documents and augmented with VLM-generated (Claude-3 Sonnet) pseudo-questions (37%). Our training set is fully English by design, enabling us to study zero-shot generalization to non-English languages. We explicitly verify no multi-page PDF document is used both ViDoRe and in the train set to prevent evaluation contamination. A validation set is created with 2% of the samples to tune hyperparameters.
Note: Multilingual data is present in the pretraining corpus of the language model (Gemma-2B) and potentially occurs during PaliGemma-3B's multimodal training.
Parameters
All models are trained for 1 epoch on the train set. Unless specified otherwise, we train models in bfloat16 format, use low-rank adapters (LoRA) with alpha=32 and r=32 on the transformer layers from the language model, as well as the final randomly initialized projection layer, and use a paged_adamw_8bit optimizer. We train on an 8 GPU setup with data parallelism, a learning rate of 5e-5 with linear decay with 2.5% warmup steps, and a batch size of 32.
Usage
import torch
import typer
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
from tqdm import tqdm
from transformers import AutoProcessor
from PIL import Image
from colpali_engine.models.paligemma_colbert_architecture import ColPali
from colpali_engine.trainer.retrieval_evaluator import CustomEvaluator
from colpali_engine.utils.colpali_processing_utils import process_images, process_queries
from colpali_engine.utils.image_from_page_utils import load_from_dataset
def main() -> None:
"""Example script to run inference with ColPali"""
# Load model
model_name = "vidore/colpali"
model = ColPali.from_pretrained("google/paligemma-3b-mix-448", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="cuda").eval()
model.load_adapter(model_name)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name)
# select images -> load_from_pdf(<pdf_path>), load_from_image_urls(["<url_1>"]), load_from_dataset(<path>)
images = load_from_dataset("vidore/docvqa_test_subsampled")
queries = ["From which university does James V. Fiorca come ?", "Who is the japanese prime minister?"]
# run inference - docs
dataloader = DataLoader(
images,
batch_size=4,
shuffle=False,
collate_fn=lambda x: process_images(processor, x),
)
ds = []
for batch_doc in tqdm(dataloader):
with torch.no_grad():
batch_doc = {k: v.to(model.device) for k, v in batch_doc.items()}
embeddings_doc = model(**batch_doc)
ds.extend(list(torch.unbind(embeddings_doc.to("cpu"))))
# run inference - queries
dataloader = DataLoader(
queries,
batch_size=4,
shuffle=False,
collate_fn=lambda x: process_queries(processor, x, Image.new("RGB", (448, 448), (255, 255, 255))),
)
qs = []
for batch_query in dataloader:
with torch.no_grad():
batch_query = {k: v.to(model.device) for k, v in batch_query.items()}
embeddings_query = model(**batch_query)
qs.extend(list(torch.unbind(embeddings_query.to("cpu"))))
# run evaluation
retriever_evaluator = CustomEvaluator(is_multi_vector=True)
scores = retriever_evaluator.evaluate(qs, ds)
print(scores.argmax(axis=1))
if __name__ == "__main__":
typer.run(main)
Limitations
Focus: The model primarily focuses on PDF-type documents and high-ressources languages, potentially limiting its generalization to other document types or less represented languages.
Support: The model relies on multi-vector retreiving derived from the ColBERT late interaction mechanism, which may require engineering efforts to adapt to widely used vector retrieval frameworks that lack native multi-vector support.
Suggested labels
{'label-name': 'Vision-Language-Models', 'label-description': 'Models that integrate visual and textual data for enhanced understanding and retrieval tasks.', 'gh-repo': 'vidore/colpali', 'confidence': 62.25}
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ColPali: Visual Retriever based on PaliGemma-3B with ColBERT strategy
Model Description
This model is built iteratively starting from an off-the-shelf SigLIP model. We finetuned it to create BiSigLIP and fed the patch-embeddings output by SigLIP to an LLM, PaliGemma-3B to create BiPali.
One benefit of inputting image patch embeddings through a language model is that they are natively mapped to a latent space similar to textual input (query). This enables leveraging the ColBERT strategy to compute interactions between text tokens and image patches, which enables a step-change improvement in performance compared to BiPali.
Model Training
Dataset
Our training dataset of 127,460 query-page pairs is comprised of train sets of openly available academic datasets (63%) and a synthetic dataset made up of pages from web-crawled PDF documents and augmented with VLM-generated (Claude-3 Sonnet) pseudo-questions (37%). Our training set is fully English by design, enabling us to study zero-shot generalization to non-English languages. We explicitly verify no multi-page PDF document is used both ViDoRe and in the train set to prevent evaluation contamination. A validation set is created with 2% of the samples to tune hyperparameters.
Note: Multilingual data is present in the pretraining corpus of the language model (Gemma-2B) and potentially occurs during PaliGemma-3B's multimodal training.
Parameters
All models are trained for 1 epoch on the train set. Unless specified otherwise, we train models in bfloat16 format, use low-rank adapters (LoRA) with alpha=32 and r=32 on the transformer layers from the language model, as well as the final randomly initialized projection layer, and use a paged_adamw_8bit optimizer. We train on an 8 GPU setup with data parallelism, a learning rate of 5e-5 with linear decay with 2.5% warmup steps, and a batch size of 32.
Usage
Limitations
Focus: The model primarily focuses on PDF-type documents and high-ressources languages, potentially limiting its generalization to other document types or less represented languages.
Support: The model relies on multi-vector retreiving derived from the ColBERT late interaction mechanism, which may require engineering efforts to adapt to widely used vector retrieval frameworks that lack native multi-vector support.
Suggested labels
{'label-name': 'Vision-Language-Models', 'label-description': 'Models that integrate visual and textual data for enhanced understanding and retrieval tasks.', 'gh-repo': 'vidore/colpali', 'confidence': 62.25}