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IDEFICS

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IDEFICS is an open-weights visual language model from Hugging Face that takes interleaved images and text and produces text, released in 9B and 80B sizes, each as a base and an instruction-tuned version. Hugging Face presents it as an open reproduction of DeepMind's Flamingo, built from public data and frozen LLaMA v1 and OpenCLIP backbones. [1] [2]Model Details Primary source

Timeline of IDEFICS →

Claims and evidence

  • Released Primary source[1]Published August 22, 2023
  • Status AvailableWeights of the 9B and 80B base and instruct checkpoints are downloadable from the HuggingFaceM4 organisation on the Hub. Hugging Face publishes no deprecation page for its models. Primary source[2]Hub repository HuggingFaceM4/idefics-80b, Files and versions [3]Hub repository HuggingFaceM4/idefics-9b, Files and versions
  • Derived from (other) LLaMA (Meta) Primary source[2]Training Details: frozen language backbone
    • Input text, image Primary source[1]first paragraph [2]Model Details, Model type
    • Output textThe model card says the model does not generate images. Primary source[1]first paragraph [2]Uses
    • Open weights YesHugging Face released the weights it trained under the MIT licence. The frozen LLaMA language backbone stays under Meta's non-commercial research licence and the CLIP vision backbone under MIT. Primary source[1]License [2]License
    • Access Open-weights download Primary source[1]Getting Started with IDEFICS

    Lineage

    Predecessors

    No known predecessor.

    Successors

    Based on

    • LLaMA · Meta · 24 February 2023 · derived (other)

    Variants and derived

    None recorded.

    Siblings

    None recorded.

    All ancestors

    • LLaMA · Meta · 24 February 2023

    All descendants

    Variants

    IDEFICS 9B

    Same dates as IDEFICS.

    • Variant Inline variant in this record.Base checkpoint idefics-9b and instructed checkpoint idefics-9b-instruct, released together. Language backbone LLaMA 7B according to the model card. Primary source[3]Training Details, hyperparameter table [1]What is IDEFICS?

    Also known as: idefics-9b, idefics-9b-instruct

    Differs in:

    • Parameters: 9 billion Evidence not assessed [1]first paragraph [4]abstract (v2)

    IDEFICS 80B

    Same dates as IDEFICS.

    • Variant Inline variant in this record.Base checkpoint idefics-80b and instructed checkpoint idefics-80b-instruct, released together. Language backbone LLaMA 65B according to the model card. Primary source[2]Model Details; Training Details, hyperparameter table [1]What is IDEFICS?

    Also known as: idefics-80b, idefics-80b-instruct

    Differs in:

    • Parameters: 80 billion Evidence not assessed [1]first paragraph [4]abstract (v2)

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