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# InstructBLIP

## Overview

The InstructBLIP model was proposed in [InstructBLIP: Towards General-purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06500) by Wenliang Dai, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Anthony Meng Huat Tiong, Junqi Zhao, Weisheng Wang, Boyang Li, Pascale Fung, Steven Hoi.
InstructBLIP leverages the [BLIP-2](blip2) architecture for visual instruction tuning.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*General-purpose language models that can solve various language-domain tasks have emerged driven by the pre-training and instruction-tuning pipeline. However, building general-purpose vision-language models is challenging due to the increased task discrepancy introduced by the additional visual input. Although vision-language pre-training has been widely studied, vision-language instruction tuning remains relatively less explored. In this paper, we conduct a systematic and comprehensive study on vision-language instruction tuning based on the pre-trained BLIP-2 models. We gather a wide variety of 26 publicly available datasets, transform them into instruction tuning format and categorize them into two clusters for held-in instruction tuning and held-out zero-shot evaluation. Additionally, we introduce instruction-aware visual feature extraction, a crucial method that enables the model to extract informative features tailored to the given instruction. The resulting InstructBLIP models achieve state-of-the-art zero-shot performance across all 13 held-out datasets, substantially outperforming BLIP-2 and the larger Flamingo. Our models also lead to state-of-the-art performance when finetuned on individual downstream tasks (e.g., 90.7% accuracy on ScienceQA IMG). Furthermore, we qualitatively demonstrate the advantages of InstructBLIP over concurrent multimodal models.*

<img src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/model_doc/instructblip_architecture.jpg"
alt="drawing" width="600"/>

<small> InstructBLIP architecture. Taken from the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06500">original paper.</a> </small>

This model was contributed by [nielsr](https://huggingface.co/nielsr).
The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/salesforce/LAVIS/tree/main/projects/instructblip).

## Usage tips

InstructBLIP uses the same architecture as [BLIP-2](blip2) with a tiny but important difference: it also feeds the text prompt (instruction) to the Q-Former.

## InstructBlipConfig

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipConfig
    - from_vision_qformer_text_configs

## InstructBlipVisionConfig

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipVisionConfig

## InstructBlipQFormerConfig

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipQFormerConfig

## InstructBlipProcessor

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipProcessor


## InstructBlipVisionModel

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipVisionModel
    - forward

## InstructBlipQFormerModel

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipQFormerModel
    - forward

## InstructBlipForConditionalGeneration

[[autodoc]] InstructBlipForConditionalGeneration
    - forward
    - generate