# Qwen-VL
In this directory, you will find examples on how you could use BigDL-LLM `optimize_model` API to accelerate Qwen-VL models. For illustration purposes, we utilize the [Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat) as a reference Qwen-VL model.
## Requirements
To run these examples with BigDL-LLM, we have some recommended requirements for your machine, please refer to [here](../README.md#recommended-requirements) for more information.
## Example: Multimodal chat using `chat()` API
In the example [chat.py](./chat.py), we show a basic use case for a Qwen-VL model to start a multimodal chat using `chat()` API, with BigDL-LLM 'optimize_model' API.
### 1. Install
We suggest using conda to manage the Python environment. For more information about conda installation, please refer to [here](https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html#).
After installing conda, create a Python environment for BigDL-LLM:
```bash
conda create -n llm python=3.9 # recommend to use Python 3.9
conda activate llm
pip install --pre --upgrade bigdl-llm[all] # install the latest bigdl-llm nightly build with 'all' option
pip install accelerate tiktoken einops transformers_stream_generator==0.0.4 scipy torchvision pillow tensorboard matplotlib # additional package required for Qwen-VL-Chat to conduct generation
```
### 2. Run
After setting up the Python environment, you could run the example by following steps.
#### 2.1 Client
On client Windows machines, it is recommended to run directly with full utilization of all cores:
```powershell
python ./chat.py
```
More information about arguments can be found in [Arguments Info](#23-arguments-info) section. The expected output can be found in [Sample Output](#24-sample-output) section.
#### 2.2 Server
For optimal performance on server, it is recommended to set several environment variables (refer to [here](../README.md#best-known-configuration-on-linux) for more information), and run the example with all the physical cores of a single socket.
E.g. on Linux,
```bash
# set BigDL-LLM env variables
source bigdl-llm-init
# e.g. for a server with 48 cores per socket
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=48
numactl -C 0-47 -m 0 python ./chat.py
```
More information about arguments can be found in [Arguments Info](#23-arguments-info) section. The expected output can be found in [Sample Output](#24-sample-output) section.
#### 2.3 Arguments Info
In the example, several arguments can be passed to satisfy your requirements:
- `--repo-id-or-model-path`: str, argument defining the huggingface repo id for the Qwen-VL model to be downloaded, or the path to the huggingface checkpoint folder. It is default to be `'Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat'`.
- `--n-predict`: int, argument defining the max number of tokens to predict. It is default to be `32`.
In every session, image and text can be entered into cmd (user can skip the input by type **'Enter'**) ; please type **'exit'** anytime you want to quit the dialouge.
Every image output will be named as the round of session and placed under the current directory.
#### 2.4 Sample Chat
#### [Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-VL-Chat)
```log
-------------------- Session 1 --------------------
Please input a picture: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5268/5602445367_3504763978_z.jpg
Please enter the text: 这是什么？
---------- Response ----------
这幅图中，一个穿着粉色条纹连衣裙的小女孩正抱着一只穿粉色裙子的白色玩具熊。他们身后有一堵石墙和一盆红色的开花植物。
-------------------- Session 2 --------------------
Please input a picture:
Please enter the text: 这个小女孩多大了？
---------- Response ----------
根据描述，这个小女孩手持玩具熊，穿着粉色条纹连衣裙，因此可以推测她应该是年龄较小的儿童，具体年龄无法确定。
-------------------- Session 3 --------------------
Please input a picture:
Please enter the text: 在图中检测框出玩具熊
---------- Response ----------
[玩具熊](334,268),(603,859)
-------------------- Session 4 --------------------
Please input a picture: exit
```
The sample input image in Session 1 is (which is fetched from [COCO dataset](https://cocodataset.org/#explore?id=264959)):
The sample output image in Session 3 is:
