---
base_model:
- meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
- google/siglip2-so400m-patch14-384
tags:
- captioning
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
library_name: transformers
---

# <span style="color: #7FFF7F;">llama-joycaption-beta-one-hf-llava GGUF Models</span>


## <span style="color: #7F7FFF;">Model Generation Details</span>

This model was generated using [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) at commit [`5787b5da`](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/5787b5da57e54dba760c2deeac1edf892e8fc450).




## <span style="color: #7FFF7F;"> Quantization beyond the IMatrix</span>

Testing a new quantization method using rules to bump important layers above what the standard imatrix would use.

I have found that the standard IMatrix does not perform very well at low bit quantiztion and for MOE models. So I am using llama.cpp --tensor-type to bump up selected layers. See [Layer bumping with llama.cpp](https://github.com/Mungert69/GGUFModelBuilder/blob/main/model-converter/tensor_list_builder.py)

This does create larger model files but increases precision for a given model size.

### **Please provide feedback on how you find this method performs**




## **Choosing the Right Model Format**  

Selecting the correct model format depends on your **hardware capabilities** and **memory constraints**.  

### **BF16 (Brain Float 16) – Use if BF16 acceleration is available**  
- A 16-bit floating-point format designed for **faster computation** while retaining good precision.  
- Provides **similar dynamic range** as FP32 but with **lower memory usage**.  
- Recommended if your hardware supports **BF16 acceleration** (check your device's specs).  
- Ideal for **high-performance inference** with **reduced memory footprint** compared to FP32.  

📌 **Use BF16 if:**  
✔ Your hardware has native **BF16 support** (e.g., newer GPUs, TPUs).  
✔ You want **higher precision** while saving memory.  
✔ You plan to **requantize** the model into another format.  

📌 **Avoid BF16 if:**  
❌ Your hardware does **not** support BF16 (it may fall back to FP32 and run slower).  
❌ You need compatibility with older devices that lack BF16 optimization.  

---

### **F16 (Float 16) – More widely supported than BF16**  
- A 16-bit floating-point **high precision** but with less of range of values than BF16. 
- Works on most devices with **FP16 acceleration support** (including many GPUs and some CPUs).  
- Slightly lower numerical precision than BF16 but generally sufficient for inference.  

📌 **Use F16 if:**  
✔ Your hardware supports **FP16** but **not BF16**.  
✔ You need a **balance between speed, memory usage, and accuracy**.  
✔ You are running on a **GPU** or another device optimized for FP16 computations.  

📌 **Avoid F16 if:**  
❌ Your device lacks **native FP16 support** (it may run slower than expected).  
❌ You have memory limitations.  

---

### **Hybrid Precision Models (e.g., `bf16_q8_0`, `f16_q4_K`) – Best of Both Worlds**  
These formats selectively **quantize non-essential layers** while keeping **key layers in full precision** (e.g., attention and output layers).

- Named like `bf16_q8_0` (meaning **full-precision BF16 core layers + quantized Q8_0 other layers**).  
- Strike a **balance between memory efficiency and accuracy**, improving over fully quantized models without requiring the full memory of BF16/F16.  

📌 **Use Hybrid Models if:**  
✔ You need **better accuracy than quant-only models** but can’t afford full BF16/F16 everywhere.  
✔ Your device supports **mixed-precision inference**.  
✔ You want to **optimize trade-offs** for production-grade models on constrained hardware.  

📌 **Avoid Hybrid Models if:**  
❌ Your target device doesn’t support **mixed or full-precision acceleration**.  
❌ You are operating under **ultra-strict memory limits** (in which case use fully quantized formats).  

---

### **Quantized Models (Q4_K, Q6_K, Q8, etc.) – For CPU & Low-VRAM Inference**  
Quantization reduces model size and memory usage while maintaining as much accuracy as possible.  
- **Lower-bit models (Q4_K)** → **Best for minimal memory usage**, may have lower precision.  
- **Higher-bit models (Q6_K, Q8_0)** → **Better accuracy**, requires more memory.  

📌 **Use Quantized Models if:**  
✔ You are running inference on a **CPU** and need an optimized model.  
✔ Your device has **low VRAM** and cannot load full-precision models.  
✔ You want to reduce **memory footprint** while keeping reasonable accuracy.  

📌 **Avoid Quantized Models if:**  
❌ You need **maximum accuracy** (full-precision models are better for this).  
❌ Your hardware has enough VRAM for higher-precision formats (BF16/F16).  

---

### **Very Low-Bit Quantization (IQ3_XS, IQ3_S, IQ3_M, Q4_K, Q4_0)**  
These models are optimized for **very high memory efficiency**, making them ideal for **low-power devices** or **large-scale deployments** where memory is a critical constraint.  

- **IQ3_XS**: Ultra-low-bit quantization (3-bit) with **very high memory efficiency**.  
  - **Use case**: Best for **ultra-low-memory devices** where even Q4_K is too large.  
  - **Trade-off**: Lower accuracy compared to higher-bit quantizations.  

- **IQ3_S**: Small block size for **maximum memory efficiency**.  
  - **Use case**: Best for **low-memory devices** where **IQ3_XS** is too aggressive.  

- **IQ3_M**: Medium block size for better accuracy than **IQ3_S**.  
  - **Use case**: Suitable for **low-memory devices** where **IQ3_S** is too limiting.  

- **Q4_K**: 4-bit quantization with **block-wise optimization** for better accuracy.  
  - **Use case**: Best for **low-memory devices** where **Q6_K** is too large.  

- **Q4_0**: Pure 4-bit quantization, optimized for **ARM devices**.  
  - **Use case**: Best for **ARM-based devices** or **low-memory environments**.  

### **Ultra Low-Bit Quantization (IQ1_S IQ1_M IQ2_S IQ2_M IQ2_XS IQ2_XSS)** 
- *Ultra-low-bit quantization (1 2-bit) with **extreme memory efficiency**.  
  - **Use case**: Best for  cases were you have to fit the model into very constrained memory
  - **Trade-off**: Very Low Accuracy. May not function as expected. Please test fully before using.

---

### **Summary Table: Model Format Selection**  


| Model Format             | Precision        | Memory Usage     | Device Requirements             | Best Use Case                                                |  
|--------------------------|------------------|------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|  
| **BF16**                 | Very High        | High             | BF16-supported GPU/CPU           | High-speed inference with reduced memory                    |  
| **F16**                  | High             | High             | FP16-supported GPU/CPU           | Inference when BF16 isn’t available                     |  
| **Q4_K**                 | Medium-Low       | Low              | CPU or Low-VRAM devices          | Memory-constrained inference                                |  
| **Q6_K**                 | Medium           | Moderate         | CPU with more memory             | Better accuracy with quantization                           |  
| **Q8_0**                 | High             | Moderate         | GPU/CPU with moderate VRAM       | Highest accuracy among quantized models                     |  
| **IQ3_XS**               | Low              | Very Low         | Ultra-low-memory devices         | Max memory efficiency, low accuracy                         |  
| **IQ3_S**                | Low              | Very Low         | Low-memory devices               | Slightly more usable than IQ3_XS                            |  
| **IQ3_M**                | Low-Medium       | Low              | Low-memory devices               | Better accuracy than IQ3_S                                  |  
| **Q4_0**                 | Low              | Low              | ARM-based/embedded devices       | Llama.cpp automatically optimizes for ARM inference                                 |  
| **Ultra Low-Bit (IQ1/2_*)** | Very Low      | Extremely Low     | Tiny edge/embedded devices        | Fit models in extremely tight memory; low accuracy           |  
| **Hybrid (e.g., `bf16_q8_0`)** | Medium–High | Medium           | Mixed-precision capable hardware | Balanced performance and memory, near-FP accuracy in critical layers |

---




# Model Card for Llama JoyCaption Beta One

[Github](https://github.com/fpgaminer/joycaption)

JoyCaption is an image captioning Visual Language Model (VLM) built from the ground up as a free, open, and uncensored model for the community to use in training Diffusion models.

Key Features:
- **Free and Open**: Always released for free, open weights, no restrictions, and just like [bigASP](https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1dbasvx/the_gory_details_of_finetuning_sdxl_for_30m/), will come with training scripts and lots of juicy details on how it gets built.
- **Uncensored**: Equal coverage of SFW and NSFW concepts. No "cylindrical shaped object with a white substance coming out on it" here.
- **Diversity**: All are welcome here. Do you like digital art? Photoreal? Anime? Furry? JoyCaption is for everyone. Pains are being taken to ensure broad coverage of image styles, content, ethnicity, gender, orientation, etc.
- **Minimal Filtering**: JoyCaption is trained on large swathes of images so that it can understand almost all aspects of our world. almost. Illegal content will never be tolerated in JoyCaption's training.


## Motivation

Automated descriptive captions enable the training and finetuning of diffusion models on a wider range of images, since trainers are no longer required to either find images with already associated text or write the descriptions themselves. They also improve the quality of generations produced by Text-to-Image models trained on them (ref: DALL-E 3 paper). But to-date, the community has been stuck with ChatGPT, which is expensive and heavily censored; or alternative models, like CogVLM, which are weaker than ChatGPT and have abysmal performance outside of the SFW domain.

I'm building JoyCaption to help fill this gap by performing near or on-par with GPT4o in captioning images, while being free, unrestricted, and open.


## How to Get Started with the Model

Please see the [Github](https://github.com/fpgaminer/joycaption) for more details.

Example usage:

```
import torch
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoProcessor, LlavaForConditionalGeneration


IMAGE_PATH = "image.jpg"
PROMPT = "Write a long descriptive caption for this image in a formal tone."
MODEL_NAME = "fancyfeast/llama-joycaption-beta-one-hf-llava"


# Load JoyCaption
# bfloat16 is the native dtype of the LLM used in JoyCaption (Llama 3.1)
# device_map=0 loads the model into the first GPU
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME)
llava_model = LlavaForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(MODEL_NAME, torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map=0)
llava_model.eval()

with torch.no_grad():
	# Load image
	image = Image.open(IMAGE_PATH)

	# Build the conversation
	convo = [
		{
			"role": "system",
			"content": "You are a helpful image captioner.",
		},
		{
			"role": "user",
			"content": PROMPT,
		},
	]

	# Format the conversation
	# WARNING: HF's handling of chat's on Llava models is very fragile.  This specific combination of processor.apply_chat_template(), and processor() works
	# but if using other combinations always inspect the final input_ids to ensure they are correct.  Often times you will end up with multiple <bos> tokens
	# if not careful, which can make the model perform poorly.
	convo_string = processor.apply_chat_template(convo, tokenize = False, add_generation_prompt = True)
	assert isinstance(convo_string, str)

	# Process the inputs
	inputs = processor(text=[convo_string], images=[image], return_tensors="pt").to('cuda')
	inputs['pixel_values'] = inputs['pixel_values'].to(torch.bfloat16)

	# Generate the captions
	generate_ids = llava_model.generate(
		**inputs,
		max_new_tokens=512,
		do_sample=True,
		suppress_tokens=None,
		use_cache=True,
		temperature=0.6,
		top_k=None,
		top_p=0.9,
	)[0]

	# Trim off the prompt
	generate_ids = generate_ids[inputs['input_ids'].shape[1]:]

	# Decode the caption
	caption = processor.tokenizer.decode(generate_ids, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False)
	caption = caption.strip()
	print(caption)
```


## vLLM

vLLM provides the highest performance inference for JoyCaption, and an OpenAI compatible API so JoyCaption can be used like any other VLMs.  Example usage:

```
vllm serve fancyfeast/llama-joycaption-beta-one-hf-llava --max-model-len 4096 --enable-prefix-caching
```

VLMs are a bit finicky on vLLM, and vLLM is memory hungry, so you may have to adjust settings for your particular environment, such as forcing eager mode, adjusting max-model-len, adjusting gpu_memory_utilization, etc.
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