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SigLIP

Overview

The SigLIP model was proposed in Sigmoid Loss for Language Image Pre-Training by Xiaohua Zhai, Basil Mustafa, Alexander Kolesnikov, Lucas Beyer. SigLIP proposes to replace the loss function used in CLIP by a simple pairwise sigmoid loss. This results in better performance in terms of zero-shot classification accuracy on ImageNet.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

We propose a simple pairwise Sigmoid loss for Language-Image Pre-training (SigLIP). Unlike standard contrastive learning with softmax normalization, the sigmoid loss operates solely on image-text pairs and does not require a global view of the pairwise similarities for normalization. The sigmoid loss simultaneously allows further scaling up the batch size, while also performing better at smaller batch sizes. Combined with Locked-image Tuning, with only four TPUv4 chips, we train a SigLiT model that achieves 84.5% ImageNet zero-shot accuracy in two days. The disentanglement of the batch size from the loss further allows us to study the impact of examples vs pairs and negative to positive ratio. Finally, we push the batch size to the extreme, up to one million, and find that the benefits of growing batch size quickly diminish, with a more reasonable batch size of 32k being sufficient.

Usage tips

Usage of SigLIP is similar to CLIP. The main difference is the training loss, which does not require a global view of all the pairwise similarities of images and texts within a batch. One needs to apply the sigmoid activation function to the logits, rather than the softmax.
Training is supported but does not use torch.distributed utilities which may limit the scalability of batch size. However, DDP and FDSP works on single-node multi-gpu setup.
When using the standalone SiglipTokenizer or SiglipProcessor, make sure to pass padding="max_length" as that’s how the model was trained.
To get the same results as the pipeline, a prompt template of “This is a photo of {label}.” should be used.

SigLIP evaluation results compared to CLIP. Taken from the original paper.

This model was contributed by nielsr. The original code can be found here.

Usage example

There are 2 main ways to use SigLIP: either using the pipeline API, which abstracts away all the complexity for you, or by using the SiglipModel class yourself.

Pipeline API

The pipeline allows to use the model in a few lines of code:

>>> from transformers import pipeline
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> import requests

>>> # load pipe
>>> image_classifier = pipeline(task="zero-shot-image-classification", model="google/siglip-base-patch16-224")

>>> # load image
>>> url = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg'
>>> image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

>>> # inference
>>> candidate_labels = ["2 cats", "a plane", "a remote"]
>>> outputs = image_classifier(image, candidate_labels=candidate_labels)
>>> outputs = [{"score": round(output["score"], 4), "label": output["label"] } for output in outputs]
>>> print(outputs)
[{'score': 0.1979, 'label': '2 cats'}, {'score': 0.0, 'label': 'a remote'}, {'score': 0.0, 'label': 'a plane'}]

Using the model yourself

If you want to do the pre- and postprocessing yourself, here’s how to do that:

>>> from PIL import Image
>>> import requests
>>> from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModel
>>> import torch

>>> model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("google/siglip-base-patch16-224")
>>> processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("google/siglip-base-patch16-224")

>>> url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
>>> image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

>>> candidate_labels = ["2 cats", "2 dogs"]
# follows the pipeline prompt template to get same results
>>> texts = [f'This is a photo of {label}.' for label in candidate_labels]
>>> # important: we pass `padding=max_length` since the model was trained with this
>>> inputs = processor(text=texts, images=image, padding="max_length", return_tensors="pt")

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     outputs = model(**inputs)

>>> logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image
>>> probs = torch.sigmoid(logits_per_image) # these are the probabilities
>>> print(f"{probs[0][0]:.1%} that image 0 is '{candidate_labels[0]}'")
31.9% that image 0 is 'a photo of 2 cats'

Resources

A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with SigLIP.

Zero-shot image classification task guide
Demo notebooks for SigLIP can be found here. 🌎

If you’re interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we’ll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.

Combining SigLIP and Flash Attention 2

First, make sure to install the latest version of Flash Attention 2.

pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation

Make also sure that you have a hardware that is compatible with Flash-Attention 2. Read more about it in the official documentation of flash-attn repository. Make also sure to load your model in half-precision (e.g. `torch.float16“)

To load and run a model using Flash Attention 2, refer to the snippet below:

>>> import torch
>>> import requests
>>> from PIL import Image
>>> from transformers import SiglipProcessor, SiglipModel
>>> device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto

>>> model = SiglipModel.from_pretrained(
...     "google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384",
...     attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
...     torch_dtype=torch.float16,
...     device_map=device,
... )
>>> processor = SiglipProcessor.from_pretrained("google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384")

>>> url = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
>>> image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)

>>> candidate_labels = ["2 cats", "2 dogs"]
# follows the pipeline prompt template to get same results
>>> texts = [f'This is a photo of {label}.' for label in candidate_labels]
# important: we pass `padding=max_length` since the model was trained with this
>>> inputs = processor(text=texts, images=image, padding="max_length", return_tensors="pt")
>>> inputs.to(device)

>>> with torch.no_grad():
...     with torch.autocast(device):
...         outputs = model(**inputs)

>>> logits_per_image = outputs.logits_per_image
>>> probs = torch.sigmoid(logits_per_image) # these are the probabilities
>>> print(f"{probs[0][0]:.1%} that image 0 is '{candidate_labels[0]}'")
51.3% that image 0 is 'This is a photo of 2 cats.'

Using Scaled Dot Product Attention (SDPA)

PyTorch includes a native scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) operator as part of torch.nn.functional. This function encompasses several implementations that can be applied depending on the inputs and the hardware in use. See the official documentation or the GPU Inference page for more information.

You may set attn_implementation="sdpa" in from_pretrained() to explicitly request SDPA to be used. Make sure you have torch>=2.1.1.

>>> from transformers import SiglipModel

>>> model = SiglipModel.from_pretrained(
...     "google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384",
...     attn_implementation="sdpa",
...     torch_dtype=torch.float16,
...     device_map=device,
... )

For the best speedups, we recommend loading the model in half-precision (e.g. torch.float16 or torch.bfloat16).

Expected speedups

Below is an expected speedup diagram that compares inference time between the native implementation in transformers using google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384 checkpoint in float16 precision and the Flash Attention 2 / SDPA version of the model using different batch sizes.

Transformers

SigLIP

Overview

Usage tips

Usage example

Pipeline API

Using the model yourself

Resources

Combining SigLIP and Flash Attention 2

Using Scaled Dot Product Attention (SDPA)

Expected speedups

SiglipConfig

class transformers.SiglipConfig

from_text_vision_configs

SiglipTextConfig

class transformers.SiglipTextConfig

SiglipVisionConfig

class transformers.SiglipVisionConfig

SiglipTokenizer

class transformers.SiglipTokenizer

build_inputs_with_special_tokens

get_special_tokens_mask

create_token_type_ids_from_sequences

save_vocabulary

SiglipImageProcessor

class transformers.SiglipImageProcessor

preprocess

SiglipProcessor

class transformers.SiglipProcessor

batch_decode

decode

SiglipModel

class transformers.SiglipModel

forward

get_text_features

get_image_features

SiglipTextModel

class transformers.SiglipTextModel

forward

SiglipVisionModel

class transformers.SiglipVisionModel

forward

SiglipForImageClassification

class transformers.SiglipForImageClassification

forward