examples/scripts/sft_vlm_smol_vlm.py

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"""
pip install pillow

# Tested on 8x H100 GPUs
accelerate launch
    --config_file=examples/accelerate_configs/deepspeed_zero3.yaml \
    sft_vlm_smol_vlm.py \
    --dataset_name HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft \
    --model_name_or_path HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct \
    --per_device_train_batch_size 1 \
    --gradient_accumulation_steps 1 \
    --output_dir sft-smol-vlm-hf \
    --bf16 \
    --torch_dtype bfloat16 \
    --gradient_checkpointing \
    --use_peft \
    --lora_target_modules down_proj, o_proj, k_proj, q_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, v_proj

For LLaVA-NeXT, use: (requires transformers>=4.45)
    --model_name_or_path llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf

For meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct, use: (requires transformers>=4.45.1)
    --model_name_or_path meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct
"""

import torch
from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import (
    AutoModelForVision2Seq,
    AutoProcessor,
    Idefics3ForConditionalGeneration,
    LlavaForConditionalGeneration,
)

from trl import (
    ModelConfig,
    ScriptArguments,
    SFTConfig,
    SFTTrainer,
    TrlParser,
    get_kbit_device_map,
    get_peft_config,
    get_quantization_config,
)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = TrlParser((ScriptArguments, SFTConfig, ModelConfig))
    script_args, training_args, model_args = parser.parse_args_and_config()
    training_args.gradient_checkpointing_kwargs = dict(use_reentrant=False)
    training_args.remove_unused_columns = False
    training_args.dataset_kwargs = {"skip_prepare_dataset": True}

    ################
    # Model, Tokenizer & Processor
    ################
    torch_dtype = (
        model_args.torch_dtype if model_args.torch_dtype in ["auto", None] else getattr(torch, model_args.torch_dtype)
    )
    quantization_config = get_quantization_config(model_args)
    model_kwargs = dict(
        revision=model_args.model_revision,
        attn_implementation=model_args.attn_implementation,
        torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
        device_map=get_kbit_device_map() if quantization_config is not None else None,
        quantization_config=quantization_config,
    )
    processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
        model_args.model_name_or_path, trust_remote_code=model_args.trust_remote_code
    )

    model = AutoModelForVision2Seq.from_pretrained(
        model_args.model_name_or_path, trust_remote_code=model_args.trust_remote_code, **model_kwargs
    )

    ################
    # Create a data collator to encode text and image pairs
    ################
    def collate_fn(examples):
        # Get the texts and images, and apply the chat template
        texts = [processor.apply_chat_template(example["messages"], tokenize=False) for example in examples]
        images = [example["images"] for example in examples]
        if isinstance(model, LlavaForConditionalGeneration):
            # LLava1.5 does not support multiple images
            images = [image[0] for image in images]

        # Tokenize the texts and process the images
        batch = processor(text=texts, images=images, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)

        # The labels are the input_ids, and we mask the padding tokens in the loss computation
        labels = batch["input_ids"].clone()
        labels[labels == processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id] = -100  #
        # Ignore the image token index in the loss computation (model specific)
        if isinstance(model, Idefics3ForConditionalGeneration):
            image_token_id = processor.tokenizer.additional_special_tokens_ids[
                processor.tokenizer.additional_special_tokens.index("<image>")
            ]
        else:
            image_token_id = processor.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(processor.image_token)
        labels[labels == image_token_id] = -100
        batch["labels"] = labels

        return batch

    ################
    # Dataset
    ################
    dataset = load_dataset(script_args.dataset_name, name=script_args.dataset_config)

    ################
    # Training
    ################
    trainer = SFTTrainer(
        model=model,
        args=training_args,
        data_collator=collate_fn,
        train_dataset=dataset[script_args.dataset_train_split],
        eval_dataset=dataset[script_args.dataset_test_split] if training_args.eval_strategy != "no" else None,
        processing_class=processor.tokenizer,
        peft_config=get_peft_config(model_args),
    )

    trainer.train()

    # Save and push to hub
    trainer.save_model(training_args.output_dir)
    if training_args.push_to_hub:
        trainer.push_to_hub(dataset_name=script_args.dataset_name)
        if trainer.accelerator.is_main_process:
            processor.push_to_hub(training_args.hub_model_id)