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---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
base_model:
- MrLight/dse-qwen2-2b-mrl-v1
tags:
- transformers
- sentence-transformers
- Qwen2-VL
datasets:
- llamaindex/vdr-multilingual-train
---

# vdr-2b-v1

![](cover.png)

vdr-2b-v1 is an english only embedding model designed for visual document retrieval. It encodes document page screenshots into dense single-vector representations, this will effectively allow to search and query visually rich multilingual documents without the need for any OCR, data extraction pipelines, chunking...

- **Trained on the 🇬🇧 English vdr-multi-train subset:** extensive training dataset of 100k high-quality english samples.

- **Low VRAM and Faster Inference**: achieves better results on synthetic Vidore benchmarks with just 30% of the base model image resolution. This results in 3x faster inference and much lower VRAM usage.

- **Matryoshka Representation Learning**: You can reduce the vectors size 3x and still keep 98% of the embeddings quality.

The multilingual version is available [here](https://huggingface.co/llamaindex/vdr-2b-multi-v1). To know more about both models, read the [announcement blogpost](https://huggingface.co/blog/marco/vdr-2b-multilingual).

# Usage

The model uses bf16 tensors and allocates ~4.4GB of VRAM when loaded. You can easily run inference and generate embeddings using 768 image patches and a batch size of 16 even on a cheap NVIDIA T4 GPU. This table reports the memory footprint (GB) under conditions of different batch sizes with HuggingFace Transformers and maximum 768 image patches.

| Batch Size | GPU Memory (GB) |
|------------|-----------------|
|          4 |             6.9 |
|          8 |             8.8 |
|         16 |            11.5 |
|         32 |            19.7 |

You can generate embeddings with this model in many different ways:

<details open>
<summary>
via LlamaIndex
</summary>

```bash
pip install -U llama-index-embeddings-huggingface
```

```python
from llama_index.embeddings.huggingface import HuggingFaceEmbedding

model = HuggingFaceEmbedding(
    model_name="llamaindex/vdr-2b-v1",
    device="cpu",  # "mps" for mac, "cuda" for nvidia GPUs
    trust_remote_code=True,
)

image_embedding = model.get_image_embedding("image.png")
query_embedding = model.get_query_embedding("some query")
```

</details>

<details>
<summary>
via HuggingFace Transformers
</summary>

```python
from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
from PIL import Image
import torch
import math

# more pixels -> better embeddings -> more VRAM -> slower inference
# From my experience, 768 image patches is the right spot for compute efficient embeddings.
max_pixels = 768 * 28 * 28
min_pixels = 1 * 28 * 28

# Load the embedding model and processor
model = Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    'llamaindex/vdr-2b-v1',
    # These are the recommended kwargs for the model, but change them as needed
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="cuda:0"
).eval()

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
    'llamaindex/vdr-2b-v1',
    min_pixels=min_pixels,
    max_pixels=max_pixels
)

model.padding_side = "left"
processor.tokenizer.padding_side = "left"

document_prompt = "<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>What is shown in this image?<|im_end|>\n<|endoftext|>"

query_prompt = "<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n<|vision_start|><|image_pad|><|vision_end|>Query: %s<|im_end|>\n<|endoftext|>"
```

**Encode queries**

```python
def encode_queries(queries: list[str], dimension: int) -> torch.Tensor:
    """
    Encode a list of queries into a tensor of embeddings.

    Args:
        queries: A list of strings, each representing a query.
        dimension: The desired dimension of the output embeddings.

    Returns:
        A tensor of shape (num_queries, dimension) containing the encoded queries.
    """

    dummy_image = Image.new('RGB', (56, 56))
    inputs = processor(
        text=[query_prompt % x for x in queries],
        images=[dummy_image for _ in queries],
        videos=None,
        padding='longest',
        return_tensors='pt'
    ).to('cuda:0')

    cache_position = torch.arange(0, len(queries))
    inputs = model.prepare_inputs_for_generation(
        **inputs, cache_position=cache_position, use_cache=False)

    with torch.no_grad():
        output = self.model(
            **inputs,
            return_dict=True,
            output_hidden_states=True
        )

    embeddings = output.hidden_states[-1][:, -1]
    return torch.nn.functional.normalize(embeddings[:, :dimension], p=2, dim=-1)
```

**Encode documents**

```python
def round_by_factor(number: float, factor: int) -> int:
    return round(number / factor) * factor

def ceil_by_factor(number: float, factor: int) -> int:
    return math.ceil(number / factor) * factor

def floor_by_factor(number: float, factor: int) -> int:
    return math.floor(number / factor) * factor

def smart_resize(height: int, width: int) -> tuple[int, int]:
    h_bar = max(28, round_by_factor(height, 28))
    w_bar = max(28, round_by_factor(width, 28))
    if h_bar * w_bar > max_pixels:
        beta = math.sqrt((height * width) / max_pixels)
        h_bar = floor_by_factor(height / beta, 28)
        w_bar = floor_by_factor(width / beta, 28)
    elif h_bar * w_bar < min_pixels:
        beta = math.sqrt(min_pixels / (height * width))
        h_bar = ceil_by_factor(height * beta, 28)
        w_bar = ceil_by_factor(width * beta, 28)
    return w_bar, h_bar

def resize(image: Image.Image):
    new_size = smart_resize(image.height, image.width)
    return image.resize(new_size)

def encode_documents(documents: list[Image.Image], dimension: int):
    """
    Encode a list of images into a tensor of embeddings.

    Args:
        documents: A list of PIL Image objects.
        dimension: The desired dimension of the output embeddings.

    Returns:
        A tensor of shape (num_documents, dimension) containing the encoded images.
    """
    
    inputs = processor(
        text=[document_prompt] * len(documents),
        images=[resize(x) for x in documents],
        videos=None,
        padding='longest',
        return_tensors='pt'
    ).to('cuda:0')

    cache_position = torch.arange(0, len(queries))
    inputs = model.prepare_inputs_for_generation(
        **inputs, cache_position=cache_position, use_cache=False)

    with torch.no_grad():
        output = self.model(
            **inputs,
            return_dict=True,
            output_hidden_states=True
        )
    
    embeddings = output.hidden_states[-1][:, -1]
    return torch.nn.functional.normalize(embeddings[:, :dimension], p=2, dim=-1)
```

</details>


<details>
<summary>
via SentenceTransformers
</summary>

```python
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

model = SentenceTransformer(
    model_name_or_path="llamaindex/vdr-2b-v1",
    device="cuda",
    trust_remote_code=True,
    # These are the recommended kwargs for the model, but change them as needed if you don't have CUDA
    model_kwargs={
        "torch_dtype": torch.bfloat16, 
        "device_map": "cuda:0", 
        "attn_implementation": "flash_attention_2"
    },
)

embeddings = model.encode("image.png")
```

</details>

# Training

The model is based on [MrLight/dse-qwen2-2b-mrl-v1](https://huggingface.co/MrLight/dse-qwen2-2b-mrl-v1) and it was trained on the new [vdr-multilingual-train](https://huggingface.co/datasets/llamaindex/vdr-multilingual-train) english subset that consinsists of 100k high quality samples. It was trained for 1 epoch using the [DSE approach](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11251), with a batch size of 128 and hard-mined negatives.

# Results

The model has been evaluated on the Vidore benchmark. All evaluations are performed by calculating **NDCG@5** scores using an image resolution that can be represented with **maximum 768 tokens**.

On the full Vidore benchmark (evaluated with 768 image tokens), both the multilingual and the english-only version performs better than the base model.

|                     | **Avg**  | **shiftproject** | **government** | **healthcare** | **energy** | **ai**   | **docvqa** | **arxivqa** | **tatdqa** | **infovqa** | **tabfquad** |
|---------------------|----------|------------------|----------------|----------------|------------|----------|------------|-------------|------------|-------------|--------------|
| dse-qwen2-2b-mrl-v1 | 83.6     | 79.8             | 95.7           | 96.9           | 92         | 98.2     | 56.3       | **85.2**    | 53.9       | 87.5        | 90.3         |
| vdr-2b-multi-v1     | 84.0     | 82.4             | 95.5           | 96.5           | 91.2       | **98.5** | **58.5**   | 84.7        | 53.6       | 87.1        | **92.2**     |
| vdr-2b-v1           | **84.3** | **83.4**         | **96.9**       | **97.2**       | **92.6**   | 96.8     | 57.4       | 85.1        | **54.1**   | **87.9**    | 91.3         |

![](chart.png)

|                                         | Avg      | shiftproject | government | healthcare | energy   | ai       |
|-----------------------------------------|----------|--------------|------------|------------|----------|----------|
| dse-qwen2-2b-mrl-v1 (2560 image tokens) | 93.0     | 82           | 96         | 96.4       | **92.9** | **97.5** |
| vdr-2b-v1 (768 image tokens)            | **93.4** | **83.4**     | **96.9**   | **97.2**   | 92.6     | 96.8     |

vdr-2b-v1 matches the performance of the base model on vidore synthetic datasets, while only using 30% of the image tokens (768 vs. 2560). This results in 3x faster inference and much lower VRAM usage.