---
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- test-tcy/VisRAG-Ret-Train-In-domain-data
- test-tcy/VisRAG-Ret-Train-Synthetic-data
language:
- en
base_model:
- openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2
tags:
- VisRAG
pipeline_tag: feature-extraction
---
# VisRAG: Vision-based Retrieval-augmented Generation on Multi-modality Documents
**VisRAG** is a novel vision-language model (VLM)-based RAG pipeline. In this pipeline, instead of first parsing the document to obtain text, the document is directly embedded using a VLM as an image and then retrieved to enhance the generation of a VLM.Compared to traditional text-based RAG, **VisRAG** maximizes the retention and utilization of the data information in the original documents, eliminating the information loss introduced during the parsing process.
<p align="center"><img width=800 src="https://github.com/openbmb/VisRAG/blob/master/assets/main_figure.png?raw=true"/></p>

## VisRAG Description

### VisRAG-Ret
**VisRAG-Ret** is a document embedding model built on [MiniCPM-V 2.0](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-2), a vision-language model that integrates [SigLIP](https://huggingface.co/google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384) as the vision encoder and [MiniCPM-2B](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16) as the language model.

### VisRAG-Gen
In the paper, We use MiniCPM-V 2.0, MiniCPM-V 2.6 and GPT-4o as the generators. Actually you can use any VLMs you like!

## Training

### VisRAG-Ret
Our training dataset of 362,110 Query-Document (Q-D) Pairs for **VisRAG-Ret** is comprised of train sets of openly available academic datasets (34%) and a synthetic dataset made up of pages from web-crawled PDF documents and augmented with VLM-generated (GPT-4o) pseudo-queries (66%). 

### VisRAG-Gen
The generation part does not use any fine-tuning; we directly use off-the-shelf LLMs/VLMs for generation.

## Implementation Details
**VisRAG-Ret** is fine-tuned using [in-batch negatives](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04906) for one epoch with a batch size of 128 on 8 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs. The temperature is set to 0.02.

## Requirements
```
torch==2.1.2
torchvision==0.16.2
transformers==4.40.2
sentencepiece==0.1.99
decord==0.6.0
Pillow==10.1.0
accelerate==0.27.0
deepspeed==0.13.2
protobuf==4.25.0
pytrec_eval==0.5
```

## Usage

### VisRAG-Ret
```python
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
from PIL import Image
import os

def weighted_mean_pooling(hidden, attention_mask):
    attention_mask_ = attention_mask * attention_mask.cumsum(dim=1)
    s = torch.sum(hidden * attention_mask_.unsqueeze(-1).float(), dim=1)
    d = attention_mask_.sum(dim=1, keepdim=True).float()
    reps = s / d
    return reps

@torch.no_grad()
def encode(text_or_image_list):
    
    if (isinstance(text_or_image_list[0], str)):
        inputs = {
            "text": text_or_image_list,
            'image': [None] * len(text_or_image_list),
            'tokenizer': tokenizer
        }
    else:
        inputs = {
            "text": [''] * len(text_or_image_list),
            'image': text_or_image_list,
            'tokenizer': tokenizer
        }
    outputs = model(**inputs)
    attention_mask = outputs.attention_mask
    hidden = outputs.last_hidden_state

    reps = weighted_mean_pooling(hidden, attention_mask)   
    embeddings = F.normalize(reps, p=2, dim=1).detach().cpu().numpy()
    return embeddings

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("openbmb/VisRAG", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("openbmb/VisRAG", trust_remote_code=True)
model.eval()

script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
queries = ["What does a dog look like?"]
passages = [
    Image.open(os.path.join(script_dir, 'test_image/cat.jpeg')).convert('RGB'),
    Image.open(os.path.join(script_dir, 'test_image/dog.jpg')).convert('RGB'),
]

INSTRUCTION = "Represent this query for retrieving relavant documents: "
queries = [INSTRUCTION + query for query in queries]

embeddings_query = encode(queries)
embeddings_doc = encode(passages)

scores = (embeddings_query @ embeddings_doc.T)
print(scores.tolist())
```

## License

* The code in this repo is released under the [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/LICENSE) License. 
* The usage of **VisRAG-Ret** model weights must strictly follow [MiniCPM Model License.md](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/MiniCPM%20Model%20License.md).
* The models and weights of **VisRAG-Ret** are completely free for academic research. After filling out a ["questionnaire"](https://modelbest.feishu.cn/share/base/form/shrcnpV5ZT9EJ6xYjh3Kx0J6v8g) for registration, **VisRAG-Ret** weights are also available for free commercial use.

## Contact

- Shi Yu: yushi17@foxmail.com
- Chaoyue Tang: tcy006@gmail.com

## Citation

If you use any datasets or models from this organization in your research, please cite the original dataset as follows: