BLIP/README.md

## BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation

This is the PyTorch implementation of the <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07651">BLIP paper</a>. The code has been tested on PyTorch 1.9 and 1.10.

Catalog:
- [x] Inference demo
- [x] Pre-trained and finetuned checkpoints
- [x] Finetuning code for Image-Text Retrieval, Image Captioning, VQA, and NLVR2
- [x] Pre-training code
- [x] Download of bootstrapped image-text dataset 


### Inference demo (Image Captioning and VQA):
Run our interactive demo using Colab notebook (no GPU needed):

### Pre-trained checkpoints:
Num. pre-train images | BLIP w/ ViT-B | BLIP w/ ViT-B and CapFilt-L | BLIP w/ ViT-L 
--- | --- | --- | --- 
14M | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_14M.pth">Download</a>| - | -
129M | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base.pth">Download</a>| <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model*_base.pth">Download</a> | <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_large.pth">Download</a>

### Image-Text Retrieval:
1. Download COCO or Flickr30k datasets from the original websites, and set 'image_root' in configs/retrieval_{dataset}.yaml accordingly.
2. To evaluate the finetuned BLIP model on COCO, run:
<pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 --use_env train_retrieval.py \
--config ./configs/retrieval_coco.yaml \
--output_dir output/retrieval_coco \
--evaluate</pre> 
3. To finetune the pre-trained checkpoint using 8 A100 GPUs, first set 'pretrained' in configs/retrieval_coco.yaml as . Then run:
<pre>python -m torch.distributed.run --nproc_per_node=8 --use_env train_retrieval.py \
--config ./configs/retrieval_coco.yaml \
--output_dir output/retrieval_coco </pre>