Various fixes for VLMs (#3063)

* fix to not use batch feature indexing

* more vlm fixes

* use AutoModelForImageTextToText

* add example yaml and need num2words for chat template

* improve handling of adding image tokens to conversation

* add lfm2-vl support

* update the lfm readme

* fix markdown and add rtol for loss checks

* feat: add smolvlm2 processing strat

* fix: check for causal-conv1d in lfm models

* feat: add docs for lfm2

* feat: add new models and tips to docs

* feat: add smolvlm2 docs and remove extra dep

* chore: update docs

* feat: add video instructions

* chore: cleanup

* chore: comments

* fix: typo

* feat: add usage stats

* chore: refactor

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# Finetune Liquid Foundation Models 2 (LFM2) with Axolotl
[Liquid Foundation Models 2 (LFM2)](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-686d721927015b2ad73eaa38) are a family of small, open-weight models from [Liquid AI](https://www.liquid.ai/) focused on quality, speed, and memory efficiency. Liquid AI released text-only [LFM2](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-686d721927015b2ad73eaa38) and text+vision [LFM2-VL](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-vl-68963bbc84a610f7638d5ffa) models.
LFM2 features a new hybrid Liquid architecture with multiplicative gates, short-range convolutions, and grouped query attention, enabling fast training and inference.
This guide shows how to fine-tune both the LFM2 and LFM2-VL models with Axolotl.
## Getting Started
1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
Here is an example of how to install from pip:
```bash
# Ensure you have a compatible version of Pytorch installed
pip3 install packaging setuptools wheel ninja
pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
```
2. Run one of the finetuning examples below.
**LFM2**
```bash
# FFT SFT (1x48GB @ 25GiB)
axolotl train examples/LiquidAI/lfm2-350m-fft.yaml
```
**LFM2-VL**
```bash
# LoRA SFT (1x48GB @ 2.7GiB)
axolotl train examples/LiquidAI/lfm2-vl-lora.yaml
```
### TIPS
- **Installation Error**: If you encounter `ImportError: ... undefined symbol ...` or `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'causal_conv1d_cuda'`, the `causal-conv1d` package may have been installed incorrectly. Try uninstalling it:
```bash
pip uninstall -y causal-conv1d
```
- **Dataset Loading**: Read more on how to load your own dataset in our [documentation](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
- **Dataset Formats**:
- For LFM2 models, the dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
- For LFM2-VL models, Axolotl follows the multi-content Messages format. See our [Multimodal docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format) for details.
## Optimization Guides
- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
## Related Resources
- [LFM2 Blog](https://www.liquid.ai/blog/liquid-foundation-models-v2-our-second-series-of-generative-ai-models)
- [LFM2-VL Blog](https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-vl-efficient-vision-language-models)
- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

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chunked_cross_entropy: true
chat_template: tokenizer_default
eot_tokens:
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base_model: LiquidAI/LFM2-VL-450M
trust_remote_code: true
model_type: AutoModelForImageTextToText
processor_type: AutoProcessor
# these 3 lines are needed for now to handle vision chat templates w images
skip_prepare_dataset: true
remove_unused_columns: false
sample_packing: false
datasets:
- path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
type: chat_template
split: train[:1%]
dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
val_set_size: 0.0
output_dir: ./outputs/out
adapter: lora
lora_model_dir:
sequence_len: 8192
pad_to_sequence_len: false
lora_r: 32
lora_alpha: 16
lora_dropout: 0.05
lora_target_modules: 'model.language_model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
wandb_project:
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name:
wandb_log_model:
gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
micro_batch_size: 1
num_epochs: 1
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 0.0002
bf16: true
fp16:
tf32: true
gradient_checkpointing: true
logging_steps: 1
flash_attention: true
eager_attention:
warmup_ratio: 0.1
evals_per_epoch: 1
saves_per_epoch: 1
weight_decay: 0.0
# save_first_step: true # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

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# Liquid Foundation Models 2
LFM2 support in transformers exists in the main branch, but is not yet included in the transformers release.
```bash
pip install --upgrade --no-deps --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
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# Finetune SmolVLM2 with Axolotl
[SmolVLM2](https://huggingface.co/collections/HuggingFaceTB/smolvlm2-smallest-video-lm-ever-67ab6b5e84bf8aaa60cb17c7) are a family of lightweight, open-source multimodal models from HuggingFace designed to analyze and understand video, image, and text content.
These models are built for efficiency, making them well-suited for on-device applications where computational resources are limited. Models are available in multiple sizes, including 2.2B, 500M, and 256M.
This guide shows how to fine-tune SmolVLM2 models with Axolotl.
## Getting Started
1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
Here is an example of how to install from pip:
```bash
# Ensure you have a compatible version of Pytorch installed
pip3 install packaging setuptools wheel ninja
pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
```
2. Install an extra dependency:
```bash
pip3 install num2words==0.5.14
```
3. Run the finetuning example:
```bash
# LoRA SFT (1x48GB @ 6.8GiB)
axolotl train examples/smolvlm2/smolvlm2-2B-lora.yaml
```
## TIPS
- **Dataset Format**: For video finetuning, your dataset must be compatible with the multi-content Messages format. For more details, see our documentation on [Multimodal Formats](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format).
- **Dataset Loading**: Read more on how to prepare and load your own datasets in our [documentation](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
## Optimization Guides
- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
## Related Resources
- [SmolVLM2 Blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2)
- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

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base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct
trust_remote_code: true
processor_type: AutoProcessor
# these 3 lines are needed for now to handle vision chat templates w images
skip_prepare_dataset: true
remove_unused_columns: false
sample_packing: false
datasets:
- path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
type: chat_template
split: train[:1%]
dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
val_set_size: 0.0
output_dir: ./outputs/out
adapter: lora
lora_model_dir:
sequence_len: 8192
pad_to_sequence_len: false
lora_r: 32
lora_alpha: 16
lora_dropout: 0.05
lora_target_modules: 'model.text_model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
wandb_project:
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name:
wandb_log_model:
gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
micro_batch_size: 1
num_epochs: 1
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 0.0002
bf16: true
fp16:
tf32: true
gradient_checkpointing: true
logging_steps: 1
flash_attention: true
eager_attention:
warmup_ratio: 0.1
evals_per_epoch: 1
saves_per_epoch: 1
weight_decay: 0.0
# save_first_step: true # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config