transformers/docs/source/en/model_doc/aya_vision.md

This model was published in HF papers on 2025-05-13 and contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2025-03-04.

Aya Vision

Aya Vision is a family of open-weight multimodal vision-language models from Cohere Labs. It is trained with a synthetic annotation framework that generates high-quality multilingual image captions, improving Aya Vision's generated responses. In addition, a cross-modal model merging technique is used to prevent the model from losing its text capabilities after adding vision capabilities. The model combines a CommandR-7B language model with a SigLIP vision encoder.

You can find all the original Aya Vision checkpoints under the Aya Vision collection.

Tip

This model was contributed by saurabhdash and yonigozlan.

Click on the Aya Vision models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply Aya Vision to different image-to-text tasks.

The example below demonstrates how to generate text based on an image with [Pipeline] or the [AutoModel] class.

from transformers import pipeline


pipe = pipeline(model="CohereLabs/aya-vision-8b", task="image-text-to-text", device_map="auto")

# Format message with the aya-vision chat template
messages = [
    {"role": "user",
     "content": [
       {"type": "image", "url": "https://media.istockphoto.com/id/458012057/photo/istanbul-turkey.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=qogAOVvkpfUyqLUMr_XJQyq-HkACXyYUSZbKhBlPrxo="},
        {"type": "text", "text": "Bu resimde hangi anıt gösterilmektedir?"},
    ]},
    ]
outputs = pipe(text=messages, max_new_tokens=300, return_full_text=False)

print(outputs)

# pip install 'git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@v4.49.0-Aya Vision'
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor


model_id = "CohereLabs/aya-vision-8b"

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
    model_id, device_map="auto"
)

# Format message with the aya-vision chat template
messages = [
    {"role": "user",
     "content": [
       {"type": "image", "url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx7YvfQWYAIp6rZ?format=jpg&name=medium"},
        {"type": "text", "text": "चित्र में लिखा पाठ क्या कहता है?"},
    ]},
    ]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    messages, padding=True, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

gen_tokens = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=300,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.3,
)

print(processor.tokenizer.decode(gen_tokens[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))

Quantization reduces the memory footprint of large models by representing weights at lower precision. Refer to the Quantization overview for supported backends.

The example below uses bitsandbytes to only quantize the weights to 4-bits.

import torch

from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor, BitsAndBytesConfig


bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_4bit=True,
    bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
    bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    bit_use_double_quant=True
)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("CohereLabs/aya-vision-32b", use_fast=True)
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
    "CohereLabs/aya-vision-32b",
    quantization_config=bnb_config,
    device_map="auto"
)

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
    [
    {"role": "user", "content": [
        {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/roschmid/dog-races/resolve/main/images/Border_Collie.jpg"},
        {"type": "text",  "text":"Describe what you see."}
    ]}
    ],
    padding=True,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    tokenize=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

generated = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)
print(processor.tokenizer.decode(generated[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Notes

• Images are represented with the <image> tag in the chat template.

• Use the [~ProcessorMixin.apply_chat_template] method to correctly format inputs.

• The example below demonstrates inference with multiple images.

  import torch
  from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText
  
  processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("CohereForAI/aya-vision-8b")
  model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
      "CohereForAI/aya-vision-8b", device_map="auto"
  )
  
  messages = [
      {
          "role": "user",
          "content": [
              {
                  "type": "image",
                  "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg",
              },
              {
                  "type": "image",
                  "url": "https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco-purple-flowers-california-echium-candicans-36805947.jpg",
              },
              {
                  "type": "text",
                  "text": "These images depict two different landmarks. Can you identify them?",
              },
          ],
      },
  ]
  
  inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
      messages, padding=True, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt"
  ).to(model.device)
  
  gen_tokens = model.generate(
      **inputs, 
      max_new_tokens=300, 
      do_sample=True, 
      temperature=0.3,
  )
  
  gen_text = processor.tokenizer.decode(gen_tokens[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
  print(gen_text)
  

• The example below demonstrates inference with batched inputs.

  import torch
  from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForImageTextToText
  
  processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)
  model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained(
      "CohereForAI/aya-vision-8b", device_map="auto"
  )
  
  batch_messages = [
      [
          {
              "role": "user",
              "content": [
                  {"type": "image", "url": "https://llava-vl.github.io/static/images/view.jpg"},
                  {"type": "text", "text": "Write a haiku for this image"},
              ],
          },
      ],
      [
          {
              "role": "user",
              "content": [
                  {
                      "type": "image",
                      "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg",
                  },
                  {
                      "type": "image",
                      "url": "https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/golden-gate-bridge-san-francisco-purple-flowers-california-echium-candicans-36805947.jpg",
                  },
                  {
                      "type": "text",
                      "text": "These images depict two different landmarks. Can you identify them?",
                  },
              ],
          },
      ],
  ]
  
  batch_inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(
      batch_messages, 
      padding=True, 
      add_generation_prompt=True, 
      tokenize=True, 
      return_dict=True, 
      return_tensors="pt"
  ).to(model.device)
  
  batch_outputs = model.generate(
      **batch_inputs,
      max_new_tokens=300,
      do_sample=True,
      temperature=0.3,
  )
  
  for i, output in enumerate(batch_outputs):
      response = processor.tokenizer.decode(
          output[batch_inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:], 
          skip_special_tokens=True
      )
      print(f"Response {i+1}:\n{response}\n")
  

AyaVisionProcessor

autodoc AyaVisionProcessor - call

AyaVisionConfig

autodoc AyaVisionConfig

AyaVisionModel

autodoc AyaVisionModel

AyaVisionForConditionalGeneration

autodoc AyaVisionForConditionalGeneration - forward - get_image_features