LLMGA: Multimodal Large Language Model-based Generation Assistant (ECCV2024)

Bin Xia, Shiyin Wang, Yingfan Tao, Yitong Wang, and Jiaya Jia

News

New Version (Accepted by ECCV2024):

• [2024.07.06] The finetuned SD15 models have been released, including SD15-T2I and SD15-inpainting. Notably, our SD15-T2I model can also be used for instruction-based editing of LLMGA.
• [2024.07.06] The finetuned SDXL models have been released, including SDXL-T2I and SDXL-inpainting.
• [2024.07.06] The pre-trained models, which further support Chinese (obtained by further fine-tuned on mixed Chinese and English data), have been released, including llmga-cn-vicuna 7b, llmga-cn-llama3 8b, llmga-cn-gemma 2b, and llmga-cn-qwen2 0.5b.
• [2024.07.06] We release new version LLMGA's training datasets, including texts and images.
• [2024.07.05] The pre-trained model has been released, including llmga-vicuna 7b, llmga-mistral 7b, llmga-llama3 8b, llmga-vicuna7b, llmga-qwen2 0.5b, llmga-qwen2 1.5b, llmga-qwen2 7b, llmga-phi3 3b, and llmga-gemma 2b.
• [2024.07.05] The code has been updated.
• [2024.07.04] I am organizing and uploading the new version of the LLMGA code and the dataset and model. I will have a status update when I complete this process, please wait for me for a few days. Notably, in this new version, we build our LLMGA on different base LLM models, such as Llama2 7b, Mistral 7b, LLama3 8b, Qwen2 0.5b, Qwen2 1.5b, Qwen2 7b, Phi3 3b, and gemma 2b. They have different performance and model sizes, as well as commercial licenses, there is always one that can meet your usage scenario.

Old Version:

• [2023.12.20] We release LLMGA's [training datasets].
• [2023.12.20] We release the gradio codes of LLMGA7b-SDXL-T2I.
• [2023.12.08] We release LLMGA7b-SDXL-T2I [demo].
• [2023.11.30] We have released the code for DiffRIR. It can effectively eliminate differences in brightness, contrast, and texture between generated and preserved regions in inpainting and outpainting. Considering its applicability to projects beyond LLMGA, we have open-sourced it at Github.
• [2023.11.29] The models is released at [Huggingface].
• [2023.11.29] The training and inference code is released.
• [2023.11.29] We will upload all models, code, and data within a week and further refine this project.
• [2023.11.28] GitHub repo is created.

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Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a Multimodal Large Language Model-based Generation Assistant (LLMGA), leveraging the vast reservoir of knowledge and proficiency in reasoning, comprehension, and response inherent in Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist users in image generation and editing. Diverging from existing approaches where Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) generate fixed-size embeddings to control Stable Diffusion (SD), our LLMGA provides a detailed language generation prompt for precise control over SD. This not only augments LLM context understanding but also reduces noise in generation prompts, yields images with more intricate and precise content, and elevates the interpretability of the network. To this end, we curate a comprehensive dataset comprising prompt refinement, similar image generation, inpainting & outpainting, and instruction-based editing. Moreover, we propose a two-stage training scheme. In the first stage, we train the MLLM to grasp the properties of image generation and editing, enabling it to generate detailed prompts. In the second stage, we optimize SD to align with the MLLM's generation prompts. Additionally, we propose a reference-based restoration network to alleviate texture, brightness, and contrast disparities between generated and preserved regions during inpainting and outpainting. Extensive results show that LLMGA has promising generation and editing capabilities and can enable more flexible and expansive applications in an interactive manner.

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Why do you need LLMGA?

• Generation Assiatant. As a unified system, LLMGA can generate and edit images using methods such as Text-to-Image (T2I), inpainting, outpainting, and instruction-based editing through conversational interactions with users. By leveraging the extensive knowledge and understanding of image design from LLMGA, users can easily produce and revise images to obtain highly satisfactory images.
• Design Expert. LLMGA incorporates an extensive array of image design data, offering deep insights for a wide range of design tasks, including logo creation, game character design, poster design, T-shirt design, infographic design, and more.
• Illustration Generation. LLMGA can interactively generate story illustrations based on user-input story snippets.
• Picture Book Generation. With a single user's instruction, LLMGA can generate an interwoven storybook of text and illustrations.
• Multilingual Support.Through the multilingual adaptation of the LLMGA, T2I and editing model can generate content using Chinese language instructions.
• Flexible Expansion. LLMGA offers enhanced flexibility by integrating with external plugins like ControlNet, enabling a wider range of functionalities.
• To be continued ......

Contents

• TODO
• Install
• Model
• Preparation
• Train
• Inference
• Citation
• Acknowledgement

TODO

• Support gradio demo.
• Support more generation models

Install

Please follow the instructions below to install the required packages.

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/dvlab-research/LLMGA.git

2. Install Package

conda create -n llmga python=3.9 -y
conda activate llmga
cd LLMGA
pip install --upgrade pip  # enable PEP 660 support
pip install -e .
cd ./llmga/diffusers
pip install . 

3. Install additional packages for training cases

pip install -e ".[train]"
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
pip install datasets
pip install albumentations
pip install ninja

Model

Preparation

Training Dataset

We provide the training data for LLMGA training.

please download LLMGA datasets and LLaVA pretrain datasets.

Besides, download LLaVA1.5 instruction tuning datasets llava_v1_5_mix665k.json, and download the images from constituting datasets:

• COCO: train2017
• GQA: images
• OCR-VQA: download script, we save all files as .jpg
• TextVQA: train_val_images
• VisualGenome: part1, part2.

Please organize these downloaded data as in Structure.

The MLP Projector Pretrained Weights

We recommend users to download the pretrained MLP projector weights. Then put them in ./checkpoints following Structure.

Inference Pretrained Weights

Please download MLLM Models and SD models from the following links. For example, you can download LLMGA-MLLM7b and LLMGA-SDXL-T2I to realize LLMGA7b-T2I functionality. Please organize them as in Structure.

MLLM Model (support English)	Pretrained Models
llmga-vicuna 7b	Download
llmga-mistral 7b	Download
llmga-llama3 8b	Download
llmga-qwen2 0.5b	Download
llmga-qwen2 1.5b	Download
llmga-qwen2 7b	Download
llmga-phi3 3b	Download
llmga-gemma 2b	Download

MLLM Model (further support Chinese and English)	Pretrained Models
llmga-cn-vicuna 7b	Download
llmga-cn-llama3 8b	Download
llmga-cn-gemma 2b	Download
llmga-cn-qwen2 0.5b	Download

SD Model	Pretrained Models
LLMGA-SD15-T2I	Download
LLMGA-SD15-Inpainting	Download
LLMGA-SDXL-T2I	Download
LLMGA-SDXL-Inpainting	Download

Structure

The folder structure should be organized as follows before training.

LLMGA
├── llmga
├── scripts
├── work_dirs
├── checkpoints
│   ├── llmga-Phi-3-mini-128k-pretrain
│   ├── llmga-Qwen2-0.5B-pretrain
│   ├── llmga-llama3-8b-pretrain
│   ├── llmga-mistral-pretrain
│   ├── llmga-vicuna-7b-v1.5-pretrain
│   ├── llmga-Phi-3-mini-128k-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-Qwen2-0.5B-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-llama3-8b-it-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-mistral_instruct-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-vicuna-7b-v1.5-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-cn-vicuna-7b-v1.5-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-cn-Qwen2-0.5B-full-finetune
│   ├── llmga-sdxl-t2i
│   ├── llmga-sd15-inpainting-v2
│   ├── llmga-sd15-t2i-v2
├── data
│   │── jsons
│   │   ├── llmga-data
│   │   │   ├── Edit/train.json
│   │   │   ├── inpainting/train.json
│   │   │   ├── SG/train.json
│   │   │   ├── T2I/train.json
│   │   ├── text-data
│   │   │   ├── alpaca_gpt4_sharegpt_en_clean2.json
│   │   │   ├── lima.json
│   │   │   ├── oasst2.json
│   │   ├── llava_v1_5_mix665k.json
│   ├── llmga-imgs
│   │   ├── COCO
│   │   ├── LAION
│   │   ├── JourneyDB
│   ├── llava_pretrain
│   │   ├──images
│   ├── llava-imgs
│   │   ├── coco
│   │   │   ├── train2017
│   │   ├── gqa
│   │   │   ├── images
│   │   ├── ocr_vqa
│   │   │   ├── images
│   │   ├── textvqa
│   │   │   ├── train_images
│   │   ├── vg
│   │   │   ├── VG_100K
│   │   │   ├── VG_100K_2

Train

LLMGA is trained on 8 A100 GPUs with 80GB memory. To train on fewer GPUs, you can reduce the per_device_train_batch_size and increase the gradient_accumulation_steps accordingly. Always keep the global batch size the same: per_device_train_batch_size x gradient_accumulation_steps x num_gpus.

Please make sure you download and organize the data following Preparation before training. Here, we just take training llmga vicuna 7b as an example. For more model training scripts, please check the ./scripts folder.

Pretrain

bash scripts/pretrain_vicuna_7b.sh

First Stage Training

bash scripts/train_llmga_s1_7b_vicuna.sh

Second Stage Training

train LLMGA based on SD1.5-T2I

bash scripts/train_llmga_s2_sd15_t2i.sh

train LLMGA based on SD1.5-Inpainting

bash scripts/train_llmga_s2_sd15_inpaint.sh

Inference

CLI Inference

Use LLMGA without the need of Gradio interface. It also supports multiple GPUs, 4-bit and 8-bit quantized inference. With 4-bit quantization. Here, we just give some examples for T2I, inpainting and instruction-based editing. For more model inference scripts, please check the ./scripts folder.

For T2I generation task.

bash scripts/test-llmga-sdxl-t2i.sh

For inpainting or outpainting task.

bash scripts/test-llmga-sd15-inpainting.sh

For instruction based editing task.

bash scripts/test-llmga-sd15-editing.sh

Gradio Inference

bash scripts/run_gradio_t2i.sh

Citation

If you find this repo useful for your research, please consider citing the paper

@article{xia2023llmga,
  title={LLMGA: Multimodal Large Language Model based Generation Assistant},
  author={Xia, Bin and Wang, Shiyin, and Tao, Yingfan and Wang, Yitong and Jia, Jiaya},
  journal={ECCV},
  year={2024}
}

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank the following repos for their great work:

• This work utilizes MLLM from LLaVA.
• This work utilizes Stable Diffusion from diffusers.