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license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
---
Emu3: Next-Token Prediction is All You Need
[Emu3 Team, BAAI](https://www.baai.ac.cn/english.html)
| [Project Page](https://emu.baai.ac.cn) | [Paper](https://huggingface.co/papers/2409.18869) | [🤗HF Models](https://huggingface.co/collections/BAAI/emu3-66f4e64f70850ff358a2e60f) | [github](https://github.com/baaivision/Emu3) | [Demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/BAAI/Emu3) |
We introduce **Emu3**, a new suite of state-of-the-art multimodal models trained solely with **next-token prediction**! By tokenizing images, text, and videos into a discrete space, we train a single transformer from scratch on a mixture of multimodal sequences.
### Emu3 excels in both generation and perception
**Emu3** outperforms several well-established task-specific models in both generation and perception tasks, surpassing flagship open models such as SDXL, LLaVA-1.6 and OpenSora-1.2, while eliminating the need for diffusion or compositional architectures.
### Highlights
- **Emu3** is capable of generating high-quality images following the text input, by simply predicting the next vision token. The model naturally supports flexible resolutions and styles.
- **Emu3** shows strong vision-language understanding capabilities to see the physical world and provides coherent text responses. Notably, this capability is achieved without depending on a CLIP and a pretrained LLM.
- **Emu3** simply generates a video causally by predicting the next token in a video sequence, unlike the video diffusion model as in Sora. With a video in context, Emu3 can also naturally extend the video and predict what will happen next.
#### Quickstart
```python
from PIL import Image
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, AutoImageProcessor, AutoModelForCausalLM
from transformers.generation.configuration_utils import GenerationConfig
import torch
import sys
sys.path.append(PATH_TO_BAAI_Emu3-Chat_MODEL)
from processing_emu3 import Emu3Processor
# model path
EMU_HUB = "BAAI/Emu3-Chat"
VQ_HUB = "BAAI/Emu3-VisionTokenier"
# prepare model and processor
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
EMU_HUB,
device_map="cuda:0",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
trust_remote_code=True,
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(EMU_HUB, trust_remote_code=True, padding_side="left")
image_processor = AutoImageProcessor.from_pretrained(VQ_HUB, trust_remote_code=True)
image_tokenizer = AutoModel.from_pretrained(VQ_HUB, device_map="cuda:0", trust_remote_code=True).eval()
processor = Emu3Processor(image_processor, image_tokenizer, tokenizer)
# prepare input
text = "Please describe the image"
image = Image.open("assets/demo.png")
inputs = processor(
text=text,
image=image,
mode='U',
return_tensors="pt",
padding="longest",
)
# prepare hyper parameters
GENERATION_CONFIG = GenerationConfig(
pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
max_new_tokens=1024,
)
# generate
outputs = model.generate(
inputs.input_ids.to("cuda:0"),
GENERATION_CONFIG,
attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to("cuda:0"),
)
outputs = outputs[:, inputs.input_ids.shape[-1]:]
print(processor.batch_decode(outputs, skip_special_tokens=True)[0])
```