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Multi-modal models

Large language models (LLMs) are text-in, text-out. Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) generalize this beyond the text modalities. For instance, models such as GPT-4V allow you to jointly input both images and text, and output text.

We’ve included a base MultiModalLLM abstraction to allow for text+image models. NOTE: This naming is subject to change!

  1. The following code snippet shows how you can get started using LMMs e.g. with GPT-4V.
from llama_index.multi_modal_llms.openai import OpenAIMultiModal
from llama_index.core.multi_modal_llms.generic_utils import load_image_urls
from llama_index.core import SimpleDirectoryReader
# load image documents from urls
image_documents = load_image_urls(image_urls)
# load image documents from local directory
image_documents = SimpleDirectoryReader(local_directory).load_data()
# non-streaming
openai_mm_llm = OpenAIMultiModal(
model="gpt-4-vision-preview", api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, max_new_tokens=300
)
response = openai_mm_llm.complete(
prompt="what is in the image?", image_documents=image_documents
)
  1. The following code snippet shows how you can build MultiModal Vector Stores/Index.
from llama_index.core.indices import MultiModalVectorStoreIndex
from llama_index.vector_stores.qdrant import QdrantVectorStore
from llama_index.core import SimpleDirectoryReader, StorageContext
import qdrant_client
from llama_index.core import SimpleDirectoryReader
# Create a local Qdrant vector store
client = qdrant_client.QdrantClient(path="qdrant_mm_db")
# if you only need image_store for image retrieval,
# you can remove text_store
text_store = QdrantVectorStore(
client=client, collection_name="text_collection"
)
image_store = QdrantVectorStore(
client=client, collection_name="image_collection"
)
storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(
vector_store=text_store, image_store=image_store
)
# Load text and image documents from local folder
documents = SimpleDirectoryReader("./data_folder/").load_data()
# Create the MultiModal index
index = MultiModalVectorStoreIndex.from_documents(
documents,
storage_context=storage_context,
)
  1. The following code snippet shows how you can use MultiModal Retriever and Query Engine.
from llama_index.multi_modal_llms.openai import OpenAIMultiModal
from llama_index.core import PromptTemplate
from llama_index.core.query_engine import SimpleMultiModalQueryEngine
retriever_engine = index.as_retriever(
similarity_top_k=3, image_similarity_top_k=3
)
# retrieve more information from the GPT4V response
retrieval_results = retriever_engine.retrieve(response)
# if you only need image retrieval without text retrieval
# you can use `text_to_image_retrieve`
# retrieval_results = retriever_engine.text_to_image_retrieve(response)
qa_tmpl_str = (
"Context information is below.\n"
"---------------------\n"
"{context_str}\n"
"---------------------\n"
"Given the context information and not prior knowledge, "
"answer the query.\n"
"Query: {query_str}\n"
"Answer: "
)
qa_tmpl = PromptTemplate(qa_tmpl_str)
query_engine = index.as_query_engine(
multi_modal_llm=openai_mm_llm, text_qa_template=qa_tmpl
)
query_str = "Tell me more about the Porsche"
response = query_engine.query(query_str)

Legend

  • ✅ = should work fine
  • ⚠️ = sometimes unreliable, may need more tuning to improve
  • 🛑 = not available at the moment.

The tables below attempt to show the initial steps with various LlamaIndex features for building your own Multi-Modal RAGs (Retrieval Augmented Generation). You can combine different modules/steps together for composing your own Multi-Modal RAG orchestration.

Query TypeData Sources
for MultiModal
Vector Store/Index
MultiModal
Embedding
RetrieverQuery
Engine
Output
Data
Type
Text ✅Text ✅Text ✅Top-k retrieval ✅
Simple Fusion retrieval ✅
Simple Query Engine ✅Retrieved Text ✅
Generated Text ✅
Image ✅Image ✅Image ✅
Image to Text Embedding ✅
Top-k retrieval ✅
Simple Fusion retrieval ✅
Simple Query Engine ✅Retrieved Image ✅
Generated Image 🛑
Audio 🛑Audio 🛑Audio 🛑🛑🛑Audio 🛑
Video 🛑Video 🛑Video 🛑🛑🛑Video 🛑

These notebooks serve as examples how to leverage and integrate Multi-Modal LLM model, Multi-Modal embeddings, Multi-Modal vector stores, Retriever, Query engine for composing Multi-Modal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) orchestration.

Multi-Modal
Vision Models
Single
Image
Reasoning
Multiple
Images
Reasoning
Image
Embeddings
Simple
Query
Engine
Pydantic
Structured
Output
GPT4V
(OpenAI API)
✅✅🛑✅✅
GPT4V-Azure
(Azure API)
✅✅🛑✅✅
Gemini
(Google)
✅✅🛑✅✅
CLIP
(Local host)
🛑🛑✅🛑🛑
LLaVa
(replicate)
✅🛑🛑✅⚠️
Fuyu-8B
(replicate)
✅🛑🛑✅⚠️
ImageBind
[To integrate]
🛑🛑✅🛑🛑
MiniGPT-4
✅🛑🛑✅⚠️
CogVLM
✅🛑🛑✅⚠️
Qwen-VL
[To integrate]
✅🛑🛑✅⚠️

Below table lists some vector stores supporting Multi-Modal use cases. Our LlamaIndex built-in MultiModalVectorStoreIndex supports building separate vector stores for image and text embedding vector stores. MultiModalRetriever, and SimpleMultiModalQueryEngine support text to text/image and image to image retrieval and simple ranking fusion functions for combining text and image retrieval results.

Multi-Modal
Vector Stores
Single
Vector
Store
Multiple
Vector
Stores
Text
Embedding
Image
Embedding
LLamaIndex self-built
MultiModal Index
🛑✅Can be arbitrary
text embedding
(Default is GPT3.5)
Can be arbitrary
Image embedding
(Default is CLIP)
Chroma✅🛑CLIP ✅CLIP ✅
Weaviate
[To integrate]
✅🛑CLIP ✅
ImageBind ✅
CLIP ✅
ImageBind ✅

We support integrations with GPT4-V, Anthropic (Opus, Sonnet), Gemini (Google), CLIP (OpenAI), BLIP (Salesforce), and Replicate (LLaVA, Fuyu-8B, MiniGPT-4, CogVLM), and more.

Multi-Modal Retrieval Augmented Generation

Section titled “Multi-Modal Retrieval Augmented Generation”

We support Multi-Modal Retrieval Augmented Generation with different Multi-Modal LLMs with Multi-Modal vector stores.

We support basic evaluation for Multi-Modal LLM and Retrieval Augmented Generation.

Note for AI agents: this documentation is built for programmatic access. - Overview of all docs: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt - Any page is available as raw Markdown by appending index.md to its URL — e.g. https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/parse/getting_started/index.md - Agent-friendly REST search APIs live under https://developers.llamaindex.ai/api/ — search (BM25 full-text), grep (regex), read (fetch a page), and list (browse the doc tree). See https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt for parameters. - A hosted documentation MCP server is available at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/mcp. If you support MCP, you can ask the user to install it for browsing these docs directly (an alternative to the REST API). Setup: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/for-agents/mcp/ - Other LlamaIndex tooling for agents — the LlamaParse Platform MCP server, agent skills and plugins, and the n8n node — is mapped at https://developers.llamaindex.ai/for-agents/