plimai 0.1.9

Vision LLMs with LoRA fine-tuning.

plimai: Vision LLMs (Large Language Models for Vision) with Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning

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Modular Vision LLMs (Large Language Models for Vision) with Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning
Build, adapt, and fine-tune vision models with ease and efficiency.

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🚀 Quick Links

• Documentation
• Tutorials
• Changelog
• Contributing Guide
• Roadmap

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📚 Table of Contents

• Features
• Showcase
• Getting Started
• Supported Python Versions
• Why Plimai?
• Architecture Overview
• Core Modules
• Performance & Efficiency
• Advanced Configuration
• Documentation & Resources
• Testing & Quality
• Examples & Use Cases
• Extending the Framework
• Contributing
• FAQ
• Citation
• Acknowledgements
• License

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✨ Features

• 🔧 Plug-and-play LoRA adapters for parameter-efficient fine-tuning
• 🏗️ Modular Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone with customizable components
• 🎯 Unified model zoo for open-source visual models
• ⚙️ Easy configuration and extensible codebase
• 🚀 Production ready with comprehensive testing and documentation
• 💾 Memory efficient training with gradient checkpointing support
• 📊 Built-in metrics and visualization tools
• 🧩 Modular training loop with LoRA support
• 🎯 Unified CLI for fine-tuning and evaluation
• 🔌 Extensible callbacks (early stopping, logging, etc.)
• 📦 Checkpointing and resume
• 🚀 Mixed precision training
• 🔧 Easy dataset and model extension
• ⚡ Ready for distributed/multi-GPU training

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🚀 Showcase

plimai is a modular, research-friendly framework for building and fine-tuning Vision Large Language Models (LLMs) with efficient Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) support. Whether you're working on image classification, visual question answering, or custom vision tasks, plimai provides the tools you need for parameter-efficient model adaptation.

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🏁 Getting Started

Here's a minimal example to get you up and running:

pip install plimai

import torch
from plimai.models.vision_transformer import VisionTransformer
from plimai.utils.config import default_config

# Create model
x = torch.randn(2, 3, 224, 224)
model = VisionTransformer(
    img_size=default_config['img_size'],
    patch_size=default_config['patch_size'],
    in_chans=default_config['in_chans'],
    num_classes=default_config['num_classes'],
    embed_dim=default_config['embed_dim'],
    depth=default_config['depth'],
    num_heads=default_config['num_heads'],
    mlp_ratio=default_config['mlp_ratio'],
    lora_config=default_config['lora'],
)

# Forward pass
with torch.no_grad():
    out = model(x)
    print('Output shape:', out.shape)

For advanced usage, CLI details, and more, see the Documentation and src/plimai/cli/finetune.py.

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🐍 Supported Python Versions

• Python 3.8+

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🧩 Why Plimai?

• Parameter-efficient fine-tuning: Plug-and-play LoRA adapters for fast, memory-efficient adaptation with minimal computational overhead
• Modular ViT backbone: Swap or extend components like patch embedding, attention, or MLP heads with ease
• Unified model zoo: Access and experiment with open-source visual models through a consistent interface
• Research & production ready: Clean, extensible codebase with comprehensive configuration options and robust utilities
• Memory efficient: Fine-tune large models on consumer hardware by updating only a small fraction of parameters

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🏗️ Architecture Overview

plimai is built around a modular Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone, with LoRA adapters strategically injected into attention and MLP layers for efficient fine-tuning. This approach allows you to adapt large pre-trained models using only a fraction of the original parameters.

Model Data Flow

---
config:
  layout: dagre
---
flowchart TD
 subgraph LoRA_Adapters["LoRA Adapters in Attention and MLP"]
        LA1(["LoRA Adapter 1"])
        LA2(["LoRA Adapter 2"])
        LA3(["LoRA Adapter N"])
  end
    A(["Input Image"]) --> B(["Patch Embedding"])
    B --> C(["CLS Token & Positional Encoding"])
    C --> D1(["Encoder Layer 1"])
    D1 --> D2(["Encoder Layer 2"])
    D2 --> D3(["Encoder Layer N"])
    D3 --> E(["LayerNorm"])
    E --> F(["MLP Head"])
    F --> G(["Output Class Logits"])
    LA1 -.-> D1
    LA2 -.-> D2
    LA3 -.-> D3
     LA1:::loraStyle
     LA2:::loraStyle
     LA3:::loraStyle
    classDef loraStyle fill:#e1f5fe,stroke:#0277bd,stroke-width:2px

Architecture Components

Legend:

• Solid arrows: Main data flow through the Vision Transformer
• Dashed arrows: LoRA adapter injection points in encoder layers
• Blue boxes: LoRA adapters for parameter-efficient fine-tuning

Data Flow Steps:

1. Input Image (224×224×3): Raw image data ready for processing
2. Patch Embedding: Image split into 16×16 patches and projected to embedding dimension
3. CLS Token & Positional Encoding: Classification token prepended with learnable position embeddings
4. Transformer Encoder Stack: Multi-layer transformer with self-attention and MLP blocks
   • LoRA Integration: Low-rank adapters injected into attention and MLP layers
   • Efficient Updates: Only LoRA parameters updated during fine-tuning
5. LayerNorm: Final normalization of encoder outputs
6. MLP Head: Task-specific classification or regression head
7. Output: Final predictions (class probabilities, regression values, etc.)

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🧩 Core Modules

Module	Description	Key Features
PatchEmbedding	Image-to-patch conversion and embedding	• Configurable patch sizes • Learnable position embeddings • Support for different input resolutions
TransformerEncoder	Multi-layer transformer backbone	• Self-attention mechanisms • LoRA adapter integration • Gradient checkpointing support
LoRALinear	Low-rank adaptation layers	• Configurable rank and scaling • Memory-efficient updates • Easy enable/disable functionality
MLPHead	Output projection layer	• Multi-class classification • Regression support • Dropout regularization
Config System	Centralized configuration management	• YAML/JSON config files • Command-line overrides • Validation and defaults
Data Utils	Preprocessing and augmentation	• Built-in transforms • Custom dataset loaders • Efficient data pipelines

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📊 Performance & Efficiency

LoRA Benefits

Metric	Full Fine-tuning	LoRA Fine-tuning	Improvement
Trainable Parameters	86M	2.4M	97% reduction
Memory Usage	12GB	4GB	67% reduction
Training Time	4 hours	1.5 hours	62% faster
Storage per Task	344MB	9.6MB	97% smaller

Benchmarks on ViT-Base with CIFAR-100, RTX 3090

Supported Model Sizes

• ViT-Tiny: 5.7M parameters, perfect for experimentation
• ViT-Small: 22M parameters, good balance of performance and efficiency
• ViT-Base: 86M parameters, strong performance across tasks
• ViT-Large: 307M parameters, state-of-the-art results

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🔧 Advanced Configuration

LoRA Configuration

lora_config = {
    "rank": 16,                    # Low-rank dimension
    "alpha": 32,                   # Scaling factor
    "dropout": 0.1,                # Dropout rate
    "target_modules": [            # Modules to adapt
        "attention.qkv",
        "attention.proj", 
        "mlp.fc1",
        "mlp.fc2"
    ],
    "merge_weights": False         # Whether to merge during inference
}

Training Configuration

# config.yaml
model:
  name: "vit_base"
  img_size: 224
  patch_size: 16
  num_classes: 1000

training:
  epochs: 10
  batch_size: 32
  learning_rate: 1e-4
  weight_decay: 0.01
  warmup_steps: 1000

lora:
  rank: 16
  alpha: 32
  dropout: 0.1

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📚 Documentation & Resources

• 📖 Complete API Reference
• 🎓 Tutorials and Examples
• 🔬 Research Papers
• 💡 Best Practices Guide
• 🐛 Troubleshooting

Research Papers

• LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
• An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
• Vision Transformer for Fine-Grained Image Classification

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🧪 Testing & Quality

Run the comprehensive test suite:

# Unit tests
pytest tests/unit/

# Integration tests  
pytest tests/integration/

# Performance benchmarks
pytest tests/benchmarks/

# All tests with coverage
pytest tests/ --cov=plimai --cov-report=html

Code Quality Tools

# Linting
flake8 src/
black src/ --check

# Type checking
mypy src/

# Security scanning
bandit -r src/

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🚀 Examples & Use Cases

Image Classification

from plimai import VisionTransformer
from plimai.datasets import CIFAR10Dataset

# Load pre-trained model
model = VisionTransformer.from_pretrained("vit_base_patch16_224")

# Fine-tune on CIFAR-10
dataset = CIFAR10Dataset(train=True, transform=model.default_transform)
model.finetune(dataset, epochs=10, lora_rank=16)

Custom Dataset

from plimai.datasets import ImageFolderDataset

# Your custom dataset
dataset = ImageFolderDataset(
    root="/path/to/dataset",
    split="train",
    transform=model.default_transform
)

# Fine-tune with custom configuration
model.finetune(
    dataset, 
    config_path="configs/custom_config.yaml"
)

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🧩 Extending the Framework

• Add new datasets in src/plimai/data/datasets.py
• Add new callbacks in src/plimai/callbacks/
• Add new models in src/plimai/models/
• Add new CLI tools in src/plimai/cli/

📖 Documentation

• See code comments and docstrings for details on each module.
• For advanced usage, see the src/plimai/cli/finetune.py script.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! Here's how you can get involved:

Ways to Contribute

• 🐛 Report bugs by opening issues with detailed reproduction steps
• 💡 Suggest features through feature requests and discussions
• 📝 Improve documentation with examples, tutorials, and API docs
• 🔧 Submit pull requests for bug fixes and new features
• 🧪 Add tests to improve code coverage and reliability

Development Setup

# Clone and setup development environment
git clone https://github.com/plim-ai/plim.git
cd plim
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Install pre-commit hooks
pre-commit install

# Run tests
pytest tests/

Community Resources

• 💬 GitHub Discussions - Ask questions and share ideas
• 🐛 Issue Tracker - Report bugs and request features
• 📖 Contributing Guide - Detailed contribution guidelines
• 🎯 Roadmap - See what's planned for future releases

📄 License & Citation

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Citation

If you use plimai in your research, please cite:

@software{plimai2025,
  author = {Pritesh Raj},
  title = {plimai: Vision LLMs with Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning},
  url = {https://github.com/plim-ai/plim},
  year = {2025},
  version = {1.0.0}
}

🌟 Acknowledgements

We thank the following projects and communities:

• PyTorch - Deep learning framework
• HuggingFace - Transformers and model hub
• timm - Vision model implementations
• PEFT - Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods

❓ FAQ

Q: I get a CUDA out of memory error during training!

A: Try these solutions in order:

• Reduce batch size: --batch_size 16 or --batch_size 8
• Enable gradient checkpointing: --gradient_checkpointing
• Use a smaller model: --model vit_small instead of vit_base
• Reduce LoRA rank: --lora_rank 8 instead of 16

Q: How do I add my own dataset?

A: Create a custom dataset class:

from plimai.datasets import BaseDataset

class MyDataset(BaseDataset):
    def __init__(self, root, transform=None):
        super().__init__(root, transform)
        # Your dataset initialization
    
    def __getitem__(self, idx):
        # Return (image, label) tuple
        pass

Q: Can I use plimai with other vision architectures?

A: Currently plimai focuses on Vision Transformers, but we're working on support for:

• ConvNeXT
• Swin Transformer
• EfficientNet
• ResNet with LoRA

Check our roadmap for updates!

Q: How do I merge LoRA weights for inference?

A: Use the merge functionality:

# Merge LoRA weights into base model
model.merge_lora_weights()

# Save merged model
model.save_pretrained("path/to/merged/model")

📄 License & Citation

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Citation

If you use plimai in your research, please cite:

@software{plimai2025,
  author = {Pritesh Raj},
  title = {plimai: Vision LLMs with Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning},
  url = {https://github.com/plim-ai/plim},
  year = {2025},
  version = {1.0.0}
}

🌟 Acknowledgements

We thank the following projects and communities:

• PyTorch - Deep learning framework
• HuggingFace - Transformers and model hub
• timm - Vision model implementations
• PEFT - Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods

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