Practical overview
When it fits
Use it to explore LLaVA-based visual-language models built with Phi-3 or LLaMA 3, or to inspect the project’s model variants and training workflow.
Who it is for
- Researchers comparing or adapting visual-language model variants.
- Developers exploring image-and-text conversation prototypes.
- People who want to try the linked Phi-3-V or LLaMA-3-V demos.
Documented uses
- Ask questions about images through a linked model demo.
- Explore multimodal conversation using images and text.
- Compare pretrained, LoRA, merged and fully fine-tuned model variants.
- Follow documented scripts for pretraining or LoRA fine-tuning.
Requirements & limits
- The repository links to distinct Phi-3-V and LLaMA-3-V demos, as well as a Colab notebook for Phi-3-V.
- The model zoo lists pretrained, LoRA, merged and fully fine-tuned variants.
- Local setup requires initializing Git submodules and installing a specifically pinned Transformers revision.
- The README does not state hardware requirements.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Prepare the LLaVA++ codebase
Clone the repository, initialize its submodules and install the documented Transformers revision.
Before you start
- Python project environment
- Git and pip
Steps
Clone https://github.com/mbzuai-oryx/LLaVA-pp.git.
Change into the LLaVA-pp directory.
Run git submodule update --init --recursive.
Install the specified Transformers revision with the README's pip command.
Expected outcome
The repository and its submodules are checked out, and the documented Transformers revision is installed.
Guide limitations
- These steps cover setup only; they do not establish that a model has been run.
- Hardware requirements and further environment details are not specified here.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 6 November 2026
- Original website title
- mbzuai-oryx/LLaVA-pp · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

