---
license: mit
base_model: unsloth/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct
tags:
- vision-language-model
- chart-qa
- qwen2-vl
- lora
- finetuned
- unsloth
datasets:
- weijiezz/chartqa_split_test
language:
- en
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
---

# 📊 alan-vlm — ChartQA Vision Language Model

A finetuned version of **Qwen2-VL 2B Instruct** trained to answer natural language questions about charts and graphs.

Finetuned on the [ChartQA dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/weijiezz/chartqa_split_test) using [Unsloth](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth) on a Google Colab free T4 GPU.

---

## 🧠 Model Details

| | |
|---|---|
| **Base Model** | Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct |
| **Finetuning Method** | LoRA (r=8, alpha=8) |
| **Training Data** | 2,000 chart QA pairs |
| **Training Steps** | 500 |
| **Batch Size** | 8 (2 per device × 4 gradient accumulation) |
| **Trainable Parameters** | 9,232,384 (0.42% of total) |
| **Precision** | fp16 |
| **Hardware** | Google Colab T4 (15GB VRAM) |

---

## 🚀 Quick Start

```python
from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
from PIL import Image
import torch

# Load model
model = Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "alanjoshua2005/alan-vlm",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("alanjoshua2005/alan-vlm")

# Run inference
def ask(image_path, question):
    image = Image.open(image_path).convert("RGB")

    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": [
        {"type": "image"},
        {"type": "text", "text": question},
    ]}]

    text_prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(
        messages,
        add_generation_prompt=True,
        tokenize=False,
    )

    inputs = processor(
        text=text_prompt,
        images=image,
        return_tensors="pt"
    )
    inputs = {k: v.to("cuda") for k, v in inputs.items()}

    with torch.no_grad():
        output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=64)

    input_len = inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]
    return processor.decode(output[0][input_len:], skip_special_tokens=True)

# Example
answer = ask("chart.png", "What is the value of the highest bar?")
print(answer)
```

---

## 🎛️ Gradio Demo

```python
import gradio as gr
from transformers import AutoProcessor, Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
from PIL import Image
import torch

model = Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "alanjoshua2005/alan-vlm",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("alanjoshua2005/alan-vlm")

def answer_chart_question(image, question):
    if image is None or not question.strip():
        return "Please provide both an image and a question."
    image = image.convert("RGB")
    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": [
        {"type": "image"},
        {"type": "text", "text": question},
    ]}]
    text_prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=False)
    inputs = processor(text=text_prompt, images=image, return_tensors="pt")
    inputs = {k: v.to("cuda") for k, v in inputs.items()}
    with torch.no_grad():
        output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=64)
    input_len = inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]
    return processor.decode(output[0][input_len:], skip_special_tokens=True)

gr.Interface(
    fn=answer_chart_question,
    inputs=[gr.Image(type="pil"), gr.Textbox(label="Question")],
    outputs=gr.Textbox(label="Answer"),
    title="📊 ChartQA - alan-vlm"
).launch()
```

---

## 📦 Dataset

Trained on [weijiezz/chartqa_split_test](https://huggingface.co/datasets/weijiezz/chartqa_split_test) — a 2,000 row dataset of chart images paired with questions and answers. Contains two types of questions:

- `human_test` — questions written by human annotators
- `augmented_test` — questions generated via data augmentation

---

## 🏋️ Training Details

Training was done using **Unsloth** for optimized LoRA finetuning:

```python
from unsloth import FastVisionModel

model, tokenizer = FastVisionModel.from_pretrained(
    "unsloth/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct",
    load_in_4bit=True,
)

model = FastVisionModel.get_peft_model(
    model,
    finetune_vision_layers=True,
    finetune_language_layers=True,
    finetune_attention_modules=True,
    finetune_mlp_modules=True,
    r=8,
    lora_alpha=8,
    lora_dropout=0,
    bias="none",
    use_gradient_checkpointing="unsloth",
    target_modules=["q_proj", "v_proj", "k_proj", "o_proj",
                    "gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj"],
)
```

---

## ⚠️ Limitations

- Trained on only 2,000 samples — a learning/experimental project
- May struggle with complex multi-series charts or heavily annotated graphs
- Not evaluated on the full ChartQA benchmark yet
- Best suited for simple bar, pie, and line chart questions

---

## 🙏 Acknowledgements

- [Unsloth](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth) for making VLM finetuning feasible on free Colab GPUs
- [Qwen2-VL](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct) by Alibaba Cloud
- [ChartQA dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/weijiezz/chartqa_split_test) by weijiezz