clip-interrogator VS serge

It's image -> words, the inverse of stable diffusion.

see: https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator

I have been using this on a CPU https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator, I tried a lot of pre-trained models combinations, all are slow.

I'm addition to controlnet, try the clip interrogator to see how clip would describe the image and then use that language in your prompt. You can try the whole image or cropped portions. There is a colab available if you don't want to run it locally.

In my current process, I use CLIP Interrogator to produce a high level caption and wd14 tagger for more granular booru tags. Typically in that order, because you can append the results from the latter to the former. Both tools perform with greater accuracy than the standard interrogators in img2img and give you more flexibility and features as well. You still have to do some manual adjustments, but I generally prefer this process over starting from scratch.

If you are interested in this, definitely see if you can get some of the OSS models running and get a feel for how to interrogate them. Maybe see if you can get some mileage out of the CLIP-Interrogator

Next, I used the lists of artists, flavors, mediums, movements, and negatives that are used for the clip-interrogator and pasted these in the chat and told the bot to categorize them accordingly. As you can only paste up to certain characters in single message (4-5K in 3.5 and 6-8K in 4).

Here’s the specific one I’m using (runs in browser)

I really enjoy using the CLIP Interrogator on huggingspaces, but it is often super slow and sometimes straight up breaks. Now it is possible to locally install it, https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator but I don't know if its viable to run on a laptop with 6gb videocard anyway.

Very cool, this looks like a combination of chatbot-ui and llama-cpp-python? A similar project I've been using is https://github.com/serge-chat/serge. Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b is my daily driver and scores high on coding evaluations (https://huggingface.co/spaces/mike-ravkine/can-ai-code-resul...).

You might be pleased to hear that nothing really stops you from doing this today. If you ran Serge[0] on a Mac with Tailscale, you could hack together a decently-accelerated Llama chatbot.

[0] https://github.com/serge-chat/serge

Cannot help you with libraries specifically but both Serge and ChatUI are built using SvelteKit, so the code might be of some use to you.

Serge made it really easy for me to get started, but it all CPU-based.

All that said this project probably solves your problem: https://github.com/serge-chat/serge

You can play a little bit with more straightforward local models (the simplest to setup is https://github.com/nsarrazin/serge ), to see that any LLM is basically a party trick.