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Principle:Mlfoundations Open flamingo Evaluation Model Abstraction

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Overview

Design pattern providing a unified evaluation interface that abstracts model-specific details behind standardized methods for text generation and classification scoring.

Description

The evaluation abstraction provides a BaseEvalModel interface with two core methods: get_outputs() for generating text from image-text inputs, and get_rank_classifications() for scoring class names using log-probabilities. This allows the evaluation framework to work with different model architectures (OpenFlamingo, BLIP-2) through a common interface.

The OpenFlamingo EvalModel wraps the Flamingo model with additional functionality:

  • KV-cache-based classification for efficiency
  • Task-specific prompt formatting (VQA, captioning, ImageNet, Hateful Memes)
  • DDP distribution for multi-GPU evaluation

Usage

When setting up a model for evaluation across multiple benchmarks; provides the interface expected by evaluate_captioning, evaluate_vqa, and evaluate_classification.

Theoretical Basis

The Strategy pattern allows swapping model implementations without changing evaluation logic. The KV-cache optimization in classification avoids re-encoding shared in-context examples for each class name, computing the prompt prefix once and only varying the class completion. This provides O(1) per-class cost instead of O(n_classes) full forward passes.

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Implementation:Mlfoundations_Open_flamingo_EvalModel

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