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+import torch
+import argparse
+from open_flamingo import create_model_and_transforms
+from omegaconf import OmegaConf
+import os
+import time
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--ckpt_pth", type=str, default='/export/share/manli_shu/models/open-flamingo-dev/anyres_ablation_HFSiglip_patch128-kosmos_non_instruct-phi3_4k_instruct_nq128_pre_V3_5-llava_1p6_ocrmathmix_v4-8x8-ckpt2/checkpoint_0.pt')
+    parser.add_argument('--save_pth', type=str, default='/export/share/yutong/xgenmm/llamacpp_wd')
+    parser.add_argument('--version', type=str, default='siglip_kosmos_phi3_4k_instruct', help='help identify the version of the saved ckpt')
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+VISION_ENCODER_KEY = 'vision_encoder'
+LLM_KEY = 'lang_model'
+PROJECTOR = 'vision_tokenizer'
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # load ckpt
+    args = get_args()
+    print("🟡 Loading ckpt...")
+    start = time.time()
+    ckpt = torch.load(args.ckpt_pth)["model_state_dict"]
+    end = time.time()
+    print(f"🟢 time used: [{end-start:.3f} s] | Done with loading ckpt")
+    
+    # sanity check
+    unexpected_component_keys = set()
+    for k in list(ckpt.keys()):
+        matched = False
+        for c in ['vision_encoder', 'lang_model', 'vision_tokenizer']:
+            if k.startswith(c):
+                matched = True
+                continue
+        if not matched:
+            unexpected_component_keys.add(k)
+            
+    if len(unexpected_component_keys) > 0:
+        print(f"❗❗❗ Unexpected component keys: {unexpected_component_keys}. Proceed with caution.")
+    
+    save_dir = f"{args.save_pth}/{args.version}"
+    if not os.path.exists(save_dir):
+        os.makedirs(save_dir)
+    # get a list vl connector keys
+    projector_tensors = {v.float(): v for k, v in ckpt.items() if k.startswith(PROJECTOR)}
+    print("🟡 Saving project ckpt...")
+    save_path = f"{save_dir}/xgenmm.projector"
+    start = time.time()
+    torch.save(projector_tensors, save_path)
+    end = time.time()
+    print(f"🟢 time used: [{end-start:.3f} s] | Save projector ckpt at: {save_path}")
+    
+    # here we use the siglip
+    vision_encoder_tensors = {v.float(): v for k, v in ckpt.items() if k.startswith(VISION_ENCODER_KEY)}
+    print("🟡 Saving vision encoder ckpt...")
+    save_path = f"{save_dir}/xgenmm.clip"
+    start = time.time()
+    torch.save(vision_encoder_tensors, save_path)
+    end = time.time()
+    print(f"🟢 time used: [{end-start:.3f} s] | Save projector ckpt at: {save_path}")
+    
+    
+    # hard code to load the model using open-flamingo
+    print("🟡 Saving llm ckpt...")
+    cfg = dict(
+        model_family = 'kosmos',
+        lm_path = 'microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct',
+        vision_encoder_path = 'google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384',
+        vision_encoder_pretrained = 'google',
+        num_vision_tokens = 128,
+        image_aspect_ratio = 'anyres',
+        anyres_patch_sampling = True,
+        anyres_grids=[[1,2],[2,1],[2,2],[3,1],[1,3]],
+        ckpt_pth = args.ckpt_pth)
+    cfg = OmegaConf.create(cfg)
+    if cfg.model_family in ['kosmos-instruct', 'kosmos', 'llava']:
+        additional_kwargs = {
+            "image_aspect_ratio": cfg.image_aspect_ratio,
+            }
+        if cfg.model_family in ['kosmos-instruct', 'kosmos']:
+            additional_kwargs.update({
+                "num_vision_tokens": cfg.num_vision_tokens,
+                "anyres_patch_sampling": cfg.anyres_patch_sampling,
+            })
+    model, image_processor, tokenizer = create_model_and_transforms(
+                                        clip_vision_encoder_path=cfg.vision_encoder_path,
+                                        clip_vision_encoder_pretrained=cfg.vision_encoder_pretrained,
+                                        lang_model_path=cfg.lm_path,
+                                        tokenizer_path=cfg.lm_path,
+                                        model_family=cfg.model_family,
+                                        **additional_kwargs)
+    model.load_state_dict(ckpt, strict=True)
+    start = time.time()
+    llm = model.lang_model.save_pretrained(f"{save_dir}/model")
+    tokenizer.save_pretrained(f"{save_dir}/model")
+    end = time.time()
+    print(f"🟢 time used: [{end-start:.3f} s] | Save projector ckpt at: {save_dir}/model")
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