# What does this PR do?
- Changed all models to extract `embed_tokens` in order to enable llava
to separately call the embeddings and the core model layers.
- Added VlmCausalLM to inherit from FlashMistral in order to be
maximally supported. The only added logics sits on top and parses images
into pixel values, preallocates input_ids space for the image
embeddings, and passes them for the model.
- Added Clip for the vision tower.
- Didn't add flash for the vision tower since there's no padding anyway.
- Added heuristic (potentially incomplete) to calculate number of
features *before* calculating the clip patches (allows for easier logic
reuse of the LLM under the hood).
Still needs to be done:
- [x] Implement the image parsing in the controller side, to avoid
downloading n times per TP shard and also refusing requests too large
early and avoid issues where the truncation actually truncates the
image.
- [ ] Make sure it works with quantization properly.
- [x] Make sure it works with TP>1
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