Cuda out of memory on Google Colab when running Blip2

sophchoe September 21, 2023, 2:40pm 1

When using Google Colab for
model = Blip2ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
“Salesforce/blip2-flan-t5-xl”…

giving cuda out of memory error. How do I resolve this?

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