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SmolVLM-500M-Instruct

SmolVLM-500M is a lightweight multimodal model capable of processing image and text input and generating text output.

#Open source
#multimodal
#Efficient
#Image description
#Visual Q&A
#lightweight
SmolVLM-500M-Instruct

Product Details

SmolVLM-500M is a lightweight multi-modal model developed by Hugging Face and belongs to the SmolVLM series. The model is based on the Idefics3 architecture and focuses on efficient image and text processing tasks. It can accept image and text input in any order and generate text output, which is suitable for tasks such as image description and visual question answering. Its lightweight architecture enables it to run on resource-constrained devices while maintaining strong multi-modal task performance. The model is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling open source and flexible usage scenarios.

Main Features

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Support image description: Ability to generate accurate descriptions of image content.
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Visual Q&A: Can answer questions related to images.
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Text Transcription: Ability to transcribe text content in images.
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Lightweight architecture: suitable for running on the device side and occupying few resources.
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Efficient image encoding: Improve efficiency through large-size image tiles and visual token encoding.
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Supports a variety of multi-modal tasks: such as story creation based on visual content.
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Open source license: Based on the Apache 2.0 license, it is easy for developers to use and improve freely.
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Low memory requirements: Only 1.23GB of GPU memory is needed to run inference on a single image.

How to Use

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1. Use the transformers library to load models and processors: load pre-trained models through AutoProcessor and AutoModelForVision2Seq.
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2. Prepare input data: combine image and text queries into input messages.
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3. Process the input: Use a processor to convert the input data into a format acceptable to the model.
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4. Run inference: Pass the processed input to the model to generate text output.
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5. Decode output: Decode the generated text ID into readable text content.
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6. Fine-tune the model as needed: Use the provided fine-tuning tutorials to optimize model performance for specific tasks.

Target Users

This model is suitable for developers and researchers who need to run multi-modal tasks on resource-constrained devices, especially those that require fast processing of image and text input to generate text output, such as mobile applications, embedded devices, or applications with high real-time requirements.

Examples

Quickly generate image descriptions on mobile devices to help users understand image content.

Provides visual question and answer functionality for image recognition applications to enhance user experience.

Implement simple text transcription functionality on embedded devices for text recognition in images.

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