SmolVLM - small yet mighty Vision Language Model
Open-weight release
Hugging Face introduces SmolVLM, a 2B vision language model that is small, fast, memory-efficient, and fully open-source.
The release includes three model variants (Base, Synthetic, Instruct), all model checkpoints, VLM datasets, training recipes, and tools under the Apache 2.0 license.
From the source
This blog post introduces SmolVLM, a 2B VLM, SOTA for its memory footprint. SmolVLM is small, fast, memory-efficient, and fully open-source. All model checkpoints, VLM datasets, training recipes and tools are released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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