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IDEFICS

Hugging FaceOpen WeightsPending Human Review

IDEFICS is a Hugging Face open-weight multimodal language-model release. The initial IDEFICS family openly reproduces Flamingo-style interleaved image/text modeling at 9B and 80B scale. A CLIP vision encoder connects through newly trained components to a Llama text backbone. Base and instruction variants support multi-image questions, visual descriptions, and conversational text generation. Additional weights are MIT-licensed but the original Llama backbone retains non-commercial research terms. Perceptual interpretation and extracted text can be wrong, and performance depends on image resolution and task framing.

2023-08-22
9B, 80B
Transformer language decoder with vision encoder and multimodal connector
Llama non-commercial research license for backbone; MIT for added parameters

Specifications

Parameters
9B, 80B
Architecture
Transformer language decoder with vision encoder and multimodal connector
License
Llama non-commercial research license for backbone; MIT for added parameters
Type
multimodal
Modalities
textimage

Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
Idefics
API Access
Not Available
Chat Interface
Not Available
Variants
BaseInstruct

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
visual question answeringimage understandingmulti-image chat
Known Limitations
Image interpretation may be inaccurateBackbone license conditions must be considered
Notable Use Cases
multimodal researchdocument assistantsvisual conversation

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