SmolVLM
SmolVLM is a Hugging Face open-weight model family. This small vision-language family pairs a compact text decoder with a SigLIP vision encoder using an Idefics-style connector. It supports image questions, document interpretation, and multi-image chat with modest memory needs. The later 256M and 500M tiers are variants of the original named release. Apache-2.0 licensing supports local deployment and adaptation. Model outputs can hallucinate and reflect training biases; multimodal tiers can also misread fine visual details.
2024-11-26
256M, 500M, 2B
Dense decoder-only Transformer with vision encoder
Apache-2.0
Specifications
- Parameters
- 256M, 500M, 2B
- Architecture
- Dense decoder-only Transformer with vision encoder
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Type
- multimodal
- Modalities
- textimage
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- SmolVLM
- API Access
- Not Available
- Chat Interface
- Not Available
- Variants
- 2B256M500MBase/Instruct
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- text generationinstruction followingvisual question answering
- Known Limitations
- Small models have limited broad knowledgeMedia support applies only to relevant tiers
- Notable Use Cases
- on-device assistantssmall-model researchprivate inference