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SmolVLM2

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SmolVLM2 is a Hugging Face open-weight model family. The second vision-language generation adds video understanding to compact image-and-text models. It combines SigLIP visual features with SmolLM2 text decoding and trains on video and image-language datasets. Several size tiers target video-capable local devices; frame sampling and visual tokens determine effective media capacity. 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.

2025-02-20
256M, 500M, 2.2B
Dense decoder-only Transformer with vision encoder
Apache-2.0

Specifications

Parameters
256M, 500M, 2.2B
Architecture
Dense decoder-only Transformer with vision encoder
License
Apache-2.0
Type
multimodal
Modalities
textimagevideo

Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
SmolVLM
API Access
Not Available
Chat Interface
Not Available
Variants
256M500M2.2BBase/Instruct

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
text generationinstruction followingvisual question answeringvideo understanding
Known Limitations
Small models have limited broad knowledgeMedia support applies only to relevant tiers
Notable Use Cases
on-device assistantssmall-model researchprivate inference

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