SmolVLM2
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