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geochat

LLMs MBZUAI Text gen 1 build Open weights 3k dl/mo

geochat is an open-weight language model from MBZUAI. geochat-7B (BF16) weighs 14.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • GeoChat is a grounded Large Vision Language Model developed by MBZUAI for remote sensing scenarios.
  • It is fine-tuned using the LLaVA-1.5 architecture to handle high-resolution imagery and supports tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, and scene classification.
  • The model has a context length of 4096 tokens and is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the MBZUAI/geochat-7B model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byMBZUAI
Released2024-02-26
VRAM14.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for geochat-7B (BF16)

14.1 GBweights, file size
524 MBcache per 1K tokens
620 MBruntime overhead, at least
4,096 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
4K each
RTX 3060 12 GB11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB1K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB4all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB4all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB7all 4K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB13all 4K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB29all 4K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB28all 4K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB35all 4K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified41all 4K107 GB
H200 141 GB56all 4K138 GB
B200 180 GB73all 4K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
3all 4K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
7all 4K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
14all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
14all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
21all 4K31.0 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once4K tokens each
116.9 GB
525.5 GB
831.9 GB
1649.1 GB
3283.5 GB
64152 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What MBZUAI says about geochat

Read the model card

GeoChat is the first grounded Large Vision Language Model, specifically tailored to Remote Sensing(RS) scenarios. Unlike general-domain models, GeoChat excels in handling high-resolution RS imagery, employing region-level reasoning for comprehensive scene interpretation. Leveraging a newly created RS multimodal dataset, GeoChat is fine-tuned using the LLaVA-1.5 architecture. This results in robust zero-shot performance across various RS tasks, including image and region captioning, visual question answering, scene classification, visually grounded conversations, and referring object detection.

  • Developed by MBZUAI

Model Sources

  • Repository: https://github.com/mbzuai-oryx/GeoChat
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15826

BibTeX:

@misc{kuckreja2023geochat,
      title={GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing},
      author={Kartik Kuckreja and Muhammad Sohail Danish and Muzammal Naseer and Abhijit Das and Salman Khan and Fahad Shahbaz Khan},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.15826},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

Authors

Kartik Kuckreja, Muhammad Sohail

Contact

kartik.kuckreja@mbzuai.ac.ae

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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