Model reference · open weights
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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Summary of the MBZUAI/geochat-7B model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | MBZUAI |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-02-26 |
| VRAM | 14.1 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 11.6 GB | ||
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 1K | 15.4 GB | |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 4 | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 4 | all 4K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 7 | all 4K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 13 | all 4K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 29 | all 4K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 28 | all 4K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 35 | all 4K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 41 | all 4K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 56 | all 4K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 73 | all 4K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 3 | all 4K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 7 | all 4K | 15.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 14 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 14 | all 4K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 21 | all 4K | 31.0 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 4K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 16.9 GB |
| 5 | 25.5 GB |
| 8 | 31.9 GB |
| 16 | 49.1 GB |
| 32 | 83.5 GB |
| 64 | 152 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From 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.
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}
}
Kartik Kuckreja, Muhammad Sohail
kartik.kuckreja@mbzuai.ac.ae
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.