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llava-onevision-qwen2-ov

LLMs llava-hf Vision + text 2 builds Open weights 583k dl/mo

llava-onevision-qwen2-ov is an open-weight language model from llava-hf. llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov-hf (FP16) weighs 16.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • llava-onevision-qwen2-ov is an open-source multimodal large language model developed by llava-hf for image-text-to-text tasks.
  • It supports single-image, multi-image, and video scenarios and is trained on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data.
  • The model contains 894M parameters, operates in bfloat16 precision, and supports English and Chinese under the Apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byllava-hf
Released2024-08-13
Parameters894M
VRAM16.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov-hf (FP16)

16.1 GBweights, file size
57 MBcache per 1K tokens
2.1 GBruntime overhead, at least
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
RTX 3090 24 GB11289K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB11288K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB276128K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB5413128K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB12731128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB11829128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB15137128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified18045128K107 GB
H200 141 GB24561128K138 GB
B200 180 GB32581128K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
6151K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
225128K15.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
118.6 GB20.0 GB
520.5 GB27.5 GB
821.9 GB33.2 GB
1625.7 GB48.2 GB
3233.2 GB78.3 GB
6448.2 GB138 GB

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

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf ↗ 894MFP16 1.8 GBRTX 3060 12 GB
llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov-hf (above) ↗ 8.0BFP16 16.1 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What llava-hf says about llava-onevision-qwen2-ov

Read the model card

Below is the model card of 0.5B LLaVA-Onevision model which is copied from the original LLaVA-Onevision model card that you can find here.

Model details

Model type: LLaVA-Onevision is an open-source multimodal LLM trained by fine-tuning Qwen2 on GPT-generated multimodal instruction-following data. LLaVA-OneVision is the first single model that can simultaneously push the performance boundaries of open LMMs in three important computer vision scenarios: single-image, multi-image, and video scenarios. Importantly, the design of LLaVA-OneVision allows strong transfer learning across different modalities/scenarios, yielding new emerging capabilities. In particular, strong video understanding and cross-scenario capabilities are demonstrated through task transfer from images to videos.

Model date: LLaVA-Onevision-0.5-ov was added in August 2024.

Paper or resources for more information: https://llava-vl.github.io/

  • Architecture: SO400M + Qwen2
  • Pretraining Stage: LCS-558K, 1 epoch, projector
  • Mid Stage: A mixture of 4.7M high-quality synthetic data, 1 epoch, full model
  • Final-Image Stage: A mixture of 3.6M single-image data, 1 epoch, full model
  • OneVision Stage: A mixture of 1.6M single-image/multi-image/video data, 1 epoch, full model
  • Precision: bfloat16

How to use the model

First, make sure to have transformers installed from branch or transformers >= 4.45.0. The model supports multi-image and multi-prompt generation. Meaning that you can pass multiple images in your prompt. Make sure also to follow the correct prompt template by applying chat template:

Using pipeline:

Below we used "llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf" checkpoint.

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf")
messages = [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
          {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg"},
          {"type": "text", "text": "What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud"},
        ],
    },
]

out = pipe(text=messages, max_new_tokens=20)
print(out)
>>> [{'input_text': [{'role': 'user', 'content': [{'type': 'image', 'url': 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/transformers/tasks/ai2d-demo.jpg'}, {'type': 'text', 'text': 'What does the label 15 represent? (1) lava (2) core (3) tunnel (4) ash cloud'}]}], 'generated_text': 'Lava'}]

Using pure transformers:

Below is an example script to run generation in float16 precision on a GPU device:

import requests
from PIL import Image

import torch
from transformers import AutoProcessor, LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration

model_id = "llava-hf/llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf"
model = LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
).to(0)

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Define a chat history and use `apply_chat_template` to get correctly formatted prompt
# Each value in "content" has to be a list of dicts with types ("text", "image")
conversation = [
    {

      "role": "user",
      "content": [
          {"type": "text", "text": "What are these?"},
          {"type": "image"},
        ],
    },
]
prompt = processor.apply_chat_template(conversation, add_generation_prompt=True)

image_file = "http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"
raw_image = Image.open(requests.get(image_file, stream=True).raw)
inputs = processor(images=raw_image, text=prompt, return_tensors='pt').to(0, torch.float16)

output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200, do_sample=False)
print(processor.decode(output[0][2:], skip_special_tokens=True))

From transformers>=v4.48, you can also pass image/video url or local path to the conversation history, and let the chat template handle the rest. Chat template will load the image for you and return inputs in torch.Tensor which you can pass directly to model.generate()

messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {"type": "image", "url": "https://www.ilankelman.org/stopsigns/australia.jpg"}
            {"type": "text", "text": "What is shown in this image?"},
        ],
    },
]

inputs = processor.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors"pt")
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)

Model optimization

4-bit quantization through bitsandbytes library

First make sure to install bitsandbytes, pip install bitsandbytes and make sure to have access to a CUDA compatible GPU device. Simply change the snippet above with:

model = LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   load_in_4bit=True
)
Use Flash-Attention 2 to further speed-up generation

First make sure to install flash-attn. Refer to the original repository of Flash Attention regarding that package installation. Simply change the snippet above with:

model = LlavaOnevisionForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+   use_flash_attention_2=True
).to(0)

Usage w/ Transformers.js

If you haven't already, you can install the Transformers.js JavaScript library from NPM using:

npm i @huggingface/transformers

Example: Multi

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

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