Model reference · open weights
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.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
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 by | llava-hf |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-08-13 |
| Parameters | 894M |
| VRAM | 16.1 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 2 smaller cards | ||||
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 11 | 2 | 89K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 11 | 2 | 88K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 27 | 6 | 128K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 54 | 13 | 128K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 127 | 31 | 128K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 118 | 29 | 128K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 151 | 37 | 128K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 180 | 45 | 128K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 245 | 61 | 128K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 325 | 81 | 128K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 6 | 1 | 51K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 22 | 5 | 128K | 15.4 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18.6 GB | 20.0 GB |
| 5 | 20.5 GB | 27.5 GB |
| 8 | 21.9 GB | 33.2 GB |
| 16 | 25.7 GB | 48.2 GB |
| 32 | 33.2 GB | 78.3 GB |
| 64 | 48.2 GB | 138 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| llava-onevision-qwen2-0.5b-ov-hf ↗ | 894M | FP16 | 1.8 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| llava-onevision-qwen2-7b-ov-hf (above) ↗ | 8.0B | FP16 | 16.1 GB | 2× RTX 3060 12 GB |
From 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 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/
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:
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'}]
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)
bitsandbytes libraryFirst 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
)
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)
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.