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MambaVision-S-1K

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MambaVision-S-1K is an open-weight embedding model from NVIDIA. MambaVision-S-1K (FP32) weighs 100 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • MambaVision-S-1K is a 50M parameter hybrid vision model developed by NVIDIA for image feature extraction and classification.
  • It combines Mamba and Transformer architectures to model visual features efficiently.
  • The model is available under the NVIDIA Source Code License-NC.

Summary of the nvidia/MambaVision-S-1K model card, 2026-10-13

What it is

Released byNVIDIA
Released2024-07-14
Parameters50M
VRAM100 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for MambaVision-S-1K (FP32)

100 MBweights, file size
1.1 GBruntime overhead
CardRunsMemory
RTX 3060 12 GBfits11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GBfits15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GBfits23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GBfits31.0 GB
L40S 48 GBfits44.0 GB
A100 80 GBfits78.2 GB
H100 80 GBfits78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GBfits93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unifiedfits107 GB
H200 141 GBfits138 GB
B200 180 GBfits176 GB

From the model card

What NVIDIA says about MambaVision-S-1K

Read the model card

MambaVision: A Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Vision Backbone.

Model Overview

We have developed the first hybrid model for computer vision which leverages the strengths of Mamba and Transformers. Specifically, our core contribution includes redesigning the Mamba formulation to enhance its capability for efficient modeling of visual features. In addition, we conducted a comprehensive ablation study on the feasibility of integrating Vision Transformers (ViT) with Mamba. Our results demonstrate that equipping the Mamba architecture with several self-attention blocks at the final layers greatly improves the modeling capacity to capture long-range spatial dependencies. Based on our findings, we introduce a family of MambaVision models with a hierarchical architecture to meet various design criteria.

Model Performance

MambaVision demonstrates a strong performance by achieving a new SOTA Pareto-front in terms of Top-1 accuracy and throughput.

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Model Usage

It is highly recommended to install the requirements for MambaVision by running the following:

pip install mambavision

For each model, we offer two variants for image classification and feature extraction that can be imported with 1 line of code.

Image Classification

In the following example, we demonstrate how MambaVision can be used for image classification.

Given the following image from COCO dataset val set as an input:

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The following snippet can be used for image classification:

from transformers import AutoModelForImageClassification
from PIL import Image
from timm.data.transforms_factory import create_transform
import requests

model = AutoModelForImageClassification.from_pretrained("nvidia/MambaVision-S-1K", trust_remote_code=True)

# eval mode for inference
model.cuda().eval()

# prepare image for the model
url = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000020247.jpg'
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
input_resolution = (3, 224, 224)  # MambaVision supports any input resolutions

transform = create_transform(input_size=input_resolution,
                             is_training=False,
                             mean=model.config.mean,
                             std=model.config.std,
                             crop_mode=model.config.crop_mode,
                             crop_pct=model.config.crop_pct)

inputs = transform(image).unsqueeze(0).cuda()
# model inference
outputs = model(inputs)
logits = outputs['logits']
predicted_class_idx = logits.argmax(-1).item()
print("Predicted class:", model.config.id2label[predicted_class_idx])

The predicted label is brown bear, bruin, Ursus arctos.

Feature Extraction

MambaVision can also be used as a generic feature extractor.

Specifically, we can extract the outputs of each stage of model (4 stages) as well as the final averaged-pool features that are flattened.

The following snippet can be used for feature extraction:

from transformers import AutoModel
from PIL import Image
from timm.data.transforms_factory import create_transform
import requests

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("nvidia/MambaVision-S-1K", trust_remote_code=True)

# eval mode for inference
model.cuda().eval()

# prepare image for the model
url = 'http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000020247.jpg'
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
input_resolution = (3, 224, 224)  # MambaVision supports any input resolutions

transform = create_transform(input_size=input_resolution,
                             is_training=False,
                             mean=model.config.mean,
                             std=model.config.std,
                             crop_mode=model.config.crop_mode,
                             crop_pct=model.config.crop_pct)
inputs = transform(image).unsqueeze(0).cuda()
# model inference
out_avg_pool, features = model(inputs)
print("Size of the averaged pool features:", out_avg_pool.size())  # torch.Size([1, 640])
print("Number of stages in extracted features:", len(features)) # 4 stages
print("Size of extracted features in stage 1:", features[0].size()) # torch.Size([1, 80, 56, 56])
print("Size of extracted features in stage 4:", features[3].size()) # torch.Size([1, 640, 7, 7])

License:

NVIDIA Source Code License-NC

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