---
base_model:
- HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct
datasets:
- HuggingFaceM4/the_cauldron
- HuggingFaceM4/Docmatix
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
tags:
- mlx
---

# NexaAI/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-8bit-MLX

## Use with mlx

## Quickstart

Run them directly with [nexa-sdk](https://github.com/NexaAI/nexa-sdk) installed
In nexa-sdk CLI:

```bash
NexaAI/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-8bit-MLX
```

## Overview

SmolVLM is a compact open multimodal model that accepts arbitrary sequences of image and text inputs to produce text outputs. Designed for efficiency, SmolVLM can answer questions about images, describe visual content, create stories grounded on multiple images, or function as a pure language model without visual inputs. Its lightweight architecture makes it suitable for on-device applications while maintaining strong performance on multimodal tasks.

## Model Summary

- **Developed by:** Hugging Face 🤗
- **Model type:** Multi-modal model (image+text)
- **Language(s) (NLP):** English
- **License:** Apache 2.0
- **Architecture:** Based on [Idefics3](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceM4/Idefics3-8B-Llama3) (see technical summary)

## Benchmark Results

| Model             | MMMU (val) | MathVista (testmini) | MMStar (val) | DocVQA (test) | TextVQA (val) | Min GPU RAM required (GB) |
|-------------------|------------|----------------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|---------------------------|
| SmolVLM           | 38.8       | 44.6                | 42.1         | 81.6          | 72.7          | 5.02                      |
| Qwen-VL 2B        | 41.1       | 47.8                | 47.5         | 90.1          | 79.7          | 13.70                     |
| InternVL2 2B      | 34.3       | 46.3                | 49.8         | 86.9          | 73.4          | 10.52                     |
| PaliGemma 3B 448px| 34.9       | 28.7                | 48.3         | 32.2          | 56.0          | 6.72                      |
| moondream2        | 32.4       | 24.3                | 40.3         | 70.5          | 65.2          | 3.87                      |
| MiniCPM-V-2       | 38.2       | 39.8                | 39.1         | 71.9          | 74.1          | 7.88                      |
| MM1.5 1B          | 35.8       | 37.2                | 0.0          | 81.0          | 72.5          | NaN                       |

## Reference

**Original model card**: [HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct)