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SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct-mlx

mlx-community/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct-mlx
Vision + text · transformers
Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
2.2B
Weights (est.)
≈ 4.5 GB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct-mlx --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct (finetune)
Vendor
Hugging Face
Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
Not stated
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
773 in the last 30 days · 6.1K all time · 10 likes
Published
2025-02-12 · updated 2025-02-20 (1y ago)
Languages
en
Tags
smolvlm