What are the hardware requirements for SmolVLM Instruct Bf16?

SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 requires approximately 4.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 and how large is it?

SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 is developed by mlx-community, a model with 2.2b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate SmolVLM Instruct Bf16?

SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 4.5GB

Name: SmolVLM Instruct Bf16
Author: mlx-community

SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2.2b LLM, VRAM: 4.5GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Base model:finetune:huggingfac... Base model:huggingfacetb/smolv... Conversational Dataset:huggingfacem4/docmatix Dataset:huggingfacem4/the caul... En Endpoints compatible Idefics3 Image-text-to-text Instruct Mlx Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/SmolVLM-Instruct-bf16

SmolVLM Instruct Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	SmolVLM Instruct Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/SmolVLM-Instruct-bf16
Base Model(s)	SmolVLM Instruct HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-Instruct
Model Size	2.2b
Required VRAM	4.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	idefics3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Idefics3ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.46.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	49155
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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