What are the hardware requirements for FastVLM 0.5B Stage3?

FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 requires approximately 1.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 and how large is it?

FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 is developed by zhaode, a model with 0.5b 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 FastVLM 0.5B Stage3?

FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 by zhaode — VRAM 1.5GB, 32K context

Name: FastVLM 0.5B Stage3
Author: zhaode

FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 is an open-source language model by zhaode. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1.5GB, Context: 32K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Conversational Custom code En Image-text-to-text Llava qwen2 Multimodal Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/zhaode/FastVLM-0.5B-Stage3

FastVLM 0.5B Stage3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	FastVLM 0.5B Stage3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zhaode/FastVLM-0.5B-Stage3
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	zhaode
Model Type	llava_qwen2
Model Files	1.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlavaQwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.39.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to FastVLM 0.5B Stage3

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FastVLM 0.5B Bf16	32K / 1.2 GB	3386	1
Llavaqwen2.5 0.5B Finetune	32K / 1.9 GB	8	0

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