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Hugging Face

Hosts open-weight models and publishes the SmolVLM family of compact vision-language models designed explicitly for on-device inference under the Apache 2.0 licence.

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Small single-board computer with a camera module attached
Hugging Face

SmolVLM

Apache 2.0 compact vision-language model family, from 2 billion parameters down to a 256 million variant.

Parameters
2 billion flagship; 256 million compact variant
Licence
Apache 2.0
Modality
Vision-language (image and text input)
Deployment
Edge board, mobile device or small edge server
On-device image question answering
Camera scene description
Embedded multimodal features

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