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Release date: 11 Feb 2025
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Openness: open-weights
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
License: apache-2.0
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Architecture: SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Parameters: 256.5M
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Languages: en
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Base model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Quantization format: onnx
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
File size: 1.0 GB
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Hugging Face repo: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Pipeline tag: image-text-to-text
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Model card: huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Downloads: 50,818
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 17 min agomedium
Likes: 114
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 17 min agomedium
Datasets: HuggingFaceM4/the_cauldron, HuggingFaceM4/Docmatix, lmms-lab/LLaVA-OneVision-Data, lmms-lab/M4-Instruct-Data, HuggingFaceFV/finevideo, MAmmoTH-VL/MAmmoTH-VL-Instruct-12M, lmms-lab/LLaVA-Video-178K, orrzohar/Video-STaR, Mutonix/Vript, TIGER-Lab/VISTA-400K, Enxin/MovieChat-1K_train, ShareGPT4Video/ShareGPT4Video
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Gated: No
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Is quantized: Yes
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Last modified: 2025-04-08T07:25:59+00:00
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Library name: transformers
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Downloads all time: 2,186,053
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Model type: smolvlm
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Tags: transformers, onnx, safetensors, smolvlm, image-text-to-text, en
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium
Weights dtype: F32
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium

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Provenance

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23

Source tiers

T223

Freshest observation

17 min ago

Conflicts

None

Relations

Described by: arXiv:2504.05299
Developed by: Hugging Face
Quantized from: SmolVLM-256M-Instruct
Trained on: lmms-lab/M4-Instruct-Data, HuggingFaceFV/finevideo, MAmmoTH-VL/MAmmoTH-VL-Instruct-12M, lmms-lab/LLaVA-Video-178K, HuggingFaceM4/the_cauldron, Mutonix/Vript, TIGER-Lab/VISTA-400K, Enxin/MovieChat-1K_train +4(12 total)

Identity

hf_repo: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct

Also known as: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct, SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct

slug smolvlm2-256m-video-instruct

ModelSmolVLM2-500M-Video-InstructHugging Face
ModelSmolVLM2-2.2B-InstructHugging Face
ModelSmolVLM-256M-InstructHugging Face
ModelSmolVLM-500M-InstructHugging Face
ModelSmolVLM-InstructHugging Face
ModelSmolLM-135MHugging Face
ModelSmolLM2-1.7B-InstructHugging Face
ModelSmolLM2-360M-InstructHugging Face

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Capabilities

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Vision
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Audio
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Fine-tuning available
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Languages: en
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 2 h agomedium

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Estimated

Memory need = bytes per parameter (4-bit ≈ 0.5 × 1.15 overhead, 8-bit 1.0, fp16 2.0) + a KV-cache allowance. Not a measurement.

Estimated hardware fit
Hardware	Quantization	Memory	Est. need	Fits
NVIDIA DGX B200	4bit	1,440 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M3 Ultra	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Mac Studio (Apple M5 Ultra)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
AMD Instinct MI325X	4bit	256 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
AMD Instinct MI300X	4bit	192 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M2 Ultra	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA B200	4bit	180 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA H200	4bit	141 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA H200 NVL	4bit	141 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M1 Ultra	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M3 Max	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M4 Max	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Mac Studio (Apple M5 Max)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
MacBook Pro (Apple M5 Max)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA DGX Spark	4bit	128 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M2 Max	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA H100 NVL	4bit	94 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA A100 80GB	4bit	80 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA H100 SXM	4bit	80 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M1 Max	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M4 Pro	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Mac mini (Apple M5 Pro)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
MacBook Pro (Apple M5 Pro)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M3 Pro	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M1 Pro	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M2 Pro	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M4	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
iMac (Apple M4)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Mac mini (Apple M6)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
MacBook Air (Apple M5)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
MacBook Pro (Apple M5)	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	4bit	32 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M2	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M3	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	4bit	24 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	4bit	24 GB	0.7 GB	Yes
Apple M1	4bit	—	0.7 GB	Yes

Ancestors 4

This model

SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct

256.5M params

Quantizations 0

None recorded.

Descendants 0

None recorded.

Papers 1

arXiv:2504.05299Active
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Repositories 0

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Claim history · Library name

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Claim history for Library name
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
transformers	11 Sept 2026 21:35 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

11 Sept 2026
New modelModelSmolVLM2-256M-Video-InstructHugging Face
New model: SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct (Hugging Face)
huggingface
huggingface.co

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Source documents
Source	Document	Type	Tier	Last observed	Snapshots
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/models?author=HuggingFaceTB&p=0&sort=downloads	listing	T2· Quality secondary	17 min ago	3
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct/raw/main/README.md	model_card	T2· Quality secondary	49 min ago	1
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct	model_page	T2· Quality secondary	2 h ago	1

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.